Pedestrian memorial

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Memorial for Peter Hornbeck, a friend of a friend. Pete was killed January 10, 2004, when a driver going close to 100 miles an hour ran him down in the intersection of Park Ave. & 96th St.

The driver abandoned the car and fled the city. He was later caught and sentenced to several years in prison.

I didn't know Pete but I know a friend of his. We worked together on this memorial and installed it during the second annual memorial bike ride for cyclists and pedestrians killed in New York.

After 19 months of installing ghost bikes for slain cyclists around New York, this is the first memorial we've created for a pedestrian.

In 2006, 135 pedestrians and at least 14 cyclists were killed by motor vehicles in the five boroughs.

We tried to come up a simple visual icon (like the white bikes), but couldn't come up with any one symbol that seemed appropriate. In Bogota, Colombia, a stenciled black star is stenciled onto the sidewalk, but that didn't seem right. Suggestions are welcome. Email us at visual.resistance@gmail.com.

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Comments

lucky_dog says:

pair of shoes painted white, and carefully tied through a hole drilled into the upper right hand corner of the information placard?

or maybe the skewville-type wooden plywood sneakers, painted white.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

patrick21 [deleted] says:

what about white paint outlines a la 'pedestrian crossing signs' painted flrcnt. orange

great work by the way! inspiring to say the least.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

goreb83 says:

yeah i was thinking some kind of ped walking sign outline, but kind of looking like a chalk outline too.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

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