News at Eleven: I love how [James] Merrill comes face-to-face

with his mixed feelings about the changing city, with its simultaneous destruction and creation. He seems as upset about what's been torn down as he is at not being able to remember what was there in the first place. It's a quintessential response to the evolving cityscape--and a helpful thing to recall when your favorite little store turns into another bank branch.

Now for the art. If Merrill freezes the frame in the destruction phase of construction, Brooklyn-based photographer Stanley Greenberg--whose photographs are shown here--arrives at the scene a few months later, after a building has become recognizable, but long before its completion.

from WNYC: Cityscapes: Art & Poetry

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