Art in General

Artists Space is a non-profit art gallery and arts organization first established at 155 Wooster Street in SoHo, Manhattan, New York City. Founded in 1972 by Irving Sandler and Trudie Grace and funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), Artists Space provided an alternative support structure for young, emerging artists, separate from the museum and commercial gallery system. Artists Space has historically been engaged in critical dialogues surrounding institutional critique, racism, the AIDS crisis, and Occupy Wall Street. As of 2019, Artists Space is located at 11 Cortlandt Alley in the Financial District of Manhattan.

Abasement is a monthly concert series that takes place in downtown Manhattan, focused on experimental music. It started in 2015 at Max Fish, a bar which held connections to various avant-garde communities. Founder and proprietor of Max Fish, Ulli Remkus, was involved in the Colab scene, and was known for employing artists and musicians. When Max Fish closed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the concert series relocated to Artists Space, where it has taken place since 2022. Artists Space is known for a history of engagement with experimental music and performance in downtown New York, having hosted early performances by bands such as Sonic Youth, DNA, and James Chance & the Contortions. At Artists Space in 1978, Brian Eno recorded No New York, a compilation of the No Wave scene of the time. Abasement has been curated by Joe Frivaldi and Rob Mayson since 2015. Frivaldi is a member of experimental rock band Electroputas. Mayson DJs Italo-Disco under the name Roboto's Gang on East Village Radio. Since the concert series began, Abasement has always been structured by four performing artists, a guest DJ, and a projectionist. Media artist Bradley Eros is known for projecting from his slide-film collection. Performing artists are enaged in genres such as free improvisation, jazz, noise, minimalism, avant-folk, and experimental composition.

254–260 Canal Street, also known as the Bruce Building, is a building on the corner of Lafayette Street in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was constructed in 1856–57 and designed in the Italian Renaissance revival style. The cast-iron elements of the facade may have been provided by James Bogardus, a pioneer in the use of cast iron in architecture. The building was constructed for George Bruce, a prosperous printer and inventor of new technologies in the printing industry, which was then one of New York's leading industries. It was converted to offices in 1987 by architect Jack L. Gordon.The use of cast-iron columns in the large, five-story tall building allowed for the installation of large windows that improved manufacturing conditions and efficiency. The lot had become available because a lumber mill standing on the site had recently been destroyed by fire, making fire-retardant cast-iron construction attractive. The mildly Italianate style of the building, makes it a particularly handsome example of nineteenth century industrial architecture. It has been called "Beautiful!" and "an important early example of cast-iron architecture in New York City". If the cast iron did in fact come from Bogardus' iron works, the building would be "the largest and most important of his extant works."The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1985, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

Santos Party House was a New York City nightclub located at 96 Lafayette Street between Walker and White Streets in the TriBeCa neighborhood of downtown Manhattan. Originally named the "Lafayette Street Jungle Gym", Santos Party House was recognized as the "Best New Nightclub" by Paper magazine's Annual Nightlife Awards, and has also won awards for its parties, sound system, lighting, and dance floor. The nightclub was a two-level, 8,000-square-foot (740 m2) music venue designed by Ronald Castellano to function as a concert hall, dance club, and lounge. It took the partners, including noted musician Andrew W.K., three years to acquire a cabaret license and finish the creation of the space, with the downstairs space opening on May 14, 2008, and the upstairs space opening on June 1, 2008. In total, the venue features three bars, black walls and ceilings, dark wood floors, tall columns, and an array of ever-changing decorations.Santos Party House's last night of operation was May 29, 2016, on which it hosted the controversial punk festival Oi! Fest. The venue received backlash due to Oi! Fest's association with neo-Nazism.

The Mudd Club was a nightclub located at 77 White Street in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It operated from 1978 to 1983 as a venue for underground music and counterculture events. It was opened by Steve Mass, Diego Cortez and Anya Phillips.

Cortlandt Alley is an alleyway in New York City often used as a filming location. New York City has very few alleys, and filming is not allowed in most of them, so Cortlandt Alley appears in many movies and TV shows, including Crocodile Dundee, 9½ Weeks and Boardwalk Empire. As of 2019, film crews were working in the alley three to four times a week.The alley runs north to south from Canal Street to Franklin Street on Lower Manhattan. Like Cortlandt Street in New York's Financial District and Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, the alley was named after the Van Cortlandt family. It was first laid out in 1817.

Pearl River Mart is an Asian-American retail brand and family-run business in New York City. The business was founded in 1971 in Chinatown, Manhattan, as Chinese Native Products by Ming Yi Chen and a group of student activists from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Chen has said that she and her colleagues "wanted to create a small window into the Chinese culture". Its products include braided straw slippers, paper lanterns, cheongsams, cotton Mary Janes, and copies of Mao's Little Red Book. Pearl River Mart has become a New York City institution. The business has an art gallery in its main location, and hosts in-store events and performances.

The Downtown Community Television Center or DCTV is a community media center located in Manhattan's Civic Center on Lafayette Street. It was founded in 1972 by spouses documentary film director Jon Alpert and Keiko Tsuno.

Firehouse, Engine Company 31 is a historic fire station located at 87 Lafayette Street between Walker and White Streets in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1895 and designed by architects Napoleon LeBrun & Sons, who built it in the style of chateau in the Loire Valley of France from the early 16th-century.The building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1966 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The fire department vacated the building in November 1972, and it is currently occupied by the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV).

The Charles is a building on the Upper East Side in New York City.

Mmuseumm is a modern natural history museum located in lower Manhattan in New York City, dedicated to its signature curatorial style of "Object Journalism" and draws parallels to the older cabinet of curiosities model.

The Ahrens Building is a seven-story Romanesque Revival building in the Civic Center neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The building's design, by architect George Henry Griebel, blends polychrome brickwork, terra cotta and metal over a limestone base. The building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1992.