10,000 People on our Street

Each summer our building, in Fishtown, is ground zero for the Trenton Avenue Arts Festival. The highlight is a popular event called the Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby (http://www.kinetickensington.com/2010-winners) where new neighborhood arrivals, longstanding residents and businesses build crazy-pants art bikes and drive them through an urban obstacle course, ending up in a mudpit on Trenton Avenue. Plenty of artists and friends nearby made this the highlight of our spring (notwithstanding the fact that "the Pirates" bike team stole Ben's needle-nose pliers after a breakdown on our street, but that's what he gets for lending some tools to a Pirate outfit ).

Our building teamed together to host the unofficial afterparty complete with a reggae band, lawn games and lots of food(hat tip Keith and Tracy). Good times indeed.


Amongst the crowds.


The 10,000.


One of the 29 Kinetic Sculptures.


Watching the mudpit finale from our window.


The afterparty in our courtyard.