Dash Snow, young artist who recently died from a drug overdose.

Same wall in 2004, it looked pretty much like this until it was painted over.

What that durn red nosed dog placed on the Brandie Bailey ghost bike’s seat is an irreverent but not totally unaesthetic addition. Those artificial flowers, still vibrant from the memorial in May, have tarted up the bike of late, possibly drawing the attention of the dog. Previously real flowers were used and when they faded, the dried remnants gave a more solemn air.

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“Chalk” a project organized by filmaker Ruth Sergel – streetpictures.com
In 2005 I asked her source on the names etc. She wrote: “The addresses/ages etc. come from a wonderful book Triangle: The Fire that Changed America that just came out a couple of years ago by David Von Drehle. He Chalked this year & spoke at the commemoration. Also Leon Stein (The Triangle Fire) wrote the classic book on the fire in the 1950s. Old school radical he interviewed many of the survivors. It is super-readable & devastating.”

I found this kind of sad. They are repairing the roof of the Anna Silver grade school, and put their porta-potties in front of the school’s 911 memorial. Those are silhouettes of the kids inside the numbers. The contractors could at least have put a tarp over it.

What it looked like in 2003

“They denied her children and she became an angel to be with them.”

“Estefan and Nathan, her children, will carry her qualities to a new horizon.” Quoted from the laminated memorial text. I don’t understand how these correlate.

This has the feel of the spontaneous street memorials that happen in this neighborhood when someone dies on the street. But it is made of concrete, hoping to be permanent, I presume. I wonder who ‘they’ are?

I couldn’t find anything on web about this talented young woman.

The Brown Building, now an NYU science laboratory was in 1911 the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. NW corner Washington Place and Greene Street, near Washington Square Park in the West Village.

Update 3/30/05 “Chalk” was a project organized by filmaker Ruth Sergel – streetpictures.com
I asked for her source on the names etc. She wrote: The addresses/ages etc. come from a wonderful book Triangle: The Fire that Changed America that just came out a couple of years ago by David Von Drehle. He Chalked this year & spoke at the commemoration. Also Leon Stein (The Triangle Fire) wrote the classic book on the fire in the 1950s. Old school radical he interviewed many of the survivors. It is super-readable & devastating.”

Update 4/3/05: Memorials in Chalk By MICHAEL MOLYNEUX in the New York Times