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New Flushing artwork links to Hudson Yards
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
cmohamed@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
The Downtown Flushing Business
Improvement District along with
Councilman Peter Koo and state Senator
Toby Stavisky on May 31 unveiled the latest
art installation at the Flushing BID Kiosk.
“New York: City of Tomorrow —
Hudson Yards to Flushing” created by
Sunnyside educator and artist, Jennifer
Williams, is a large-scale artwork juxtaposing
images of the Panorama of the
City of New York with photographic documentation
of areas currently undergoing
radical change at the Flushing BID Kiosk
located in front of the Flushing Library at
41-17 Main St.
Th e artwork can be seen at the Flushing
BID Kiosk located in front of the Flushing
Library at 41-17 Main St. Th e installation
was made possible in part by the Queens
Council on the Arts with public funds
from the New York City Department
of Cultural Aff airs in partnership with
the City Council and a space grant from
Flushing BID.
“We are excited to have ‘Hudson Yards to
Flushing’ project in downtown Flushing,”
said Tina Lee, co-chair of the Flushing
BID. “We would like to give everyone in
this community an opportunity in their
daily life to experience culture in a diff erent
way. We welcome everyone to stop by
the kiosk and enjoy the art piece.”
Th e artwork is a study in parallel growth
exposing, en masse, the sprouting skyline
at the Main Street-Flushing station, the
last stop of the 7 line, off ering Flushing
residents a window into the fast-paced
change sweeping over the boroughs.
“The project summarizes different
neighborhoods and histories from
Hudson Yards to Flushing,” said Koo. “It
is a great project for the Flushing community.”
Th e work encourages residents to
explore their neighborhood with critical
eyes by shift ing the perspective of
those intimately familiar with its architecture.
Additionally, the work describes
the dreams and aspirations chased by a
21st-century New York, one anxious to
remain a world-class city, putting forth a
vision of New York’s rising skyline from a
“feet on the pavement” pedestrian pointof
view.
“Everything she shoots is visible from
a pedestrian point-of-view — from the
street or in public spaces — and her work
is an interpretation of the city as it is
in its present, ever-changing form,” the
Flushing BID said.
Th e incorporated map-like imagery is
Photo courtesy of the Flushing Business Improvement District
taken from the Panorama of the City of
New York, a 10,000-foot model of the fi ve
boroughs built as a descriptive tool for
the 1964 World’s Fair and last updated in
1992. It off ers a miniature, three-dimensional
opportunity to travel back in time
to an earlier version of the city.
Pieces addressing Long Island City,
Downtown Brooklyn, 57th Street
(Manhattan) were installed in the room
housing Panorama for the 2016 Queens
International Exhibition. Th e series continued
on in other venues and included
lower Manhattan (FIDI) and Th e Bowery.
A work addressing Williamsburg and a
book of the series are both in the works.
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