![I Deal, I Dream, I Do](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3968/2013/10/16005523/IMG_5284-470x140.jpeg)
The mural entitled I Deal, I Dream, I Do is hard to miss when you are passing Fourth Avenue in Gowanus. I pass by…
![A Splash of Color](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3968/2013/10/16005524/Blue-273x140.jpg)
A few times a week (if I’m lucky and not burdened by work) I take a trip on the J train to go visit my…
![William Chochran, A Handful of Keys (2005)](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3968/2013/10/16005530/mural-2-470x140.png)
In the quiet streets of the Great Neck Plaza, there is a lovely acrylic trompe l’oeil (trick-of-the-eye painting) mural that features a group of children. The…
![Flatbush Floogies](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3968/2013/10/16005322/flatbush-470x140.jpg)
Flatbush Floogies, created by Muriel Castanis in 1996, is a work of public art commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit and MTA New…
![Gone, but Never Forgotten](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3968/2013/10/16005525/IMG_4261-470x140.jpg)
On October 27th, 2008, four young men went out fishing. When the unexpected happened, they did not expect for only one to return. Domenico Coluccio,…
![A Rocky View](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3968/2013/10/16005526/IMG_0311-470x140.jpg)
As I was going up the stairs in Ingersoll, I was surprised to see a large painting on the wall. It took up most of…
![The All-Knowing New Yorker](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3968/2013/10/16005527/illuimanti-470x140.jpeg)
“Eerie” is a word I would often use to describe the pathways within the Chambers Street – World Trade Center Station complex, a place I…
![Breaking Bad](https://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/ballfall2013/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
What’s a 50 year-old high school teacher to do when he is diagnosed with cancer and needs to leave money behind for his family…
![In Their Honor](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3968/2013/10/16005528/P1040198-470x140.jpg)
Where I come from in Long Island, it’s very rare that you’d come across displays of public art as you do ubiquitously in New York…
![The Polar Bear Park](https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3968/2013/10/16005529/natali-470x140.jpg)
It has become the trade mark of the local Avenue S Park in Flatbush. Many call the local park in my neighborhood “the polar…