The Lower East Side, the East Village, Alphabet City, Loisaida. Many names for a once neglected neighborhood that now represents some of the most valuable real estate in New York. New condominiums, nightclubs, and high-end retail dot every corner. Meanwhile, the inspiring legacy of landmark efforts to shape a neighborhood's future suffer obfuscation. But their traces remain, underscoring the area's personality, at least for the creative and the curious.

Kick over the traces to look inside the neighborhood's past, present and future. Reimagine future-forward activism and neighborhood shapes. Place meets face as you find traces of organizers, rent strikers, squatters, community gardeners, and settlement house workers amidst a crowded landscape of pre-fab luxe. Yes, ordinary people can take extraordinary action to create a community and a place to call home.

9/13/2008 Game Route
Videos: TSP Charas Trotsky Garden LT Tonic

Part of the 2008 Conflux Festival

KICKING OVER THE TRACES
A Radical Neighborhood Game by The CB Crew

On September 13, 2008, 8 teams of 5 players competed to race to destinations, get and solve video puzzles featuring quirky figures and events from this formerly raw and DIY neighborhood as well as to create collection challenges for other teams and collect artifacts from other teams' challenges along the way. The team with the most points at the end won the victory and the glory. complete rules

THANKS & CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO PLAYED! HERE ARE THE FINAL SCORES:

1st place -- Uptown Explorers (310 points)
2nd place -- Parsons P.I. (220 points)
3rd place -- LHC (190 points)
4th place -- Triumph (95 points)
5th place -- Gang of Four (85 points)
6th place -- Pascal Elizabeth (70 points)
7th place -- The Eureka's (30 points)
8th place -- Team 5 (25 points)

detailed results

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