In October, Buildings Deportment documents revealed that a 14-screen movie theater would be part of the big Essex Crossing project on Delancey Street. Now developers of the nearly 2-million square foot mixed use complex tell Crain’s the operator of the theater will be Regal Cinemas.
The theaters will be located in a 24-story building at the southeast corner of Delancey and Essex streets. The 65,000 square foot facility will be just above a new Essex Street Market. It’s a 15-year lease. Regal Cinemas already runs the multi-screen theaters at Union Square and at Battery Park City.
Rohan Mehra, of the Prusik Group (the firm handling retail leasing at Essex Crossing) told Crain’s the theater would be the largest in Lower Manhattan. “We feel that this is going to be a theater that draws people to this project,” he said. :You need entertainment in any kind of well-curated mixed-use development.”
While this proposal is very admirable, I doubt it’s very practical. It’s the same for the WTC area. Once new buildings are raised on his land, it’s value will skyrocket, it’s tax bills will be enormous. The idea that there’s going to be some new shiny spaces there that local artists can afford is pie-in-the-sky. Those days are long over for this neighborhood.
Great art grows in the cracks and crevices of society, like weeds; not in it’s guilded halls. Unfortunately, and thanks to Bloomberg, there are very few of these moldy, shadowed buildings for such great art to incubate. Warhol certainly didn’t create his great art in such a place. He did it in a vacant warehouse.
Nick Matoney Police are asking the public for help in catching two people who they say vandalized the Andy Warhol Museum on Pittsburgh s North Side and a building in Oakland.Watch the report in the video player above.Detectives with the Pittsburgh police graffiti squad say the museum on Sandusky Street and an apartment building on Dawson Street were tagged.Police say two taggers are working together to deface properties. One uses the demo tag, which police say is popping up in a lot of areas, especially near Oakland. Police say another tag is also being used, but they are working to figure out what it says.A worker at the museum says she was shocked this happened and wants the criminals caught, but she s glad the museum is back to normal and the graffiti is cleaned up.Police released surveillance video Thursday afternoon of the two people suspected of tagging the Andy Warhol Museum and a property at 3821 Dawson St.Watch the surveillance video in the video player
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