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?”
I for one (apparently the only one) like it. I think the city should be less car centric honestly. I absolutely LOVE CityStreets. I don’t see this as any different in philosophy. They use 50 parking spots in the entire 5 boroughs once a year to make a point about how astro turf pretty entire avenues could be if there weren’t cars on them. The city allows it since they hock the GreenNYC plan.
I have to drive from my office all around New Jersey twice a week, but I know people that drive across Brooklyn to work. I have a friend that commutes from Brooklyn Heights to the far west side in the 50s. That kind of stuff seems excessive to me. But its not rare unfortunately.
I know…to each his own. I don’t like car exhaust that much. You don’t like smokers that much. And the bikers hate the fact that run in the bike lane. But still, we all should get a chance to make our points before we resume strangling each other.
I don’t get this one. Volunteer to clean up a park or something if you want to improve public space.
The good news is that tomorrow’s strange holiday is Talk Like A Pirate Day!
At least we know the unemployed are doing with there Fridays!
But if fair is fair, I am going to start parking on the sidewalks, outdoor cafes or in parks and reclaim the space for the Automobile!
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People friendly? meaning what? what is friendly about shrubs in parking spots when people need to PARK? Someone is literally going to drive over one of these spots.
A debate about public space usage? the public wants to use this space as a parking spot. before that it was a street. before that, a dirt street. the side is where the horse shit went. why don’t you reclaim some horse shit and sit in that with your banjo all day, if you want to make a point.
how can so many people rally around such a misguided effort to make a point? If you want to help, get involved with one of the new park projects that are underway in city hall. There are several.
The tree huggers need to understand what damage they do to their message my acting like a counterculture. If you sit in a tree for months, it means FEWER people will listen to you, not more!!! Does the guy think the banjo ADDS credibility? has he considered it? NOTE TO GUY: “Banjo” equals “don’t belong in city”. How many people are going to be LIVID when this half-assed ironic country-poser thinks he is making a point with their parking spot?
Fool. leave the city.
“yeah, keep telling yourself that.”
I definitely will.
Jack–somehow I have missed the test tube and crack babies.
I need to see a tricked-out Escalade with bass throbbing in one of these places, soon. And try to stop him. He could be packing …
lowhearts, LOL x 5000. okaaaaaay. *rob*
Best kids are today’s teens – they are not stuck up and resent their 20something siblings, and make natural friends with adults b/c said siblings are so immature.
etson, you nailed it.