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‘ARTBEAT’ STRONG IN BOROUGHS

Oddball art may be coming to your neighborhood.

The Department of Transportation and local artists yesterday revealed the first two of five new “street art” exhibits that will pop up in public spaces across the city.

An abstract sculpture made of plywood and resembling a stack of children’s building blocks and star-shaped toys was set up in the East Tremont neighborhood of The Bronx.

And in Red Hook, Brooklyn, 10 outdoor seats made of old wine barrels with 14-foot-high attached birdhouses were placed in an open space near Columbia and Halleck streets.

“To a lot of people, the city is nothing but cockroaches and rats, but really there’s a lot going on where people are living right next to other living things,” said Atom Cianfrani, the artist for the Brooklyn work.

In the next several months, three more sculptures will go up, on the Upper West Side, near Queens Plaza, and in Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn.