A Treasured New York Icon Fights to Survive: New York Theatre Ballet Evicted
Submitted by Steve on September 13, 2013
Carla Escoda posts to Huffington Post:
A beloved New York City institution is losing its home after 34 years, its impending demise another reminder that this world capital of arts and culture has become inhospitable to all but the behemoths. The small but illustrious New York Theatre Ballet, which runs a school and outreach program and rehearses its company of 12 dancers on the fifth floor of the parish house of the Madison Avenue Baptist Church at 30 East 31st Street, has been given until September 30th to move out.
The church has sold the property to an unnamed buyer who intends to demolish the historic building and, presumably, erect a skyscraper of the variety ubiquitous to Manhattan.