Oil Rigs in Midtown NYC

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Artist Josephine Meckseper in front of the working oil pumps in her public-art installation called "The Manhattan Oil Project," on a corner near Times Square in New York., Lucy Hogg

Are they drilling for oil in Times Square? Not quite. But a new art installation from artist Josephine Meckseper entitled The Manhattan Oil Project might fool some tourists into thinking the drilling is real.  Two twenty five foot “oil rigs” have been installed in a vacant lot on the corner of  46th Street and 8th Avenue [...]