Last week during the DUMBO Arts Festival, artist Mark Gagnon installed a paper-maché statue of the Patron Saint of Brooklyn, Walt Whitman. The Whitman statue is currently located under the Manhattan Bridge archway in DUMBO, the same area where Whitman worked as editor of the Brooklyn Eagle from 1846 to 1848.
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Walt Whitman's Back At His Old Loafing Spot In DUMBO
Pencil This In
MOVIES: With another version of Hairspray hitting the big screen this summer, it seems to be a season of decades past and, of course, hair! Movies With a View brings back the musical tale of Central Park hippies, small town boys headed to Vietnam and the '60s as they show the film Hair tonight.
Poems in New Yorkers' Pockets
Mayor Bloomberg says, "Poem in Your Pocket Day offers all New Yorkers a unique way to celebrate and reflect on the beauty and power of language. We are proud to launch an initiative that celebrates literacy and poetry, and the meaningful role they play in all of our lives. I'll be carrying a poem on April 30, and I encourage all New Yorkers to do the same." Gothamist would like to know what poem Mayor Bloomberg is carrying - will it be about getting elected with voters who just don't understand? Or making lots of money? Or not being a dynamic speaker?
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