uxtaposed with the disheveled, grungy city background, these beautiful sets provide a stark contrast between the outside world and the supposedly useless items that once littered the same streets. Hard to imagine people discarded these things, looking at the rooms Bettman and Eker were able to build with them. ‘We pay so much money for rent, but there’s so much available to us for free’, Bettman told New York Magazine.