…husband, groundbreaking American artist, Roy Lichtenstein, in 1964. They married four years later. Roy and Dorothy Lichtenstein, 1977. Photographer: Unknown. Image Copyright Estate of Roy Lichtenstein They were married from…
Read More…1991 via the LPC Application via Estate of Roy Lichtenstein via NY Times Since 1997 the building served as a base of operations for the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. Until recently,…
Read More…“I don’t care! I’d rather sink — than call Brad for help!” laments Lichtenstein’s 1963 Drowning Girl. Although raised on the Upper West Side, Lichtenstein would become one of the…
Read More…this creativity carrying on. Check out Jack Lichtenstein’s photographs of artist Stephen Duncan, aka the Bubble Man. From a photo by Jack Lichtenstein (jacklichtensteinphotography.com) of Bubble Man NYC (bubblemannyc.com). Anyone…
Read More…industrial past and aesthetic certainly seem fitting for an artist’s space. Caption: Roy Lichtenstein, “Crying Girl,” 1964; 741-745 Washington Street (745 is on the left) Lichtenstein is one of the…
Read More…donor to the Mayor, one of his political allies, and one of his appointees to the Economic Development Corporation. Lichtenstein and his Lightstone Group planned to tear down the residences…
Read More…dissolution three months later. The owner, B. Lichtenstein, immediately moved to rebuild. He hired architects De Lemos and Cordes, who that same year designed the Siegel-Cooper Building (now part of…
Read More…de Blasio’s campaign donor and political ally David Lichtenstein is developing a large hotel The “Death Star” office development at Astor Place, which a developer hopes to replicate at Broadway…
Read More…I had no idea at the time that Roy Lichtenstein was living across the street from my family’s apartment, or that Jane Jacobs had championed the very housing that made…
Read More…Roy Lichtenstein. As a young child in 1877, James T. Lee, the grandfather of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and his parents lived in this building. James T. Lee became…
Read More…Lichtenstein, who would cite him as one of his most prominent influences, was one of his students. Marsh’s murals grace the rotunda of the landmarked U.S. Customs House at 1…
Read More…owner B. Lichtenstein named 640 Broadway the Empire State Building. This was more than 30 years prior to the development of its more famous namesake. When the “original” Empire State…
Read More…Roy Lichtenstein and renowned photographer Saul Leiter. Other popular happenings in 2023–24 included our 34th Village Awards ceremony, honoring six people, places, and institutions essential for their contributions to our…
Read More…like William S. Burroughs and Roy Lichtenstein, poets, hustlers, queens and princes as well as musicians like Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Bob Marley, and Jimi Hendrix. The sets at Max’s…
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