04/05/2024
"The show inhabits the entire 19th floor of 101 Greenwich Street, a structure that over more than a century has housed the headquarters of the Electric Bond and Share Company (a major precursor to many of our present-day electric companies), the offices of the law firm that successfully fought the censorship of Ulysses, and more recently, an outpost of the co-working company Convene. (It was also the scene of a grizzly murder in 2009 that grabbed a slew of headlines.) But currently, its tenants, or lack thereof, reflect the city’s increased office vacancy rate since the pandemic—according to the building’s website, eight of 26 floors are empty (including the 19th, which is available to rent after the Wool show closes), with parts of others also vacant."
Artist Christopher Wool has opened “See Stop Run” in a disused 19th-floor office space in New York’s Financial District, providing a template for the future.
