New York After Rent (II of III)

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 22 April 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Our series continues with a journey from Avenue B to Bushwick: Kathy Kirkpatrick tells us about the final days of her Life Cafe in the East Village and essayist Tim Kreider tells us about his exile in Bushwick. Plus your host tries to make sense of the first time he got a glimpse of the new New York at a party in late September 2008.

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1:27.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's Theory of Everything.
1:32.0	This installment is called New York after rent, part two.
1:37.0	I'm living in the Costa Blanca, not very far from the Mediterranean Sea and it's beautiful here.
1:44.6	It's tranquil, it's affordable, it's healthy and for the past year and a half that my husband and I have been moved here to Spain, we thank the landlords of New York City for cutting me off from the lifeline of my businesses. We thank them.
2:05.6	For 30 years Kathy Kirkpatrick ran the Life Cafe, an East Village establishment made famous by the musical rent.
2:15.0	Kathy closed the cafe in September of 2011.
2:19.0	At the time, media reports alluded to an ironic landlord dispute, but it was unclear what actually
2:27.0	happened. So I recently tracked Kathy down to her new home in Spain and I asked her about that final chapter of her story.
2:37.3	The Life Cafe after Rent.
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