In the 80s I knew a contractor that redid their kitchen floor. He said it was spotlessly clean! They literally washed the whole dinner down every night. I’ll miss it.

A one-time generating facility in Brooklyn is now Powerhouse Arts. In Paris, a decommissioned plant morphed into part of the Athletes’ Village at last year’s Summer Olympics and now belongs to an emerging neighborhood for mixed-income housing and other development.”

“There are countless examples of successfully converted power stations. The former Bankside Power Station in London, by Giles Gilbert Scott, became the Tate Modern museum.”

Sadly true. With 111 First Street gone and housing cost sky high, young artists can’t afford to live here.

This is the same city that could not come up with 100 grand to save the Jersey City Museum.

Not only concert walls, but curving ones — and all that glass. Installation of paintings is going to be pretty tough.

Thanks Dan. This article is a revelation.

Great review of a truly operatic evening. Giselle is a major talent and Jersey City is lucky to have her here.

Keep posting please. It gives me hope.

There was a good art gallery called Piezo Electric in the East Village of NYC in the eighties. So I’m in the 6%.