Explore local galleries during Madison
Avenue Art & Design Weekend
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
Take a stroll through some of
Madison Avenue’s best galleries this
weekend while checking art made
by New York City students.
The Madison Avenue B.I.D. and Design
Pavilion’s WINDOWS Open to the
Sky are partnering up to bring Madison
Avenue Art & Design Weekend. On May
14-16, the groups will showcase student
art from the School of Visual Arts (SVA)
in a series of available store windows. The
NYC End-of-Year Student Design Showcase,
which has been organized by Design
Pavilion and ArtsThread in collaboration
with NYCxDesign, will present the work
of students in lieu of the canceled endof
year student exhibitions due to the
pandemic.
As a part of the weekend, on May 15
New Yorkers can take part in the Madison
Avenue Spring Gallery Walk. The gallery
walk offers art enthusiasts the opportunity
to safely schedule appointments for visits
at some internationally acclaimed galleries
located on Madison Avenue between 57th
and 86th Streets.
Madison Avenue
Participating galleries will include:
�� Acquavella Galleries
�� Alexander Berggruen
�� Arader Gallery
�� Arlene Angard Designs & Fine Art
�� Baahng Gallery
�� Ceysson & Bénétière
�� David Nolan Gallery
�� Debra Force Fine Art
�� Dickinson Gallery
�� Franklin Parrasch
�� Freedman Art
�� Henrique Faria
�� Gagosian Gagosian Shop
�� Galerie Gmurzynska
�� Gray
�� Henrique Faria
�� Hirschl & Adler
�� Hubert Gallery
�� Ippodo Gallery
�� Kapoor Galleries
�� Kraushaar Galleries
�� L. Parker Stephenson Photographs
�� Leila Heller Gallery
�� Lévy Gorvy
�� Lois Wagner Fine Arts
�� Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery
�� Nicholas Brawer
�� Opera Gallery
�� Petzel Gallery
�� Robilant+Voena
�� Rosenberg & Co.
�� Shepherd/W&K Galleries
�� Sundaram Tagore Gallery
�� Skarstedt Gallery
�� Thomsen Gallery, Van de Weghe
�� Van Doren Waxter
Visitors are also encouraged to dine at
local outdoor cafes on Madison Avenue,
shop, walk down the iconic street and
schedule a visit to the new Frick Madison.
In an effort to maintain COVID-19
health regulations and social distancing,
guests can schedule a gallery visit by
appointment at madisonavenuebid.org/
gallerywalk.
Schumer celebrates resurrection of beloved
Junior’s Cheesecake in Times Square
BY MARK HALLUM
Senate Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer cut the ribbon on May 6 to
reopen a personal favorite of his –
Junior’s Cheesecake in Times Square made
its return with indoor dining.
Alan Rosen, the proprietor of the beloved
New York City staple that has been in
business for over 70 years, expressed relief
that their Times Square location would
persist 15 years after making its way to
Broadway.
“Our fl agship Brooklyn restaurant reopened
last June and our local community,
our employees and out government helped us
survive,” Rosen said. “It is not just that we are
reopening, it’s that more than 150 employees
are coming back. They’re the backbone of
Junior’s and I can’t thank them enough for
sticking with us and being here today.”
Schumer has been making the rounds
at well-known eateries across the city, an
effort to get the word out about grants now
available through the American Rescue Act
which can be applied for through the Small
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer with Junior’s Cheesecake owner
Alan Rosen (far right), staff and family members on May 6.
Business Administration.
“We did pass the RESTAURANTS Act,
as majority leaders, I get to decide what
bills I put on the fl oor of the Senate … and
it was bipartisan,” Schumer said. “Just on
Monday, they started making applications
available. So if you’re a restaurant in New
York, please apply. There are $28 billion,
you can get up to $5 million to keep your
restaurant open for six months. We know
our restaurants like Junior’s are our lifeblood.
They’re not just places to eat, they’re
community centers.”
According to Schumer, the funding
available through the act is superior to businesses
getting loan through the Paycheck
Protection Program which the federal
government launched at the height of the
pandemic in spring 2020.
At the end of April 2021, Governor Andrew
Cuomo announced that curfews for
indoor and outdoor dining would be lifted
as the the population of New York becomes
increasingly inoculated against COVID-19
which forced the city into hibernation
around starting in March of 2020.
Restaurants have seen brief respites from
the restrictions imposed by Governor Andrew
Cuomo through outdoor dining and
some indoor capacity.
Leaders in the restaurant industry, such
as NYC Hospitality Alliance Executive
Director Andrew Rigie, have argued that
the crackdown on businesses have not been
backed by science, proving or disproving
eateries as a vector for the disease.
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