Description

In 1975 Susan Penzner opened one of the first art galleries in Tribeca in the Fine Arts building on Broadway.  50 years later she is helping to transform this part of north Tribeca into a haven for galleries. Read the full story about the Fine Arts Building in the article linked below.

“Today TriBeCa is one of New York’s most affluent neighborhoods, but back in the early 1970s it was a desolate, largely abandoned manufacturing district. In fact, much of the neighborhood’s rise can be attributed to the decision by the owner of 105 Hudson Street to partner with art impresario Julian Pretto and rent space inexpensively to artists. The previously nearly empty Fine Arts Building quickly filled its nine floors with exhibition spaces and inexpensive live-in studios. The energy of the youthful scene was contagious, and soon Tribeca was alive with other galleries, bars and restaurants, all laying the groundwork for the upscale boom that followed.”

Click here for the full article, courtesy of Gallery98.