If you happen to find yourself in midtown on a hot day with free time, save yourself by checking out the Eminent Domain exhibit, which focuses on the "shifting views of private and public space." The exhibit features the works of five photographers as well as an autobiographical history of living in New York by Glenn Ligon. In The Lams of Ludlow Street, Thomas Holton documents  a family living in Chinatown, which includes Polaroids taken by the children of the family. Bettina Johae remaps the edges of all five boroughs in borough edges, nyc, using photos of desolate and forgotten areas along the city's edges. Reiner Leist documents eleven years of the daily view from his apartment's window in Window and Zoe Leonard explores deterioration and abandonment of businesses in Analogue. For me, the most stirring series of photographs is Untitled/This is Just to Say by Ethan Levitas, which focuses on passing elevated subway cars captured candidly during their journeys. Running against the back wall, these photos include the dazed faces of commuters, a variety of weather conditions and an assortment of graffiti and seems so perfectly posed that it can only be real. Between this and the cranked-up, photo-friendly air conditioning, you'll be sure to have goosebumps. 

Eminent Domain runs through August 29th in the D. Samuel AND Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall. 

EJ