«If you live in this neighborhood, you know the demographics, and these people would not be walking down this street on a Friday night,» said Baker, who moved to Long Island City soon after she started working at Socrates, a sculpture park that was founded by Mark di Suvero, whose studio, in
an former brick factory, is adjacent to the park.
Sunlight streams through the rows of windows lining the
brick walls of the
former factory, projecting bands of light down the building's length that mirror, and engage with, the stretch of track — a crossroads of the natural world and the manmade.