February 12, 2006. Orchard Street on the Lower East Side of New York the evening following a record 26.9 inch snowfall. After the near blizzard storm subsided, I went out with my view camera with the intention of adding to my ongoing documentation of this historic and rapidly changing neighborhood.

The conditions were difficult, however, and I only managed three pictures in the chill wind before slipping and falling with my camera into a snowbank.

Orchard Street lay empty and hushed, looking timeless and immutable a hundred or more years since the construction of its buildings. This moment of frozen stillness was short-lived, however, as the city efficiently plowed the streets and cleared the sidewalks. By the next morning, the usual hustle and bustle had returned to the Lower East Side and throughout New York.