{"id":158,"date":"2007-06-27T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2007-06-27T02:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T02:59:00","slug":"new-yorkprospect-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/new-yorkprospect-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Prospect Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/grant.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/grant.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Grant Gore between Bedford and Rogers Avenues<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I am continuing photographing Civil War statues and monuments around Brooklyn for an exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library in the fall. Yesterday, I went with my assistant Chris Gallagher to Prospect Heights where there is a large equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant. It&#8217;s a neighborhood that must have once seemed appropriate for such an imposing monument. The area obviously fell into decline during the &#8217;60s and &#8217;60s, but it appears to be coming back today. It&#8217;s a largely Black neighborhood, contiguous with Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights. There are beautiful brownstones on the side streets, some well-maintained, others not. To the east along Dean Street, where we walked, there is an industrial pocket with a mixture of uses including artists&#8217; lofts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/grantwindow.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-family: arial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/grant-reflection.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Bedford and Rogers Avenues<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/fowler.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-family: arial;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/fowler.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><a style=\"font-family: arial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/sub_your_park\/historical_signs\/hs_historical_sign.php?id=11213\"target=\"_blank\">General Edward Fowler<\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">, Fulton Street in Fort Greene<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Regarding my photographs of statues, I would like to state up front that I hope to avoid any comparison with Lee Friedlander who owns the subject as far as I am concerned. Unlike Friedlander, I am working with a view camera in color (the photos above are with my digital point-and-shoot), and I am attempting to locate these hidden-in-plain-site statues in their habitats. Brooklyn remains a vast unknown landscape to me, but I am gradually learning the geography.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Gore between Bedford and Rogers Avenues I am continuing photographing Civil War statues and monuments around Brooklyn for an exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library in the fall. Yesterday, I went with my assistant Chris Gallagher to Prospect Heights where there is a large equestrian statue of Ulysses S. Grant. It&#8217;s a neighborhood that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}