Crossing the BLVD is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary project led by EarSay artists Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan that documents and portrays the largely invisible lives and stories of new immigrants who live in the borough of Queens, New York - the most ethnically diverse locality in the United States. It consists of a book published by WW Norton, an audio CD, a radio series broadcast on WNYC, a website, and an exhibition.

The Mobile Story Booth, created by Mark Shepard and Carlos Tejada of dotsperinch in collaboration with Lehrer and Sloan, provides a roving point of access to the Crossing the BLVD story archive - an online collection of first-person narratives recounting the immigration experience of new Americans. The Booth extends public access to the story archive beyond the Internet, and opens up the process of building the archive to those without an Internet connection.

The Booth was initially exhibited at the Queens Museum of Art from December 14, 2003 - March 28, 2004 as part of the Crossing the BLVD exhibition. Currently, the Booth is being brought to local schools and community centers in an effort to provide an open framework for the archive's expansion.

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