Robert CordiceE 38th St between 1st Ave and Tunnel Exit StHeart Two · Location 178 · 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 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Video podcast0:00Between two storefronts on the north side of East 38th Street, near the intersection of First Avenue,0:06you'll find a space big enough to comfortably hold one drawing.0:11Specifically, the drawing is located on a patch of brick between two storefront signs that read Market and the other Schindler.0:20This is Robert Cordice. He was drawn in October of 2002.0:26His drawing is counting ten people.0:30September 11th, the flag has become a ubiquitous icon. While growing up, it has always represented0:35a set of ideals and an identity I am proud of. The flag's current overwhelming presence, however,0:42has changed the context in which I once saw it. Its parade of meanings, hope, unity, God, country,0:50defiance, and revenge, all blend together now into a new meaning that I haven't quite come to grips0:57trips with. It is still winter and we spend our days in an envelope of frigid air trying1:03to keep our fingers warm.1:05Firefighter Cordes, 28, was a handsome hulking man, a lover of good drink, beautiful women,1:10and fast motorcycles. He was to be a pinup boy making the cut for the 2002 fire department1:15hunks calendar. He was stationed at Engine Company 152 in Staten Island.← Location 177Heart Two · Location 178Location 179 →
