powerHouse Books Booted Out By Marauding NYC Restaurateurs

Dear powerHouse Friends,

After more than two years in residence as the most innovative and lively photography gallery, event space, and bookstore in downtown Manhattan, we are being evicted from our lovingly built home at 68 Charlton Street by catering/restaurant evildoers* on March 31, 2006. We are a bit down, but we are very far from out. Seizing the worn lemon aphorism as a metaphorical lifeline, we are busy planning lemonade—onward, upward, better, more diverse, varied, and intense—and our new location will be even more spectacular than our quaint space on this wretched and blighted street (which, you should know, should there be a new restaurant or food prep place here, is infested with rats that can never be conquered—as we have learned in the past two years).

If you would like to drop us a line, please contact us at pHmoves@powerHouseBooks.com. We invite you to join us—or send us notes, ideas, encouragement, or farewells—as we continue, in our adventures, to make compelling and culturally relevant illustrated books apply to real life in the form of exhibitions, parties, readings, review sessions, and, in general, more interesting and urgently-needed. Check back tomorrow, the next day, and the day after that to see how our relocation is progressing.

With love,
The powerHouse Family

*(Tzolis Catering, Periyali, and Il Cantinori, among others—Steve Tzolis, 32 East 10th, NYC 10003, tel 212.673.6044, fax 212.353.0534 should you wish to thank them for doing their best to destroy NYC cultural spaces and entities with greed, avarice, and abject philistine behavior)