#sbjsa

HELP! THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY (REBNY) KILLED ME! We need more real affordable housing solutions and spaces for small businesses! Please call/email/tweet your City Councilmember today, and tell them to pass the SBJSA, Small Business Jobs Survival Act — which would give small business owners an affordable lease and the right to renew that lease! REBNY is taking over our NYC neighborhoods and we need to SAVE NYC NOW — hence my Cemetery of Small Business art piece at OCCUPY WALL STREET’s 7th Anniversary last Monday! Visit my Marni Halasa for Change on Facebook for more information on how you can help save small businesses. #realestate #rebny #rebnykilledme #marnihalasa #revolutionissexy #occupywallstreet #ows #smallbusiness #smallbusinessowners #sbjsa #lease #affordable #affordablehousing #mih #gentrification #hypergentrification #tezoning #zoning #ccluny https://www.instagram.com/p/BoAFSbwlBAp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jysjiwyg0qxr

Space between leaks into the streets . . . [Series: VACANT // 12] . . #vacantlot #sbjsa #emptylots #vanishingnewyork #displacement #gentrification #graffiti #graffitiinthesky #collageart #mixedmediacollage #dreamingincollages #collage_creatives #collagewave #collagesociety #collage_guild #surreal42 #surrealcollage #abstractcollage #abstraction #geometricart #nycart #surrealism #surrealart #outsiderart #magicspleen #suspirosgang #dreaminstreets #streetleaks https://www.instagram.com/p/B2CQfQ3n2Xh/?igshid=oaitrwf89s67

Energy Remains ⚡⚡⚡ . . . [Series: VACANT // 10] . . #manhattan #vacantlot #sbjsa #emptylots #vanishingnewyork #displacement #gentrification #graffiti #graff #graffitiinthesky #mixedmediacollage #abstractcollage #geometricart #abstraction #mindart #geometry #geometricabstraction #surreal42 #taxcollection #nycart #surrealism #surrealcollage #surrealart #outsiderart #modernart https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz1XyLMn4pK/?igshid=pirwxxq35nlp

Always Something New // Nordstrom Rack in the Garment District . . . [Series: VACANT // 9] . . #garmentdistrict #manhattan #vacantstorefront #sbjsa #emptystorefronts #vanishingnewyork #displacement #gentrification #storyofthestreet #mixedmediacollage #abstractcollage #dreamingincollages #geometricart #abstraction #mindart #geometry #geometricabstraction #surreal42 #nycart #surrealism #surrealcollage #surrealart #outsiderart #modernart https://www.instagram.com/p/BzRiRAMHido/?igshid=ki2mvnpvcn6m

Reflection in empty storefront window . . [Series: VACANT // 7] . . #emptystorefronts #sbjsa #vanishingnewyork #displacement #gentrification #urbanart #streetart #streetsvision #graffitiart #mixedmediacollage #surrealcollage #popsurrealism #surreal42 #surrealism #abstractart #xuxoe #abstractcollage #abstraction #digitalabstract #geometry #geometricart #lineart #geometricabstraction #facade #enter_imagination #nycart #architectureart #buildingart #manhattan #nycart #garmentdistrict https://www.instagram.com/p/ByiHLUhHLjF/?igshid=1j0q6l9brc72m

[Series: VACANT // 2]

Today I spoke at City Hall about the effect that vacant storefronts have on our culture. To support @nycartc and #sbjsa 💫 “Empty storefronts are a blight on our neighborhoods and our culture. When you look at the progress of the 20th century you see that small, passionate New York City businesses always led the way. We had integrated dance floors before we had integrated school boards. And we had marriage equality at Stonewall before we had it at City Hall. 💫 “A year ago today the mayor of our city had the Empire State Building and 1 World Trade lit up orange to entice Amazon to put their *second* headquarters in our city. I say it's time to light up our available real estate and open our city to the dreams of a new generation. To build a home for the incubators and innovators who will lead our city in the 21st century. This is the city that never sleeps because so many great people choose to stay here and chase their dreams every day and every night. And we know: if we can make it here, we can make it anywhere. But the reverse is also true: if we can't make it here, we'll have to try to make it somewhere else. 💫 “I want to leave her with a quote from the great Jane Jacobs, 'Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city’s wealth of public life may grow.'” (at City Halls) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpQZ-8oATPb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1g0o7794k18w8

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