Edward GeraghtyW 60th St between 10th Ave and West End AveHeart Three · Location 246 · Drawn March 2003Hover over or select the image to reveal a hidden view.PhotographsDownload photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Video podcast0:00On 60th Street between 10th and 11th Avenue, coming off of 10th Avenue, you pass by a series of brick surfaces and you finally reach, as of spring 2006, a battleship gray painted concrete surface that is punctuated by several signs and devices for putting out fires.0:25Years ago this wall was a raw concrete and covered in graffiti, stickers and other types of marks.0:34This is another surface that has changed to our favor and as of this year stands before us as a more attractive surface to draw on than it was originally.0:44The drawing of this fireman was made sitting atop the outer sprinkler fire department connection pictured here.0:53This is B.C. Edward Garrity. He was drawn in March of 2003. His drawing is counting seven people.1:03A little graffiti and we are cleared for takeoff. So clear that more than one openly accepting family1:10stopped to chat and we got to share B.C. Edward Garrity's presence together in the form of this1:16green silhouette sitting on the fire hydrant. After these conversations, I got to spend a moment1:23reveling in my own mini-history of life on that particular street. There was a time, several years1:30before, that I'd passed down that same sidewalk on crutches with a busted ankle, broken finger,1:36and a broken heart. My finger healed a little crooked, but everything else healed stronger.1:43And now as we pass through the many locations in Manhattan, I'm taken by how my most recent footsteps are once filled with a staggering task, born of the worst the city has ever seen.1:55My days are spent working in memoriam, trying to preserve the good and bad of the past for the present and the future.2:04I was married to Eddie for 17 years, and I saw him in a bad mood twice.2:09Even last year, when her father became terminally ill and had to move in with them, when they found out their middle son, James, had juvenile diabetes,2:18and when they had a fire in their house that displaced them for several weeks, he kept an optimistic outlook and his sense of humor.2:25She said, you would always say life doesn't get any better than this.← Location 245Heart Three · Location 246Location 247 →
