From Parking Spots to Parks

Here in New York City, we know that a lot of things, people, and good times can fit into the tiniest of spaces. Park(ing) Day NYC embraces this notion and proves that even a space as small as a parking spot can make a difference: they’re organizing an event on Friday, September 18, when people [...]

News Roundup: Street Painting, Jewish Students Learning Arabic, etc.

News from the past week:

Brooklyn Students Paint the Pavement (video!) (Streetfilms)
The Eric Dutt Eco Center Groundbreaking (video!) (Video Pancakes)
School Network Honored for Helping Immigrants Assimilate (City Room)
A Newspaper Seller, a Gift, and a Mystery (City Room)
City Tells Schools to Monitor On-Campus Military Recruiting (City Room)
‘Shalom’ and ‘Salaam’: Day Schools embrace Arabic (The Jewish Daily Forward [...]

News Roundup: Planting Trees, Conferences in Brooklyn, etc.

News from the past week:

A Manhattan Sequoia, Not So Giant (City Room)
For Youth Leaving Care, a Way to Stay Connected (City Limits)
Dreams day-by-day (The Indypendent via Voices That Must Be Heard)
Latino bilingual website for teachers to debut (Bronx Latino)
Eating Better and Locally With CSAs (Bed-Stuy Banana)
You Are Here: Christened (Clinton Hill Blog)
Green Buildings from the [...]

Hand-Knit Parking Meters Coming to Brooklyn Heights

I (heart) Public Space shares the warm and fuzzy news:

Beginning May 14th, 69 parking meters will be enveloped in bright, soft, fuzzy goodness. And for that we can thank Magda Sayeg of Knitta Please, a guerilla knitting collective based in Austin, Texas, and the Montague Street Business Improvement District (led by Chelsea Mauldin, former deputy [...]

Scaffolding as a Blank Canvas

Scaffolding, usually a blight to city blocks and a nuisance to pedestrians, has become the site of one arts organization’s debut exhibit in Chelsea! ArtBridge, a recently founded nonprofit, has taken the unused surfaces of the scaffolding around the London Terrace Gardens on West 23rd Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues), and officially turned it [...]

The Prettiest TRASH Bags We Ever Saw

Artist Adrian Kondratowicz wants New Yorkers to notice trash.
More specifically, he hopes his polka dotted trash bags in outlandish colors (like the pink ones at right) will raise public awareness of the arts and environment. In June he started the public art installation TRASH: anycoloryoulike in Harlem. Kondratowicz works with local business owners and residents [...]