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NYC-based product designer Mark Reigelman will install Stair Squares across the front steps of Brooklyn's Borough Hall from August 17-26 this summer. The public furniture pieces "are designed not only as an aesthetic asset, but as a functional asset as well. They will be strategically integrated into urban landscape and incorporated into daily life." Neighborhood workers can take advantage of some al fresco lunch dining while passersby get a sprinkle of color while walking past the government building that looks like, well, any other gray, column-clad government building. It's too bad these things are just temporary.