What’s the difference between a hoarder and a collector? For Jay Maisel, it was a six-story, 35,000-square-foot building on the Bowery
it was a six-story, 35,000-square-foot building on the Bowery, with plenty of space to live, work, and store all the stuff that inspired him for nearly 50 years. That is, until 2015, when even Maisel—whose photographs have been featured in 17 one-man shows, 13 books, and on the first two covers ofmagazine—could no longer afford the $300,000 it took each year to maintain 190 Bowery, built in 1898 as a branch of the Germania Bank.
“Having a bank was a very spoiling experience,” Maisel said in a recent interview. “When I first got [it], people were asking, ‘Can I put stuff there?’ ‘Yeah, sure.’ After a while I had so many people’s things…that I had to put my foot down.” Instead he became a landlord to Roy Lichtenstein and Adolph Gottlieb for two years. “[Sculptor] Marisol Escobar wanted a space after they left. But by then I realized that it was insane. I was renting [floors] out for $350 a month….
Eventually the former bank building, with its 1898 copper-cage elevator and basement safe-deposit vault filled with file cabinets of Maisel’s work, overflowed with things that captured the shutterbug’s idiosyncratic interests. There was a basketball court on the first floor; the sixth, the family residence, had two bedrooms, one bathroom, a kitchen located where the bank’s used to be, and a living room with a dining area featuring an original pressed-tin wall.
One thing Maisel can’t recreate is the thing he misses most: the bank’s incredible view. “Right now I have a view of the backs of some buildings and that’s it.”
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