This week in the neighborhood: A 102-foot-long pneumatic slide, Phillip Glass and Pirate Wi-Fi on the L Train

New Museum: Carsten Höller Experience
The artist’s most comprehensive US exhibition to date transforms the viewer’s experience of time and space. Höller’s Giant Psycho Tank (2000) invites visitors to float weightlessly in a sensory deprivation pool, and an enormous 102-foot-long, three-story giant slide–you have to wear a helmet and pads to give it a go–has lines winding for blocks.
Through January 15, 2012; see site for museum and exhibition hours
New Museum, 235 Bowery

Filmmakers Cooperative Benefit Featuring Phillip Glass and Laurie Anderson
This 50th anniversary benefit concert features performances by noted modern composer (and longtime neighborhood resident) Glass, innovative multi-talented performer Anderson, additional guests, DJ duty by art-party darling Spencer Sweeney and an art auction.
November 16, doors 7 p.m.
Santos Party House, Upstairs, 96 Lafayette Street
Tickets: $40

Hidden Street Art: Groundbreak at Extra Place
Groundbreak is the latest in a series of temporary art installations in atypical locations in the East Village/Lower East Side through FABnyc’s ArtUp program, featuring a trio of New York-based artists who will reclaim the concrete pavement as their blank canvas. More on the history of Extra Place can be found here at Huffington Post.
Artist reception: Saturday, November 19 at 2 p.m.
Oaxaca Taqueria (at the end of Extra Place, in the alley off East First Street between Bowery/Second Avenue)

Pirate Wi-Fi on the L Train
This week, (Monday thru Saturday) from 8-10 a.m., anyone in the last two cars of the L train from Bushwick through Manhattan can log on to the “The L Train Notwork,” a pirate wi-fi intranet created by WeMakeCoolSh.it. The “notwork” will feature social goodies like a live chat room/dating site as well as curated content from local authors, poets, and artists, news feeds and more (via Gothamist).

Just opened: Tofu House, another one-food wonder in the Asian fast-food alley of St. Mark’s (EV Grieve); Joe Dough, serving cute-and-quirky but quit substantial sandwiches and subs (Thrillist).