Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Key to the City

I have the key to New York City attached on my key chain, but it is not as great an honour as it might sound. The Key to City is an interactive public art project, where you get a key that actually unlocks various things, such as gates, boxes or secret rooms, around the city’s five boroughs. 

We tracked down a few of the places the key unlocked in Manhattan on Sunday, and despite a few disappointments, we did experience some pretty cool stuff. Perhaps more importantly though, was that the mission gave us an incentive to visit places we would not normally have gone to.


This key opens doors, boxes and experiences all over NYC.

St. John's Cathedral, one of the world's largest cathedrals, was one of our first stops.

My key opened this padlock that gave us access to part of the church not open to the other visitors.

 
My flatmate and his friend enjoying the privilege of being in the "VIP" section.

1 comments:

Vasos said...

wow!! more keys thats exactly what you need in that had=ndbag of yours. mwahahaha. that is awesome, almost like a little hunt. you would really enjoy that. perhaps you can open some doors and gates when Vasos visits?