Museum of Comic Art moves to Soho.After little more than a year at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art's first physical home in Union Square, MoCCA Chairman Lawrence Klein Lawrence Robert "Larry" Klein (born September 14, 1920) is an American economist. Klein was born in Omaha, Nebraska. For his work in creating computer models to forecast economic trends in the field of econometrics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, he has announced a deal to move the young museum to larger facilities at 594 Broadway in Lower Manhattan's famed SoHo arts district
The Arts District . "The move downtown more than doubles our available space, allowing us to mount multiple exhibits simultaneously and giving us the classroom space we need to offer even more arts education programs to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's schoolchildren schoolchildren school npl → écoliers mpl; (at secondary school) → collégiens mpl; lycéens mpl schoolchildren school ," says Klein. For an organization barely two years old, this a tremendous leap forward and I'd like to thank MoCCA Board of Advisor member Jeffrey R. Gural, chairman of Newmark and owner of 594 Broadway, for offering us the generous lease that makes this move possible." Ellen S. Abramowitz, director of Newmark, was instrumental in finding and securing space for MoCCA at 594 Broadway as Chair of the museum's Facilities Search committee. Newmark's Donna Vogel, leasing agent, worked with Gural on the owner's side. "I am very pleased and proud to have been chosen to serve on the Board of Advisors for MoCCA," says Gural. "And I look forward to having such a valuable and prestigious tenant as MoCCA contributing arts and culture to the metropolitan area." The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is the first cultural institution to move into Lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North under the City's new program to foster growth of the arts as part of the areas economic revitalization. Through the program, MoCCA has received pledges of support and funding from City Councilman Alan Gerson, Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields C. Virginia Fields is the former Borough President of Manhattan, elected in 1997 and reelected in 2001. Her term expired in January 2006. C. (Clara) Virginia Fields was born in Birmingham, Alabama circa 1946 and received her B.A. and the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Department of Cultural Affairs. MoCCA's new home is on the fourth floor of 594 Broadway. According to Klein, plans call for roughly two-thirds of the usable space to be devoted to hosting exhibits, events and educational programs, with the remaining area allocated for office and storage space. "I am thrilled to be a part of the physical growth of MoCCA," said Abramowitz. "There is no other institution like MoCCA, and this expansion will enable more exhibitions and community outreach programs, through which both children and adults can learn how instrumental the cartoon art form has been in society." |
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