April 11, 2019 Arts & Culture, Real Estate, Restaurant/Bar News
SOHO/NOHO VISIONING MEETING
The fourth public engagement session for visioning the future of SoHo and NoHo will take place TONIGHT, April 11, 6 to 8p at the 1 Centre Street North mezzanine. It’s organized by City Planning, Beep Brewer and Margaret Chin. There have already been an open house and two public workshops; this will be again a workshop with the idea to identify preferences and priorities. The presentation will start at 6:15, the breakout sessions at 6:30 and there will be a Q&A at 7:30 to end the meeting. See summaries from previous workshops here.
FUTURE OF WAGNER PARK
There’s a lot of planning going on! The BPCA and Community Board 1 will host another session on the resiliency project for South BPC, focusing on Wagner Park, on Monday, April 15, 6p, at 6 River Terrace. Intended to be a deeper dive on the Wagner Park portion of the project, this design discussion follows the March 12 South BPC Resiliency Project Public Meeting, and include the design firm for the project, AECOM.
PEARL PAINT SIGN
Seen: the old Pearl Paint sign in the lobby of 67 Lispenard. How did those lucky ducks get that??
TASTE TIX ON SALE
Taste of Tribeca is scheduled for May 18 from 11:30a to 3:30p and tickets are on sale now here, starting at $45 for the usual six-punch card.
PELOTON CEO IN PODCAST AT PAC
NPR’s “How I Built This” podcast will host the founder and CEO of Peloton, John Foley, at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center TONIGHT, April 11, at 8p. Join host Guy Raz for a 90-minute conversation as he digs deep into the story of this at-home fitness disruptor: from the early struggle to find investors, to selling over 250,000 bikes and being valued at more than $4 billion. Tickets are $35 here.
FOODIE ALERT, CANADIAN STYLE
Montreal chef John Winter Russell, whose restaurant Candide is one of the du-jour hot spots in Montreal, is cooking for one night only at Racine’s as a guest chef: Tuesday, April 16 starting at 5:30 with an a la carte menu of spring dishes. There will also be Canadian wines by the glass to pair. Make reservations.
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57 Lispenard, also called the Pearl Paint Lofts, is the residential conversion of the Pearl Paint building (the main entrance used to be on Canal). The developer hung the original signage in the lobby as an homage to their origins.
Homage or pastiche?
When the rich and complicated history of a place is erased, and some small token of it remains that, to me, is pastiche.
This is an appropriation, not an homage or pastiche IMO. At least the Pearl Paint sign remains in public view, unlike the Terra Cotta medallion removed from the facade of the demolished Tunnel Garage nearby at Broome and Thompson Sts. That was placed at the residents’ roof deck of the successor building.
Tunnel Garage, Before: https://www.6sqft.com/remembering-sohos-tunnel-garage-an-automobile-age-marvel/
Tunnel Garage, After:
https://bit.ly/2YZF8N0
I don’t know what pastiche even means but it’s definitely not a homage
Whatever it is, I would hang it in my lobby in two secs. Takes me back to my youth.