I spend most of my mornings navigating through Penn Station. Whether I’m walking through the the New Jersey Transit to get to school or the 1,2,3 to get to work, I always run into different people trying to make a home for themselves. Pictured on my walk towards the exit by the 1,2,3, this photo captures a small glimpse of the people living in the stairwell. I walk passed them every day, and they seem to have developed a somewhat “long-term” residence here. This week, I noticed how the people with the least in New York tend to be the most sustainable and resourceful. Although I did not capture the bulk of their shelter, their home exhibits a lot of the changes necessary to change our nation’s gloomy fate. They used donated clothing, puffer jackets and leftover cardboard to set up their home and bed. Ironically, the subway’s only sanitary area is their makeshift home. As New Yorkers, do we really need to be stripped of a shelter in order to become more sustainable?
