In Williamsburg Store, Customers Find Art Among the Wrenches.

It is easy to miss the mechanical birds in the window, with flapping wings of scrap metal and wood and tail feathers of flattened spoons. The two-foot-long threaded bolt also blends in with its surroundings, but the 24-foot-long BMX bicycle hanging from the ceiling is a good hint that there is more to this hardware store than hammers and drills. At Crest Hardware, a quasi institution on Metropolitan Avenue near Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, more than 100 works of art, many of them hardware-themed, are on display alongside the workaday items like nails, nuts and bolts. They are part of the Crest Hardware Art Show, which is in its seventh year. It began June 7 and runs through the end of July. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]