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Over the past two years, hundreds of "starving" artists have used the basement of the old police building in SoHo to show their creations to the public.
For many of them, a gallery in the building operated by the nonprofit Organization of Independent Artists, offered a chance to move up the ladder in the art world, possibly to the Guggenheim, as several artists have.
"This is the only nonprofit gallery in SoHo. There are only two or three other places like this in the city," said Rosa Silver, an artist and curator of the gallery.
But recent plans by the city - the gallery's landlord - to covert that space may leave many artists without a home.
One of those aspiring artists is Daniel Rosenbaum, whose display, "Physical Sense," recently graced a corner of the spacious, dimly lit gallery in...