Keys to the city: The Sing for Hope piano has arrived in Tompkins Square Park

Photos by Steven 

The 2025 Sing for Hope pianos are out in the wild... including in Tompkins Square Park. 

Background! 

Sing for Hope is an NYC-based nonprofit founded in 2006 by opera singers Monica Yunus and Camille Zamora. The two vocalists established Sing for Hope as a resource for New York artists who want to use their art to give back to their community, and the program fosters interaction between artists and communities and makes the arts accessible to the public. 

The Sing for Hope Pianos project brings (one-per-key) artist-painted pianos for three weeks in June each year since 2011 to parks, street corners, subways, and other outdoor public spaces of the five boroughs of New York City.

Artist Kate Fauvell created the designs on the Tompkins piano, titled "Human Kind." Read more about it here.

The piano, one of 15 in the five boroughs, will be here through June 29. 

After their public residency, the pianos will find permanent homes in schools, hospitals and community-based organizations throughout the city.

Also, as far as we can recall, this is the first piano for Tompkins since 2018.