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.
