The Fanciest Mouse Hole In New York City
I was walking up Wythe Ave in Williamsburg last week when something caught my eye…
Wait for it…
Getting closer…
Almost there…
And here it is: the fanciest mouse hole in New York City, featuring a Federal-style doorway complete with pilasters and a pediment!
Alas, a scan of the code in the doorknocker area reveals it not to be the entrance to the greatest mouse house ever, but instead, a street ad for performance artist Cynthia von Buhler’s Speakeasy Dollhouse project, an immersive theatrical show.
Apparently, these have been showing up around town for the past few years. I knocked, but no one was home.
-SCOUT
I just saw one of these last week while walking to the Rough Trade Record Store
http://instagram.com/p/qj6Rt9HpD_/
sort of a rip-off of this: bedbughotels.org
they are called fairy doors. there is a town in england where there are hundreds of them
this is like an urban version of the pooh house on the harvard campus: http://adequatenotice.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/the-harvard-pooh/
(the tree has since been cut down, but pooh house lives on: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/6/20/pooh-house-commentary/)
Where on Wythe is this? I wonder if it made it to Street View…
I came across a few of these over the past few years, here’s one.
http://bryanthatcher.com/2012/10/03/a-little-tiny-door-on-11th-street/
JAJA, great mouse hole !!!
They could have done a nicer job gluing it to the wall. That really detracts from this cute little door.
Thanks for the discovery!! I spoke with Cynthia from Speakeasy Dollhouse and turns out she’s not installing them herself–her fan base has been for the last few years in sort of crowd-sourced thing which I think makes it even more fun. Some even were placed with money behind the doors (and keys to open): http://untappedcities.com/2014/07/23/daily-what-miniature-fairy-doors-are-popping-up-all-over-nyc/
I love this, but where on Wythe is it?
It’s here:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=wythe+avenue+brooklyn+ny&ll=40.721152,-73.958679&spn=0.002455,0.003484&hnear=Wythe+Ave&gl=us&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.721076,-73.95876&panoid=Fs6NaFz0SuflFwIOww2asg&cbp=12,117.31,,0,8.04
I found it by looking for a smokestack and a water tank near Wythe Ave.
You will note that in the Google picture, no rodent door.
There’s also a dark blue one on the signpost at the SE corner of mercer and spring. Looks like a party left the corner a bit ragged.