“Development becomes compulsive. …It is fairly easy for man to assert his mastery over his earthly environment, but once he has asserted that mastery he has to go on exercising it no matter where the exercise takes him. The age of applied technology has one terrible aspect— each new technique has to be exploited to its absolute limit, until man becomes the victim of his own skills. The conquest of nature cannot end in a negotiated peace. Invent a simple device like the automobile, to get you from here to there more quickly than you could go without it; before long you are in bondage to it, so that you build your cities and shape your countryside and reorder your entire life in the light of what will be good for the machine instead of what will be good for you.” ~Bruce Catton, Waiting for the Morning Train, 1972

I took this shot yesterday when Kelly and I were in NYC walking High Line Park. This car lot is near the end of the finished part of the park; lots of cars in a small space.