Sunday, March 5, 2023

Farewell to the barricaded chair of 5th street

Top photo from last month by Steven 

For weeks, an office chair sat unused, surrounded by NYPD barricades on the NE corner of Fifth Street and Second Avenue (outside the still-closed Eros-Kitchen Sink).

The chair, which may or may not have been part of a statement on artistic freedom and its importance in developing vibrant democratic societies (or simply just a chair someone rolled in here as a gag), is no longer here...
However, the chair didn't go too far, becoming part of a pop-up office setup down the block alongside the Rite Aid (thanks to Stacie Joy for the photo!) ...
Sadly, that coworking space (this is how Adam Neumann got started!) has been discarded. No word on the fate of the chair.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 6, 2023 at 7:52 AM

    Love this post

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  2. AnonymousMarch 6, 2023 at 7:46 PM

    This barricaded chair had, for me, echoes of the old Mystery Lot on 14th Street. The neighborhood was never the same after we lost it to NYU.

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  3. GrieveMarch 6, 2023 at 8:10 PM

    The Mystery Lot!

    That became the condoplex called The Jefferson — not NYU related...

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  4. AnonymousMarch 7, 2023 at 10:34 PM

    Makes me miss the office chair that was mysteriously bike locked to the sidewalk bridge on 3rd & B for ages

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