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.
