“Heart Seat” Public Art Installation Goes Up In Fort Greene Park

If you haven’t already swung by the northeast corner of Fort Greene Park (at Myrtle and Washington), then do so tonight, this weekend, as soon as you are able because there’s a pretty cool work of art installed there between now and October.

Entitled “Heart Seat,” the heartbeat-inspired bench went up yesterday morning (Thursday, May 28) and was created by Red Hook-based design studio Stereotank, founded by architects Marcelo Ertorteguy and Sara Valente. “Heart Seat” is bright red, made out of a repurposed water tank, and made to be interacted with.

This isn’t the first time it’s been in the public, either. As noted over at the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership blog, it was originally commissioned for the Times Square Valentine Heart Design competition and sat — in the shape of a heart, though, not a bench — DUMBO’s Pearl Street Triangle a couple of years ago, to much fanfare.

Now it’s Fort Greene’s turn to show how vital our neighborhood is to Brooklyn’s metaphorical bodily function!

The exhibit will be up through October.