NYC’s art scene returns to Earth, literally.
As the Big Apple underground kiosks, shoe halls, barber stores and other vintage comforts last rolls, the MTA has been experimenting with a creative way to fill the gaps: with attractive facilities.
It was called the program of activation of the vacancies, which the agency said that it aims to make the stations “more welcoming and whimsical spaces for bikers”, various artists receive a platform to show the world their things.
Mira Atherton, Mta Construction Development Manager, told The Post that spaces had been determined as inadequate for rent for various reasons.
“They are often units … found in ancient seasons, usually those that have been there for more than a hundred years. They are fun forms. They are small, they often have many useful problems,” he said. “They do not have water or a line of waste. They could be in the stations that do not have so much plot.”
Atherton said that Atherton said that the agency aims to inspire pilots, but also to provide “affordable space for non -profit artists who often have problems finding space.”
Since the creation of the 2023 project, directed by the MTA Real Estate Initiative, there have been 12 total activations, with eight currently underway.
As a service for occupied travelers, we have performed and ruined five stops to watch.
The earth before Weather magazine
Real kiosks can go to the Triceratops path, but the Estrangu and the Rishes and the ravages waiting 2/3 of the Grand Army Plaza de Brooklyn will meet all their needs in the Dino de Rex store.
The recent open place, supervised by the 7 -foot owner of T. Rex, offers 50 primary primeval punny products, from copies of the Maul Street Journal and the Jurassic Park Slope Courier to Snarlboros and three Tusketeers.
There is even an appearance of the prehistoric doppelganter in New York’s favorite tabloid: The Pangea Post. (On the cover: a tyrannosaur
“It’s a cellar for dinosaurs,” said Akiva Leffert, co -founder Akiva Leffert.
“We devoted ourselves to this idea of just anticipated, a really old journalist. Really, a new stand,” said Leffert. “And jokes just started writing.”
The shop, which is behind the protective glass to keep it safe from the current Marauders, as it was more than a year to complete, including four months for the same Rex, is made of chicken wire covered with Maché-Pingpong Balls for the eyes.
According to the code, this was below for certified professionals, to avoid mass extinction events.
How to do train Your subway
Between a large number of increasing travelers, trains and aggression, the metro platform may seem a dangerous place for the performers. As a service to Buskers, non -profit art at the AVE NYC has established The Sound Booth, a music box from the 81st St. Stop Natural History Museum for local musicians in serenees.
“It’s fantastic because it gives them a relatively safe place to act in the sense that they are close to the bit and right around shifts,” said Barbara Anderson, Executive Director of Art at AVE NYC, in The Post. “And they can only come in.”
In addition to providing three walls, the sound cabin is equipped with speakers, amplifiers and more, so the performers “do not have to carry their entire team”, according to Anderson. There is even a musically inspired mural with Billie Holiday, The Beatles, a DJ and some panderoles.
Originally opened in June 2024, the installation originally had to work for six months, but they kept it because it was a success, according to The Art on the Ave Boss.
To date, the sound cabin, open four days a week for three -hour slots, has attracted more than 50 artists, including the famous “Saw Lady” Natalia Paruz; The Meetles (in Beatles Cover Band), a group Acapella de la Fordham University; A trio of flute, DJs and Motown singers who believe most weekends.
From June 10, the delivery will be the home of a single for Hope Piano-Caixes de Ivory designed by artists who sprinkle around the city, marking the first time that the non-profit has a piano in the subway system.
Calm in the storm
Finding loneliness during a hectic displacement may sometimes seem impossible. Fortunately, the patrol patron patrons can take a moment of quiet reflection with the serene installation of “Nymphas Rouge: Reflections of Spring” located on 53 Street and the Fifth Avenue e Train e Downtown Subway Platform.
With the help of MTA and Chasaama, a profit that transforms the real estate abandoned into art spaces, the artist Kathleen Marie Ryan turned this prominent into an immersive 24 -foot show with the water paint in three walls and a mirror floor that serves as a reflective pool.
Coincidentally, the quiet leaflet, which took a year to complete -is on a block of the Monet’s Water lilies at the Museum of Modern Art.
“After studying how people interact with art in museums, he wanted this micro -family to give the passersby a moment of calm and beauty in one of the most stressful parts of the city,” said Ryan. “A Sacramento tourist said he felt” as a time of calm in a storm. “
In 2019, international researchers found that underground art facilities can even help depression and tension caused by metro spaces.
Thank you for the memories
East neoyorcan people carry the color of Brooklyn travelers with a nostalgic montage with maps, historical photos and other memories that pays homage to the legendary neighborhood past.
The installation, called Memories Matter, was a community collaboration between local residents of all ages, the East New York Community Land Trust and the Brooklyn History Center in the Brooklyn Public Library.
Along with map collages and floral screens, the screen also includes historical photographs of the neighborhood, as well as images of newspapers and community fragments of interviews with local residents.
It’s a new new track
The soundtrack of the metro platform is no longer searching for the metro and EDP tracks. Located at the Chambers Street metro station, Chamber Hum was created to restore auditory balance by reproducing various experimental and environmental compositions, each of which operates for a month, in a multichannel sound system.
According to the case, this month’s most unpleasant track is inspired by a mysterious noise in Taos, New Mexico, which could have been heard by 2% of the city’s population.
In fact, even the sound has been blamed for insomnia dizziness and other symptoms, but here the version is used to create the command of the ear in the middle of the cacophony of subway transport.
The installation is “Activa 23 hours each day, with a brief break between the hours of 4:00 and 5 in the morning,” writes the WPZSCH organizer on the site.
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