Joseph MarchbanksW 107th St between Riverside Dr and West End AveHeart Four · Location 387 · Drawn July 2004Download photograph 1Download photograph 2Download photograph 3Download photograph 4Download photograph 5Download photograph 6Download photograph 7Download photograph 8Download photograph 9Download photograph 10Download photograph 11Download photograph 12Download photograph 13Download photograph 14Download photograph 15Download photograph 16Download photograph 17Download photograph 18Show all 18 photographsVideo podcast0:00At the entrance to the driveway on West 107th Street, between Riverside and Broadway, this drawing was made reclining on the sidewalk.0:08On the south side of the street is a large yellow apartment building, and east of it, residential units number 316 and 318.0:17Between these two buildings is a downward sloping driveway to a retracting metal door.0:24This drawing was made on a small trapezoid of yellow concrete beneath a decorative black0:32metal gate at the entrance to the driveway.0:36This is Joseph Marchbanks Jr.0:39He was drawn in July of 2004.0:43His drawing is counting one person.0:47So we're on Riverside Drive right now?0:50Yeah.0:51And this neighborhood was great to us.0:54Really?0:55Just great.0:58Are you being sarcastic?0:59Oh, no.1:01I've had such a good time drawing in this neighborhood.1:04Like, how come?1:05What's so great about it?1:06What was great is that every person we interacted with, every single one, was positive, intrigued, asked good questions.1:16Just shy of saying, would you like some lemonade?1:20This was during the Fourth of July weekend, 2004, and we just found it to be a really, really tolerant couple of blocks.1:32Drawing at this point, with the number of people we had here the day we were doing these drawings, and the number of drawers, it was one of the only times in the city that Mike, myself, and Andrew were all here.1:45So it just meant that we were moving at a real fast clip.1:50Like, a point in the project where I'm in marked contrast to the days when Mike was just sort of slowing it through the snow on his own,1:57taking a couple pictures and doing, you know, the few he could before his hands froze.2:02At this point, it felt like a real operation.2:04You know, I had a degree of clockwork to it.2:07So would you all be working on the same drawing at one time,2:09or would you sort of be on opposite sides of the street a couple blocks away from each other doing multiple drawings at once?2:14Since we had the three fastest drawers together in one day, we had three drawers leapfrogging2:20each other, location after location after location, and on top of that we had two to2:25three adjust...2:27Two people manning the maps and coordinating and on the cell phones and saying, I'm done2:31with this location, you can move on to that one, this is where Jay is, this is where Mike2:35is.2:36...wives and children, Lauren and Ryan.2:39At the firehouse, he organized study groups to help others pass tests for promotions.2:45He taught without you realizing you were learning, said his friend and colleague.← Location 386Heart Four · Location 387Location 388 →
