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A Community-Based Place Marking Initiative for

Baldwinsville, New York

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Precedents

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City Lore and the Municipal Art Society’s Marking Places that Matter

Competition(2003)

Link to this feature on the Place Matters website

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Proposal submitted to City Lore and

the Municipal Art Society’s Marking Places that Matter

Competition(2003)David Provan proposed “viewing stations.”

Located at places that matter, the frame would direct the visitor's gaze through a window that exactly reproduces the place view in an old photograph.

Link to this submission on thePlace Matters website

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Proposal submitted to City Lore and

the Municipal Art Society’s Marking Places that Matter

Competition(2003)

Link to this submission on the Place Matters website

Tom Klem and Neill Bogan proposed a post structure that catches the viewer’s attention with a light-transmitting disc containing a hyper-real object, in this case a giant safety pin that recalls the punk rock origins of CBGB’s.

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Proposal submitted to City Lore and

the Municipal Art Society’s Marking Places that Matter

Competition(2003)

Marc Norman, Jonathan Massey and Tobias P. Frank proposed to enliven the streetscape by embedding stereoscopic viewers in the blank surfaces that line city sidewalks: construction hoardings, metal fences, and roll-down security grates.

Link to this submission on the Place Matters website

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City Lore and Place Matters’Your Guide to the Lower East Side

(2007)

Link to this feature on the Place Matters website

Map indicating the locations of project signage, graphic design by John Wong

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Example of signage fromCity Lore and Place Matters’

Your Guide to the Lower East Side

(2007)

Rev. Bayer Lee on laundry work, English text, Lower East Side Tenement Museum

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Example of signage fromCity Lore and Place Matters’

Your Guide to the Lower East Side

(2007)

Rev. Bayer Lee on laundry work, Chinese text, Lower East Side Tenement Museum

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Example of signage fromCity Lore and Place Matters’

Your Guide to the Lower East Side

(2007)

Lillian M. Rivera on discrimination, P.S. 42, 71 Hester Street, corner of Orchard Street

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The Place Matters Toolkit

Link to this feature on the Place Matters website

The Toolkit is a step-by-step guide to identifying, documenting and advocating for places that matter.

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City Lore’s City of Memory website with narrated,

illustrated introductory video

Link to this feature on the City of Memory website

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Canal Stories are oral history modules about the

Erie Canal, produced by City Lore and the Erie Canal Museum. Similar oral history modules will be accessible from community-designed

place-markers installed around Baldwinsville.

Link to this feature on the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor website

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Stills from first-person narratives

featured in the Canal Stories

oral history project

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Baldwinsville, New York

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The village of Baldwinsville was built on the banks of the Seneca River, whose waters powered busy 19th and early 20th century mills. Fertile farmland surrounding the waterfront towns of Van Buren (to the south of the river) and Lysander (to the north) yielded lucrative cash crops, including tobacco. Baldwinsville was once one of the countries foremost tobacco producers. (Image Source: Bing Maps)

Link to the village of Baldwinsville’s website

Though the Erie Canal was not built through Baldwinsville, the

Baldwin Canal/ Seneca River waterway linked Baldwinsville to

Syracuse, where boats could access the Erie Canal. In 1965, the Baldwin Canal was covered over,

and the canal bed was turned into a parking lot.

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Industries once lined the banks of the Baldwin Canal (above, 1901). Tobacco was regularly transported across the canal to the railroad station. (Images Source: “Greater Baldwinsville, Images of America)

By the turn of the 20th century, the Seneca River had become a

boater’s paradise, and Baldwinsville boasted numerous

boat clubs that offered water-based recreation, as well as dances,

concerts and parties to residents and visitors.

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The Vagabondia, situated on the north shore of the Seneca River, was one of Baldwinsville’s many early 20th century boat clubs. (Image source: “Greater Baldwinsville,” Images of America)

Baldwinsville in the 21st century

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Bridge entrance to Paper Mill Island Park. The bridge and island were completed as part of the Village's Waterfront Revitalization.(Image source: Village of Baldwinsville website, www.baldwinsville.org)

Today, greater Baldwinsville and surrounding towns are home to an overall population of 36,000, and the area draws large audiences

from Syracuse, a few miles away.

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Nearly 1,200 runners race up Oneida Street during the 43rd Annual Baldwinsville Kiwanis Turkey Trot 5K Run, 2011.(Image source: Flickr)

Baldwinsville boasts the beginnings of a major

entertainment district by the Canal with five restaurant, numerous

pubs, an amphitheater, and marina.

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Rock concert at Paper Mill Island, summer 2011.(Image source: Flickr)

Baldwinsville is currently undertaking a $400,000 waterfront revitalization project. The brown parcels are recent village acquisitions that are slated for redevelopment.

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Village of Baldwinsville Zoning Map. The brown parcels indicate properties recently acquired by the village, which are slated for redevelopment.(Image source: Village of Baldwinsville, Department of Public Works)

The Erie Canal Museum in downtown Syracuse collects and

conserves Canal material, and provides educational programming related to the Canal’s transforming

effects on the past, present and future.

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The Erie Canal Museum is located in the only remaining weighlock building in America. (Image source: Flickr)

Link to the Erie Canal Museum website

The Erie Canal Museum collaborated with the 40 Below

Public Arts Task Force, a Syracuse-based art collective, on Arterie, a painted two-block stretch of road

that was formerly the actual location of the Erie Canal.

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Arterie celebrates the Canal’s historical relevance to Syracuse as well as its lasting effect on Central New York.(Image source: 40 Below Public Art Task Force Facebook page)

The 40 Below Public Arts Task Force identifies, initiates, and

integrates a variety of art projects across Syracuse. The Task Force is

comprised of artists, community leaders, arts organizations and

interested volunteers who believe that public art is a powerful tool in

community building.

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Formally an abandoned train yard, Lipe Art Park in the Warehouse District of Syracuse is now the city’s first art park and public green space open to the community for personal recreation and public gatherings. The park is designed to facilitate public/community engagement with the ecological and cultural life of the city and beyond.(Source: 40 Below Public Art Task Force)

Link to the 40 Below Public Arts Task Force website

In 2007-2008, the Public Arts Task Force initiated the Urban Art Rangers (UAR) was a community art force that will patrolled different neighborhoods

of Syracuse in order to foster connection through the arts. Rangers

both informed residents about arts initiatives in the city, as well as

engaged in conversations about the role that creativity and art can play in

the neighborhood.

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Urban Art Rangers wore a uniform (logo t-shirt and hat), were trained, information was distributed and they reported back to the Public Arts Task Force about the interests of their assigned community(Source: 40 Below Public Art Task Force)

Brendan Rose, artist and member of the 40 Below Public Arts Task Force

was the Syracuse Public Artist in Residence. Rose worked with Syracuse

University Industrial and Interaction Design students and community participants to create a public art

sculpture that sits above the Onondaga Creek along the newly developed

Armory Square section of the Creekwalk.

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Tectonic Sculpture 03 (TS03) is a serpent like public art installation that sits above the Onondaga Creek along the new downtown section of the Creekwalk. The goal of the installation is to act as a symbolic and formal reminder of of the importance of Syracuse’s relationship to the Onondaga Creek. The design process used open discussions to generate feedback and ideas for the project.(Source: BrendanRose.com) Link to Brendan Rose’s website

Lock 49, a Syracuse-based graphic design firm, created promotional materials for the 2011 We Live NY Summit. The event was sponsored

by We Live NY—the statewide young leaders group, 40 Below of

Central New York, and the Southern Tier’s Pipeline 4

Progress, and was held at Cornell University.

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We Live NY Summit program book, designed and produced by Lock 49. The Summit was organized to showcase success-based models that promote innovation and creativity.(Image source: lock49.com)

Link to Lock 49’s website

Lock 49 works closely with the 40 Below Public Arts Task Force, and manages national client accounts that require professional design solutions for brand identity, graphic design and website design/development. Lock 49 is also completing development of the Erie Canal Museum website.

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Lock 49’s website designs for Mello Velo and Recess Coffee. Both businesses are based in Syracuse.(Image source: lock49.com)