Judgment Day in Queens: Five Artists Present Ideas for the Borough’s Next Public Project

‘Meanwhile, John Ewing on behalf of himself, Christopher Robbins and Carmen Montoya offered the Ghana Think Tank. “We collect problems in the ‘first’ world” and send them to think tanks we form in Ghana, Cuba, Iran, El Salvador and Mexico,” explained Mr. Ewing, 45.”These think tanks propose solutions which we put into action back in the community where the problems originated.”‘

‘After 15 minutes of cloistered deliberation, the panel returned to the reception area. And with the kind of dispatch Lebron James’s people would have done well to emulate, Mr. Finkelpearl briskly announced the winning entry: the Ghana Think Tank.

“We look forward to the chance for New Yorkers to get their problems solved by people”We look forward to the chance for New Yorkers to get their problems solved by people from countries they’d never think to ask,” Mr. Robbins wrote in an email message. “Cuba Iran, Serbia, Ghana, Mexico. . . .”