Sentences with phrase «chinatown building»

On the third floor of an unassuming Chinatown building, a dark hallway leads to Blessed Avenue, Jacolby Satterwhite's psychedelic quest into queer desire and memory, a twenty - minute digital animation created with Maya computer software.

Mr. Malouf's mushroom paintings also appear in a moody, tightly organized exhibition of six promising artists in the back galleries of Greene Naftali, though they are not quite as dominant a force there, given the presence of two laser lights by Sam Pulitzer (who has a nearly invisible co-authored piece in the Feuer show, runs a vitriolic blog with Mr. Malouf and others, and is also a dealer, again with Mr. Malouf, operating the William gallery out of a garbage can in a Chinatown building).

CHINATOWN — The tenants fighting to stay in a Chinatown building damaged by a devastating blaze last month have a powerful new ally.

Affordable housing advocates believe a recent ruling from the State of New York ordering a Chinatown building owner to pay more than a million dollars to the former residents of 128 Hester Street has broad implications.

City Council member Margaret Chin and 35 Market Street A building superintendent changed residents» keys and locked them out of their Chinatown building last...

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Anybody who's seen Chinatown can guess at the sordid history of the real estate deals that helped transform Los Angeles from a dusty burgh to a global capital of glamour, and for Gross — who sold truckloads of his previous book, 740 Park, a history of New York's richest apartment building and its residents — the estates of Beverly Hills and Bel Air prove fertile ground.

The sterile tiers of vast office buildings replace the tangled cluttered life of Chinatown and other ethnic communities.

The men bought their first building in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown neighborhood, and the business they founded has never stopped growing.

A new boathouse along the Chicago River in Chinatown is handsome enough to make you wish that Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push to build more of these access points to the river was moving with speedboat swiftness, not the dawdling pace of a canoe.

Council Member Chin, who had originally claimed to support the landmarking of 135 Bowery, argued that, «there is opportunity on the site to build commercial space that is so needed in the Chinatown community for the small businesses.»

I would like to thank my supporters from the Lower East Side, to Battery Park City, to SoHo, to Chinatown for the movement we built together.

Also at 10:30 a.m., the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development joins Asian Americans for Equality and Enterprise Community Partners to preserve historic affordable building in Chinatown, 81 Madison St., Manhattan.

I did notice on realdeal.com's Deal Sheet section that for many years, nail salons had no problem paying very high rents in some parts of Manhattan and they were notable for doing so but because of the agit prop in NYC against landlords, I have personally heard from Chinatown brokers what this article (translated by Google Chrome browser) propagates that retailers are the slaves of the building owner and this comment was made by someone who looks forward to owning their own nail salon:

Marilyn Louie, a Chinatown grandmother whose father opened a newsstand on the Bowery at Pell Street 35 years ago, has been fighting for months against city inspectors who say the stand is 3 inches too close to a neighboring building.

The downtown representative was also instrumental in helping Chinatown residents return to their James Street building after a similar fire occurred there more than a year ago, killing three people.

we have a lot of beautiful stone / brickk buildings in downtown chinatown that would be so beautiful if restored.

Daniel Day - Lewis channels John Huston (whose Noah Cross in Chinatown is a clear template both as a character and a voice) in a literally volcanic performance that slowly builds to an eruption in the film's closing sequences that either sends the film over the top into masterpiece territory or destroys the whole drama of the picture, depending on the viewer.

I read everything I could find on the subject and learned there were secret rooms beneath many of the buildings in Chinatown, some of them linked by old tunnels.

The Interpretation of Murder leads readers from the salons of Gramercy Park, through secret passages, to Chinatown — even far below the currents of the East River where laborers are building the Manhattan Bridge.

7) Sam Kee's revenge: The world's shallowest commercial building is located in Vancouver, B.C. Between 1903 and 1913, city planners expropriated 24 feet of land from the Sam Kee Company (one of the wealthiest merchant's in Chinatown in the early 1900s), so the firm decided to make the most out of the space.

History: In 1997, Sammy was retrieved from an abandoned building in Chinatown by City Critters animal - rescue service and taken to West Chelsea Veterinary Hospital.

The Golden Buddha is installed at the highest level in this impressive building which has become a landmark in Yaowarat Chinatown.

Located in a heritage building on South Bridge Road in Chinatown, Adler Hostel has a sophisticated style from top to bottom.

No more so than in Chinatown, the aptly - named city - centre, checkered with heritage buildings including Sun Pictures - the oldest operating outdoor theatre in the world.

Chinatown is a must for any visitor to the CBD as are the Queen Victoria Building, Martin Place, Chifley Plaza and Broadway.

The Queen Victoria Building, movie theater complexes, Chinatown, Darling Harbour, Cockle Bay and Hyde Park are all within a short walking distance.

Mantra on Russell is a recently built 4.5 star apartment hotel located in Melbourne's CBD - adjacent to Chinatown.

Rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake, and featuring architectural styles from around the world, including a vibrant Chinatown and Spanish revival - style buildings, the city is now a hub of activity, and a thriving spot for visitors.

The Hotel is close to many of Sydney's attractions and is within easy walking distance of Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, Queen Victoria Building, Chinatown & Sydney Town Hall.

Wander through Bangrak, Talad Noi and Chinatown to discover historic buildings, small alleys, old shophouses, street art, street food and other hidden gems - all within easy walking distance of the hotel.

An enormous sheet of tinted glass fronts the entire building, clashing with Chinatown's modest old shophouses.

The hotel is within easy walking distance of Chinatown, Darling Harbour, Queen Victoria Building, theatres, cinemas and the fantastic restaurants and bars of Surry Hills.

McAlpine House was the residence of Lord Alistair McAlpine who built the Cable Beach Club and purchased many of Broome's historic buildings such as the Sun Cinema Centre located in Chinatown about two kilometres away.

This apartment hotel is within easy walking distance of Chinatown, Darling Harbour, The Sydney Convention Centre, The Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney Town Hall and the Queen Victoria Building.

Darling Harbour, Cockle Bay, Chinatown, Queen Victoria Building, shopping district, Sydney Entertainment Centre, Capitol Theatre, Spanish and Irish quarters are within easy walking distance.

The hotel is just a short walk to the Victoria Building, Sydney Town Hall, Hyde Park, Darling Harbour, Pitt Street Mall, Chinatown and Sydney CBD.

The Queen Victoria Building, Sydney's Chinatown, Haymarket the Museum of Modern Art, The Rocks, Darling Harbour and Theatres

Ho Chi Minh City's» bustling city centre of Saigon is where you'll find quaint museums and French colonial buildings such as Saigon Opera House, Notre Dame Cathedral and Museum of Fine Art while Ben Thanh Central Market and Chinatown's Binh Tay Market are great for purchasing inexpensive clothes and handcrafted souvenirs.

This luxury apartment building is located in the heart of Chinatown, walking distance from Metro Theatre, World Square Shopping Centre, and Chinatown Night Market.

The hotel is very near to Sydney's entertainment district, Chinatown, Darling Harbour and the Queen Victoria Building to name so notable landmarks.

Chinatown Singapore is filled with UNESCO heritage sites and buildings and even its name, 牛车水 (Niú chē shuǐ) that literally translates to «ox - cart water» is still -LSB-...] Read more...

Situated in an iconic building dating back to 1906 and located in Portland's Old Town Chinatown, the property will have 113 bedrooms, a rooftop restaurant, a basement bar, and vibrant, welcoming spaces where you can hang out with the locals.

But seeing Bruce Nauman's latest effort, «Contrapposto Studies, i through vii,» brought me back to a scene in the film Chinatown in which John Huston's Noah Cross delivers a rather acerbic view of reputation and longevity: «Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.»

At the Swiss Institute, building on visual tropes and thematics introduced in their body of work on view at Chinatown's Hester this past summer — in which technological objects like data lock boxes and medical scanners met narratives and avatars drawn from oft - pathologized online subcultures found on DeviantArt and similar sites — the video «Virocrypsis,» accompanied by a pair of prints on silk, is narrated by the avatars Cynthia and Celinde, who share a body.

The series also builds upon Asian Arts» Chinatown In / Flux projects of 2006 and 2009, which brought work by professional artists to nearby restaurants, storefronts, and outdoor plazas.

Rick Lowe of Project Row Houses spearheads a revitalization project on Pearl Street, an under - used alley behind Asian Arts Initiative's building in Philadelphia's Chinatown North neighborhood.

Housed in the organization's then recently acquired 24,000 - square - foot building in Philadelphia's Chinatown North neighborhood, the program aims to make Asian Arts a hub for socially engaged contemporary art.

Building and site The museum is located in the Chinatown neighborhood in downtown Washington, not far from the National Mall and other major museums of the Smithsonian Institution.

Partially supported by Hunter College, the space used to be located in Chinatown but moved up to a Hunter - owned building on 65th Street earlier this year, where it opened with a solo show of the art of Hilton Als.

However, they choose to take advantage of low - income POC communities like Boyle Heights, Chinatown, and Harlem to build their own enterprises.