"One of the rare TriBeCa warehouses remaining in near-original condition, the 3-storey building was built by American Express in 1860 to house horses and carriages for telegram deliveries. Evoking the history of SoHo and TriBeCa as neighborhoods originally settled by artists who converted abandoned neighborhood warehouses into their studios and residences in the 1960s, the third floor of this landmarked building was 'colonized' for the duration of the exhibition before it underwent subdivision and transformation into condominiums in late Spring 2004."
