A photographic journey along the streets of New York.

March

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A northbound train arrives at Mount Vernon West

An art mural mimicking the train station's glass art across the street

A decorative flower display on a shop along 5th Avenue

General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Mural "Harmony by the Sea" by Lula Goce in New Rochelle

Laminated glass art by Tricia Wright at Crestwood station

The recently refurbished overpass at Crestwood station.

The recently cleaned west side of the Terminal.

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Train approaches the station at Spuyten Duyvil.

One of the original New York Central railroad power substations, long defunct.

The juxtaposition of old and new along Park Avenue.

A paranoid schizophrenic with a self-assigned mission to capture New York City, Angelo Rizzuto, also known by his chosen name, Anthony Angel, left his apartment every day at 2 PM to capture what he encountered on film. Over the span of the years 1949-1967 he amassed a collection of over 60,000 photographs of people and places throughout the city, intended for a book he planned to write. Alas, the book was never completed, and Angel donated his material to the Library of Congress.

As a photographer, I’ve become fascinated by Angel’s wanderings and candid captures of the people and places he observed. As a researcher, I often wonder what was going on in Angel’s mind while he documented his world. He was curious, daring, at times a voyeur, but definitely an outsider. I’ve begun my own journey to photograph my observations daily with the ubiquitous cell phone camera, imitating Angel’s style and methods, thus channeling my own inner “Angel”…