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Keeping the Fulton Fish Market spirit, not smell, alive
By Spencer Bailey
For artist Naima Rauam, the Fulton Fish Market no longer resembles the place, full of fishy fragrances, she found 40-some years ago. In 2005, the market moved to Hunts Point, in the Bronx, after decades of development, mostly facilitated by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s investment in the seaport area. Last Sunday, Rauam presented the fourth annual Fulton Fish Market Day, featuring an exhibit of her sketches, drawings and paintings and a panel of local historians.
Documenting disappearing storefronts
10. November 2009
By Spencer Bailey
Many decades-old New York City shops, some of which have been around for over 50 years, have shuttered as landlords raise rent, urban development increases and storeowners retire from family-run businesses. James and Karla Murrays’ “Store Front” project helps capture these ever-dwindling, multi-generational stores as they struggle to survive.
Mart 125: Changes afoot for a long abandoned building
22. October 2009
By Spencer Bailey
Filmmaker Rachelle Gardner captures the problems of Mart 125, which housed a public market on 125th Street, in “Mart 125: The American Dream,” a 75-minute, nine-year work-in-progress documentary film that she began screening this year. For the building, abandoned for nearly a decade, there are also plans afoot.
The life of an outsider moving in
13. October 2009
Brooklyn artist Adam Taye, 35, sits in a plastic yellow chair in his cramped second-floor studio, which overlooks Cortelyou Road, and talks about his life. He drinks a large coffee with a dash of soy milk.
Raised in Boise, Idaho, in a Mormon family – “I consider myself a secular Mormon,” he says – Taye went [...]
Moe Albanese: Elizabeth Street’s stronghold
10. October 2009
It’s 2:30 p.m. on a sunny Tuesday afternoon in Little Italy and Moe Albanese, 85, sits on a wooden chair outside his shop’s battered, red-painted storefront, wearing a bloodied butchers smock. Above his head, a white sign, its blue lettering faded with time, reads: “Albanese Meats & Poultry.”
In 1923, Vincenzo Albanese, Moe’s father, immigrated to [...]
Bushwick bound, new residents living large
6. October 2009
By Spencer Bailey
Ryan Slack and Drew Smartt, who live at 550 Irving Plaza Lofts, are part of a next-neighborhood movement of artists, musicians and young professionals coming to Bushwick. While the area continues to maintain its gritty vibe, there are rapidly gentrifying pockets for those priced out of Manhattan and close-by Williamsburg.
The art of selling gentrification … in Bushwick
6. October 2009
Richie Maggio says he’s learned to not only sell apartments but also gentrification. Maggio, a senior project manager for AptsandLofts.com’s rental division, has been a broker of Brooklyn units, many on a high-end scale, for four years. From his office on Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, he spends his time marketing new, or renovated, apartments in [...]
Continue reading...Beer garden transforms Long Island City neighborhood
27. September 2009
By Spencer Bailey
Studio Square – on 36th Street near 35th Avenue – attracts packs of outside commuters, by train and by car, mostly on the weekends. Since opening over four months ago, the beer garden has estimated about 30,000 customers each week.
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25. November 2009
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