Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club

Desire Lines and Daylighting is a new body of work by photographer Nathan Kensinger, looking at informal access points along three of the city’s larger waterways – the Flushing Creek, Harlem River, and Newtown Creek – and documenting work being done by community groups to open up public access along the waterfront. These photographs explore abandoned train lines and dead end streets, where local residents have created unique green spaces and shoreline pathways, and where future ideas are being developed to create more formalized parks and trails, and to dig up buried sections of these waterways, daylighting their hidden routes.