Photographs by WAYNE LAWRENCE
Part of our New York Issue: love in a single Saturday in New York.
Love City
- The Hearts of New York
- Editor’s Letter
- 1:04 AM Clinton Hill
- 1:52 AM East Village
- 2:08 AM Sunset Park
- 2:17 AM Staten Island
- 3:30 AM Mount Eden
- 4:56 AM Times Square
- 5:15 AM Astoria
- 7:02 AM Kips Bay
- 8:28 AM Bed-Stuy
- 10:02 AM Central Park
- 12:10 PM Nomad
- 1:04 PM U.W.S.
- 2:42 PM Chelsea
- 2:42 PM Richmond Hill
- 3:10 PM South Brooklyn
- 3:25 PM East Elmhurst
- 4:22 PM Bed-Stuy
- 5:20 PM Gramercy Park
- 5:31 PM Rikers
- 6:16 PM Red Hook
- 7:54 PM Richmond Hill
- 8:37 PM Bed-Stuy
- 9:21 PM Flatiron
- 9:25 PM Bronx Center
- 11:27 PM Bushwick
- Love Lost
The Couples of Nostrand Avenue
Photographs by Wayne Lawrence Text by Pia Peterson
Nostrand Avenue runs across 8.8 miles of Brooklyn, from its north end, in the heart of Hasidic Williamsburg, to its southernmost point, beside the parking lot of a Knights of Columbus building in Sheepshead Bay. (From the back of the building, you can observe a pier extending out into the Atlantic.) Depending on how much real-estate jargon you buy into, it runs through nine neighborhoods before reaching the water.
As New York streets go, Nostrand is dwarfed by Broadway, which runs twice that distance through Manhattan and the Bronx. But photographer Wayne Lawrence sees something special about the avenue. It is the sort of New York thoroughfare that feels, along much of its length, like people genuinely live there; its residents seem comfortable on their streets, stopping at five in the morning to say hello and ask after the health of one another’s dogs, making the sidewalks feel like a common living room.
On May 19, beginning at midnight and ending just after 11 p.m., Lawrence walked eight miles along pockets of Nostrand Avenue, visiting each end of the avenue looking for love in the rain.
Wayne Lawrence is a photographer and the author of “Orchard Beach: The Bronx Riviera.” Pia Peterson is a photo assistant for the magazine.
Love City: 24 Hours of Romance, Lust and Heartache in New York
- The Hearts of New York
- Editor’s Letter
- 1:04 AM Clinton Hill
- 1:52 AM East Village
- 2:08 AM Sunset Park
- 2:17 AM Staten Island
- 3:30 AM Mount Eden
- 4:56 AM Times Square
- 5:15 AM Astoria
- 7:02 AM Kips Bay
- 8:28 AM Bed-Stuy
- 10:02 AM Central Park
- 12:10 PM Nomad
- 1:04 PM U.W.S.
- 2:42 PM Chelsea
- 2:42 PM Richmond Hill
- 3:10 PM South Brooklyn
- 3:25 PM East Elmhurst
- 4:22 PM Bed-Stuy
- 5:20 PM Gramercy Park
- 5:31 PM Rikers
- 6:16 PM Red Hook
- 7:54 PM Richmond Hill
- 8:37 PM Bed-Stuy
- 9:21 PM Flatiron
- 9:25 PM Bronx Center
- 11:27 PM Bushwick
- Love Lost
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