BROOKLYN HEIGHTS -- Coin-grabbing parking meters vend space and time on the city’s streets, but along Montague Street, the main shopping strip in Brooklyn Heights, they also provide free art.

By knitting and purling skeins of Red Heart yarn, 50 volunteers have created colorful sleeves (also dubbed “cozies� and “knitted graffiti�) each one about 40 inches long, that stretch tightly around the pipes supporting the street’s 69 meters. Only yarns colored pink, green, blue and yellow were used as that are most resistant to sun and rain fading, Magda Sayeg said.

She founded Knitta Please in Texas in 2005 to decorate commonplace objects like doorknobs and handrails with knitted colorful dress.

For the project Sayeg was commissioned by the Montague Street Business Improvement District with cooperation from the Department of Transportation Temporary Art Program Planning and Sustainability, said Chelsea Mauldin, the BID’s executive director.

--Don Evans
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

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