July 1, 2008
Interactive Art with Post-It Notes and Rental Stats
With a recent uptick in gentrification griping in Carroll Gardens, Candy Chang’s interactive art project in the window of a vintage furniture store on Court Street was well-timed. For one week, passersby were invited to share their apartment info and rent costs on Post-it notes. After culling 151 responses, Chang tallied the info and found that:
- One resident has lived in a studio in Carroll Gardens for 43 years with a current rent of $146.
- Another gloater has occupied a three 3BR loft in Chelsea for 30 years, paying $1,095 a month.
- A 1BR in Jersey City can be had for $1000 “with a backyard bitches!”
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Neat idea... but it will most likely backfire and cause anonymous classism, uniformed arguments for and against rent control/stabilization, and general shit-stirring on internet message boards.
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Well, that's art I guess. I'm not sure if that result constitutes backfiring.
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"One resident has lived in a studio in Carroll Gardens for 43 years with a current rent of $146."
Gotta call bullshit on that one.
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Why is the s in parentheses?
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if you think that is BS, then you won't believe that someone in Brooklyn Heights with a 2 bedroom apartment pays less than $500 a month. That is what happens when you live in a rent controlled apartment... especially when they got passed down from generation to generation.
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Gotta agree with #3
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It's totally possible. When my parents bought their house in Bensonhurst, an 80 year old woman was living upstairs with $80/month rent.
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That's cool, but it's kind of a rip-off of this project:
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/30/30_30todo.html