please stop talking out of your ass about something you're so clearly uninformed on.
Nice. I did say I haven't seen it.
I certainly won't claim that exactly the same thing opened up across the street from me. They don't own the building. I'm sure they're not paying 6 million a year rent though. They have performance space, gallery space, yoga and other classes, and a restaurant/bar. Again, my point is not that you can't get cheaper real estate elsewhere, but the portrait of New York as a place where nothing can be accomplished unless you're super rich is not accurate. That's not coming out of my ass.
I don't understand your hostility. In this article and many others recently, there is an implication that you can't do anything big in NYC anymore, especially in the arts. This is patently untrue. That, and only that, is what I'm responding to.
The comparison with the Des Moines Social Club was not based on intuition, it was based on the description in the article.
Edit: as far as the level of conversation goes, you're the one who brought up my ass.
Fair point. I wasn't meaning to be hostile but I can see how it came across that way.
My point was just that you acted awfully sure of something that you seemed to have no factual information on. Statements beginning "I guarantee" and "I'm sure" that aren't backed up with details are not helpful. Your argument that it's possible to do new things on the coasts is strong enough by itself, no need to throw in suppositions based on apples to oranges comparisons.
All this could've been avoided if you didn't type this sentence: "But please stop talking out of your ass about something you're so clearly uninformed on."
Nice. I did say I haven't seen it.
I certainly won't claim that exactly the same thing opened up across the street from me. They don't own the building. I'm sure they're not paying 6 million a year rent though. They have performance space, gallery space, yoga and other classes, and a restaurant/bar. Again, my point is not that you can't get cheaper real estate elsewhere, but the portrait of New York as a place where nothing can be accomplished unless you're super rich is not accurate. That's not coming out of my ass.