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Andrew Freedman Home

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31: 44: 326:, Aaron Lazansky, Melissa Calderón, fiber artist Valarie Irizarry, and Josue Guarionex. AFH | AIR artists are awarded studio space and participate in group exhibitions in the Home's galleries. Artists offer workshops to the local Bronx community, exchanging 20 hours of labor per month for AIR benefits. Workshops are low-cost or free-of-charge and include art-making and music lessons, such as Afro-Puerto Rican drum classes offered by Jose "Dr. Drum" Ortiz. 51: 201:, a self-made millionaire, came to the realization that he almost lost his entire fortune. He feared what would have happened to him in his later life without his wealth. As a result, he developed the idea of a charitable trust to build a home for older individuals who had lost their fortunes, where they could live in their retirements. 184:
The trust that operated the Andrew Freedman Home ran out of money in the 1960s. The home was reopened in 1983 for all elderly individuals, regardless of past financial status. As of 2012, the Andrew Freedman Home serves as a day-care center and event space.
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The Home could accommodate 130 residents at a time. Although the first guests to move into the Home did not have the intended cultural background, many wealthy individuals who lost their fortunes in the
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Just as with its beneficiaries, the trust's money ran low by the 1960s. By 1965, residents were required to pay rent. People began to move out of the Home as the area around Grand Concourse declined.
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for "aged and indigent persons of both sexes", who had formerly been of "good circumstances" financially. Each resident lived at the Andrew Freedman Home rent free, and received free servants.
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opened "This Side of Paradise", an exhibition of artworks in various mediums including photography, video projections and installations. Artists such as photographer
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Andrew Freedman Home exhibits art regularly in its galleries and as installations throughout the building and grounds. Bronx Voyeurs featured works by artist
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Since "This Side of Paradise", Andrew Freedman Home Director Walter Puryear has offered an Artist In Residency program. Resident Artists have included DJ
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Plans were filed in 1922 to build the home as a four-story brick building. Untermeyer purchased the plot of land on Grand Concourse. Architects
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purchased the home in 1982, and relocated the remaining 30 residents. They reopened the Home in 1983 as a residence for the elderly and poor.
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The Andrew Freedman Home opened in 1924. The building was expanded between 1928 and 1931, adding two new wings. The building included formal
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estimated the cost of construction at $ 500,000 ($ 9,101,392 in current dollar terms). The Home was built as a four-story building in a
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neighborhood, the Andrew Freedman Home was designed as a retirement home for wealthy individuals who had lost their fortunes.
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and graffiti artist Daze showed work relating to the history of the Home and addressing themes like immigration and memory.
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was a requirement. People were forbidden to sleep on couches or put their feet on the furniture in the public areas.
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and others in a multichannel video installation in windows of the Home, curated by Walter Puryear and designed by
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moved into the Home in the 1930s. After World War II, various Jews of European descent moved into the home.
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When Freedman died in 1915, his estate was worth over $ 4 million ($ 120,500,000 in current dollar terms).
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As of 2012, the Andrew Freedman Home serves as a daycare center and event space. On April 4, 2012
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examined the social effects of urban planning in a series of participatory displays.
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In his will, Freedman bequeathed money to build the Andrew Freedman Home at 1125
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In Fall, 2017, a three-venue exhibition between Andrew Freedman Home,
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Current AFH | AIR resident artist and organizations include
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Andrew Freedman Home is located in Bronx
Grand Concourse
The Bronx
New York
Coordinates
40°49′58″N 73°55′13″W / 40.832742°N 73.920142°W / 40.832742; -73.920142
the Bronx
Andrew Freedman
New York City designated landmark
Grand Concourse
Concourse
Panic of 1907
Andrew Freedman
Samuel Untermyer
Grand Concourse
The Bronx
retirement home
Joseph H. Friedlander
Harry Allan Jacobs
French
Italian Renaissance
limestone
English gardens
oriental rugs
white marble
Wall Street Crash of 1929
formal dress
Mid Bronx Senior Citizens Council
New York City Designated Landmark

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