I picked a heck of a week to piece my office together. With a very limited budget to work with, I needed a work space. So I’ve spent the last 2 snow-filled days trapsing all over (I mean ALL over) this city getting bits and pieces together to construct my studio/office space. In the process, I hauled a 3×6 foot door from the lumberyard 5 blocks away (through the 8 inch and accumlating snow). I went to IKEA in Brooklyn and brough back a 5 foot long shelving unit, a lamp, and a shoe rack… on the subway.
I went to 86th and Amsterdam, 72 blocks north of me, and bought a filing cabinet off of someone on Craigslist. I then carried it down 5 flights of stairs, down 3 streets, down into the subway on 86th and Broadway, and on the train back home– where I carried it a block to my apartment. Everyone on the subway looked at me like I was a crazy man.
Yesterday I found a sale on Craigslist that I had to check out. The illegal purse-selling industry took a hard hit when Mayor Bloomberg condemned a building that was found to be a hotbed for illegal-merch sales. As a result, many businesses in the building were forced to move. One recording studio was having a major 1-day-only sale. So I headed over there with one agenda: to buy a rolling office chair. It went to Chinatown and found my way through the massive abandoned building to a large loft that was scattered with amazing furniture, office and household items. It was like a midwest garage sale in the middle of New York. Well, I got my chair. $20 bucks, and 2 subway stops later, I was back with the final piece of my office set.
funny…okay let’s see the office!