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BRIDGE UNDER BRIDGE: Siah Armajani’s public artwork “Bridge over Tree” is now open in Dumbo’s Empire Fulton Ferry
Park, almost 50 years after its original installation in a Minneapolis public park. Timothy Schenck
Incomplete bike
lanes dump riders
too close to cars
Coney book lender It’s home sweet foam
closing for repairs
BY BILL ROUNDY
Welcome to Brew-klyn!
New York City Beer
Week started this Saturday!
The annual celebration of
suds, sponsored by the New
York City Brewers Guild,
will feature dozens of tap
takeover and beer releases
in all fi ve boroughs, but as
Exhibit revives
old sculpture
It’s the original bridge to nowhere!
A new interactive art installation
Empire Fulton Ferry Park is a
revival of an almost half-centuryold
piece of public art.
The 91-foot-long “Bridge Over
Tree,” by Iranian-American artist
Siah Armajani, does not span
a ravine — instead, it sits on the
ground for most of its length,
then rises sharply over an evergreen
sculpture’s lack of functionality
invites viewers to appreciate it
in a new way, according to its curator.
“It’s taking that idea of the
bridge and stripping away its
functional necessity and creating
this poetic moment, a line that
connects two points, two people
perhaps, that invites you to think
about what it means to bridge and
to cross,” said Nicholas Baume,
director of the Public Art Fund.
usual, the best events are
happening in the County of
Kings. Here are the events
you shouldn’t miss:
Sweet and sour
The Folksbier brewery
in Carroll Gardens will
unveil fi ve varieties of its
fruited sour-beer series
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
now stretching across
tree at its center. The
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Glow Up at this afternoon’s
party. The beer fl avors include
Watermelon and Satsuma
Mandarin, Morello
Cherry and Lime, Stonefruit,
and Green Yuzu,
among others.
Glow Up Party at the
Folksbier taproom (101 Lu-
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
The city endangered cyclists by
painting bike lanes on Fourth
Avenue that abruptly end at construction
sites where traffi c is
reduced to one lane, forcing bike
riders to choose between their
wheels and their lives, according
to one outraged bicyclist.
“The construction makes it
bad because you can’t see and
there’s a ton of debris, so you can
risk getting a fl at and biking over
the debris in the bike lane, or
you can swerve into traffi c,” said
Sarah Ziglifa, who commutes
on bike from her Fort Hamilton
home to her job in Manhattan
most days. “I signal and merge
and hope for the best.”
Last fall, workers with the
city’s Department of Transportation
fi nished painting the fi rst
part of the forthcoming protected
bike paths on Fourth Avenue
— which when complete will
allow cyclists to pedal from Bay
Ridge to Atlantic Avenue in both
directions via separate lanes
along the Bay Ridge– and Downtown–
bound sides of the road.
But work on the lanes, which
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
The Brooklyn Public Library’s
Coney Island
branch will close for four
months this spring and
summer to undergo more
than $1-million worth of
renovations, reading-room
leaders announced.
The construction will
result in a larger space that
will provide locals with
even more room to kick
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A BREW MAN: Coney Island
Brewery’s head brewer, Matt
McCall, will host a tasting
during Beer Week.
File photo by Trey Pentecost
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