ANIMAL » City Hall http://animalnewyork.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:45:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 City Hall Dehumanizes Groundskeeper http://animalnewyork.com/2009/09/city-hall-dehumanizes-groundskeeper/ http://animalnewyork.com/2009/09/city-hall-dehumanizes-groundskeeper/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:05:18 +0000 Will Sherman http://animalnewyork.com/?p=32331 *Sep 07 - 00:05*A lawn-mowing robot is being tested at City Hall. While the Parks Department claims that none of their union workers will be replaced with machines, they will reassign them to groundskeeping jobs that a robot can’t do as efficiently, at least not yet. |NYDN|

]]> http://animalnewyork.com/2009/09/city-hall-dehumanizes-groundskeeper/feed/ 0 City Hall Cops, Art Critics? http://animalnewyork.com/2009/06/city-hall-cops-art-critics/ http://animalnewyork.com/2009/06/city-hall-cops-art-critics/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:12:08 +0000 Will Sherman http://animalnewyork.com/?p=21338 towerart-480The Public Art Fund’s latest installation doesn’t officially go on view until Thursday, but that’s not stopping whiners from getting started on the temporary work. In his new project, “Wall and Door and Roof,” British artist Richard Woods is decorating a door inside City Hall with an image of a door and wrapping the City Hall guardhouses in a façade of exaggerated red bricks, similar to an installation in Wimbledon. Along with predictably jocular art critiques from the cops who staff the security booths, Councilmember Letitia James claims the installation somehow “makes a mockery of a serious subject, public safety.”

Photo by Chester Higgins Jr./NYT

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