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Lincoln Center transforms to host season of outdoor shows
Lincoln Center transforms to host outdoor shows
Lincoln Center is getting ready for a summer of outdoor performances. FOX 5 NY takes a look at how the campus has been reimagined for a whole new season of shows.
NEW YORK - Lincoln Center is Manhattan’s unrivaled mecca of performing arts, and this spring it is transforming its massive sixteen-acre campus into an open-air venue, complete with ten outdoor performance and rehearsal spaces aimed at jump-starting the city’s cultural comeback. Everyone is hopeful. There’s a lot of joy, and it’s been such a pleasure to call people and say, ‘Would you like to perform?’ It’s so positive. Many of them have not performed for fourteen months, Jordana Leigh, Lincoln Center’s Senior Director of Artistic Programming told FOX 5 NY.
Venues from the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to a jazz stage in Queens are cautiously planning their first live programming in the brave new world of social distancing and audience size limits.
From Lincoln Center to local groups, NYC’s arts community plans gradual comeback from COVID-19 Shant Shahrigian
Nearly a year after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted authorities to shut down performances and public gatherings, devastating the city’s world-famous arts sector, the show will go back on.
Venues from the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to a jazz stage in Queens are cautiously planning their first live programming in the brave new world of social distancing and audience size limits.
As in the rest of the country, recent weeks have seen the city’s COVID numbers gradually go down the average positive test rate was 6.86% as of last Wednesday, according to city Health Department stats, down from a recent peak of 9.7% on Jan. 3. While concern about new variants of the deadly virus remains high, the sense of panic that pervaded when Gov. Cuomo shut down large venues on March 13, 2020, has faded.
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Detroit Pistons star player Blake Griffin recently purchased a mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, for a whopping $5.9 million. The lavish 5,893 square foot home was built in 1936 and comes with five bedrooms and six bathrooms.
Griffin got lucky with this property as the two-story house was initially listed in May for $6.698 million with Jordana Leigh of Rodeo Realty. It was then on the market for a reduced price of $5.995 million and finally brought by the basketball star, listing records show. The gorgeous house is built in the traditional/quasi-colonial style and includes a formal living and dining rooms, a media room, a kitchen, and a family room with a fireplace and large windows, according to the listing. For entertainment facilities, the house comes equipped with a pool with spa, a gym, a billiards room and a wine cellar.