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Artists Chased Out of Manhattan Park by Police

Avatar photo by Billy Anania August 19, 2022August 19, 2022

Michael Alan Alien and Jadda Cat were performing their “Living Installation” at Pier 45 in Hudson River Park when officers accused them of soliciting on the premises.

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Bronx Artists Collaborated to Refurbish Community Park Until the City Locked Them Out

by Hakim Bishara April 6, 2021April 7, 2021

Last August, the North Bronx Collective started cleaning up Tibbett’s Tail and have since opened a food distribution site at the park.

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A Pop-Up Pencil Museum Underlines a History that Has Almost Been Erased

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 13, 2018August 12, 2018

The Pencil Museum is an art installation by Jackie Mock that celebrates New York City’s pencil history and its connection to Staten Island.

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Central Park’s First Statue of Historic Women Will Honor Two Suffragettes

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 6, 2017November 6, 2017

On the centennial of women’s suffrage in New York state, the Parks Department dedicated a site for a forthcoming statue of two of the movement’s leaders: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

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Celebrate 150 Years of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park with 19th-Century Stereograms

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 3, 2017April 3, 2017

Contrast the 19th century to the present day through stereoscopic photographs of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, which opened in 1867 and is celebrating its 150th birthday.

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An Overgrown Naval Cemetery Is Reborn as a Park

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 13, 2016September 14, 2016

The curving boardwalk of the new park at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is respectfully raised above the earth where the remains of unknown sailors may still be interred.

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Discover NYC’s Over 1,000 Public Artworks with a New Interactive Map

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 1, 2016August 14, 2016

New York City has over 1,000 monuments across the five boroughs, and the new NYC Public Art Map and Guide plots them on an interactive map

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Could NYC’s Island of the Dead Become a Green Burial Park?

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 1, 2016February 1, 2016

Each year, hundreds of New Yorkers are buried in trenches dug deep in the soil of Hart Island, a sliver of forgotten land in the Long Island Sound off the eastern shore of the Bronx.

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The Only Five Public Statues of Historic Women in NYC

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 31, 2015August 19, 2015

Setting aside the allegorical females and fictional heroines like Lewis Carroll’s Alice, who are the historic women honored in New York’s public statuary?

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A New Project Seeks to Erect Statues of Historic Women in Central Park

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 16, 2015August 17, 2015

Out of the 29 statues now in the park, not one is of a real woman.

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NYC’s Oldest Surviving Bridge Reopens After Four Decades of Decay

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 1, 2015July 1, 2015

On June 9, New York City’s oldest surviving bridge reopened after over 40 years of abandonment.

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