{"id":3079,"date":"2011-08-28T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T21:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2011-08-30T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T02:04:00","slug":"new-yorklower-east-side-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/new-yorklower-east-side-31\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Lower East Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been browsing the local blogs for how the neighborhood fared in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. Although some water sloshed over the seawall along the East River, the biggest damage seems to be fallen trees, as much the result of water saturated soil as wind, which was not extraordinarily strong.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/evgrieve.com\/2011\/08\/willow-tree-down-in-la-plaza-cultural.html\" target=\"_blank\">EV Grieve<\/a>,\u00a0 I see that a willow tree that I photographed in a neighborhood park called La Plaza Cultural at 9th Street and Avenue C toppled in the storm. This photograph, which prominently features the fallen tree, is one of my favorites from the recent phase of the Lower East Side project:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/2011\/plazaculturalwillow.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3080\" title=\"fallenwillow\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/fallenwillow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/fallenwillow.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/fallenwillow-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nE9th\u00a0 Street and Avenue C (4&#215;5 film) &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve written elsewhere, I seem to be in the business of photographing things that are soon erased from the earth. But let&#8217;s not get too dramatic about it.<\/p>\n<p>A Willow in a small New York park&#8211;fed, perhaps, by an underground stream&#8211;is not among the most permanent of things. Nevertheless, I feel the loss, and I expect many in the neighborhood will miss this great tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been browsing the local blogs for how the neighborhood fared in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. Although some water sloshed over the seawall along the East River, the biggest damage seems to be fallen trees, as much the result of water saturated soil as wind, which was not extraordinarily strong. Via EV Grieve,\u00a0 I [&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-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","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=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}