The exhausted appearance of Dimension 20 at Madison Square Garden saw the return of his sleepless city campaign, set in a magical sixth district of New York City. Before the live show, we sat with Ally Beardsley and Brennan Lee Mulligan to obtain their opinion about him real New York City.
Keep reading to get tips on the best time to visit Times Square, and unrecognized neighborhoods that were based for the young bohemians of Mulligan in the city.
Brennan Lee Mulligan: Yankee Stadium is a stadium that I was not too much. My dad was a fan of the Mets, and I used to go to Shea Stadium with my old man, and we shout at the Mets, which is what the fans of the Mets do. If you love the Yankees, you want to see the Yankees play, then see Yankee Stadium.
I do not support them will, but I would not press someone to go to a Yankees game if they did not feel in their heart that it was correct, we are starting with something of a place of pure and friendly neutrality.
Ally Beardsley: The last time I was in a baseball game, the woman in front of me was looking on Google “how long is a baseball game.” Therefore, I should tell you how much fun is reserved for you.
Beardsley: You married there.
Mulligan: I got married there. Look that. And I lived in Greenpoint for a while because a cruise broke! And it had nowhere to go. I had to suck my room and have to move to the place of Ryan Haney. I slept in a closet in an air mattress.
Greenpoint was very central to me because in my most bohemian, where again, I was sleeping in an air mattress in a closet, that's where he was. So there is a bit of autobiography. That was also a time when he had just been abandoned, so he was single and left, and was fun and elegant free in Brooklyn. So it's like, We are dating! We are doing shows at night! It is in a new neighborhood! Life is an adventure! Oh, we have feelings for each other! Let's go home. I sleep in a balloon. That was the atmosphere. I was like, I need to go out to sleep somewhere where I can really rest.
It is a community of vibrant immigrants in New York, and I think there is a certain degree in Greenpoint of places that are strangely central while they are out of the ordinary. So he felt like a small artistic and great place to hide.
[In the Unsleeping City campaign] Pete The Plug was looking for the New York transplant experience, and at the time we were doing this, Greenpoint was a neighborhood that still had affordable apartments. It is still a great extent a Polish immigrant neighborhood, and there are places for arts, such as the people of the Pete group made sense to live in Greenpoint.
Beardsley: And not anymore.
Mulligan: Less these days. Less these days sure.
The City Council Metro station
Mulligan: This is not in service and has not been for a long time. You arrive here, I think it takes 6 [subway line]. You take 6 beyond your last stop and go through a beautiful subway station not for use that you can see through the train windows. God is magical. I can't believe, no. Do we use this? [in Unsleeping City]? I think this is where the entrance to the Bleecker Street Place dragon was in the city without sleep. It is an incredibly magical location. Remain last 6 by the last stop in the southern direction.
It is curious because obviously every New Yorker complains about the subway, because ought be better, but it is still the better 24 -hour public transit. It transports millions of New Yorkers every day. It is an incredible feat, and creates a type of civic life that cannot exist in US cities that were poisoned by attempts -Centric.
Beardsley: Yes, shout at the MTA. North Metro. My whole family works at Metro North.
Mulligan: Astoria is a really wonderful neighborhood. I think that for a period of time, Astoria had the distinction in the world, not only in the country, in the world, of being the postal code with most of the first languages that are spoken in any part of the world. And if that doesn't make you proud to be a fucking New York, I don't know, love. The shit of melting is not a joke, man. I know it's cheesy, but it's fucking beautiful. It is amazing. People from all over the world come to Astoria and live there. And as St. [Anthony] Bourdain said Queens is the New York food center. There is an incredible meal in each municipality, but Queens has a relationship with food, especially due to all different vibrant communities. How many first languages are spoken here? How many kitchens are authentically represented from people who know how to cook it?
Beardsley: A winery is a place where cats live.
Mulligan: A winery is a spiritual center that gives the lie to the refuted thesis that the only way to guarantee the reliability of the service is through the forced sterility of a corporate chain. You can obtain the constancy of your bread panera of multiple local harvest businesses. God bless the winery. A long time to reign.
Beardsley: I love wineries. God, I love wineries. “How is your wife?” I love saying that when I enter a winery. Immediate familiarity.
Mulligan: The most magical place in Times Square is not a place. It's time. Times Square is the axila of hell for 20 hours a day. But for a four -hour stretch in the middle, I would say, at 1:30 am and 5:30 am, Times Square is beautiful.
Beardsley: As during Covid, where everyone said: “Times Square is empty!” It is really crazy how beautiful it is.
Mulligan: It used to be a driver for independent characteristics. He was a driver of the production truck, and when you are a driver, you must be awake early enough to pick up the first people who are getting up. So I was awake at 3:30 in the morning to go to work, and walk at 4:00 am with a cup of coffee and be frozen, and look at the lights. And you see all the fucking heart of this modern world and advertising. And only for a moment, all this power and energy is directed to sell you, and only you, lingerie and Broadway and M&M tickets. And you are like, this is crazy.
What is Real Sixth Borough?
Beardsley: That of your heart.
Beardsley: That is real! That is fucking real!
Mulligan: Let yourself tell you, the happy is Brooklyn around 2006. I look around and I'm like, I saw you in Brooklyn. I saw you in Brooklyn. What are everyone doing here?
Beardsley: If you move to Los Angeles from New York, just see the happy ones. You are going to end there anyway.
Mulligan: You can legally get an apartment anywhere else.