Makeshift Waterslide On Grand Street Today!

Spotted this morning at 41 Grand Street in Manhattan: an incredibly dangerous looking homemade slip n' slide! This is apparently part of Recess Art's Wet Slipper installation, where visitors are told they should be prepared to shed their street clothes and don a custom bathing suit "to be reborn riding a log through the flume ride rapids." So if your morning coffee just isn't doing it for you today, head over there for a little adrenaline rush. (The slide will be up through September 2nd... or until the first injury occurs.)

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on August 18, 2010 9:55 AM

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John L

This is art?

Really?

iamlacrymosa

walked by this early this morning and there was a man with a very impressive beard playing the recorder (or something) over jefferson airplane's "white rabbit." WUT

Cannibal

Oh to be stupid and unemployed...

Kelles

has anyone ever got a giant splinter stuck in their ass?

zincink

Does it have a 10 foot drop into the basement?

Recess Art

Spirit Tour's slide will be up through the end of their residency at Recess, so if you can't make it today you've got till September 2nd to try it out. Thanks!

Neil Epstein

While this looks like tons of fun, hello bacteria?

CR

"Hello Bacteria"?!? Are you one of those idiots who takes a bath in anti-bacteria gel everyday because you think you're gonna get sick and don't care that you're totally screwing over your own immune system?

theboneranger

this slide would really best be put to use emptying that place of shitty art, i bet one hipster could do it in an hour and not even have to put down the his bong

ViniTheHat

does life imitate art, or does art imitate stupidity?

theboneranger

gothamist best be chillin at the end of that slide with a high speed camera. can we get one specially stationed at the cement where the slippy blue pad ends for the extra red splashy action shots?

CR

The position of the door on the right-hand side is PERFECT for smacking your head into.

I'll be surprised if this isn't shut down by this afternoon.