Boro Park Brooklyn 55th St Station Intersection 1976 Kodachrome Boro Park Brooklyn 55th St Station Intersection 1976 Kodachrome 25 Minolta SRT-102 w/ 20mm Vivitar. I did mid-range orange-tweak this one to "pop" the car in the center and the sunlit girder. Did you ever look at a well-projected Kodachrome slide. No? You poor bastards! Your HD TV sucks! I love the gargantuan, unintentionally "stretched" mid 70s "tank" at the corner of the 20mm corner and the "1915 tech" of the girders. I only cropped to just outside of the slide border as it would be projected. Funny how many old style slide mounts had rounded borders. It does soften it up and imparts a "portal effect" view to the vista presented, no? A nearby MTA line, called the culver line, was demolished in 1975. The removal of an EL is the most obscene thing that can ever be done to a street [[short of trenching it out via the fiat of Eminent Domain to make a bridge approach. (happened where I live now - in 60-63 to approach the Verazanno Br)]] It renders the street unrecognizable as all the lightplay is gone and there is no quarter from the Sun along a venue where you had once chosen walk: Under a cooling, comforting, stippled umbra. See the Culver line as Italian men once played Baci. Such serendipitously perfect design as to make one cry at the ingenuity in the taking advantage of the perfect storm of it's shade, tiny window of disuse and dimension:
