On Thornton St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, In the shadow of the passing J and M trains, Ukrainian artist Misha Tyutyunik, aka MDOT, worked with students from the Green School to take street art to a different place with this infographic art. On its surface the piece conveys an interesting comparison of land area to population in each of New York’s five boroughs: Staten Island, Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Bronx. The viewer is also left, however, to process a deeper and far more complex story. Participating students collected data through the City Digits program—a collaboration between CUNY’s Brooklyn College and MIT supporting math learning through a more integrated curriculum—about the distribution of banks vs. pawn shops. In the final graphic treatment each of the gold squares, on the world or used as building windows, represents 1% of New York’s banks and each of the red squares 1% of the pawn shops. @mdot_season @scenesfromthesidewalk