Housing News

Friday, May 30, 2008

Lorenzo Sanguedolce: You have your piano now, and you have almost all your sound equipment set up... so, is it life and work back to normal here?

Connie Crothers: No, and I think that is not the case for people in the building in general. It was quite a dislocation - we were out of this space for three-and-a-half months, which, when you live and work in the same place, is a dislocation. So, though we all might have anticipated that we'd get it all back together in a day or two,

On a freezing cold Sunday night, January 20th, about two hundred of us, all of us artists, some of us with children, were standing out on the sidewalk in front of the building in shock, wondering what was going on. Police cars cordoned off the block; fire trucks lined the block on both sides of the street. 475 Kent Avenue was filled with policemen and firemen.