Daniel Hauben’s “Mango Sunset” depicts a desolate summer evening under an elevated train and tropical fruit carts lacking customers.
Is it Upper Manhattan? The Bronx? If anyone recognizes the train tracks and the evening sun streaming through them to the street below, I’d love to know where it is.
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Ephemeral New York 
September 8, 2011 at 2:41 pm |
Looks Bronx-y to me, but it may also just be a hypothetical landscape… not necessarily real physically, but real emotionally
September 8, 2011 at 2:44 pm |
It might be under the 7 train in Jackson Heights?
September 8, 2011 at 2:55 pm |
Maybe the Queens subway they get pretty high up there?
September 8, 2011 at 3:00 pm |
It looks like Manahttan is in the upper left/center of the painting – so I figure that this is Jerome Ave / 4 train in the Bronx.
September 8, 2011 at 3:06 pm |
Thanks! I’m going to guess the Bronx too because of the Manhattan-like buildings and the tropical fruit carts, which you see in Dominican and Puerto Rican neighborhoods.
September 8, 2011 at 3:23 pm |
Daniel Hauben is a Bronx based painter so it stands to reason that it’s in da Bronx!
See Wikipedia article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hauben
Considering that it’s a view east to west it’s probably the el that is in the Mott Haven section around E 138th Street.
September 9, 2011 at 3:50 am |
I’ll second Steve’s guess since it does look like the Manhattan skyline in the background (south) and the sun is setting on the right (west) and the 4 takes a sharp turn (left) before heading underground into Manhattan…but then again, maybe that’s too literal for an artwork!
September 9, 2011 at 1:16 pm |
Since it’s a contemporary painting and the only elevated line in the Bronx that goes east to west would be in Mott Haven that would have to be case. It’s been awhile since I’ve been up there so I can’t be entirely sure if part of Manhattan can be seen from there. I would think it’s somewhere near the Grand Concourse.
September 10, 2011 at 11:33 am |
nice work
September 10, 2011 at 2:53 pm |
It’s a very nice painting, but how does the setting sun cast shadows from overhead?
September 11, 2011 at 12:09 pm |
The opening scenes of the TV show ‘King of Queens’ shows an elevated train on a curve with Manhattan skyline in the backround. Very much like this picture but taken from a high view.
January 10, 2012 at 12:01 pm |
Oh, this one is easy. Between 125th and 135th, right next to the Fairway on the access road that runs parallel to the West Side highway.
March 15, 2012 at 1:30 pm |
This is one of several works of art I created based on a pastel created on location on the corner of Westchester and Prospect Avenues in the Bronx in 1988. The image is reversed in this version.
I also created a piece in glass of this image for the Freeman Street Station on the same line (2/5).
Daniel Hauben
March 15, 2012 at 2:14 pm |
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