A late-October Friday evening in Lower Manhattan. Financial industry commuters rushing home, sunset over New Jersey, and the neighborhood closing down for the weekend — all under the gaze of One World Trade Center, now a building site, and soon the tallest skyscraper in the city.

Photographed over a couple of hours wandering around between the water and City Hall, with a really, really wide-angle Nikon 10-24 lens, as silence progressively replaced the bustle and noise of the workweek. “Friday, at last!” said the woman in the red coat riding with me in an office elevator down, before adding chirpily, “I couldn’t take one more second of this without Prozac.”

Sunset on the Hudson River

On the river promenade towards Tribeca

North Cove, where boats spend the night under the financial center skyscrapers

Friday, 6:30pm, World Financial Center

Commuters heading home to New Jersey while work on the tower goes on  

Steam, skyscraper, bus - a classic New York tableau  

Flag in a store window on a deserted Chambers Street in Tribeca