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Tracks

This little bridge over a railyard in Queens is a special place for me. There's a walkway that has been built for pedestrians.<br /><br />After long days of teaching at the International High School down the street from here, I remember using the big rectangular windows to freeze-frame cityscapes with the sun setting behind. My own momentary paintings!<br /><br />The tracks below not only opened up the view to Lower Manhattan, but they also served as effective examples for the geometry curriculum that I co-taught for a couple of years with the math teacher, Persheen. By closing one eye and peering through these "windows" students could see what perspective looked like.<br /><br />These things all made this odd, little bridge special to me. What makes it unforgettable comes from the fact that it was through these windows that I first saw smoke burning out of one of the Trade Center Buildings on the morning of September 11, 2001.

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