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Tags: history, new york, projects, public space, religion
Tags: band, new york
Dark Dark Dark is playing two more shows before taking a break from the East Coast for some months. We would love to see your smiling faces. Your dancing feet. Your sweaty brows. We will break your hearts every so gently before we’re run out of this town.
Thursday June 14th
Cinders Gallery
103 Havemeyer St. store#2
Brooklyn
(we’ll be playing on the porch they’ve built and swinging on the porch swing)
8pm
3$ suggested donation
w/ Tiger Saw and New Alps of South Wales
Friday June 15th
Rubulad Home Base
338 Flushing Avenue, between Classon and Taaffee, Brooklyn
B61 bus to Flushing Avenue; G train to Flushing or Classon
Midnight
$10
w/ Dame Darcy and others
Tags: new york, public space
Yesterday a few of us took a walk on the High Line– the abandoned elevated train tracks that stretches for 22 blocks on the West side of Manhattan.
Yesterday a few of us took a walk on the High Line– the abandoned elevated train tracks that stretches for 22 blocks on the West side of Manhattan.
It will soon become a park. Development has already begun. A park is better than a bunch of overpriced condos, which would have inevitably sprung up had the High Line been destroyed (Rudy Giuliani tried his best). But still, it’s hard not to be skeptical. So often, parks are at best sterile, inhospitable and underused- and at worst ill-planned and unsafe. Mostly, it’s that the High Line, like Coney Island, like the Red Hook waterfront, is a piece of an older, very different New York City that is disappearing piece by piece.
Conventionally, neighborhood parks or park-like open spaces are considered boons conferred on the deprived populations of cities. Let us turn this thought around, and consider city parks deprived places that need the boon of life and appreciation conferred on them. This is more nearly in accord with reality, for people do confer use on parks and make them successes - or else withhold use and doom parks to rejection and failure.
Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities
Tags: art, culture, friends, new york, public space
Movies on the subway! About 20 of us met on the platform of the Jay Street F train at 10:30pm. We jumped on the last car, wheeled on the projector and taped over the lights with craft paper as people took their seats. Refreshments were served (Junior Mints, popcorn, etc). “Coming Attractions” and “Now Playing” posters were put up on the walls. Movies were generally subway-themed, including Michael Jackson’s “Bad” video, a Buster Keaton film called “Cops,” a 1940’s educational film about the New York City subway, and the segment from the Borat movie where Borat lets the chicken loose on the subway.
Some passengers didn’t know what to make of it and kept their distance by sitting at the front of the car. Most, though, started munching on jujubees and enjoyed the show. i talked with an elderly woman and a teenage kid, both of whom said it was the coolest use of public space they’d seen in a while. I would have to agree.
Thanks Jeff. You have great ideas and pull them off with style…totally inspiring.
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