Day 145

Right after I took this photo, a man wearing a Con Ed helmet hopped down from his truck and walked over to me. A few years ago, he said, he came to work out here early one morning and found, right on this spot, a dead man slumped on the sidewalk. He doesn't know anything about what happened to him, but he said someone has been maintaining this memorial in his honor ever since. Here's what it looked like last fall.