Photo: Looking fown East Broadway, Sunday midday.
In the news:
–Tenants at 95 Baruch Drive, part of NYCHA’s Baruch Houses, say a boiler has been spewing steam rather than heat for several months. NYCHA insists the heat is working, but residents are still in the cold and are going without hot water. [The City]
–Adam Himebauch “is back to keeping his fans guessing, and the art crowd on its toes.” Through his latest projects, the Lower East Side-based artist and parodist, is both perpetrating a hoax and, “testing the boundaries of what even his inner circle thinks they know about him.” [The New York Times]
–In a new documentary, Hakki Akdeniz tells the story of being down and out in New York City, starting his pizza business on the Lower East Side and becoming a media magnet. [New York Post]
–A new restaurant, Ixta, opens at 299 Bowery, “pay(ing) homage to Mexico, specifically Tulum.” [The New York Times]
–The River, a bar in Chinatown for the downtown art world, “can be seen as a response to today’s rather sterile, Apple-store-design aesthetic.” [Artnet]
–The Acker Awards return to celebrate community and the avant-garde art scene. [AM New York]
