I've been meaning to post about this cool public art project I heard about in June for awhile - better late than never! How cool is this? And yes, if I lived in NYC, you better believe I would have gotten a key. Here are the details:> Read more at Fast Company with pictures of locationsThis summer hundreds of New Yorkers will be seen hastily undoing padlocks, ducking through creaky gates, and rifling through strange P.O. boxes. Do not be alarmed!
The city-wide security breach is part of the public art project Key to the City. Anyone can simply retrieve free keys at a kiosk in Times Square (pictured above), and those keys unlock 24 locations across the city's five boroughs, which are listed on the Key to the City website. These locations include secret gardens, hidden rooms, and tiny electrical panels. [Mayor Bloomberg mentioned that they unlock padlocks, post office boxes, steel gates and secret compartments across the city]
Since it launched last Thursday, hundreds of New Yorkers have already participated in the large-scale scavenger hunt, which borrows its name from the symbolic welcoming gesture relegated to visiting dignitaries and heads of state.
The piece was conceived by Honduran-born artist Paul RamÃrez Jonas, who has worked with keys before, to symbolize ownership and civic pride. It was produced by the spectacle-specializing Creative Time and even has a key-making sponsor: Keys can be copied by visiting participating Medeco dealers around New York.
> Hear a story about the project at NPR
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