Thanks for Sharing Your Wishes With Us!

Thanks for Sharing Your Wishes With Us!

We want to extend a big THANK YOU to everyone who engaged with our winter placemaking project, “Star Light Star Bright,” which departed the plaza at 140 Broadway earlier this month after a delightful multiweek run. The Hou de Sousa-designed wishing star added some much-needed light and color to the neighborhood as the temps cooled and skies darkened, and it was a hit with the community, whose members wasted no time in attaching their wish ribbons to the installation — at last count, we netted over 1000 original wishes and hundreds of pre-printed ribbons. 

Thank you as well to the dozens of local wish partners (list here) who handed out wish ribbons to patrons, and to Svetlana Shmulyian for programming our live music lunchtime events in December. As always, the performances were tons of fun and drew hundreds of attendees, even in crisp weather.

Sift through the gallery below for some illuminating pics. You can learn more about our ongoing placemaking programming on our website, and keep an ear out for more projects ahead! 

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