While many Prospect Heights residents were digging out from the blizzard, Jef Zaborski was carving out a snow sculpture on his street.<\/p>\n
\u201cI forgot about digging out the car, and I just started making a pile and then seeing what happened,\u201d said Zaborski, who is an architect.<\/p>\n
Zaborski said it took him about four hours to create the 5-foot human head. He said the original inspiration was his own father.<\/p>\n
\u201c[My father] definitely had a mustache, but I couldn\u2019t quite get the cheeks,\u201d said Zaborski. \u201cSo, once I lost the cheeks, then I said, \u2018Alright. We\u2019re going to move on.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
He moved on but did not give up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve just been saying [the snow sculpture] is St. John since we\u2019re on St. John\u2019s Place,\u201d said Zaborski.<\/p>\n
Regardless of who it was, Zaborski wanted to bring some positivity to St. John\u2019s Place.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt makes your street more interesting and more beautiful for people to notice when they\u2019re walking by,\u201d said Zaborski.<\/p>\n
There were plenty of people walking by on Tuesday, many of whom stopped to look, snap a photo, or chat with Zaborski.<\/p>\n
“I know everyone is, kind of, struggling with the blizzard. I mean, some people love it, and he\u2019s making art and beauty out of it,\u201d said Vicky Hinkle, of Prospect Heights.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t believe it,\u201d laughed Lilly Manigault, of Prospect Heights. \u201cIt\u2019s like a real person!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While many Prospect Heights residents were digging out from the blizzard, Jef Zaborski was carving out a snow…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,10481,8555,55360,40488,48673,19641,50523,30712,60552,19639,34018],"class_list":{"0":"post-144313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-prospect-heights","15":"tag-snow","16":"tag-snow-aftermath","17":"tag-snow-cleanup","18":"tag-snow-day","19":"tag-snow-removal","20":"tag-snow-shoveling","21":"tag-snowfall","22":"tag-snowman","23":"tag-snowplow","24":"tag-snowstorm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}