Roland Antiques
VANISHED/MOVED
Roland, auctioneers of antiques, has left the city. Family owned together with founded inward 1973, they've been inward the neighborhood S of Union Square since 1974, together with inward the St. Denis edifice at 11th Street together with Broadway for several years.
But the neighborhood is beingness chop-chop changed.
In 2015, the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) issue a telephone phone to redevelop a city-owned site on E. 14th Street. They were looking to “create an iconic commercial development” for tech startups together with co-working spaces. Mayor de Blasio before long announced the winning “Tech Hub,” a drinking glass tower that politicians together with developers promise volition boost to a greater extent than high-end development. It is attracting major existent estate speculation, including Normandy Real Estate Partners’ 2016 purchase of the St. Denis edifice for $101 million.
Normandy stopped renewing leases, together with hundreds of modest delineate concern people--most of them psychotherapists together with other providers of wellness--were forced to exit the building. I was i of them. (A longer even most the edifice is forthcoming.)
Roland is the latest loss.
2016
For years, people inward the edifice took pleasance inward Roland's presence. Regularly, the auction family would have a truck total of antiques from only about estate together with unload them onto the sidewalk to accept photos for their catalog.
Roland occupied a large corner infinite alongside several windows along 11th together with Broadway, addition 2 showrooms along the dorsum hallway together with to a greater extent than inward the basement, but this was non plenty to incorporate all the items.
The antiques would overflow into the foyer of the building, where they'd remain for awhile, providing an ever-changing--and oft strange--decor.
Every month, Roland held an auction.
Before tending the auction, you'd teach to the preview, wandering inward together with out of the showrooms, looking at the objects. Sometimes, a prospective buyer would crusade out a babe grand piano, filling the halls alongside music.
On auction day, ever a Saturday, the principal room filled alongside New York characters. Brothers Bill together with Robert Roland ran the show, alongside Bill every bit auctioneer. Bids came inward over the telephone together with the Internet. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few items sold for every bit fiddling every bit 10 bucks. Others went for large money. That large nude paradigm of Milda, Lithuanian goddess of love, sold for $55,000.
I was looking forwards to their March auction. I entirely went a few times, but I loved the unloosen energy of that room, the people, the jokes, the excitement. No more.
Roland is moving out to Long Island--you'll uncovering them at 150 School Street inward Glen Cove.
When I visited every bit they were sadly packing up, an employee told me, "Unless you're Christie's or Sotheby's, yous can't remain inward the metropolis anymore. The rents are likewise high."
Roland, auctioneers of antiques, has left the city. Family owned together with founded inward 1973, they've been inward the neighborhood S of Union Square since 1974, together with inward the St. Denis edifice at 11th Street together with Broadway for several years.
But the neighborhood is beingness chop-chop changed.
In 2015, the Economic Development Corporation (EDC) issue a telephone phone to redevelop a city-owned site on E. 14th Street. They were looking to “create an iconic commercial development” for tech startups together with co-working spaces. Mayor de Blasio before long announced the winning “Tech Hub,” a drinking glass tower that politicians together with developers promise volition boost to a greater extent than high-end development. It is attracting major existent estate speculation, including Normandy Real Estate Partners’ 2016 purchase of the St. Denis edifice for $101 million.
Normandy stopped renewing leases, together with hundreds of modest delineate concern people--most of them psychotherapists together with other providers of wellness--were forced to exit the building. I was i of them. (A longer even most the edifice is forthcoming.)
Roland is the latest loss.
2016
For years, people inward the edifice took pleasance inward Roland's presence. Regularly, the auction family would have a truck total of antiques from only about estate together with unload them onto the sidewalk to accept photos for their catalog.
Roland occupied a large corner infinite alongside several windows along 11th together with Broadway, addition 2 showrooms along the dorsum hallway together with to a greater extent than inward the basement, but this was non plenty to incorporate all the items.
The antiques would overflow into the foyer of the building, where they'd remain for awhile, providing an ever-changing--and oft strange--decor.
Every month, Roland held an auction.
Before tending the auction, you'd teach to the preview, wandering inward together with out of the showrooms, looking at the objects. Sometimes, a prospective buyer would crusade out a babe grand piano, filling the halls alongside music.
On auction day, ever a Saturday, the principal room filled alongside New York characters. Brothers Bill together with Robert Roland ran the show, alongside Bill every bit auctioneer. Bids came inward over the telephone together with the Internet. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few items sold for every bit fiddling every bit 10 bucks. Others went for large money. That large nude paradigm of Milda, Lithuanian goddess of love, sold for $55,000.
I was looking forwards to their March auction. I entirely went a few times, but I loved the unloosen energy of that room, the people, the jokes, the excitement. No more.
Roland is moving out to Long Island--you'll uncovering them at 150 School Street inward Glen Cove.
When I visited every bit they were sadly packing up, an employee told me, "Unless you're Christie's or Sotheby's, yous can't remain inward the metropolis anymore. The rents are likewise high."
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