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"Dashing Through the Snow! Love from Jane's Carousel Photo: Harlan Erskine"

"Dashing Through the Snow! Love from Jane's Carousel Photo: Harlan Erskine"

Jane's Carousel in the Snow

February 23, 2018 in my pictures, New York, tear sheet, Brooklyn, Winter

This holiday I had the pleasure of working with Jane's Carousel to license my image for a holiday puzzle of the carousel in winter. I made the image the year before when a huge winter blizzard rolled through. As I make this post it's been unseasonably warm and rainy here in New York. I wish we had more snow this year. There is nothing worse than a cold rainy winter.

Me, making the Jane's Carousel Puzzle with my picture from a winter blizzard.
Music: 24 Caprices, Op. 1: No. 16 in G Minor - Itzhak Perlman.
Video © harlan erskine 2018.

I hadn't made a puzzle in years and I forgot how long it takes! The above assembly of me putting it together was made over two nights and took a little over five hours. The original image is below.

Big thank you to Jane Walentas! If you haven't been to DUMBO, Brooklyn and visited the carousel; go! It's a new classic New York institution! Also, there are puzzles for sale inside the carousel building.

‘Blizzard and Jane’s Carousel’ © 2017 harlan erskine

‘Blizzard and Jane’s Carousel’ © 2017 harlan erskine

This year I also included the above image in my holiday postcards. In a previous year, I have a more pulled back landscape of downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge, and the lower Manhattan skyline as well (see below).

‘Winter over Brooklyn Bridge and Jane’s Carousel’ © harlan erskine.

‘Winter over Brooklyn Bridge and Jane’s Carousel’ © harlan erskine.

The 1922 carousel was bought at auction and transported from Youngstown, Ohio. Then lovingly restored in over several decades working in a DUMBO warehouse by Jane Walentas. The carousel is housed in a beautiful modern steel and acrylic pavilion designed by French architect Jean Nouvel. For more info check out the Carousel's WIKI or watch the interview below.

It might only cost two bucks to pony up but it took over 15 million dollars and 27 years to bring a 1922 Carousel from Youngstown, Ohio to a clear pavilion in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Host Annamaria Stewart (@annamariachen) meets up with Jane Walentas, the woman behind Jane's Carousel (@janescarousel), to learn the storied past of Brooklyn's iconic Carousel.
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