At the busy intersection of Grand Concourse and Kingsbridge Road in the Bronx, at the B and D train station, a simple, yet strong message on a colorful digital sign reads: “Hopeful.”
“This is a commitment I feel to people of the Bronx and Manhattan and all the boroughs who take these trains to work,” said Charlie Hewitt, an artist who created the image.
It’s part of a collaboration between Hewitt and Chelsea gallery owner Jim Kempner. The Hopeful Project started with a single lighted sign on a gallery roof in Portland, Maine, where Hewitt calls home. Soon, there were new signs of different types in seven
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