Location shoots

kero, originally uploaded by michaelnyc.

Ran across a great location to shoot last week with the model I was shooting with at the time, Kero. It's an access way to the Amtrak train tracks that run under Riverside Park. It's just a big metal grate door (with a lock on it) but the entryway made of big stone bricks makes for a great location background.

You can see through the gate that there are some amazing graffiti-filled walls inside, but they're not accessible. Plus there are trains using the tunnel quite frequently.

We were looking for graffiti when we ran across this place. It's funny that it's very hard to find graffiti on the Upper West Side of Manhattan now. I'm sure if we went a little further uptown than the 70s and 80s we would find more, but in my neighborhood, very little graffiti to be found.