It's extremely hard to get here – far less accessible than most public municipal art – and upon arrival, it is more physically inhospitable than the most uptight New York art gallery.
"When I got here last year, I was so far from being an N.F.L. quarterback," Brady said.
It's much too far north — the Germans got here twice in fifteen days!
"I wanna see the most far out material you've got here".
But while my life has led me gradually to true bicycle nirvana, I sometimes forget how long it took to get here, and how far the city still has to go.
'I came so far to get here," said Ms. Dorvil, who lives in Canarsie.
Someone who has travelled so far to get here, for months on end, who had seen terrible things and overcome huge obstacles, do you think they would stop at a fence?" Migrants' names have been changed.
Not all of the American beer being sold over here is out of the top drawer, though, and even some of the good stuff might not be at its best, having had to travel so far to get here (always check the brewed-on date, if you can: hop potency, a key component in many US ales, diminishes over time).
Amadu himself has come far to get here - having spent time in Cameroon before moving to Bata a couple of years ago.
And because so many have traveled so far to get here, jet lag is manifest on many faces.
