An early springtime image, April 19th, 2020, in Southpoint Park, Roosevelt Island, New York City. The coronavirus pandemic was building, but we remained in the dark.
Spring came anyway, and new life arrived along with it. Here, a gosling gets careful instructions from Mom — or Dad.
This image is a little poignant because, with all the construction radically altering the park, one safe nesting areas may be gone forever.
Oh, and by the way…
Flatbread pizzas, fresh from the café at Cornell Tech.
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AVAC Is Working. The Model Is What’s Aging.
What fifty years of use reveal about infrastructure, upkeep, and the decisions that keep systems alive. The system is not failing.
Roosevelt Island’s AVAC system is often discussed as if it were either a miracle or a menace. In truth, it is neither. It is functioning infrastructure that has reached a point in its lifecycle where how it is maintained matters as much as whether it exists at all.
