New marker in context at the former site of the Broadway City arcade on West 42nd Street.
The New Arcades Project
A collaborative, participatory, public and utopian memorial mapping project to document and commemorate closed video game arcades through acts of physical marking at these formerly-social sites.
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2011-05-09
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Marker installed at 241 West 42nd Street, site of the former Broadway City arcade.
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241 West 42nd Street, site of the former Broadway City arcade.
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Replaced the first Playland Times Square marker with a new one, which was in turn removed in less than a minute.
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Back at the former Playland in Times Square, the original marker is long gone, traces of its adhesive barely visible.
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2011-05-08
Another view of the carefully tied controller memorial still in place at Chinatown Fair.
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One week after leaving a second marker at Chinatown Fair at 8 Mott Street on April 30, it’s not only still there (fairing better than the first), but someone has taken the time to tie its long electrical strands into a knot so that they don’t drag on the ground. (Reminds of widows who ritualistically clean and care for their deceased husband’s tombs in certain cultures.)
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2011-05-02
View of Times Square Playland marker in context, with two NYPD officers nearby.
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Marker installed on façade of former Playland in Times Square.
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The space formerly occupied by Playland in Times Square (1565 Broadway), now a souvenir shop.
