3 South Bronx Events

Sunday, July 23

“MOTT HAVEN: Friends of Brook Park/Vamos La Pena Art Gallery” - The
southernmost neighborhood of the South Bronx hosts a vital & growing arts
community. Haven Arts founder Barry Kostrinsky - a 2006 Municipal Art
Society Certificate of Merit recipient for pioneering a sustainable approach
to artistic development – leads this MAS visit to galleries & artist's
studios, as well as a landmarked former piano factory that now houses 20
artists in legal live/work spaces & a silverplating factory with artwork
displayed amid the machinery. After the tour, join the tour leader & area
artists for a Dutch treat lunch at the Bruckner Grill. Meet 10:00AM at the
NE corner of 138th St & the Grand Concourse. (#4/5 station) $15/$12 members.
For more info, phone the Tour hotline at 212.439.1049.



Friday July 28

Vamos La Pena
11 Bruckner Boulevard
Performance and fundraiser for Puerto Rican political Prisoners

With Welfare Poets and more!

9pm-


Saturday, August 12, 9:30AM

“RANDALLS ISLAND: Before the Water Park” - Explore the Island’s northern
part, site of a proposed 26-acre, $168 million water park. Urban geographer
Jack Eichenbaum, PhD, leads this Municipal Art Society walk from outside the
NYC-lured Pathmark, SE corner of 125th St & Lex, E Harlem (#4/5/6 – 125th
St station). Proceed on foot to the Island, past the Art Deco Robert Moses
TBTA Administration Bldg & under the Triborough & Hell Gate Bridge viaducts
to the NE corner for unusual views of the Bronx & the East River, from
Rikers Island to the Whitestone Bridge. The tour concludes in the South
Bronx. $15/$12 members. For further details, call 212.935,3960.