July 08, 2006
If you are sunning yourself or enjoying free Wi-Fi in lower Manhattan parks in the next week, instead of kvetching about why you are not vacationing in the French Riviera or about the miserably hot and stifling heat, you might be fortunate enough to pick up a copy of artist Matthew Bakkom's tabloid-size pamphlet called the New York City Museum of Complaint.
New Yorkers, it seems, have been complaining to their mayor for over three centuries, and Bakkom has distilled some of the finest complaints into his publication, delineating everything from the summer smell of horse carcasses on Henry Street to traffic noise in Manhattan.
Meanwhile last night, perhaps in homage to Bakkom's publication, it seems an electrical panel overheated and filled City Hall's basement with smoke. Doubtless Mayor Bloomberg will receive complaint letters on this topic.
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bloomberg, city hall, complaints, matthew bakkom
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Posted on 7/8/2006
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