Chickens poke around in the grass as cars fly down NW Second Avenue past a bustling laundromat, botanicas packed with votive candles and cascarilla, and — just near 63rd Street — the neon-purple ampersand in a window that marks the contemporary art gallery on the corner.
The gallery is the brainchild of Kendall-raised, 26-year-old realtor Annie Berkowitz and her boyfriend, Jordan Trachtenberg. They opened &gallery in a building he’d purchased two years earlier to house his architectural design firm. Business is so good, they say, that they’ve even purchased a lot next door for parking.
