None of the dire predictions about the project have come true. The 250‐man service staff clears snow, cleans buildings, manicures its greenery plumbers and exterminators arrive with surprising alacrity. A day without heat or hot water is rarity. The couple have two young daughters and an adopted son, who is wholly black. Brown, a data processing consultant, is black Mrs. “It's amazing how they've kept everything up,” said Joseph Brown Jr., who with his wife, Lydia, are what would have been a phenomenon in the original lily‐white community: an interracial couple. Will the best apartment buy in the city - around $170 for one bedroom or $215 for two bedrooms, including utilities - be raised to the heights of most Manhattan rents? But that's next year.Ī recent survey of tenants - from the David Shairs who have occupied the same apartment since 1949, to such comparative newcomers as the Joseph Browns - turned up surprising praise for the landlord. In 1974, the city's tax exemption arrangement with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, which owns Stuyvesant Town (and its more expensive sister to the north, Peter Cooper Village) will end. And they are understandably nervous about what will happen to their rents next year. They complain about the lack of air‐conditioning, of course. On the whole, the tenants feel lucky to live there. The 35‐building complex covers 75 acres, or 18 blocks, on an area bounded by 14th and 20th Streets, First Avenue and Avenue C. Still it has as many residents as Scarsdale, although its inhabitants are certainly more cheek by jowl. The present tenants are older and the population is declining - from 22,000 in 1960 to 19,000 in 1970. There are fewer children now than there were when the 8,756 apartments were first rented between 19 to young World War II veterans. As are Bill Carden, the United Parcel man, and the Good Humor vendor who has sold his wares to two generations of project children. If he is late, they worry.Īfter 25 years of delivering the mail to the huge housing project, Mr. In the red brick buildings, he is greeted by retired oldsters waiting for Social Security checks or letters from faraway sons and daughters. A Painter’s Guide to Developing and Artistic Style.” She currently resides in Texas.Every morning, Harry Feldman trundles his mail cart past the flowering cherry trees and the chattering squirrels of Stuyvesant Town. She is also featured in books such as, “Art Journey, New Mexico,” and “Finding your Visual Voice. She currently has 3 videos available through Liliedahl Video Productions,” Straight Ahead,” “Highlight”, and “Keeping an Eye Out,” where she demonstrates both her brush and palette knife techniques. The first painting Chistensen submitted to a competition was included in a prestigious exhibition at the Charles Emma Frye Art Museum in Seattle, and the first painting to include farm animals received the Beatrice Jackson Memorial award for Best Traditional Landscape in the Allied Artists of America 1995 show.Ĭheri has been featured in several magazines such as American Art Collector, Western Art Collector, and Southwest Art Magazine. Cheri concentrates on seeing and conveying the effects of color and light on form. Cheri studied oil painting and drawing intensely for three years with Ron Lukas, a protégé of Sergei Bongart, who taught in the tradition of Russian Impressionism. She attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and graduated with a B.A. My focus is on the farm animals, their character and the use of color, light and texture to convey a mood.”Ĭheri Christensen was born in Enumclaw, Washington, a small rural town of horse, dairy, and cattle ranches at the foot of Mt. I prefer early-morning light or late afternoon settings, with extreme backlighting. “I am inspired by the simple everyday interaction of the animals in their environment: the way the light dances across the form, the harmony of color relationships and the shapes of light and shadow.
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