honk their horn, they didn’t stop
their vehicles; they just didn’t
notice them even though they
were 100 feet away.
Despite canoeing and camping,
the City was their visual backdrop. Cohrs said that they were
almost always within view of
the Empire State Building or the
World Trade Center tower.
“It’s a very beautiful area,” said
Cohrs. “Canoeing there and
camping there is gorgeous, but
there is a whole invisible fac-
tor of toxicity, which