Park(ing) Day on Fulton
[nggallery id=”36185″ template=galleryview] We stopped by Fulton Street near Marcy to help Gabe Willow and Eric Adler with their park-for-a-day, an installation they built for Park(ing) Day, an international event of guerrilla parking space reclamation. Eric and Gabe opted to create a miniature park in their space complete with a mountain, pond, native plants, and…
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We stopped by Fulton Street near Marcy to help Gabe Willow and Eric Adler with their park-for-a-day, an installation they built for Park(ing) Day, an international event of guerrilla parking space reclamation. Eric and Gabe opted to create a miniature park in their space complete with a mountain, pond, native plants, and wildlife (the turtle hadn’t arrived yet at the time these photos were taken). The second-most-common question they received: “What’s going on here?” The first-most-common question: “How much are you charging for those plants?”
Back to the kids tangent thread…I agree, the kids in the 0-5 age bracket are definitely going to be the most well read, multi-cultural, tri-lingual, color-blind, and educated generation, but goddamn is it going to be hard to get those little entitled bastards to actually do work…
“HSW: Are you a fan of that British actress with that name?”
LOL Yeah! I thought that was way too esoteric for someone to pick up on. But I spent an entire weekend once watching the entire Foyle’s War series. Which was just sooooo good. I wish I wouldn’t have shot the wad all at once though because now I have to wait for the new season.
“ALso, love the way you snuck the “c-word” in there…”
Wasder, he hadn’t seen me around by then, so he figured he could get away with it 🙂
Nsr: I think you’re wrong on that. iae, the point is to control traffic and reduce it, not eliminate cars entirely.
Like bike threads, this has brought out all the intolerance. What’s wrong with making a fun statement (once a year!)? It affects few people, it may make some think, it’s a community builder.
HSW: Are you a fan of that British actress with that name?
Go muppets:
1) How would you define a ‘fair price’ given the lack of alternative uses that would make money?
2) As others have said, the a la carte approach (hypothecation) doesn’t work anyway. Should only people with kids pay taxes for education etc?
3) Parking spaces encourage mobility. Mobility helps the economy. Parking spaces help many local merchants, for example, attract a broader clientele. Thus the overall tax base is supported.
The funny thing is…
if you banned cars in Brooklyn, enough people would probably leave that the population density would drop so much that it would no longer be economical to maintain the large public transportation system that makes the banning of cars conceivable.
I can just see the headlines now, “MTA shuts down F trains from 10:00pm to 6:00am due to low ridership”.
And, no, I don’t own a car.
gomuppets – what about people who don’t use parks, they must be outraged that Central Park, which could possibly be the most expensive parcel of real estate in the world, doesn’t charge for entry. What about cyclists getting to ride on roads for free without paying road tax?
Whats your point again?
So the gasoline taxes that are used to pave the streets don’t count?
As someone who doesn’t own a car, i don’t get any real usage out of all that real estate (expensive real estate) that is free or seriously underpriced curbside parking. I’m fine for people using it to park cars, but I really think people should be made to pay a fair price for it. Think about how much you pay in rent per square foot, and how much you pay to park at a meter. it’s grossly unfair to those of us who don’t have cars. I’m not sure why as a city we should be subsidizing the cost of owning a car.