Good morning. It’s Friday. We’ll look at an unusual art show in Brooklyn. We’ll also look at how short trips on Citi Bikes brought in big money for some riders.
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The gallery space looked like any gallery space, with whiter-than-white brick walls, high ceilings and tallish tables where guests could stand with drinks and hors d’oeuvres.
But this gallery, near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was different: It was in a complex that houses one of the city’s largest migrant shelters.
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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe art on the walls was the work of two men who have lived in the shelter for several months. One of them, Roger Miranda, a former art professor from Venezuela, painted some of the canvases under the nearby Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
Shelter managers noticed him leaving for his open-air studio, easel in hand, and figured out that he was an artist with talent and aspirations. They soon found a place in an office where he could leave his canvases — when stacked together, the paintings were too bulky to store by the cot he sleeps on. Eventually they moved his cot to a larger space where he could set up a makeshift studio.
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