With First Street Green

CARPETS, Pipe insulation and construction net, 2012

VISIONING MAP, Ideas City with new Museum and partners, construction net, 2013

In 2008 Silva Ajemian and Jorge Prado teaming up with residents of First Street in Manhattan co-founded First Street Green, and open art space, a non-profit collaboration with the goal of converting a derelict lot of land located at 33 East 1st Street from an inaccessible, garbage-strewn, rat-infested piece of “vacant” land into an active public space.

Collaborating with NYC Parks and Partnership For Parks, FSG has successfully incorporated the lot into First Park. Today, FSG provides ongoing cultural activity in First Park by engaging with emerging artists, architects, community and cultural groups through a series of programs that activate this place.