Besides the artists' shops, the Paramount Center for the Arts and free summer concerts at the Green, there is much more to Peekskill.
A great example of reclaiming abandoned buildings, this once neglected spot is now the hottest address in town featuring dozens of small designers, artists, shops, and cafes, all on the cutting edge of their crafts.
It can be reckless and scattershot, provoked by the desire to make others feel as bad as the sufferers of injustice and trauma whose experiences are vicariously borrowed by artists shopping for shocks.
At the intersection below, an animated scene of daily life unfolds: sidewalk vendors sell yucca flowers and avocados, blue-haired anarchist daddies push strollers, young men loiter at the corner, Central American housewives and vegan lesbian tattoo artists shop for fresh handmade tortillas.
It's a profession that is, perhaps, more competitive than ever, as record labels heavily pursue licensing dollars to balance their books and savvy unsigned artists shop their songs directly, without a middleman label rep.
As a television news producer on both the local level and on the national level, Kerri has worked with countless fashion and beauty magazines, stylists, makeup artists, shopping websites, eco-experts and consumer experts.
Von D's shop employs female artists Hannah Aitchison and Kim Saigh, shop manager Pixie Acia, and resident male artist Corey Miller.
He lives down a long courtyard surrounded by artists' work shops.
We visit museums, eat the food, go dancing, learn the music, meet with local artists, walk shops and bazaars, and take lots and lots of pictures.
According to the artists, their shops operate in an ambiguous grey area in terms of their legality, one that presently does not represent a pressing burden for the big studios.
And though the streets are now populated with European shoppers and Mac store maniacs instead of artists, the shop holds on to its old school SoHo doorbell as well as a downtown idiosyncrasy.
