Awake! New York is Waiting with the Tulips on the Streets

A glimpse of the colorful tulips on the streets of New York City after two months of lockdown was a sensation. It seemed like all the hidden magic of the grim and chilly spring melted into the perfect flowers and became part of them.

At once arresting and colorful this series of my photographs is not only a reflection of my walk from York to Fifth Avenues along 72nd Street, but also a record of the great city on the brink of Wake Up.

From the history of tulips in New York. Tulips are native to Central Asia and arrived in the 1570s in Holland, through the efforts of passionate botanist Charles de L’Escluse. The tulips found their way  to New York around the same time as Henry Hudson. Henry Hudson, mariner, explorer, departed from Holland on the ship Halve Maen (Half Moon) in April 1609, and on this journey, which was supported by the Dutch, that he discovered the large New York bay and sailed up the Hudson River, which was later named after him.