Twitter Gets a “Save Union Sq.” Feed

ByDon

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  • Zip Line!

    ByDon

    NY1 reports:

    New York’s annual block party will return this summer with even more Saturday morning activities for participants.

    The Department of Transportation will host the Fifth Annual Summer Streets event on August 4, 11 and 18.

    The Summer Streets route runs from the Brooklyn Bridge all the way to 72nd Street along Park Avenue and connecting streets. The seven miles of city streets will be blocked off for activities ranging from yoga to dance classes.

    DOT officials also fit thousands of people for free bicycle helmets during Summer Streets as part of its Bike Smart program.

    “The streets are for everyone and it’s a great way for New Yorkers to get out and enjoy and see the city in a different way and engage in some really fun, healthy, terrific activities,” said DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan.

    One of the highlights this year will likely be a 160-foot zip line at Union Square Park.

    On Tuesday morning, the zip line was set up by Fantasy World Entertainment in Union Square for passersby to try out.

    “For your first time [it’s scary], after that, you’ll come right back in line,” said Greg Korzeniowski of Fantasy World Entertainment.

    “It’s a great idea for a bit of a good rush in the morning, great way to wake you up. I don’t have to have a coffee this morning, I’ve done this,” said one zip line user.

    “It was fun. When you jump off, I was a little nervous, but then it was like fun,” said another.

    Even NY1’s Roger Clark tried out the zip line. As he stood 30 feet about Union Square, the operators assured him that he would be caught by workers at the end of the 160-feet line.

    Clark did have a safe landing, and then wanted to use the zip line again. He wasn’t the only one.

    “As soon as I finished I was like, can I go again? I didn’t think he would let me, but he did, so it was fun,” said a zip line user.

  • ByDon

    The Build a Block meeting for Sector Boy will be held on Tuesday, March 18th, at 6:30 PM. This meeting will focus on crime trends, quality of life issues, and any other questions or concerns you may have.

    Please feel free to invite any neighbors or friends who may be interested in attending. If there are specific topics you would like to discuss in more depth, please reach out to PO Alvin Farciert in advance via phone, text, or email so that they can be properly addressed.

    See the image here for further details, including PO Farciert’s contact information below.

    PO Alvin Farciert

    Neighborhood Coordination Officer | Sector Boy

    NYPD 6th Precinct

    233 West 10 Street, New York, NY 10014

    (212) 741-4811 | Precinct

    (917) 593 9567 || Cell

    Alvin.Farciert@nypd.org | E-mail

  • Now On Display in Union Square Park

    ByDon

    Here’s what’s on display in the park:

    Miranda July is a fiction writer (No One Belongs Here More Than You), a filmmaker (Me and You and Everyone We Know), a performance artist (Things We Don’t Understand and Are Definitely Not Going to Talk About), and an occasional sculptress. It’s that latter designation that’s the focus of a new public art installation, the comparatively terse “Eleven Heavy Things,” organized by Deitch Projects, which opened late last week in New York’s Union Square Park. (The installation will remain in the park through October 3rd.) The sculptures, many of which revolve around a line of text written in July’s own hand, prod the viewer into audience interaction. “What I look like when I’m lying,” reads one, a white tablet through which the viewer can stick his head. A trio of pedestals — labeled ‘The Guilty One,’ ‘The Guiltier One,’ and ‘The Guiltiest One’ — asks participants to gauge (and flaunt) their general culpability. Three of the sculptures are wordless “headdresses,” decorative sculptures that July compares to the dialogue-free stretches of a movie: “The shapes are those parts of this piece.”