Originally published on May 14, 2021 3:07 pm
On a grey, drizzly Sunday afternoon, I arrived at an industrial building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I was there for something called a One-to-One Concert, but I genuinely had no idea what to expect – what kind of music I d hear, or even where I d hear it. After a temperature check, a masked woman approached me. Her name was Stacy, an usher employed by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the event s presenter.
As we walked through a noisy corridor, Stacy gave me one very strict instruction for the performance I was about to see:
no applause.
NYC Ferry Crashes Into Docked Barge, Shattering Windows
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Dozens of riders were forced to evacuate from a city ferry on Thursday night, after the boat crashed into the bow of a docked barge at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
The impact shattered some of the ferry s windows, and sent passengers scurrying to don their life jackets. I told you we shouldn t have gotten on this ferry, one rider can be heard lamenting. It wasn t meant to be.
None of the 27 riders aboard the boat at the time were injured, according to U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer John Hightower. The boat s captain told the agency that flooding tides had pushed the ferry into the barge.
Inside The Most Intimate Musical Performances, Now Taking Place At The Brooklyn Navy Yard View all 19
As New Yorkers start to imagine what live events might look like in a post-pandemic world, the Brooklyn Academy of Music is offering one vision of how socially-distanced music can still bring people together. The 1:1 CONCERTS, which took place this past weekend and will happen again next weekend, offer one person at a time the chance to experience an intimate 10-minute program performed by a single musician, across a number of wholly unique spaces in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Between the isolation and the cavernous surroundings, it s a surreal and somewhat overwhelming experience. At dress rehearsals last Friday, my guide Sarah navigated me through two very large warehouses and two very scenic rooftops to peer in on four concerts. Being led through the mostly empty industrial landscape made it all feel like some top secret experimental program.
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As the owner of a custom framing store, Lurita “LB” Brown knows which objects her customers feel strongly enough to put behind glass. She noticed a shift when people were stuck at home during the pandemic.
“They re looking around and saying, ‘Oh, I remember that photograph, what did I do with it?’”she recalled. “They go to the car, ‘Oh, the glass was broken.’” Other clients found works of art they d gotten from relatives and decided to have them reframed.
These works of art weren’t all just for nicer backgrounds on Zoom. Brown saw similar behavior after the September 11th attacks.