Paging Alicia Keys — here’s a scene for your next music video!
New Yorkers flocked to a grand piano that someone mysteriously plunked in the East River — staging MTV-style photoshoots and banging on its keys on Friday.
A passerby stops to take a photo.Photo: William Farrington
“This is a riot. I’m betting an artist put it there — but you kind of wish it just washed up. It’d take a team of people to get it down there though,” said Muriel Evans 45, who came to take photos.
“Too funny!” she said.
The waterlogged Mason & Hamlin piano — discovered under the Brooklyn Bridge on the Manhattan side of the river — doesn’t actually work. But that hasn’t stopped musicians from trying.
Amy Kan, 26, of the West Village jumped over a railing separating the sidewalk from the beachlike area, hoping to play a tune. The piano made no sound, so she plans to come back to the scene with her cello later, she said.
Photo: William Farrington
“I stumbled upon it a few days ago and wanted to bring my friend to see it… It’s here making people happy. I’m hoping it just showed up,” Kan said.
Others made up whimsical theories about how the 300-odd-pound instrument may have ended up there.
“Maybe it fell off of a truck from the bridge. Or maybe someone got frustrated learning to play and dumped it in the river and now it’s here! Who knows, it’s fun to think about, ” Steve Thompson, 32, of the West Village
Lauren Wallace, 21, added, “I think it’s a cool juxtaposition of something man made against nature.”
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