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infrastructure
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Paddling Home
Read more: Paddling HomeFrom Public Delivery: Kacey Wong has a knack for creating art that investigates the space between people and their surrounding environment. Paddling Home, which was performed on the Hong Kong Victoria Harbor, was a star feature in the Hong Kong…
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Bicycle Advocacy Love Your Lane
Read more: Bicycle Advocacy Love Your LaneOn April 7, 1973, some 400 cyclists chanting “Bikes don’t pollute” rode through midtown Manhattan in a “Bike-In” that called for separate lanes to encourage bicycling and provide safety on city streets. Bicycle advocacy had been building since the 1960s,…
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The Democracy Wall in Carroll Gardens
Read more: The Democracy Wall in Carroll GardensThe “Democracy Wall” in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn, New York was established in 2009. This wall is a long-term, community art activist project that is part wall mural, part past information archive. The project features paintings, photographs, newspaper…
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Brooklyn Bridge Lottery
Read more: Brooklyn Bridge LotteryOn March 24, 1992, a fake inter-office memorandum from the then Mayor of the City of New York, David Dinkins, was leaked to the press. A handwritten Post-it note was attached which read “Thought you might be interested in seeing…