{"id":25712,"date":"2015-06-19T17:52:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T22:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=25712"},"modified":"2015-06-19T20:05:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T01:05:07","slug":"5-rivington-st-east-storefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2015\/06\/19\/5-rivington-st-east-storefront\/","title":{"rendered":"~5 RIVINGTON ST, EAST STOREFRONT . . JUNE 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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5 RIVINGTON ST, EAST STOREFRONT . . . is now a high-end Japanese ‘home’ design shop, called Green Fingers Market, with a very Japanese-through-rural American take on fresh plants & flowers, with a strong focus on retro American design, with plenty of retro American objects, new and old, like re-configured iron lamp fixtures, a wide array of very chic vintage clothes, like distressed white t-shirts from the 40s, a few old Navajo rugs, some handsome handmade trinkets, fabulous design books, and trend-setting contemporary Japanese pottery, and even some very modern wooden and lacquer vessels. <\/p>\n

Richard Hambleton’s name is still on the top of the buzzer at the doorway into the apartments inside, but I got so spooked !! the photos I took, that I thought<\/strong> I took of them, don’t seem to exist. when I looked at my camera, when I got back home, they just weren’t there ?!!<\/p>\n

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\nflowers arranged in profusion outside, and they are not even locked – down !!
\nwhen we lived there, we had a concrete wall, like a bunker – instead of a plate glass window in front, it was so scary raw, and full of low-life that once the kids sat outside on the door stoop, and a ‘couple’ offered them ice cream, if they would come for a walk !! . . yep. that was the last time they<\/strong> sat outside. <\/p>\n

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\nthe most beautiful flower arrangements inside.
\nit was ghostly, to think of all the flower watercolors I had painted many years ago, in that scuzzy downtown bunker – and, now to find such a lovely flower shop in place. and Japanese too. I wrote my masters thesis on Japanese art.
\nwe lived here for something like 10 years. 1987 to 1997. we originally sublet the floor-thru space from Hambleton for $600 a month and then, scuzz-bag that he was and is, he didn’t pay our<\/strong> rent to the landlord, and long story short, we were in landlord tenant court for 8 or 9 years, not<\/strong> paying any<\/strong> rent at all !! all that time, and finally they had to pay us $80,000 to get out.
\nthe area had taken a brief 10 years to gentrify enough, to make that worthwhile for them . . .<\/p>\n

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\nlooking from inside the store – out the back window, onto the backyard . . .<\/p>\n

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\nthe new store had re-designed the backyard garden, apparently it had fallen into disrepair, but we had had a beautiful garden back out there, too.<\/p>\n

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\nin the backyard garden, at 5 Rivington, 1993.
\nour upstairs neighbor, CLIFFORD designed and took care of it. <\/p>\n

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\n5 Rivington St – East Storefront, I guess it must have been about 1989 ?
\nSIMON CERIGO, NANCY SMITH, Kate & Theo.
\nPHOTO: SCOTTIE HARRISON<\/p>\n

that’s the way it was, the Lower East side, back then. very raw, and really exciting, gritty, hardcore, with boarded-up windows on the outside, and often, if it was an artist home – a beautiful garden, like you would never expect, outside in the back. <\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, except where noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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