Janes Return at Penn District (walking performance)

Travel back in time to the original Penn Station and across todays most controversial NYC real estate developments for this site-specific performance. Using the incomparable Jane Jacobs timely words and sporting her iconic blonde bob and black glasses, our diverse cast will march from Greeley Square to Madison Square Garden, with stops at landmark architecture in imminent danger of destruction.Our Janes are back for a 3rd Janes Walk NYC (2 JANE JACOB, 2019; JANES CALLING, 2021), and this year theyll will channel their inspirational namesake to march through the controversial Penn Station District with protest signs and musical instruments. Informed by the historic 1962 Penn Station marches, our Janes will reinterpret the the prescient words of Ms. Jacobs at the sites of endangered NYC architecture in this fast-changing Manhattan neighborhood.