 My name is Bridget Bartolini. I'm a 2014 commissioned artist and I live in Bed-Stuy, but I'm originally from Queens, born and raised. My commission with the Laundromat Project is called the Neighborhood Portrait Series. And it's a city-wide series where we're going through the five boroughs and doing one event in each borough. That's a community storytelling event where we have people sharing stories, poetry, music, and art. That's inspired by their borough or their neighborhoods. The responses that I've been getting is people really appreciate it. They really, really appreciate having this kind of outlet to celebrate the pride in their neighborhood and their borough. And people have expressed to me how it's for some people it's the first time experiencing something like this where you just celebrate all the wonderful things about this place which is often neglected. So I'm from Queens and I grew up in a neighborhood where making it means getting out. And that's one of the things that inspired me to start the five borough story project because I really feel like no matter where we're from there are reasons to take pride in that. And I hope that people will be more invested in their neighborhoods and trying to shape their neighborhood into what they want it to be. People have said to me after events like, oh, this proved to me that the Bronx isn't always bad. And so people given me feedback that shows how we sometimes really internalize these negative perceptions of the places where we live. They've said, oh, thank you for making the Bronx relevant for something other than violence and conflict. It's very, very rewarding to hear these kind of comments. Laundromat Project is doing something that's so awesome. Everyone has to go to Laundromats and it's a really unpleasant experience most of the time. But the Laundromat Project is taking this chore that people dread doing and put off doing and they're transforming the Laundromat into a place where people want to be and where you can have friendly and pleasant interactions with people. Little things make a difference.