For most born and bred New Yorkers, Times Square represents a convergence of traffic, tourists, and tackiness—a sensory overload that is somehow spectacular, but best avoided. However, for the 39-million annual visitors who come to marvel at the bright lights of the world’s most visited tourist attraction, Times Square offers something else altogether: a quintessentially New York experience, a truly over-the-top, American moment. “I ended up in Times Square after watching William Klein's 1958 film Broadway By Light,” says New York-based filmmaker Harrison Boyce, “This project is something I’ve thought about for a while, as a follow-up to my Brooklyn Bridge film, continuing on the premise of documenting New York.” Boyce set out to capture the all-American Midtown madness just in time for Labor Day: the end-of-summer celebration that fêtes the US of A, and all of its workers—a last hurrah before city-dwellers head home from the Hamptons, and back to the daily grind. “As someone who lives in New York and loves to photograph the city, I’ve been hugely influenced by photographers like Saul Leiter, Elliott Erwitt, Bruce Davidson, and William Klein,” says Boyce, “That’s how I’m trying to approach the way I document the city. I want to capture the signage, the people, the architecture… the city, as it looks now.”