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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Citrovia

July 15, 2021 – Jan 1, 2023
421 8th Avenue, New York City, NY 10199, United States

Metal scaffolding and sidewalk sheds are all too familiar in New York City, where construction and facade work is constant from block to block. This year, a 69-story office tower—Two Manhattan West—has warranted a monumental construction shed that reaches from Moynihan Station to 10th Avenue, but instead of the usual planks, dust, and darkness, voila, Citrovia! It’s a 30,000-square-foot installation that brings lemony light to the block. Cuttlefish, Inc.’s founder, Evan Sjchechtman, and Midnight Theatre’s creative director, Warren Adcock, commissioned 700 handcrafted lemons, 3,800 steel-and-foam painted leaves, and trees 18 feet high to create a surreal lemon grove where people can meet and sit. It’s playful. It’s bizarre. It’s undeniably New York. —E.C.