Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy
If you’ve walked past 431 E. Sixth St. lately between Avenue A and First Avenue, you may have noticed a small "Vape TY Deposit Box" mounted outside the building.
It's part of an ongoing project by Laura Tighe, who runs Smilers, the gallery that opened in No. 431 earlier this year.
Tighe has been quietly collecting empty vape cartridges from neighbors and passersby; the box is available 24/7 for drop-offs.
The cartridges will eventually make their way into a long-term installation Tighe is developing upstairs: The New York Vape Room, a rooftop, greenhouse-like structure built around the city’s discarded vape culture.
So if you've ever wondered who’s gathering those spent cartridges on Sixth Street, it's an artist at work.
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