High bench in NYC

Posted: January 5th, 2008 | 4 Comments »

A quick glance at Fecal Face always lead to odd encounters. This time the crazy story that piqued my interest was the one of a high bench located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, NYC. 10 feets in the air on metal stilts, this bench led to some head-scratching.


Photos of the sculpture installation on the Lower East Side by Brad Downey and Mike Wrobel (found on the Fecal Face website).

Why do I blog this? Well, I find this sort of urban intervention intriguing, although weird at first. It certainly raises eyebrow but can also lead to some questions about our city environments. It seems that the bench has been removed by the city Department of Transportation and the NYPost asks boringly “is it art or just odd”, which is definitely not the right implication to explore here. Fecal Face is clearly more relevant with that topic, proposing “Because Darwin was an elitist” as caption to the picture above.

4 Comments on “High bench in NYC”

  1. 1 High bench makes you wonder why there's so little public art in the city said at 6:41 pm on January 18th, 2008:

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  2. 2 Don’t Trip Dawg » Blog Archive » New York “High Bench” said at 7:15 pm on January 18th, 2008:

    [...] Haha oh balls, this is hilarious. I can just picture what that guy is thinking: “man…my legs are so tired, I wish I could sit down but this bench is so damn high”. Apparently this was an attempt at meaningful art. [Lift Lab] [...]

  3. 3 nuclearweapons » High bench makes you wonder why there’s so little public art in the city said at 12:12 am on January 22nd, 2008:

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  4. 4 » Blog Archive » State Alpha, on the architecture of sleep at the NAI in Maastricht said at 7:35 am on October 9th, 2008:

    [...] positions on a bench of the type of a growing number of public benches constructed so as to prevent people lying down or sleeping. The bench she chose is located at Vienna’s Westbahnhof, the place [...]

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