Nicholas ChiofaloE 42nd St between 3rd Ave and 2nd AveHeart Two · Location 171 · Drawn March 2003123Select a number to open a drawing state.The published 2006 collage is shown above. The numbered links open archival images. Use your browser’s Back button to return here.PhotographsDownload photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Video podcast0:00This drawing ended up being on a construction wall just east of 3rd Avenue on 42nd Street.0:06On the south side of the street, a labyrinth of plywood and scaffolding were erected to mask the efforts to improve the facade of Gap Kids.0:16We were fortunate enough to find a place to draw on this temporary structure.0:20This is Nicholas Chiofalo. He was drawn in March of 2003. His drawing is counting 10 people.0:28point. Sometimes maturity is a good thing. The first time we explored this intersection with0:34the intention of drawing, a very funny scenario unfolded before us. Police officers were dutifully0:40doing their jobs on opposite street corners. Behind one of them was a wide flat pillar that0:46created a small space for pedestrians to cut through the corner of the building.0:51In a Charlie Chaplin-esque world, it would be inevitable that I would start drawing right0:55right behind the police officer, separated only by a foot-wide pillar. It was the potential1:00foundation for an old Mendoz commercial. Urges saddled by maturity, I waited a year and then1:06returned to find a wonderful little bit of construction to work in. Joan Chiafalo said1:12that her husband was her best friend. I've known him since high school, she said. We talked all the1:16time. Their son, Nicholas Chiofalo Jr., is 13. If he was going to go, this was the way he wanted to1:22to go, Nardello said. He loved being a fireman. He loved saving lives.← Location 170Heart Two · Location 171Location 172 →
