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New Yorkers complain
What are you complaining about? If you're a New Yorker, it's often about noise and trash and occasionally about politics or morals. Those are some of the concerns expressed over the past 300 years by citizens writing to their mayor, as unearthed by an artist who mined the city's archives to create The New York City Museum of Complaint. The museum is actually a tabloid newspaper reproducing 31 letters from 1751 to 1973, currently being distributed in city parks. Some letters are elegantly handwritten, others typed, and all of them complain about something. "Some of them are on the verge of paranoia, others are on the verge of genius," said Matthew Bakkom, the artist who created the project. "I tried to find letters that had a genuine voice of their own somehow. It's a bit like being a DJ, I suppose."
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