Category: Furniture

Couches and ottomans and lamps and chairs, life on sidewalks is hardly fair.

Circles and Wood

What looks like a straight line, Can bend without notice. Until the path forward, Betrays what fate showed us. The life you expected, Was really your family’s past. And now that you’re grown, You know the truth at last. The...Read More

2022 Trash Item of the Year: Chairs

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I’m guessing 2022 will go down in history as the year New Yorkers got out of their chairs and began to live again. After seemingly countless false starts declaring “New York City is back!”, it wasn’t until later in 2022...Read More

Abandoned frame on a street in New York City.

Framed

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Life was a broken wall Of random graffiti, Until you came With your frame. you are here And now there is focus On this chaos of bricks, Thanks to the context Of you. surrounded by gold above the hidden stairs...Read More

Who Owned This?

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Today's "Who did this belong to?" test! Who did you think this furniture belonged to? What's their story? There are no wrong answers! Be empathetic. Use your imagination. Develop your sense of adventure for everyday things. Never look at trash...Read More

Practice. Practice. Practice.

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The secret to landing on stage at Carnegie Hall is through practice, practice, practice. However, throughout this past year (and more) countless New Yorkers have had to exercise the discipline of patience, patience, patience. How do you get to Carnegie...Read More

You Missed Me

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I was here Sitting Waiting For you. But you were Moving Too fast To see me And our future. You missed me. opportunity awaits your seat is closer than you think slow down before it's too late what you were...Read More

Born Onto a Rainbow

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Colors are meaningful. Different colors create different meanings together. Too many human beings are born into shades of darkness, but not the young soul placed onto this soft rainbow, where loving eyes surely gazed upon it. Sidewalk crib, Hells Kitchen,...Read More

NYC: Finding Your Legs

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Every New Yorker has days when life goes sideways. When our legs are swept out from under us and our world loses balance... You are surrounded by 8.5 million fellow New Yorkers, but your significant other is actually your spare...Read More

Alone Together

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New York City has always been a uniquely lonely place for wayward souls that bend toward solitude in a scrambling throng of millions. Perhaps we find meaning in the penumbra of that juxtaposition, or perhaps we just ended up here...Read More

Out of Office

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Abandoned office chairs on the sidewalks of New York City symbolize how the very idea of work is experiencing a transformation across the City. Entire office buildings remain largely vacant, hollow carcasses of empty rooms, silent elevators, and quiet hallways...Read More

You Too Shall Break So NYC Can Live

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Everything in life has its prime – that moment when it was the most alive, the most attractive and fashionable, the most sturdy and useful… the most together. But that time ends. The soul of New York City is composed...Read More

Shades of Light

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Light, like the truth, can be manipulated. It can be illuminated and misdirected and – with enough effort – obscured by darkness. There is light in the apartment of every New Yorker, with natural light being the most desired and...Read More

Love Seat in the Street Light

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There is a special poignancy to abandoned furniture alone at night, empty and void of life in the street light. This love seat with its misshapen pillow is still full of life, void of cat scratches, coffee stains, and the...Read More

Temporary Lives

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New York City is a transient experience – a bustling hub of countless souls hustling from one place to another, one relationship to another, and one life to another. The byproducts and carnage of those constant transitions line the sidewalks...Read More

NYC Trash Stories

Broken chairs. Tattered suitcases. The stories of New Yorkers.

Category: Furniture

Circles and Wood

2022 Trash Item of the Year: Chairs

Framed

Who Owned This?

Practice. Practice. Practice.

You Missed Me

Born Onto a Rainbow

NYC: Finding Your Legs

Alone Together

Out of Office

You Too Shall Break So NYC Can Live

Shades of Light

Love Seat in the Street Light

Temporary Lives