Tunnel to another dimension.

Neighbors, friends, 28th Street residents, I’m here to tell you today that there are more creative ways to get from 28th Street to 27th Street than 10th Avenue. The risk is that one of those other ways may transport you to another dimension.

On the south side of 28th Street between 10th & 11th Avenues is an arched brick tunnel with lights that says “Jardim” on the top, which evidently means “garden” in Portuguese. The tunnel connects two fancy apartment buildings that were completed in 2019 called “Jardim Sul” (meaning “south,” i.e., on 27th Street) and “Jardim Norte” (meaning, you guessed it, “north” on 28th Street). The architect is a Brazilian named Isay Weinfeld, who has a modernist, minimalist, contemporary style and who has an extensive portfolio of residential and commercial buildings in his native country. You can see him in motion sort of hilariously beckoning you to follow him to the right side of your screen on the Jardim homepage: https://jardim.nyc/ (update: apparently you only get to see Isay in motion if you click the link from a computer, not from mobile).

Take me to the promised land, Isay, if not 27th Street.