Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project has not always been popular among Brooklynites. Perhaps trying to soften the image of development, his company Forest City Ratner has now teamed up with a non-profit arts organization to bring something other than construction noise to the neighborhood.The Chelsea-based...
BROOKLYN — ArtBridge, the Chelsea-based nonprofit organization best known for transforming construction sites into public exhibition space for local emerging artists, announces its latest installation, “Works in Prog-ress,” opening Oct. 20. The work of 20 emerging artists living or working in Brooklyn will adorn nearly...
Maybe there should be new reality TV show called “Extreme Scaffolding Makeover.” While the urbanSHED competition helped focus attention on the problem of NYC’s drab and uninspired sidewalk-shed design, it’s hardly the only effort to make construction sites more visually appealing to passersby. Ever-more public...
The management at London Terrace Gardens proved receptive to the idea, and Mr. Durso persuaded Spring Scaffolding to let him use their scaffolding. Mr. Durso found contributors by placing an application on Web sites like that of the New York Foundation for the Arts. The...