Donna Ferrato
American, b. 1949

Billion Dollar View, 56 Leonard St and Church, Tribeca, 2007
Inkjet print

Tribeca, a small neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, has been photographer Donna Ferrato’s home since 1997. Drawn to what she calls Tribeca’s “renegade heart,” Ferrato has documented the neighborhood’s changing landscape over the past twenty-plus years. This photograph, taken at 56 Leonard Street, captures the neighborhood in transition, a construction site with older buildings looming in the distance. The small buildings seem to stand as witnesses to the change taking place in front of them.

Gift of Eileen and Patrick O’Connor in honor of the Museum’s 75th anniversary, 2019

Visual Description: This is a black-and-white photograph, measuring 2 feet by 1 ½ feet in size, of the Tribeca cityscape. At the center of the photograph is an active construction site with stacks of building materials and temporary buildings. Behind the construction site is a large billboard with an advertisement for apartments as well as several older buildings of various sizes. The urban landscape is framed by dark metal beams, the top one stenciled with the word “POST” in white spray paint.