Stopped at a railroad crossing on River Road in Calverton Monday, News-Review photographer Barbaraellen Koch took notice of the passing freight cars.
One by one they chugged along, each painted with a different piece of graffiti.
It conjured up images of old New York City subway cars for her. “Here we are surrounded by all these farm fields and all of a sudden the city comes to visit us,” she said.
She pulled out her camera and began firing away. Here’s what she came up with.
Credits: Barbaraellen Koch
Grant Parpan is the content director for Times Review Partners, a division of Times Review Media Group in Mattituck.
Grant joined the Times Review staff in 2006 as a reporter and has covered nearly every beat in the newsroom.
He currently writes about lifestyle and business content, including writing about the North Fork food, wine and arts scenes for northforker.com.
Grant began his career in 2003 as a reporter and editor at The Signal, a daily newspaper in Santa Clarita, California.
In his career, he has won dozens of awards from the New York Press Association, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association and the Press Club of Long Island.
