Dennis CrossE 34th St between 1st Ave and 2nd AveHeart Two · Location 183 · 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 5Video podcast0:00On the corner of 34th Street and 1st Avenue is a delicatessen.0:06On the north-facing side, a Kiff's Bay delicatessen is a payphone.0:11Just to the right of that payphone is a brick wall where the drawing was made.0:15As has been the case with many of our locations,0:18evidence of a blank space has given rise to a new place to advertise.0:23It is one of many spaces that was once blank, but is now covered with billboards and posters.0:28This is Dennis Cross. He was drawn in October of 2002. His drawing is counting 10 people.0:38On the occasions that we have stopped to draw on the sides of delis or convenience stores,0:42there is a curious possibility of people popping out of the ground next to us.0:47We often draw between the door and the service opening in the sidewalk.0:52walk. This service opening serves as an opening for large urban prairie dogs that appear occasionally0:59to corral boxes of soda and chips into their underground lairs. These subterranean creatures1:05are almost always friendly and allow us to play in their prairies. The race seemed more important1:11than ever. For 18 years, on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Dennis Cross competed in the Turkey1:16a five-kilometer race held in Flushing Meadows, Queens, where firefighters ran for charity.1:22Now he would be absent.1:24His wife, Joanne, used to operate a fitness studio and induced him to run with her,1:28but once the children arrived, she stopped running.1:30That was 15 years ago.1:32His favorite saying was,1:33Take care of the men, and the men will take care of you.← Location 182Heart Two · Location 183Location 184 →
