I.S. 125 Paints A 'Garden In Transit'

Students from I.S. 125, Woodside paint "Garden In Transit" panels celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first metered taxicab in New York City while a trio of musicians provides inspiration.

Recently some 600 students and 62 teachers from I.S. 125, 46-02 47th Ave.,Woodside, held a "Paint- In" to liven up New York City by painting taxis as part of a "Garden in Transit" volunteer project for Portraits of Hope, a non-profit program that conceives and produces one-of-akind motivational art, education and creative therapy projects. They have involved everything from blimps, buildings and airplanes to tugboats and NASCARS.

Portraits of Hope involves school-aged children throughout the five boroughs in a year-long project painting large, colorful floral panels that will be applied to New York City's yellow taxicabs. Taxi '07 is a traveling feast of flowers that will be on city streets for 16 weeks in 2007.

Garden in Transit is a privately funded project created to celebrate Taxi '07-The 100th Anniversary of the First Metered Taxicab.. Taxi '07 is a program of the non-profit Design Trust for Public Space in partnership with the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC).

Students gather showing off their "Garden In Transit" painting on a New York City taxi.

Throughout the Garden in Transit project, corporate and individual volunteers will also

visit hospitals and special care centers. For more information, visit www.portraitsofhope.org.