Intention: to work in street space (city property) at border area where gentrification meets public housing; to counter city efforts of population control.

Action: Two-week on-site construction of public lounge wearing vests, helmets, appropriation of Keyspan wood, employment of commercial signs and icons, discussion, video interview with local residents.

The intervention was sited adjacent to a bodega where people frequently gathered.

An employee of the nearby bogeda, enthusiastically supportive of the structure, became an informal custodian.

The structure was used at all hours, often by residents of an adjacent public housing complex where seating had been removed.

During the day, older men sat and read the newspaper, after school, children sat inside eating their candy, and at night, teens hung out inside.

The structure was the subject of frequent police investigation-- see video.

Eventually the structure was stripped bare by the patrolling policemen, irritated evidently by the opaque semi-private space, complicating their efforts of scopic control. Shortly afterward, the wooden structure was removed by the Sanitation Department.