Last summer, Halsey was an artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and presented Kingdom Splurge 3. Along one wall of the museum's top-floor gallery, Halsey carved hieroglyphics into 16 drywall slabs, detailing street signs and cultural icons like Michael Jordan and Malcolm X.
WHITE SLAB PALACE77 Delancey Street, (212) 334-0913 GETTING IN If you have identification, and you don't start a fight while lining up to show it to the doorman, you should be fine.
One of the trenches being explored this summer yielded marble slabs of a street, drain pipes and the stone side of a house near the stadium.
The great granite slabs of Wall Street, the Woolworth Building chief among them, rise behind a Staten Island ferry leaving its slip, and excursion boats line the sea wall by Castle Clinton.
UK viewers who take pride in their neighbourhood can now do their bit to keep the streets looking smart with the help of FixMyStreet, where you can easily report any issues you spot in your area - like graffiti, fly tipping, potholes and broken paving slabs or faulty street lights.
Philadelphia National Bank's renovations included the addition of granite black slabs on the street level facade.
Smooth bluestone slabs have replaced Broad Street's cracked blacktop sidewalks, and cast-iron lamps now cast a soft glow.
Those who are not in the squares and yards block off sections of the street with slabs of concrete and sleep right on the pavement.
Huge concrete pillars hoist the Le Corbusier-style glass slab building 56ft over the street and 30ft from the rail bed.
With a few exceptions, notably Manhattan House, Gordon Bunshaft's sleek, tidy slab at Third Avenue and 66th Street, they don't get a lot of respect.
