Steven Coakley2nd Ave between E 40th St and 41st StHeart Two · Location 174 · Drawn October 20021234Select 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 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Video podcast0:00On the west side of 2nd Ave, just south of East 41st Street, is a tall, tall building that has a series of black square columns.0:13The address is 751 2nd Avenue.0:15This drawing was made on the north face of the furthest black column on the right.0:21This is Steven Coakley. He was drawn in October of 2002.0:25and two. His drawing is counting five people. Note about the cell phone. It is on. So intermittently,0:34I am reduced to a crazy person talking to myself, facing a wall and squatting up and down.0:41Talking and taping together at the same time is a time-honed craft that has served me well over0:47the years. But with these drawings, we are never in one place too long, so we don't have time to0:52talk to too many people. The next 20 blocks will bring conversations in which we are not allowed0:58to tape and talk. Just talk. Around the firehouse, Coakley was known as MacGyver after the character1:06in the old TV series because he could and would fix anything needed retooling at the station.1:11He would trade shifts with his firehouse buddies, stringing together vacation time to spend in1:15Florida. Every year, however, he dragged his friends down south with him for a golf fundraiser1:20in memory of Ashley Nielsen, the four-year-old daughter of a colleague's cousin.← Location 173Heart Two · Location 174Location 175 →
