"For the music critic John Rockwell, Soho was an ideal home base. He could walk to see performances by Meredith Monk or Steve Reich in lofts that didn't look so different from the one he lived in at 543 Broadway. A Philip Glass concert, on Wooster Street in 1973, seemed, in Rockwell's words, to be almost designed for the neighborhood to hear while strolling past, with its "motoric rhythms, burbling, highly amplified figurations and mournful sustained notes booming out through the huge black windows.""
"Rockwell covered music, dance, theater, film, books, and art for the New York Times, eventually running the "Arts & Leisure" section and serving as the paper's cultural correspondent in Europe. He also hosted a WNYC show on culture (Rockwell Matters), oversaw the Lincoln Center Festival, and wrote books - a career in the arts that largely unfolded while he lived at No. 543."
"The ten-story, 1903 industrial building stretches all the way back to Mercer and was overtaken by artists in the 1970s. Gale Ormiston ran a dance company at 543; dancer Luise Wykell invited the public to an "evening of energy exploration" in 1981; and Gaetano Pesce named a whimsical chair after his home address."
John Rockwell, a prominent music and arts critic for the New York Times, lived in a top-floor apartment at 543 Broadway in Soho starting in 1978 with his filmmaker wife Linda Mevorach. The ten-story 1903 industrial building became a hub for avant-garde artists and performers in the 1970s, including dancer Gale Ormiston and designer Gaetano Pesce. Rockwell's career flourished from this location, covering music, dance, theater, film, and art while hosting cultural programs and overseeing the Lincoln Center Festival. The apartment features 22 windows across three exposures, exposed brick, high barrel-vaulted ceilings, and hardwood floors, now listed for $4.5 million.
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