New York, Once a Lure, Is Slowly Losing the Creative Set

NY Times ^ | December 18, 2005 | JENNIFER STEINHAUER

[Pharmboy]

Kevin P. Casey for The New York Times
Hope Forstenzer, a glass blower formerly of Brooklyn, at work at the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, where she
moved two years ago.

They may not have the money of the hedge fund managers who line up at bonus time at the open houses for $5 million homes, and their numbers do not equal that of health care workers. But New York City's creative sector - which includes architects, potters, filmmakers and clothing designers - has long helped fuel the city's economy because of its size and its role in drawing the wealthy to town.

But relentless inflation in real estate and health care costs are endangering New York's long dominance in the creative sector, according to a new report, as artists and companies migrate to less expensive cities eager to lure them.

For example, 20 years ago, New York was the headquarters for half of the world's advertising agencies, but is now home to fewer than a third, according to the report, written by the Center for an Urban Future, a left-leaning New York research group that analyzes urban policy issues.

While the city still is home to most of the American publishing industry, the number of jobs in that field fell 3 percent in the last decade in New York, while increasing in San Francisco, Boston and Denver. And from 2001 to 2004, the number of jobs in New York City's motion picture and sound recording industries declined by 36 percent.

[bert]

.....We certainly must be talking about more than throwing a few pots from clay, right...... The pots are infused with near religious symbolic meaning so esoteric that only the potters can understand the depth of feeling that infuses the transformed clay. The application of texture and glaze is so subtle that the spiritual message is almost unnoticable by the uneducated and unenlightened. The feminine essance is poured into the clay with the water and the creative aura eliminates the need to produce human reproductions. The sexual urge is stroked away by loving fingers on the potters wheel.

Within the safety of the potters studio all pressure from the outside is whisked away by the creative force. :0)

[lentulusgracchus]

Uhhhh........okay.

[hedgie]

Yes, in the old days (like 1980) you had to physically deliver securities to settle a trade. Therefore, the Wall Street operations departments had to be located close to one another. Any broker-dealer had a "cage" which was essentially a teller window where securities were received, delivered and tabulated.

[NutCrackerBoy]

I think it is correct that a vibrant arts community, even to include "potters," is key for NY's economy. But it is the left-leaning law-making that is screwing things up, not a lack of arts subsidies.

[hinckley buzzard]

Thank heaven they're moving from one left wing America hating bastion to another.

Yes, those of us in fly-over country are thankful that they will...fly-over...and keep on going.

[nutmeg]

read later

[VOA]

I just hope that these evacuees from NYC and all the journalist losing
their jobs stay in left-wing ghettos.
I hate to think of them coming out to flyover country and spreading their
contagion in the unspoiled part of the country.

[OldFriend]

I notice that a lot of NY libs and outright Marxists are in Minnesota. Wellstone was only the tip of the iceberg. He has lots of leftist ex new yorkers out there.

Ditto Oklahoma. They've spread across the country like the plague.