Flower District, Manhattan. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Vendors work on sidewalk plant displays on a winter day in Manhattan’s flower dsitrict.
We were in New York City for a week near the end of 2019, visiting family, doing the usual New York stuff, and staying at a hotel located at an intersection in the Manhattan Flower District. If you have visited Manhattan, you are probably familiar with at least some of the various districts, where those in various specific trades congregated — the garment district, the meatpacking district, diamond district, and so on. The idea was that resources were all in one place and everyone knew were to go to find these things. As I understand it, the character of many of these districts is changing, as it does in all large cities, and in some cases the designation is more historic than real these days.
But you can still most certainly find flowers in the Flower District, even if there are now hotels, lounges, restaurants, and fast-food joints among the flower sellers. Every morning as we left our hotel and every evening as we returned we passed by these businesses, traveling along a sidewalk lined with plants and blooming flowers, even though it was winter. Each morning crews were hard at work moving the stock out onto the sidewalks (as you see here) and in the evening it was all moved back inside again.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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