“I used to say I would never live north of 14th Street,” Kenny Schachter says. Then, several years ago, he found a four-and-a-half-story townhouse in what he calls the “Lower Upper East Side.” It was decrepit, and its windows were covered in 3-D dirt. But it had natural light, outdoor space, and a garage, and Schachter has a thing for cars.
“That is what really excited me.” Schachter, an artist, writer, and lecturer, set about cleaning up the space and filling it with his own work, including life-size sculptures of Paris Hilton, Yayoi Kusama and, in the garden, a dinosaur skeleton.
