PHOTOGRAPHER JILL FREEDMAN ON NYC
**** MARCY MACDONALD'S NEW YORK CITY **** Jill Freedman She tried to stay away from New York, but after 25 years above the Sullivan Street Theatre, it was unlikely that documentary photographer Jill Freedman could ever live elsewhere. God knows she tried. Miami Beach. All she really liked about it was the hammock she asked her landlord to string up outside her door, the sound and smell of the sea, the Cuban coffee and the 'No Germans' parking sign on her street. Then she moved near, but not to Gotham: the Hampton's, then Yonkers. Finally, she found an apartment overlooking Morningside Park and signed a lease. Persuading her back into a gallery was something of a hat trick: they tempted her with a storage space where they laid out the show and cataloged her work. The world turned up to find out why the gallery at 764 Mad Ave had sought her out and given her a photographic home base at Higher Pictures. when anybody who has ever worked with her finds her an irritating per...