Zoe Ozereko daily scrolls through phonebook-thick flat display leaves. The film is assistant two years ago after Long City Iceland withdrawn. At that time the rent was in the westernmost part of Queens even cheaper. After studying in Massachusetts in Amherst quiet here just liked the mix of art and small town. A neighborhood in which you have hailed, and an urban environment with artist flair. Here, she quickly connected to the art scene and found her job at a documentary filmmaker.
In fact, just hectic workdays, because the documentary film at the prestigious Sundance Festival to be submitted. But the 25-year-old Zoe must find a new apartment: "The neighborhood is changing rapidly. Soon I will hire me here no longer can afford."
Only one subway stop away from Manhattan, Long worked Iceland City thanks to flatter building formerly widely and openly. Small studios since the eighties were part of the neighborhood. But even large companies such as the Silvercup Studios, where "Sex and the City" and the "Sopranos" produced are long here. The artists who live and work, care for the special flair.
Bjork huscht past
Now threatens the quarter its original face to lose. A few years ago, grew the first apartment high-rise buildings on the shore of the East River in the sky. They obstruct the view of the Manhattan skyline and sparked first contested access to the waterfront for all residents from. Now the lofts of payment meaningful clientele lived in the Riverview Restaurant can enjoy the scenery.
In the bar, where Zoe Ozereko works, the sit-old Long Islander on their evening beer. Sometimes the media artist Matthew Barney and his girlfriend Bjork them. The two celebrities travel with the barge down the Hudson River and disappear after their visit to the city again. Even gallery owner Kenny Greenberg has already taken the Star: "Barney was once here in my gallery. Has not spoken word with me."
Green Mountain "type-O-Mat," which he and his wife Diane operates, is located in a small single-brick building on Vernon Boulevard, the main city of Long Iceland. The entrance is illuminated letters, despite easy to overlook. In the three rooms of the gallery is a mixture of kitsch and art together, everything from advanced photography to refrigerator magnets.
"When we were 20 years ago, Herzog was the living room and studio space cheap, and I had the nose full of Tribecca. There was almost this small urban community, which has fallen to us," says Greenberg, the artist himself and is now a Institution of the local art scene was. "Today it's different, the old shops will disappear and with them the Long Islander," Diane Greenberg describes the change in recent years. The mixture of old industrial area and businesses will be more and more by hip restaurants and cafes are replaced.
Gallery owner still remembers well the early days, in which artists such as his friend Mark Di Suvero the district populated. The sculptor Di Suvero founded the Socrates Sculpture Park on an abandoned factory site on the riverbank in the north of the district, where the Sculpture Park is Isamu Noguchi. Noguchi also had his studio over 20 years in Iceland Long City. "They were famous artists who are still fully integrated into the community were," says Greenberg.
Luminescent graffiti, open studios
With this openness and the interaction of art and housing breasts, the city is still happy to sell expensive housing. In the planning but the residents are not included. The couple Greenberg has a lot of time in the battle with the city planners invested. Ironically, it is currently the Weak U.S. housing market, the modernization of the district nor slows. Sometimes, she could not imagine just hinzuschmeißen says Diane.
Kenny Greenberg may still not give up. He hopes that the Long-Iceland-City feeling will not disappear entirely. "Often are also moving to the infected. The meet is also from Frank donut shop and come here in the gallery." His wife is skeptical that it has the same development in Tribecca and Soho observed classic examples gentrifizierter neighborhoods. Meanwhile, they no longer believe that they have in ten years in Long Iceland City will live.
Still found in some corners of innovative art projects, next to factories and shops. Directly opposite the Court Square Diner lit the Five Points-Graffiti House colorful as the playground for this art form is used. Only a few streets away is "The Space", an open studio community, which supports local artists and is free to visit.
Even the P.S.1 was originally designed. The little wild brother of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan, is today one of the oldest art institutions in the district, but also the United States. Founded in 1971, is the PS1 in an old school in the Jackson Avenue home. Meanwhile, the modern designed concrete patio in the summer of a popular party venue, popular DJs play music under the electron hanging gardens.
Currently running at PS1 just the exhibition "Arctic Hysteria" with modern Finnish art. "Many of the artists here complain that the local art PS1 no longer supported. On the other hand, if they would live in Manhattan, their works would not hang at MoMA," Kenny Greenberg describes the feelings of the local art scene.
"Art is a market"
Deitch also the studios that actually resides in Soho, have just opened a branch here. In a factory building directly on the Hudson River shore is just a shrill pop-art exhibition with a lot of neon and chrome. Gabrielle Shaw has been working since March in the new gallery. She lives in Williamsburg, Long Iceland City can be the PR student not afford. Whether they are a special long-Iceland-City-feeling among the artists could represent? They considered, finally says: "Art is a market that no community."
Greenberg just shakes his head when he heard this attitude gets. "I guess times, Long Iceland City has always been home to something more conservative artists," says Greenberg farewell. Sometimes he would be almost a little fresh wind in his gallery, "then I could come and admire what it all happened here."
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