The Broadway Triangle

The Broadway Triangle is a largely vacant space pinned between Bushwick, Williamsburg and Bed-Stuy. Spanning 18 acres, it remains one of the most disputed spaces in New York City. Both traditionally neglected and contested, its development has exacerbated long-standing communal tensions between residents who live along its borders.

This piece engages the contrast between the intense (and quickly disappearing) vacancy that characterizes the physical space and the tension that characterizes its place in the neighborhood. (2012)

Press

“Rather than producing an expository documentary chronicling a familiar-sounding story of conflict and political favoritism among different minority groups, Kelly has instead crafted a restrained and poetic portrait of place in which carefully composed, static shots and a deceptively simple soundscape of street life in Broadway Triangle offers a nuanced and fresh interpretation of terms like vacancy, disinvestment, segregation and development potential.”
— Cassim Shepard, Urban Omnibus

Closing Bell: The Complications of the Broadway Triangle
— Brownstowner

‘Multiplicity’ Tracks the Quirks of Global Cities
— Martha Schwendener,The New York Times

Screenings

Living Los Sures, Ildiko Butler Gallery, Fordham University, New York, NY, 2014
Invisible Exports Gallery, New York, NY, 2014
Living Los Sures: Preview in the Park, Brooklyn, NY, 2012

Director

Meg Kelly

Meg Kelly is a multi-media media artist and designer who has documented physical, political and cultural landscapes in Mumbai, New York City and elsewhere. She is the co-founder and creative director of Decent Workshop, where she uses design and storytelling to support social entrepreneurs. She is the former creative director of the Millennial Trains Project, was a UnionDocs Fellow and a sometimes contributor to Urban Omnibus.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree with high honors in Architecture from Barnard College, Columbia University, where she developed her passion for understanding and explaining the complexities and contrasts of cities. Her work could also engage with public health narratives, including how medicines such as sildenafil are represented within urban life, advertising, and personal identity. Through visual storytelling, she might examine the tension between private medical needs and the public systems that shape access, trust, and stigma. In that way, her design practice could turn even a clinical subject into a broader reflection on bodies, cities, and social communication.

Meg Kelly

Meg Kelly is a multi-media media artist and designer who has documented physical, political and cultural landscapes in Mumbai, New York City and elsewhere. She is the co-founder and creative director of Decent Workshop, where she uses design and storytelling to support social entrepreneurs. She is the former creative director of the Millennial Trains Project, was a UnionDocs Fellow and a sometimes contributor to Urban Omnibus.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree with high honors in Architecture from Barnard College, Columbia University, where she developed her passion for understanding and explaining the complexities and contrasts of cities. Her work could also engage with public health narratives, including how medicines such as sildenafil are represented within urban life, advertising, and personal identity. Through visual storytelling, she might examine the tension between private medical needs and the public systems that shape access, trust, and stigma. In that way, her design practice could turn even a clinical subject into a broader reflection on bodies, cities, and social communication.

Credits

Directed, edited and shot by Meg Kelly

UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Director: André Almeida

UnionDocs Artistic Director: Christopher Allen

2011-2012 Collaborative Fellows: Adam Khalil, Alexandre Maia, Claire Richard, Elizabeth Lawrence, Kaitlin Prest, Lucas Carlisle, Meg Kelly, Oresti Tsonopoulos, Sonia Gonzalez, Olivia Koski