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Winner 2004 Brendan Gill Prize. Municipal Art Society of New York annually awards this prize to the creator of a building, book, essay, poem, lyric, song, composition, play, painting, sculpture, landscape or any other work of art which best captures the energy of New York.
Winner 2003 Innovative Use of Archives Award Archivist Round Table of New York. "For exploding the paradigms of oral history and reinterpreting them for our multimedia century..."
Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new Ameria from EarSay Inc on Vimeo.
"CROSSING
THE BLVD boldly carries the tradition of oral history into the 21st
Century. It is an electrifying collage of voices, faces, and spirits,
capturing the true elasticity -and inclusiveness - of contemporary American
culture."
Eve Ensler, Author, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
"A book of stunning originality,
tremendous visual flair and cinematic depth, CROSSING THE BLVD will
forever change the way we think about our cities, our communities, our
neighborhoods, our neighbors, and ultimately, our own backyards. It's
as if we've all been invited to an enormous block party, where Lehrer
and Sloan have personally introduced us to some of their most fascinating
neighbors. By the end of the book, strangers somehow feel like friends,
and the boulevard feels a lot like home."
Alan Berliner, Filmmaker and Media Artist
THE FAMILY ALBUM, INTIMATE STRANGER, NOBODY'S BUSINESS
“CROSSING THE BLVD brims over
with the energy, heart and spirit that went into creating this important
work. A fitting tribute to the world it so lovingly documents…”
Dave Isay, Documentary Radio Artist
GHETTO LIFE 101, THE SUNSHINE HOTEL
“Lehrer/Sloan’s fascinating
book offers unique insights into the rich and combustible cauldron of
cultures and ethnicities in the most diverse corner of America –
the Borough of Queens, New York. CROSSING THE BLVD reveals the impact
of changes in immigration law through the oral histories of asylum seekers
caught in the maze of mandatory detention, refugees fleeing war and persecution,
and those who are pushed out of their countries struggling to recreate
their lives. The significance of this extraordinary volume is that, ready
or not it provides a glimpse of the new America which is emerging.”
Ron Daniels Executive Director, Center for Constitutional
Rights
“CROSSING THE BLVD brings alive
the most polyglot place on the planet. One moment I am in the tiny one-bedroom
of Bhutanese exiles, the next in the taxi of a philosopher-poet from Bombay,
then with Renata the table tennis champ from the Czech National Team.
An outstanding book on the new New York!”
John Kuo Wei Tchen, Historian, New York University
& Co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas