This week’s cover, “Open House,” by marcellushall. NewYorkerCovers
Finding a place of residence in New York City has long been a challenge, sometimes verging on a full-time job. Students bunk with too many roommates in too small a space. Longtime New Yorkers cling to their hold on a rent-controlled apartment. Couples with young children weigh square footage against school districts. Young professionals look to move into neighborhoods with their peers. The list of mental calculations is as varied as the city’s denizens.
You have been involved in both New York’s indie-rock scene and its art scene since the nineteen-nineties. Do you think the changing housing landscape has altered creative life in the city? I always read about how the cheap rents and bombed-out desolation of the East Village in the late seventies fomented a culture of creativity. Certainly, cheap rents will attract artists and musicians, but the truth is that New York seems to remain an artistic haven despite its unending real-estate pressures.
In a previous cover about real estate, you showed Manhattanites banished to Brooklyn. Yet you yourself stayed on the Lower East Side for a long time, recently moving a block away from your old place. What keeps you anchored in the neighborhood? Oh, yes, it’s ironic that both covers comment on New York City real estate. I lived first in the East Village and then, more recently, the Lower East Side, which in many ways still feels like New York’s best-kept secret; there is a lot to be said for being near so many vibrant places and eclectic neighborhoods. But I also loved living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, before it became “Williamsburg.
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