"We want to create a street of the arts," said Rebecca Robertson, executive director of the redevelopment.
The production felt homemade, with a motorcycle borrowed at the last minute for atmospherics to help create a street scene.
Chief Spagnola created a street gang unit in the spring, and the prosecutor received a $200,000 community justice grant from the state to initiate an anti-gang program.
On Perry Street some neighbors created a street garden, the sidewalk a colorful bounty of daisies, canna lilies, sunflowers and a glorious weed called detura, whose large white blossoms each last for only a day.
The firm suggested creating a street with a public square to break up Northeast 39th and Northeast 40th Streets, both long blocks, and make them more pedestrian-friendly while also giving the district a new center.
Her group would prefer zoning on avenues like Broadway that would create a street facade of roughly eight stories (85 feet) and permit four to five additional floors on top, but set back from the street.
Users have been able to add Photo Spheres to Google's maps since 2012, but the new feature also allows them to stitch together the images to create a street view-style tour.
She said: "In the past I have used different nets to get students to create a street scene: cuboids for skyscrapers, triangular prisms placed on top of cuboids to create pitched roofs, and square based pyramids on top of cubes to create houses, and this went down really well".
The first relates to bands and involves joining or creating a "street team," or a group of people who promote a band, both on the streets and now online.
It is just one memorable moment among hundreds, if not thousands, that Mr. McDaniels has collected in service of a singular purpose: creating a street-level view of the scene he has spent his life in.
