EVERYTHING MUST GO

I landed in Greenpoint in early 2015 and spent the past decade building a life in a prewar apartment. I connected deeply with the community - people who, like me, left past lives to start over. Greenpoint was our refuge.

In 2005, the Dept of City Planning rezoned nearly 200 blocks of north Brooklyn under the Waterfront Revitalization Program, projecting an 18% population increase - far beyond the 5% often cited as a tipping point for disruptive socioeconomic change.

In 2022, as time stood still in a pandemic, my surroundings evolved at a breakneck pace. To make sense of my context, I began documenting impermanence, and in the process, found the immutable in the fabric of our community. This work has become a profoundly personal record of Greenpoint’s transformation as well as a testament to the urgency of protecting the people and places that make a neighborhood home.