"In good times, klezmer singer and composer Éléonore Weill makes most of her living playing gigs around the city under her name or fronting the two bands Fada and Tsibele. But when the COVID pandemic began, she got divorced and had to move out of the Kensington house she shared with her ex-husband. Then she was hit by a car, which left her with a traumatic brain injury."
"Eventually, Weill moved into a stately prewar building on Ocean Avenue in Midwood. There, she landed an apartment she has no plans to ever leave: a rent-stabilized one-bedroom for less than $2,000 a month. In her airy apartment, she gave me the full tour of instruments that had been scattered across the city during her nomadic stint: a piano, an electric organ, two accordions, a hurdy-gurdy, a bass recorder, two bass drums, a tongue drum, an electric bass, and a purple clarinet."
Éléonore Weill is a klezmer singer and composer who earned most of her living performing around New York City and fronting the bands Fada and Tsibele. The COVID pandemic coincided with a divorce that forced her out of a Kensington home, and a subsequent car accident caused a traumatic brain injury. Over three years she lived in 17 different apartments, relying on friends, sublets, and short-term situations while searching for stable, affordable housing. She ultimately secured a rent-stabilized one-bedroom in a prewar Midwood building for under $2,000 a month. The apartment serves as a nest and a music studio filled with many instruments, and multiple other musicians live in the same building under a manager known for renting to artists.
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