We just returned from the Allen Street pedestrian malls, where the Hester Street Collaborative unveiled "Mall-terations," a temporary art exhibition. Pictured: (L-R) artist Marcelo Ertorteguy, artist Mateo Pinto, artist Carolina Cisneros, Dylan House of the Hester Street Collaborative and...
Yesterday Lo-Down reader Jac Zagoory sent us this photo, showing volunteers hard at work on a temporary art installation on the Allen Street pedestrian malls (between Delancey and Houston). The Hester Street Collaborative has gotten three artists and a...
On Thursday, we posted a photo from the ribbon cutting at the Hester Street Playground, which has just undergone a nearly $5 million transformation. But this weekend we wanted to return to the subject for a few reasons.
For starters,...
As we mentioned last week, the city is getting ready to open up the brand new Hester Street Playground in Sara D. Roosevelt Park, after a $5 million reconstruction project. When you visit the playground in the weeks ahead,...
We stopped by M.S. 131 yesterday, where 8th grade students took part in a ribbon cutting ceremony for an expansive and colorful mural they designed and created outside their school, on Hester Street. The project is part of the...
The Hester Street Collaborative is gearing up for "It's My Park Day" on Saturday. They sent along the following details:
On Saturday HSC will join organizations all across the city to host an “It’s My Park! Day” on the...
51 parking spaces around the city are being converted in to parks, plazas and dynamic destinations as part of Park(ing) Day NYC. The website claims "These small, temporary public spaces provide a breath of relief from
the auto-clogged reality of...
