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A-Ron’s Wreck Room

If you watched last week’s rambling interview with A-Ron, you might have heard his mention of being profiled in the Times. Well, he wasn’t bullshitting. The space that he was shivering in does exist, and it has heat, colored walls, lighting and everything. And although we’re still not quite sure how this is going to help fight the “whitewashing” and “gentrification” of NYC, we gotta give it up to dude for keeping his word.

Residents of a sleepy SoHo block aren’t sure what to make of the Wreck Center, a store/performance space/art installation that has invaded their neighborhood like a post-apocalyptic circus. Decorated with graffiti, gold paint and 5,800 feet of Day-Glo masking tape, the space, designed by Rafael de Cárdenas, pops, to say the least. “Finally one came up to me,” said Aaron Bondaroff (above), the project’s ringleader, “and told me it was about time someone did something cool in the neighborhood again.

Click for the full excerpt over at the Gray Lady.