Neighborhood Art Party
Apr 29th, 2008 by Horatio Street Blogger
via the Meatpacking District Initiative…
After more than three years of working on traffic solutions in the Meatpacking District we are proud to announce newly installed 15,000 square feet of public space created by the Department of Transportation. Please join us for a neighborhood art installation sponsored by our neighbor Google.
Thanks to Google for underwriting the plants and planting of our space!
You’re invited.
From Thursday night, May 1st thru Saturday night, May 3rd we will transform the Meatpacking District into a live art museum. We hope to see you there.
Thursday, May 1st - Saturday, May 3rd
8:30pm
Gansevoort Plaza, Meatpacking District - New York
I was asked today if there is going to be sound at the art event in the plaza this Thursday evening from 8.3opm - Saturday evening and there is not.
thank you for including me on getting your oration st blog.
be well,
ivy brown
AM I DISAPPOINTED
I was told this was to be a Google sponsored art show on buildings around the “plaza” with little sound …sort of low-key and quiet..
The “art show” was an advertising spectacle..and the images reflected on the big wall of the Gansevoort Hotel were VERY GLARY… personally I found the sound MORE disconcerting because it changed every few seconds from music to amorphous beeps, blobs, pings, burps, snippets of music, whooshes, and deep thunder…This thingy went PAST 11 pm too.. We have to endure this for the next 5 nights??
Anyone who is as disappointed as I am should call MPDI (Meatpacking District Initiative) which sponsored this GOOGLE event.. I do appreciate them giving 20K for trees and such but why should the neighborhood have to suffer 4-5 nights of marketing and moody weirdness..
MPDI’s phone number is 633-0185..
ALSO E-MAIL THE COMMUNITY BOARD STREET ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE ( Attention: Amanda Kahn) AND VOICE YOUR DISPLEASURE
AT info at cb2manhattan dot org
Elaine Young
Annie Washburn of MPDI sent out a lovely email to let people know that there will be no sound the rest of the weekend, as a response to people’s complaints about the noise keeping them up. Additionally, one of the projections that may have been reflecting light into a nearby building has been removed.
Annie, worker of miracles - can you do anything about the light coming from the new hotel construction project?
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