Bullet Space
292 East 3rd Street | East Village | built 1920
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1867
A row of tenements including No. 292 rises on East 3rd Street
John G. Costar, who had grown wealthy selling a property to John Jacob Astor for the Astor House hotel, built a row of three tenements at 292 East 3rd Street in 1867. The other two buildings in the row have since been demolished, leaving No. 292 as the sole survivor.
- 1986
Squatters found the artist collective Bullet Space in an abandoned tenement
Andrew and Paul Castrucci, among other squatters, took over the vacant building beginning in 1986 and turned it into Bullet Space, combining living quarters with a gallery devoted to politically charged street art. The collective went on to show work by artists including David Hammons and Raymond Pettibon.
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- 1992
Bullet Space publishes Your House Is Mine after the Tompkins Square riot
The collective produced the artists' book Your House Is Mine in 1992, gathering thirty-three silkscreen prints made in response to the 1988 Tompkins Square Park riot. Contributors included David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, Lady Pink and Lee Quinones, and the book later entered the collections of MoMA, the Whitney and the Met.
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- 2009
Bullet Space becomes the first East Village squat legalized by the city
In 2009, Bullet Space became the first of the East Village's squatted buildings to be legalized by the city, formalizing decades of informal occupation that had begun with its 1986 takeover. The building continues to house both residents and an active gallery space.
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Further reading
- Bullet SpaceWikipedia
- 294 & 296 East 3rd StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
- 292 East 3rd StreetVillage Preservation: East Village Building Blocks
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