The struggle to keep the Ohio Theatre in Soho has been ongoing for a year now (we thought we'd seen the last show last March). But according to a press release that just went out, now the Ohio, located at 66 Wooster Street, has really lost its lease on life. The theater, a stalwart in the downtown scene for 29 years, will close August 31, 2010. So says Artistic Director Robert Lyons: “It’s where Tony Kushner produced his first play out of college, where Philip Seymour Hoffman made his professional acting debut, where Eve Ensler performed Dicks in the Desert, a decade before writing The Vagina Monologues. The Ohio Theatre has been an incubator and platform for New York’s most exciting and innovative theatre artists for almost 30 years. Its closing emphatically punctuates the end of an era in Soho, and stands as a high profile casualty in the relentless decimation of the lower Manhattan theatre landscape.”
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Is nothing sacred? When referring to real estate on this tiny island, no, not really. We've been posting bits and pieces from the on-going war between East Villagers trying to save Ray’s, the scrappy candy store, as it battles an evil landlord (as if there was any other kind). The latest skirmish comes as tidings of what could be, as rumors fly that Ray’s candies would be replaced by a Noodle Shop!
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The building may be saved, but does that mean a church will be thrown out on its ass? That's the question that continues to plague the congregation of the Park Presbyterian Church located on West 86th Street and Amsterdam. The cracked red sandstone bricks of the 19th-century church, what some claim is the finest Romanesque Revival church in the city, were marked as a landmark Jan. 12. But that may mean that the church, which is facing serious financial woes, may not be able to renovate or maintain the building, and could have to relocate. The church has refused to be landmarked for two decades but finally lost that battle.
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A new plague has been flying around Brookyln: The Stink Bug. Unlike the dreaded bed bug, the nearly invincible bane of urban apartments, these critters don't bite humans or transmit diseases. What the new bug on the block does have in common with other mainstays of New York infestation is how easily they can jump from apartment to apartment. Where these guys set themselves apart from the rest, though, is in their unique ability to smell to high-heaven.
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This morning, as the rain poured down, sad news rang out across New York City. Mom and pop real estate company Tishman Speyer announced that it will be turning over the iconic housing complex, Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village, to its creditors. After purchasing the property in 2006 with the $5.4 Billion found underneath the couch cushions and behind the fridge, the company must walk away from the deal. Tishman Speyer’s hopes were modest. The plan was foolproof. The purchase of Stuy Town is really nothing more than a modern day Horatio Alger story.
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P.S. 1 announced the winner of its Young Architects Program, and this one may be the most forward-thinking, unconventional winning to design in its 11 years of existence (and that includes the recent agrarian concept in paper containers and the "hairy" shelter spaces last year). The design by Brooklyn firm Solid Objectives — Idenburg Liu is called "Pole Dance" and incorporates an interconnected system of poles and bungee cords that is constantly altered by human action and rain and wind. So, in fact, the poles may in fact be used for dancing when they are installed this June in the P.S.1 courtyard this summer for the annual Warm Up music series.
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What was once one of the city's classiest restaurants will soon open as the Fulton Mall's newest fast-food outpost. The space formerly held by Gage and Tollner, a Brooklyn landmark for over 125 years, will soon reopen as the borough's first branch of Arby's, the roast beef sandwich chain.
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The Observer reports that Deitch will have to quit Deitch Projects by June so that he can assume the head post at L.A.'s MOCA, according to the museum's board chairs David Johnson and Maria Bell. The big question: Will he sell Deitch Projects so that the party can continue, just under a different name and leadership? The line of artsy young people waiting in the chilly night air to get into an opening has become a rite of passage. I recall nights waiting alongside bearded ladies and preciously outfitted waifs to hear The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black.
And what about the LIC location, which most recently presented a stellar exhibit of Keith Haring's 10 Commandments? We expect someone will move in and take up the mantle. We need these inflated Michel Gondry promotional item exhibits and Yoko Ono love-ins. Does this mean we'll only be left with Jonathan Levine openings for shock value and pretty young things throwing shade? Please say it ain't so!
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