BY ALEXANDRA MADAR
While on a bus tour in the middle of Manhattan, I was attracted to the old buildings that are still prevalent in New York City. With paint peeling off of the walls, rusted stairways, and windows covered with blankets to block the scorching sun, these buildings captured the eye of my starving camera. Only in movies did I think people used fire escapes, which seemed too dangerous for anyone’s good. Yet, shortly after taking this photo, a young boy and his friend went out onto the fire escape landing and then parted ways, one going up, the other going down. The old architecture of Manhattan tells the story of how life once was in a city where currently, if the buildings that don’t reach the sky, they don’t seem to have any significance.
