Just a day after a blizzard buried New York under two feet of snow, the thaw is already reshaping the city. The frozen tiers of the Bryant Park fountain are flowing again — but at street level in Hell’s Kitchen and Midtown, the big melt has turned crosswalks into obstacle courses and sidewalks into splash zones — a scene Photographer David Gray ventured into, returning with his sharp observations in both words and pictures.
Normally, all you have to do is look left or right for cars (and both ways for rogue delivery bikes) when crossing the street. Not today. Today in Hell’s Kitchen and Midtown, you also have to look up for teetering slabs of snow and spears of ice, as the sun warms the rooftops and awnings. And look down, with a view to figuring out how the hell you’re going to get past the huge slushy puddles and onto (and off) the crosswalk.Â
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David Gray is a New York street photographer. He’s not the drop-in, grab-a-frame type: Gray works by walking Manhattan — often five to 10 miles a day — letting the city reveal itself in small, unscripted moments. That long-haul approach helped fuel his sold-out book “Wait For It”, a love letter to New York built around light, shadow and sharp timing.