05/30/2026
Picking up the Michael Goldberg painting was a success in upstate New York. Thank you for the help, my friend Melissa - you're awesome. Uncle Mike lived at 222 Bowery, where William Burroughs lived, where poet and performance artist John Giorno lived, where Andy Warhol partied and made his first art film, 'Sleep,' and where Mark Rothko had his studio in the gymnasium of the former YMCA. The YMCA at 222 Bowery was built to help young men on the Bowery stay away from alcohol, exercise, and learn how to read; they even had a baseball team. When it first opened, it was called the Young Men’s Institute.