BRIDGING THE DIVIDE

Every community has streets that are dividers. In the late 1970s, the New York State Department of Transportation demolished nine blocks of commercial property and hundreds of residential housing units to build the Hoosick Street Bridge in Troy, NY. This project displaced countless families, individuals and businesses and disrupted the development of an entire community. Today, the Hoosick Street Bridge is a monument to division. The documentary BRIDGING THE DIVIDE explores whether art can help this community heal. The program follows local artist Jade Warrick as she installs murals throughout the bridge's surface area to transform and beautify the space and help unify a city.