Meatpacking District, Part One

For week two, I went in the opposite direction of week one. Instead of hitting three large bustling neighborhoods in one night, I took perhaps the smallest neighborhood on the island and dedicated time beforehand to learn about it and then shoot it.

A good friend of mine who studies urban planning once taught me about the term "place" in their vernacular. I definitely don't understand it completely, but a location with 'place' seems to have an identity, a soul that you can feel, touch, see, understand anywhere within the location. I was looking for that in the district.

Before the 1980s the district was full of over two hundred meatpacking companies, and must have been a dirty but busy place. Then in the 80s and early 90s it became a center for drug dealing and prostitution, with many of the establishments under Mafia control.

Here's part one (of three) of the Meatpacking district: to me, it feels like the past as I begin to imagine it on these streets.










'Facts' source: wikipedia (weak sauce!)