Something's happening here now

I had some great coversations and discussions with various community leaders here in Trenton over the past several weeks. As the season's change, there is a sense of a shift occurring - you can feel it.

Something incredible is happening in Trenton, NJ right now. A new administration is in office, there are new people with new ideas in the Capital City, and people are slowly beginning to realize that it is us who can make the change. Change doesn't come from the top down, rather from the bottom up.

A band of grass-roots entrepreneurs, inventors, engineers, artists, musicians, and poets are all coming together to solve the problem of how to re-create Trenton

Trenton ReCreation Center.

Community Building

Some local youth stopped by the shop to use our bicycle repair resources and spare parts. Here they are seen taking apart some handle bars from an old bike to place on one of their own. Way to be resourceful!


SPX also took the liberty to demonstrate his muraling skills in the back of the shop - with an audience of young Trentonians watching on.


Bryan completed a FireBowl for pete's Etsy store, which has FireBowls, furniture, and other custom wire-rope art pieces for sale. View Pete Abrams' Etsy Shop.



While on a supply run, travelling by bicycle to Blake Hardware, Bryan took this shot of the hardware store by the Martin Luther King Jr. school being torn down. The building had sat vacant for a decade or so, and actually was home to a small forest growing inside the dilapidated building. Who knows what lies in store for this Trenton property?


To round out the evening, a couple came by to pick up an extra fridge we had hangin around. They brought a set of legs to an old metalworking machine for us to take apart as well, which we managed, with the help of some pipe wrenches, to take apart - another successful save! Thanks for stopping by Lindsey and Jim.

Tuesday Morning Blues

Its a rainy Tuesday in Trenton.

Church bells ringing.

Cards sloshing through the slippery streets.

Drip drop drip drop - water pitter pattering through the holes and into buckets.

A morning serenade.