The symbolic heart of New York City, Times Square is the intersection of Broadway with West 7th Street. It is also in the heart of the theater district and a classic tourist destination. On my first visit, I stayed in a tiny hotel/closet just two blocks from this area. The SuperShuttle from the airport made it from JFK to midtown Manhattan in 45 minutes. Also on board was a college kid from West Virginia, up for a day to see the Mountaineers play in the Big East basketball championship game; an hour later, still a half mile from Madison Square Garden, the kid got off and walked. Half an hour after that, I was dropped off at my hotel. The next morning I wandered, dazed, over streets I'd only seen on TV and movies. New York, being the most filmed city in the world, seemed a semi-familiar dreamscape, a return to a hometown I'd never been to. I started taking pictures of my feet as a way to prove there was a way to photograph New York in a way that I hadn't already seen. This is one result.
West Virginia lost to Syracuse, 68-59.
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