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Housing Works Open Air Street Fair
Saturday, June 6
- Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
- 126 Crosby Street, New York, NY 10012 :: 212-334-3324
The Fifth Annual Housing Works Open Air Street Fair! Cobblestoned Crosby Street between Prince and Houston in SoHo is closed to cars and thousands of donated books, records and CDs will be sold for $1 a piece. Plus clothing, shoes and accessories from Housing Works Thrift Shops, Sixpoint Craft Ale from Puck Fair and ice cream from Van Leeuwen !
BOOKS, MOVIES, MUSIC: thousands of books, records, CDs and more. Every genre: modern fiction and classics; art books, cookbooks, children’s books and more, plus rare and vintage books—including a silent auction for an 1869 copy of Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs and a signed copy of Paulo Coelho’s Be Like The River Flow.
CLOTHING AND ACCESSORIES: The Street Fair features exclusive merchandise from Housing Works Thrift Shops, offered on an “all-you-can-stuff” $20 a bag basis, including shoes and accessories. Designer clothes included! Housing Works partner Satya Jewelry will be selling the exclusive “Tree of Life” Housing Works necklace.
One block can make a big difference: All profits go to Housing Works, which provides lifesaving services for homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS.
On Sapphire’s reading in 1995
Alison Rose, The Talk of the Town: Polished Sapphire: The New Yorker, December 25, 1995, p. 48
Lee Daniels’s Precious, Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
Set in Harlem in 1987, it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe), a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She’s pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother (Mo’Nique), a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write. (via Precious Trailer - Trailer Addict)
