The existing American laws we use in a pinch just do not adequately protect artists or any other group of rental tenants. For example, artist certifi….

I think the entrepreneurial activities that make art visible and attractive are what lure people into the amusement park that SoHo has become or that….

No matter how many rich people call New York their home, we don't really have enough capital here to build and maintain the infrastructure that a pop….

One of the crucial underpinnings of New York as a culture capital is that there are multiple markets. There is not just one art gallery district, the….

As a lover of New York, I hope New York remains as successful as a city, even though the very groups on whom the city depends - like artists - are no….

Artists have been used over and over again since the early 1980s as the legitimizers of a neighborhood in New York. And entrepreneurial artists, mean….

I think that there is a middle-class desire, and maybe an almost universal desire, among many human beings to live in clean neighborhoods, among peop….

Every New Yorker spends a certain amount of nervous energy thinking, "How can I afford to stay here? What do I have to sell in order to stay here, wh….

I think people like difference. When you walk out the door in New York City, in a mixed-use neighborhood like the Village, you see exciting things! "….

A lot of us New Yorkers have bought apartments or bought lofts or are struggling to do it because at least that gives you some respite from the inexo….

There are masses of people who need affordable housing in New York. I think that, politically, it is very difficult to give preference to artists ove….

When new businesses open that are trying to attract people with cultural capital or cultural ambitions, they are often more expensive than traditiona….