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New York Is Here! is a performance installation that honors the
mythology of our great metropolis. Part funhouse, historical narrative
and performance art, New York Is Here! goes inside the city’s
chaos to explore how individual tales form the legends of the masses.
This site-specific journey leads audiences through the 5,000 square
foot raw space on the ground floor of AT&T’s old Long Distance
Building, an art deco historical landmark. Task-oriented dances mix
with voiced-over text, giving life to a series of vignettes portraying
legends like the Chinese food deliveryman stuck in a Bronx elevator,
McGurk’s Suicide Hall (a notorious Bowery saloon made famous
for its singing waiters and prostitutes’ suicides), the Fulton
Fish Market, number-running lotteries, baseball, politics and more.
