42nd St & 6th Ave

Every morning, I step off the bus at 42nd and 6th, cross the street, enter the 51 story glass tower at One Bryant Park, where my office is located. In the evening, I trace a reverse path: across the same asphalt, and continue to Port Authority, heading homeward.

42nd Street has always carried stories. Born as a thoroughfare in the early 19th century and built out almost entirely in the 20th, it once pulsed with theaters—opera houses, playhouses, tickets sold at marquee lines—anchoring the city’s cultural heart. Over time, parts of it fell into decline—but in recent decades, 42nd has been transformed, cleaned, revived, and reimagined. What was once a center of theatrical glow, vice, and grit reclaimed light and new life.

42n St and 6th Ave

I have taken numerous photos at this intersection, at different time, under different light, with different people. When I look back at these photographs, I remember how the air felt, I relive a moment of my life.