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Greenpoint’s Newest Space Opens With Colossal Street Art and Free Beer

(Photo: Scott Lynch)

(Photo: Scott Lynch)

“Everyone who comes in here for the first time, all they can say is, ‘Fuuuuuuuuuuuck.'”

Daniel Weintraub is creative director of Greenpoint’s newest art gallery and events space, Succulent Studios, located in a century-old warehouse at 67 West Street. The room is a monster: it clocks in at 3,000 square feet but feels three times that size because of what Weintraub calls the “urban barn” effect of the vaulted ceilings. In the afternoon, sunlight pours in through west-facing windows.
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Fuse Gallery Is Dunzo, But Lit’s Back Room Is Ready to Rock & Roll Again

Back in August we broke word that Fuse Gallery, the art space behind Lit Lounge in the East Village, was set to close on September 11. That date has come and gone, and owner Erik Foss has been keeping busy retooling the space for its reopening as a rec room, and also lending his paintings to an upcoming art exhibit featuring a slew of downtown fixtures.
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