An East Village Synagogue Long Inhabited by Artists Is for Sale

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( THURSDAY, JUNE 29 A TRULY TERRIFIC NEW YORK LISTING [An East Village Synagogue Long Inhabited by Artists Is for Sale]( In the ’80s, photographers William Wegman, Jack Sal, and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and model Maria von Hartz bought the place for $154,500. Photo: Allyson Lubow Photography/Allyson Lubow In the early 1980s, photographer and East Village resident Timothy Greenfield-Sanders was obsessed with his neighborhood’s stock of old religious buildings. He’d just closed on an old rectory on Second Avenue when a [synagogue nearby]( on 6th Street went on the market. “It was a building that longed for a new beginning,” he says. The problem was he didn’t have money for another down payment. So he started talking it up to other people who might. Like the photographer [William Wegman](, who was quickly gaining fame for shooting his own Weimaraner dogs. On a shoot, [Greenfield-Sanders]( found out Wegman had just lost his apartment to a divorce and was living with a roommate, the abstract photographer [Jack Sal](. Wegman and Sal were interested, and so was Greenfield-Sanders’s teenage neighbor on Second Avenue, [Maria von Hartz](. “I’d just been discovered and suddenly had some money,” says von Hartz. [Continue reading »]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Two Penn Station Plans That Finally Look Promising Could they converge to make the nation’s worst rail hub much better?]( By Justin Davidson [‘I Wasn’t Prepared for How the Art World Treated Hannah’ A conversation with the Brooklyn Museum’s director, Anne Pasternak, a few weeks after the debut of “It’s Pablo-Matic.”]( By Emily Gould [The Great Resignation Was Actually Because of the Pandemic Housing Boom Boomers sold their houses and quit their jobs.]( By Adriane Quinlan [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday](. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved