One Art Community Center (formerly Wall St. International) looks like a store-front on 52nd street near Lancaster Ave. However, if you've ever gone to an event there, once you walk through the wrought-iron front gate, and the adjacent doors, you realize you just stepped into an oasis in the middle of the city. The doors open up to a courtyard of bustling activity with musicians playing and singing on a concert-sized stage, children running between their parents and the sand pit off to the back. Vendors are spread around selling food and wares, and there is an orchard off to one side while a small patch of grass with sandy edges offers you an island like view of the stage and people dancing. Bamboo fences trace the outer perimeter giving those walking its border a feeling of solitude while enjoying the orchard and rich colorful wall art flows around the landscape telling the story of this artist and that. Wall St International was the vision of the late Benjamin Reid, along with his wife Malaika Hart. Over the years, she has worked tirelessly to continue to realize his vision in what is now One Art Community Center. READ MORE...