Public Seating

This is what I wish New York had everywhere. How nice would it be if you could wander around the city and had a place to sit once in a while. Parks have benches everywhere, why not streets? Sure beats having to duck into Starbucks and pay $2 for an obligatory ice coffee, just so you can rest for 10 minutes. Then again, the pessimist in me wonders if there'd be strong neighborhood oppositions in fear of the homeless staking out their favorite seats.

Public Sign Seating: "

[quoted from Gothamist]Yesterday, reader Dave sent us these photos of some street seating options in Williamsburg. He wondered if it was courtesy the MTA, since the plastic seemed a lot like MTA plastic. Luckily, other people (well, blogs - Williamsburg Walkers, Curbed) were wondering the same thing and it turns out that the seats were from a Conflux Festival installation called 'Have a Seat. '

Artist Caroline Woolard's statements says, 'Although my 'Have a Seat' project may seem like three-dimensional graffiti, it is removable with the right chuck for the bolt that slides in the holes of the u-channel. People will see the seats and either sit on them or not, but I hope all people will enjoy resting while waiting for buses or friends.' Her blog also has the locations of the seats.

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(Via Gothamist.)