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PARK SLOPE, Brooklyn – It’s a wall full of hope and dreams that 2021 will be much better than the year that just ended.
“My message is more God, more money, more exercise and less sloppy,” Anthony Williams, actor and Park Slope resident, told PIX11 News.
The project is called “Estimated 2021”. At the corner of President Street and Fifth Avenue, passersby are encouraged to take a moment and write a New Year’s message on a tag and hang it on the community garden fence.
This Park Slope art installation was inspired by the Baltimore outdoor art exhibit Lost and Found.
Brooklyn artist Caty Bartholomew thought it would be a great idea to bring it here.
“I think it is a good time to look forward with hope and just think about our intentions for the future,” he said. “And I think this is great because we can read what our neighbors’ hopes and dreams are for 2021.”
This art project is done in collaboration with the Park Slope Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District which, like many other neighborhoods in the city, has businesses closed due to the pandemic.
“We have lost 32 businesses but we have gained 37 new ones,” said Mark Caserta, CEO of Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID. “My message is to buy locally and support local businesses in your community.”
“One of the messages said, let’s hope 2021 is better than 2020,” Lynn Kaplan, street resident president, told PIX11 News. “But as someone said, ‘that’s a low bar,'” he added.
So many messages of hope for 2021, including the “hug festival”, “please make it full of fun, friends and family” and “please take back the contagious energy of New York”, among many others.
“2020 was good … but 2021 will be better,” said Miles Flatow, 6.
Another of the labels says “bring back the dance in the streets”.
All of these labels are waterproof and snow resistant, so hopefully they can withstand whatever we will face in the coming months and still be here well into 2021.
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