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Construction gives way to connection and creativity BY MICHELE ALPERIN
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Quintis Crosland loves trying new tricks on his BMX bike. He’s mastered a 720 — two complete revolutions in the air — after hours of daily practice in the summer at West Windsor Community Park, where he also
skateboards. He’s also flying high in his final season on the High School South boys basketball team, a unique pairing of athletic interests. “It’s always weird when people open my trunk and see a skateboard and a basketball back there, and they’re like, ‘Those
don’t even go together,’” Crosland said. “It’s fun. It helps me take my mind off basketball and stress.” Crosland has found BMX and skateboarding a good getaway over the last five years, but puts his extreme sports on hold in the See CROSLAND, Page 6
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Dramatic changes in our built environment, like the construction of the new West Windsor Transit Village, can be potentially dangerous to vulnerable artistic work on the property. Two years ago, Plainsboro social worker Yvonne De Carolis noticed a chain link fence going up around three familiar sculptures that had stood for years in front of the Constitution Bank and Rush Holt’s former office on Washington Road. For her, this was a sign of their potential vulnerability, and she took action. Her first step was to contact the tax office to get the name and address of the property’s owner. With the business’s name in hand, she drove to a substantial building on Alexander Road, but alas she did not see the name on the directory, and the security guard was unable to identify the business. In the nick of time, Steve Goldin stepped out of the elevator, looked at the name, and said, “Yes, that’s my company, and I just sold the property to
Avalon Bay. If I had met you a week ago, I would have given you those sculptures.” Goldin called Avalon Bay for her, and De Carolis got a call from their representative the next day asking if she was “the sculpture lady”? When De Carolis identified herself as “the woman who would like to rescue these sculptures if they are going to be demolished,” he told her that his company had contacted the West Windsor Arts Council, which had rejected the sculptures for want of a place to install them. Then he said to De Carolis: “If you can remove these by end of the week, they are yours.” The Avalon Bay representative later got back to her with the name of the sculptor, Ellen Rebarber of Highland Park, who was happy that her work had found a good home. When De Carolis gave Rebarber a call to thank her and let her know her intentions for restoring the sculptures, “She was over the moon happy that I was rescuing these things,” recalls De Carolis. “She is an absolutely amazSee SCULPTURES, Page 4
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