At 7 p.m. on the day the storm hit, 65-year-old Ronnie Landfield climbed down the ladder to the basement of his building on Desbrosses street, one block away from the Hudson River in downtown Manhattan. It was bone-dry. Half an hour later, he peered through his first floor apartment window and saw a raging river in the street. As three feet of water surged into his ground floor studio, Landfield's hope and confusion were replaced by fear and dread. Scores of large paintings, spanning 50 years of...
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The Huffington Post - 20 Nov 2012 18:37
At 7 p.m. on the day the storm hit, 65-year-old Ronnie Landfield climbed down the ladder to the basement of his building on Desbrosses street, one block away from the Hudson River in downtown Manhattan. It was bone-dry. Half an hour later, he peered through his first floor apartment window and saw a raging river in the street. As three feet of water surged into his ground floor studio, Landfield's hope and confusion were replaced by fear and dread. Scores of large paintings, spanning 50 years of...
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