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Photographing Brooklyn's Adorable Feral Cats

A former sanitation worker feeds dozens of cats near the borough’s industrial waterfront.
Courtesy of Elijah Hurwitz

When he’s lacking inspiration, freelance photojournalist Elijah Hurwitz rolls around in his car. It’s got 230,000 miles on it.

In the summer of 2014, one of these drives led the photographer—who was living in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood at the time—down to Sunset Park, where industrial buildings bump up against the waterfront.