guardian.co.uk – Nosheen Iqbal
This picture, called Meat Market, was taken in the meatpacking district of Manhattan in the summer of 1990, back when the area was dangerous. By day it was very quiet: I never saw anyone hanging out there except for the transvestite and transexual prostitutes, like this one, and their buyers. It only got busy late at night when people went to work in the meatpacking factories, or visited the nightclubs. These days it’s trendy – the street culture has disappeared.