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Passing Biker, Myrtle Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 2008
"But I saw a street called Myrtle Avenue, which runs from Borough Hall to Fresh Pond Road, and down this street no saint ever walked (else it would have crumbled), down this street no miracle ever passed, nor any poet, nor any species of human genius, nor did any flower ever grow there, nor did the sun strike it squarely, nor did the rain ever wash it. For the genuine Inferno which I had to postpone for twenty years I give you Myrtle Avenue, one of the innumerable bridlepaths ridden by iron monsters which lead to the heart of America’s emptiness. If you have only seen Essen or Manchester or Chicago or Levallois-Perret or Glasgow or Hoboken or Canarsie or Bayonne you have seen nothing of the magnificent emptiness of progress and enlightenment. Dear reader, you must see Myrtle Avenue before you die, if only to realize how far into the future Dante saw. You must believe me that on this street, neither in the houses which line it, nor the cobblestones which pave it, nor the elevated structure which cuts it atwain, neither in any creature that bears a name and lives thereon, neither in any animal, bird or insect passing through it to slaughter or already slaughtered, is there hope of “lubet,” “sublimate” or “abominate.” It is a street not of sorrow, for sorrow would be human and recognizable, but of sheer emptiness: it is emptier than the most extinct volcano, emptier then a vacuum, emptier than the word God in the mouth of an unbeliever."
-Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
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Women Smoking, Myrtle Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 2008
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Graffiti in the Sidewalk, Myrtle Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 2008
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Women Pushing a Shopping Cart, Myrtle Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2008
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Riding the Bus, Myrtle Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2008
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Selling Ice Cream, Myrtle Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens, 2008
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Telephone Booths, Myrtle Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens, 2008
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Passing Through an Empty Lot, Myrtle Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2008
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Man in his Winter Coat, Myrtle Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 2009
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Kid Making a Phone Call, Myrtle Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, 2009
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Warning Keep Out, Myrtle Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, 2009
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Man with Cross and Radio, Myrtle Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, 2009
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Fort Green Park, Myrtle Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 2009
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Street Preachers, Myrtle Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens, 2009
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Mr. Vacuum, Myrtle Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens, 2009
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Ducks for Sale in Poultry Market, Myrtle Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, 2009
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Young Girl in a Playground, Myrtle Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, 2009
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Abandoned Subway Tracks Above the Street, Myrtle Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2009
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Graffiti on a Social Security Office Gate, Myrtle Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, 2009
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Women with Bags, Myrtle Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2009
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Kids Gather Outiside Housing Project, Myrtle Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 2009
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Hasidic Jewish Man Outside a Synagogue, Myrtle Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, 2009
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Sneakers Hanging from Telephone Lines, Myrtle Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, 2010
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God Bless America, Myrtle Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2010
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Children Playing, Myrtle Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, 2010
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World War I Memorial, Myrtle Avenue, Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2008