A tiny Richard mention in the NY Times

[jarmo]

Richard was mentioned in an article in the NY Times:

THE hallways are as dingy as can be, with yellow paint flaking onto beat-up tile floors. In the bare lobbies, elderly residents shuffle between elevators and front doors. Outside, cracked concrete paths wind among patches of lawn, the massive forms of the buildings hulking above.

By all appearances this place ? the Cooperative Village, a collection of undistinguished red-brick towers strung along the eastern reaches of Grand Street on the Lower East Side ? is one that only a grandmother could love, the last place anyone would expect fresh design activity. Unlikely as it may seem, however, the towers are quietly evolving into something of a design laboratory as a wave of younger residents move in and remake these overlooked relics of midcentury Manhattan real estate one apartment at a time.

Set just south of the Williamsburg Bridge, where lower Manhattan bulges into the East River, apartments in Co-op Village were unavailable on the open market until 2000. Now that they are in play, the towers' ungainly appearance only seems to increase their offbeat appeal. "Granted, it looks so institutional," said Carol Markel, an artist who bought a one-bedroom apartment with her husband last year. "But I like that. In a way it proves your creativity."

Pioneers include Richard Fortus, a guitarist for Guns N' Roses, who moved in last year, officially stamping Co-op Village with the sheen of hipness. He was followed by SuChin Pak, an MTV news correspondent, who is renovating a one-bedroom she bought in July, and Gary Shteyngart, a novelist, who just closed on a one-bedroom.

Incredible Hulks, Enticing the Young

NYTimes.com > Home & Garden



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[the dirt]

It's a good thing that we have Richard stamping GNR with the sheen of hipness as well

[Evil Ash]

can someone explain this to me, wtf does this mean?!

[Cocaine__tongue]

It's an article about a place to live in ny that's  becoming "a hot place" for artists to live in. Fortus has moved there.

[ccorn69]

yeah he moved ther last year