A public typewriter is stationed at Tompkins Square Park for whoever wishes to write on. It is the brainchild of the The Poetry Society of New York who original introduced it at the NYC Poetry Festival on Governors Island: The Typewriter Project’s mission is to investigate, document, and preserve the poetic subconscious of the city while providing a fun…
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Leslie Koch, director of the Trust for Governors Island, a magical 172 acre island/public art space in New York Harbor, is one of the most brilliant innovators we know. Somehow, she now only ‘gets’ great ideas, she makes them happen on a really large scale, as witnessed by her extraordinary transformation of the former island…
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About a year ago, we got an email from Leslie Koch, president of the Trust for Governors Island, inviting us to see what was going on at the once-army base-now-public-space a 5 minute ferry ride from the tip of Manhattan… Pretty much everything out here embodies improvised life (tree house designed by artist, goats in…
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