When Rialto West opens later this year on 10th Avenue, it will not only bring 158 units of permanently affordable housing to Hell’s Kitchen, but also 5,500 square feet of affordable rehearsal space for local artists.
The new IndieSpace at Rialto West will include an expansive co-working area on the ground floor. Rendering: S9 Architecture
This space fills a crucial need for a performing arts community that is losing members for the first time in decades, says Randi Berry, executive director of IndieSpace. The organization is behind a new rehearsal and co-working venue inside the development, which Berry said could serve as many as 5,000 artists in its first year.
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Brennan LaBrie is a Manhattan-based multimedia journalist who originally hails from Washington State. He began reporting in elementary school, when he published a handwritten weekly paper covering local news for three years, and reported on events like the 2010 Winter Olympics for TIME For Kids. He returned to journalism in college, reporting for the school paper and his hometown newspaper during summer breaks. He also co-directed three feature documentaries, one of which received a 2021 College Emmy. He moved to New York City in 2022, and, following a stint as a server in fine dining restaurants, began freelancing for publications around the city. His favorite topics to cover are urban development, housing, education and environmental issues, and his work can be found in The Rockaway Wave and the BK Reader.