Seen & Heard: Another Store Closed at the World Trade Center Mall

••• The reader known as Hudson River reports that the Under Armour store at the World Trade Center mall has closed.

••• 180 sent out an email announcing a semi-annual sale on “select designers,” but there’s no word on which ones or how much.

••• There’s a meeting of the 1st Precinct Community Council tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Varick and Ericsson. Perhaps you can swing by and ask why the cops won’t get counterfeit-bag vendors off the streets.

••• From B.: “The former Janovic store on the corner of Sixth Ave. and Spring has paper in the windows and a construction crew demolishing the interior of the space. When I asked one of the workers what was going in, he said he didn’t know. He did tell me that his crew would be building a demising wall to divide the big space into two retail spaces. He also said that that the mezzanine is being demolished, so there will be high ceilings. On the other end of the block (Spring and Varick), the former Grainger store also has paper in the windows and a construction crew starting an interior fit out.” Anyone know what’s up at either space?

••• Opening tomorrow at Alexander & Bonin: For Condo New York, “Madragoa will present Draw a Line to Make a Landscape, a group exhibition with works by Adrián Balseca, Sara Chang Yan, and Renato Leotta. Common to the works included in this exhibition is the use of an essential mark-making sign—the line—to depict a natural environment without depriving it of its essence.” Also: “Alexander and Bonin will use its ground floor space to present Gallery Laboratory, which has been conceived of as both an exhibition and as a working environment to consider artworks in new configurations and installations. The selection of works displayed in Gallery Laboratory will change over the course of the exhibition. The first iteration will include works by Willie Cole and Jonathas de Andrade.” Below: Cole’s “International Balls 2000.”

 

3 Comments

  1. ” There’s a meeting of the 1st Precinct Community Council tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Varick and Ericsson. Perhaps you can swing by and ask why the cops won’t get counterfeit-bag vendors off the streets”

    Wish I had known earlier…can’t be there for this due to work commitment. Would someone who attends please raise this question? I would love to know what can finally be done about this ongoing problem.

  2. Another police topic is the increasing proliferation of homeless people in the neighborhood. What can be done?

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