Brett Amory and Lower East Side Gentrification
Brett Amory’s This Land is Not For Sale: Forgotten, Past and Foreseeable Futures at Jonathan LeVine Gallery is a new solo exhibition exploring the changing landscape of New York City. Paintings of famous storefronts and buildings are showcased. Some are long gone (Mars Bar, CBGB.) Some are still around (ABC No Rio, Economy Candy, Yonah Shimmel.) Some are currently going through changes (190 Bowery.) Featured in the entrance of the gallery is one of those green construction underpasses seen all over the city. As hyper gentrification continues, how many more of the businesses featured in these paintings will be replaced with luxury developments?
CBGB, Katz’s Delicatessen
ABC No Rio (with a replica of Dasic’s mural;) Lucy’s; Economy Candy
Block Drug Store; Cup & Saucer
Yonah Shimmel Knish Bakery
Mars Bar; Nuyorican Poets Cafe
190 Bowery
This Land is Not For Sale: Forgotten, Past and Foreseeable Futures runs through November 14, 2015 at Jonathan LeVine Gallery
mmmmm……. knishes. One of my fauivrote foods….. I more or less lived off them in the late 80’s when I spent a year in NYC. The best ones I had were from the stand on the corner of 85th & 2nd. He was outraged and then faintly amused that as a English gentile I would only have them with ketchup; I’m afraid American mustard has never been my bag.My other fave Jewish food is chopped liver – Katz’s was great, as was Zabar’s. Here the best that I’ve had is from Selfridges food hall (bit poncy I know but I don’t get to London often!). Can anyone out there let me know where to get it in West Dorset?!?!?!