Recent press
NEWBURGH’S historic liberty street school will soon be a hudson valley film hub
January 28, 2019. Hudson Valley Magazine. Quote: "If the film industry wasn’t already in love with the Hudson Valley, it’s about to be. With construction planned for 2020, a new production center will soon open its doors in the heart of Newburgh."
BURR DODD, ARTIST
Second Round of applause at Trans-Cen-Der
March 3, 2017. Arts in Bushwick. Quote: "Trans-Cen-Der Art Group hosted its second round of artists’ presentations at theTemporary Storage Gallery space inside Brooklyn Fire Proof."Downtown Multipurpose Art Galleries Abound
November 26, 2003. The Villager. Quote: "There were hand blown sugar globes in the window done by Burr Dodd. These other worldly creations conjure visions of a candy factory in Venice where the glass and spun sugar mingle."
Space Craft
October 2003. Metropolis Magazine. Quote: "When he was selected, Wiscombe rounded up friends and student volunteers and entrusted the contract work to an old junior-high friend, Emergent project leader Burr Dodd, a gallerist, general contractor, and artist (his latest work involved projecting laser beams through fish tanks filled with honey)."
Food Stuff; A Feast for the Eye: Pastry as Artwork
November 20, 2002. NY Times. Quote: "Blown-sugar flowers with backlighting (right) are the work of Burr Dodd, an artist, and Ewald Notter, a chef. Holiday ornaments in the flower designs will be sold at the gallery for $30 to $60 each."
BROOKLYN FIRE PROOF
Hidden From Sight, Film Studios at Brooklyn Fire Proof See a Lot of Action
March 1, 2017. Bushwick Daily. Quote: "If you were to ask five different people what Brooklyn Fire Proof (BFP) is, you may get six or seven different answers. And likely, each of the answers would be correct."
Trans-Cen-Der, a Salubrious Push in Bushwick
February 9, 2017. Arts in Bushwick (blog). A new art presentation group, hosted by Brooklyn Fire Proof in Temporary Storage gallery.
Bushwick, the Golden Age; revieWs of Resurrection, Art Guerra, Katherine Powers
June 15, 2013. White Elephant on Wheels (blog). Quote: "Burr Dodd’s bold entrepreneurial endeavors have made his Temporary Storage exhibition and performance space, along with the Brooklyn Fire Proof Café, into a salon style beehive of artistic interaction."
With blue-chip gallery Luhring Augustine coming soon, the scrappy Bushwick art scene contemplates its future
January 26, 2012. Politico. Quote: "Dodd ... rents 185,000 square feet of property in Bushwick, he said. “Top Chef” has been filmed at his studio."
How Was Confronting Bushwick?
January 20, 2012. Bushwick Daily.
WTF Is Up With Bushwick?
January 16, 2012. Hyperallergic. Quote: "This Thursday, Hyperallergic editor, Hrag Vartanian, who is no stranger to Bushwick, broadens the discussion as he moderates the “Confronting Bushwick: A Discussion on the Nature and Future of the Bushwick Art Scene” panel at Bushwick’s Bogart Salon, one of the galleries in the burgeoning 56 Bogart Street art building. ... Guest panelists include...Thomas Burr Dodd..."
Dateline Brooklyn
2004. ArtNet. Quote: "Brooklyn Fire Proof, which opened a few years ago in a raw space on Richardson Street on the northwestern cusp of Williamsburg, recently enjoyed a makeover and is looking downright spiffy (though its still a little hard to find)."
RIPRAP LLC/NEWBURGH, NY
20 to watch 2020 in mid-hudson
January, 2020. Times Herald Record Online. Quote: "These 20 local individuals are people identified by the Times Herald-Record reporters as key influencers in the region — people who will help shape the coming year. Keep an eye out for how they will make a difference in 2020…"
West point hotel, newburgh film-tv studio among grant winners
December, 2019. Times Herald Record Online. Quote: "The $3.1 million Public School 6 project, which has City of Newburgh approvals, won nearly $1 million via two state grants. Plans call for transforming the long-closed former Liberty Street school into soundstages, gallery space, a film screening area, and a training center for film and TV crews…”
Plans to redevelop former school building into tv, movie sound stages in newburgh
November, 2019. Times Herald Record Online. Quote: "Thomas is committed to bringing more film and TV production to Newburgh and to equipping local folks with the skills and experience they need to take advantage of that opportunity…”
Navigating Newburgh’s Commercial Properties with Thomas Burr Dodd
February, 2017. A River of Opportunities. Quote: "As he talks,Thomas narrates a twenty-plus years involvement in real estate which kind of mirrors the ascent of so many now famous neighborhoods..."
Inside Look of the Liberty Street School After Almost 40 Years of Abandonment
February 8, 2017. Newburgh Restoration. Quote: "Last October the exciting news of the rehabilitation of the Liberty Street School was announced. Ever since then there has been an obvious curiosity to see inside the school. It has been vacant since the last class left almost 40 years ago in 1980. Thomas Burr Dodd of RipRap LLC was kind enough to share photos he took, documenting the monumental task of making this building safe for occupants."
Sneak Peek Inside Weigant's Tavern
January 25, 2017. Newburgh Restoration. Quote: "It is exciting to learn that Thomas Burr Dodd of RipRap LLC will oversee the rehabilitation of Weigant’s Tavern (also spelled Weigand and Weygant). The interior condition is much worse than anything that you can imagine just by judging from the outside."
New Developer Takes on Liberty Street School
October 12, 2016. Newburgh Restoration. Quote: "... the plans are to create a new film studio although these plans have not been 100% confirmed."
OLD NEWBURGH SCHOOL MAY BECOME NEW FILM STUDIOS
October 10, 2016. Newburgh Times Herald-Record. Caption: A new buyer is proposing to resurrect the renovation of the former Liberty Street School in Newburgh after a longtime developed failed to complete its project.