New York Today: Storm-Soaked Photos

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An image from ground zero, after Hurricane Sandy.Credit Michael Redpath

Updated 4:04 p.m.

Good morning on this cool Friday.

Photoville is happening in Brooklyn.

It will be your only chance, until next year, to see thousands of photographs in and on shipping containers.

Among them are images of ground zero taken by a firefighter after the Sept. 11 attacks, distorted by saltwater.

This was not an artistic decision: The negatives owned by the firefighter, Lt. Michael Redpath, were soaked when Hurricane Sandy flooded his basement in Belle Harbor, Queens.

“Some of them are interesting, the way the saltwater affected the image,” said Lieutenant Redpath, 51, who also is a painter, sculptor and furniture maker.

But he never intended for the images to be anything other than a faithful document of what he saw during the cleanup.

“The water was pouring in through every crack and crevice and we grabbed what we could and left,” he said. “Unfortunately the negatives weren’t grabbed.”

The result: swirling holes, seared edges, water spots.

A family member scanned the negatives, but inadvertently threw away the originals.

Niko Koppel, a Times photo editor, contacted Lieutenant Redpath after hearing his story from one of the firefighter’s neighbors, and proposed curating a slide show last year.

“People say it’s almost like a painting, that it evoked a lot of feelings,” Lieutenant Redpath said.

The images will be projected every night this weekend and next at Brooklyn Bridge Park in Dumbo.

Here’s what else you need to know for Friday and the weekend.

WEATHER

Seasonably crisp, with a high of 67.

The weekend warms, like the earth itself, with highs in the mid to upper 70s and a slight chance of showers on Sunday.

COMING UP TODAY

• Stationary bicycles take over Times Square for a fund-raiser for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. All day.

• Road Rage Alert: Parking spots are converted into temporary public parks around the city, part of the international Park(ing) Day.

• Climate March events: A Religions for the Earth conference begins at Union Theological Seminary in Morningside Heights. Noon. …

• … Bill McKibben and other environmental start the march with an event at ABC Carpet and Home in Chelsea. 7 p.m. [Livestream] …

• … A Converge for Climate gathering begins at St. Peter’s Church on the Upper East Side. 7 p.m.

• A National Action Network news conference, after a review of Eric Garner’s autopsy evidence by a former city chief medical examiner. Outside Bellevue Hospital. 1:30 p.m.

• The paddlers of Seachange 2014, a flotilla of paper boats that traveled down the Hudson, end their residency at the Floating Library with a night of rituals. 7 p.m. [Free]

• Motorcyclists dressed as pirates ride through Manhattan for Talk Like a Pirate Day, shoving off from TriBeCa’s Ear Inn at 7:30 p.m.

• A live score of “There Will Be Blood” by the Wordless Music Orchestra, at the United Palace Theater in Washington Heights. 8 p.m. [$59 and up]

• An OK Go D.J. set at Glasslands in Brooklyn features four songs from the new album, “Upside Out.” 11:30 p.m. [$10]

• Yankees host Blue Jays, 7:05 p.m. (YES). Mets at Braves, 7:35 p.m. (SNY).

• For more events, see The New York Times Arts & Entertainment guide.

COMMUTE

Subway and PATH.

L.I.R.R., Metro-North, N.J. Transit, Amtrak.

Roads: Check traffic map or radio report on the 1s or the 8s.

Alternate-side parking: in effect till next Thursday.

Air travel: La Guardia, J.F.K., Newark.

Weekend travel hassles: Check subway disruptions or list of street closings.

IN THE NEWS

• The city’s new municipal identification cards will come with discounts at 33 of the city’s leading cultural institutions, the mayor announced. [New York Times]

• A woman is in critical condition after being hit by a cyclist in Central Park. [New York Post]

• Watching the independence vote with local Scots. [New York]

• A 79-year-old man was killed by a falling gate while opening Delicioso Coco Helado, a dessert purveyor in the Bronx, Friday morning. [Daily News]

• The city’s unemployment rate dropped in August to its lowest level since 2009. [New York Times]

• The de Blasio administration is hiring more contractors to speed up the reconstruction of homes destroyed by Hurricane Sandy. [Daily News]

• The skeleton of the new Tappan Zee is emerging from the Hudson. [New York Times]

• A tour of Woody Guthrie’s New York. [New York Times]

• What would happen if the Storm of 1821 were to hit New York Today. [WNYC]

• The Week in Pictures. [New York Times]

• Scoreboard: Yankees clip Jays, 3-2.

THE WEEKEND

Saturday

I Imagine, a two-day global film festival coinciding with the U.N. General Assembly, begins at the Quad Cinema near Union Square. 4 p.m. [$49.95 for a two-day pass]

• Learn “urban homesteading” skills, like how to make kombucha, at the New York City Permaculture Festival in Park Slope. Noon to 7 p.m. [Free]

“Prayer of Love and Peace,” a play about the atomic bombings by the Japanese Inamori Art Group, at the Riverside Theater in Harlem. 7 p.m. [Free, R.S.V.P.]

• The Central Park Horse Show continues.

Sunday

• The People’s Climate March steps off from Columbus Circle. 11:30 a.m. [Free]

• A 3,000 pound ice sculpture of the words “The Future” is begins melting at 10 a.m. at Flatiron North Plaza. [Livestream]

• The Brooklyn Book Festival features talks with dozens of authors, including Paul Auster and Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie, Roz Chast. Borough Hall. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. [Free]

• The last section of the High Line opens with sculptures by the artist Adrián Villar Rojas. [Free]

• The African American Day Parade in Harlem and the Mexican Independence Day Parade in East Harlem.

• And if you’re looking for fun outside New York City, The Times’s Metropolitan section has suggestions. See Friday and Saturday listings for Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. See Sunday listings for Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut.

AND FINALLY …

Meet the Mobile Maple Trailer.

Students at John Bowne High School, in Flushing, Queens, will do just that today, when officials and students from Oneida County return to show them the ins and outs of maple syrup production.

The Future Farmers of America of Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School produce around 1,000 gallons of syrup a year. (New York State is the second biggest producer of maple syrup in the country after Vermont.)

According to the New York State Conservationist, the students “tap trees, insert spouts, install tubing or hang buckets and lids, collect sap, haul the sap with a tractor and tanker, filter the sap at the sap house, operate an evaporator, and bottle and label the syrup.”

The trailer contains no trees.


Kenneth Rosen contributed reporting.

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