On the first Thursday of every month at the Pearl Street Triangle in DUMBO, the Manhattan Bridge is used as a backdrop for a video installation as part of the art project titled “LIGHT YEAR.” Originally created for the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage to celebrate the United Nations’ declaration of 2015 as the Year of Light and Light Art, “LIGHT YEAR” has since become an international project, with presentations in DUMBO, Berlin, and live streamed online. Over the years, “LIGHT YEAR” has featured the work of hundreds of artists and curators from around the world. This week’s video installation by artists Philip Vanderhyden, Colleen Keough, Rebecca Shapass, and Eric Souther was “Thresholds and Beyond,” which explored the “place where disparate realities meet, overlap and create hybrid realities.”

Although DUMBO is known for its iconic waterfront views of Manhattan, look closer and you’ll find many colorful murals hidden or tucked away in the underpasses of the BQE as well as under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. The murals are part of a massive project titled “Dumbo Walls.” “Massive Stampede” is one mural by long-time DUMBO artist and Brooklyn native Craig Anthony Miller (known as CAM) whose work “reflects his life mantra to always be aware that humans have the ability to navigate through any stress that may appear in life, and everyone has the power to make dramatic changes and evolve to free themselves into a pathway of reaching self-mastery.” Artist Emily Caisip’s has a mural titled "Moment of Gratitude" that depicts tall plants reminiscent of the high rises continuously being constructed in New York City. The floating flowers “represent the ‘moment of gratitude’—the exact moment where each person stops, takes in his or her experience, accepts and is happy with where he or she lands.” Speaking of gratitude, we are thankful for the right to vote. Have you voted yet or made a plan to vote?