The Gracie Mansion Gallery At the foot of a giant steel structure of an abandoned high line, built in the 30s in order to bring goods through the West Chelsea neighborhood, the Gracie Mansion Gallery resides on the second floor in an old stone building at West 22nd Street, close to some industrial buildings at the Hudson River. Behind the large wooden entrance and an old squeaky staircase, there are two small rooms with art on white walls. Gracie Mansion, a middle-aged gray-haired painter, also known as Joanne Mayhew Young, has had this gallery for seven years, she says. It exhibits "sort of the same art all the time." She started in this business by showing other artists' work in her own apartment, before she moved the gallery to St Mark's Place, East Village, Broadway, and Chelsea, respectively. During the art boom in the early 80s her gallery was one of the best known in East Village, according to a gallery guide online. (More...)