Earlier this week, the Travel section of the Times Union featured an article about Hudson beyond Warren Street: "Exploring the other side of Hudson, NY." Among the photographs accompanying the article is this one of the Furgary Boat Club, a.k.a. the Shacks or Shantytown, by Lisa Durfee.
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| Photo: Lisa Durfee |
Bittersweet, but beautiful photograph, Lisa
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This is shack #8, which can be saved without any public funding.
ReplyDeleteand can only be viewed at this angle while on the railroad tracks. No one will see it like this, not visitors.
DeleteInteresting how an article about the “other side of Hudson” strategically avoids the actual other side. No mention of 30% of children living in poverty, the 69% of single impoverished adults who don't work and 25% of impoverished married couples who do not work. Mentions the “Second Ward,” as a defunct art and party venue, and glamorizes the Furgary shacks with an old romanticized photo of a shack that is currently sinking down into the muck while avoiding to mention the rest of them are rotting and collapsing into the ground. Something is seriously wrong with the picture here.
ReplyDeleteThis was definitely not the "other" Hudson the mayor was referring to.
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