1,000 Feet of Columbia St Will Now Be Lined in Banana Art

Images courtesy of the DOT

COLUMBIA WATERFRONT, BROOKLYN — Thirty volunteer beautifiers will gather at the horrendous Columbia Street-Atlantic Avenue intersection between Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill on Saturday, April 16, with the tall order of painting tiny golden coins and bananas onto more than 1,000 feet of concrete bike-lane barrier, according to the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT).

The design was created by Bushwick artist Nancy Ahn, who hoped to evoke "digitized images that appear throughout classic video games," the DOT said in a release issued Wednesday.

"Situated along a Brooklyn bike lane, cyclists are encouraged to 'collect' the bananas and coins as they cruise to their destinations," the DOT said.

Somewhat enviably, on the same Saturday, another concrete barrier on East 161st Street in the Bronx will be painted in dozens — if not hundreds — of tiny black cats "lounging in various positions." That design, pictured in the second thumbnail above, is the brainchild of Sarah Nicole Phillips, also of Brooklyn.