Day 29 𖦹 MARIA HERNANDEZ PARK

A soundscape of sorts. 

One more day. Unbelievable that we're almost to the finish line. See ya tomorrow!!!

Transcript

SPEAKER_11 0:01

Okay. Day twenty-nine.

SPEAKER_08 0:07

Free tea.

SPEAKER_01 0:08

Take it up and spent a food.

SPEAKER_07 0:15

Thirty days of free tea in Mary Hernandez Park.

SPEAKER_11 0:18

Hello, hello.

SPEAKER_07 0:19

Day twenty-nine.

SPEAKER_11 0:20

Day twenty-nine.

SPEAKER_07 0:23

I don't believe it. I don't believe it's almost over.

SPEAKER_11 0:27

Why do public parks matter?

SPEAKER_07 0:30

Well, living in a city, you need green. It's a place for for kids to play. And for adults to play. And for dogs. Volleyball.

SPEAKER_06 1:00

When they wall up Barbecue.

SPEAKER_07 1:04

Skateboarding. Biking. Scooters. Speakers on scooters.

SPEAKER_03 1:12

Okay, go ahead with that.

SPEAKER_07 1:14

Music.

SPEAKER_03 1:15

You'd yell and he'd cry and he'd fuss and he'd fight. You'd keep the bandmates up all night.

SPEAKER_07 1:22

Guitars. None of those things can happen without the park, you know. Like you can try to find a street to do one of those things on, or some of those things here and there, but like it can all happen here. It's all meant to happen here. Because it's space. It's literally just open space, which is the hardest thing to come by in New York City. So when you create an open space that everyone has access to and can do whatever they want there, all sorts of amazing things happen.

SPEAKER_11 2:06

What's happening over here?

SPEAKER_07 2:09

The Ethan Anthony lookalike contact.

SPEAKER_11 2:12

Who's Ethan Anthony? My roommate.

SPEAKER_04 2:15

That guy.

SPEAKER_11 2:17

Hey, can I listen into this deliberation over here?

SPEAKER_04 2:21

Tell me what you're thinking. I'm leaning closer to Max. I think Max had a more Ethan energy. I felt more aware of Ethan. And I think that carries a bit more, even if the answer wasn't as strong.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

Yeah. Dakota's known Ethan longer than I have, so I've got to be a good one.

SPEAKER_11 2:34

Have you found some joy in the in Maria Hernandez?

SPEAKER_10 2:37

No, I haven't found joy in Maria Hernandez. Yes, all in my life. I'm yanking your chain. Of course. Yes.

SPEAKER_09 2:56

It is the best gathering space for people of all ages to get loose and get to know each other and have fun. Um this is the best day of my life. I have never felt more achieved than I have in this moment. And I don't think I'll ever pop this. Like, can you do that in the street? No, I don't think so. There's so many different jungle gems for us to play with.

SPEAKER_05 3:23

There's peace and there's chaos.

SPEAKER_11 3:25

Okay, there's someone doing a wheelie as we're doing. There's somebody doing a wheelie right now.

SPEAKER_05 3:30

There's always something new. It still holds that that same old school kind of feel to it in a sense. One day you see Miles serving tea, but then the other day you might see somebody rolling in a dirt naked. Who knows? You never know.

SPEAKER_06 3:56

I mean the park is parking. Look, you see little kids over there playing ball. Those prisons over there across the paths. Look, you see? Yeah. The usual workout bros over there doing their thing. And then just people on the park, but just commuting. That's your brother.

SPEAKER_08 4:20

Relaxing. Hey, what she cooked or whatever. Well when I came, when I first came back here and she was cooking, I was like, she can't cook. This shit is nasty. We're in this park. That's why I started cooking. You can truly see every kind of person.

SPEAKER_02 4:37

Yeah, it's like this guy who's rolling with an American flag. Yeah, and a Puerto Rican flag. That's awesome. We just saw two birds in a cage sitting on a bench. And I think that's really unethical, but it's really unethical, but the birds are really cute.

SPEAKER_07 4:50

This park is amazing because of the humans. Like it's you could just put a giant field and amazing things would happen.

SPEAKER_08 5:06

You're an asshole. He's trying to mate with her because she's a male. She's a female.

SPEAKER_07 5:12

We're entering a different mode of being when we're in the park. And that that is gonna clap just a beautiful way to be.

unknown 5:23

I know about pigeons.

SPEAKER_07 5:25

It's like we're reminding ourselves how to be human and how to be kids and break from the rhythms of the of the day-to-day.

SPEAKER_11 5:33

I normally I normally like chasing them. Chasing the airplanes? Yeah, and try to catch them.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

It would have been a little too much putting a Stan Lee to him.

SPEAKER_09 5:44

It's a moment to take a step and look at the trees, to be together to play, to play basketball.

SPEAKER_00 5:54

Get it right there, get it right there!

SPEAKER_01 5:57

Born and raised New Yorker, the parks have always been a place where New Yorkers could go. I like playing pickup basketball, and this is a good place to meet people to know the neighborhood. I never feel out of place playing pickup with strangers. Like you just build a camaraderie. Especially now where like neighborhoods are starting to change. People need to know each other. And parks are a perfect place to do that, to have their kids play together, to just know each other's names.

SPEAKER_02 6:33

This park was named after an activist. She was trying to put an end to the drug epidemic that was going on in this neighborhood. And um, she ended up getting shot and killed by dealers, and that's why they named the park after her. I mean, I think it's really beautiful that there is a park named after someone trying to put effort towards creating a brighter future for the youth, you know.

SPEAKER_04 7:09

You want some tea? Yeah. What would you like?

SPEAKER_11 7:12

What do you think about your young neighbors serving the tea over here?

SPEAKER_07 7:16

It's already been like really amazing because like other high schoolers came and they were like, oh, what school do you guys go to? And they're so good at it. Like they're really thoughtful. I like talking to people and like learning about them, and like where do you come from and like the stories?

SPEAKER_10 7:35

It's 6 o'clock!

SPEAKER_00 7:38

Day 29! Day 29.

SPEAKER_11 7:41

Okay, tomorrow. Tell me, what's happening?

SPEAKER_07 7:44

Dawn of dusk. Free tea from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Everyone is serving the tea. You're serving the tea. I'm serving the tea. JW is serving the tea.