No Andy Warhol Museum for NYC

Remember that branch of the Andy Warhol Museum we were promised? Turns out New York's not getting it, after all:

The Observer reports:

Sorry, fans of Warhol, and anyone who was trying to make bank off a flashy new museum coming to a gentrifying neighborhood. Nearly two years after announcing its plans to erect an outpost at Essex Crossing, the massive development that’s set to take over a few vacant lots on the Lower East Side, Warhol Museum director Eric Shiner said the Warhol Museum’s expansion to New York has been abruptly canceled. He was pretty vague about why plans for a 10,000-square-foot institution just disappeared. ““The Andy Warhol Museum, which had been exploring its participation in the Essex Crossing development in lower Manhattan, has determined that it will not proceed with the project,” he said in a statement. “Despite the efforts of both the museum and the developers, an internal study of business and other operational considerations led the museum to this decision.”

I think it's great that his hometown of Pittsburgh is where the main museum is located. But shouldn't the place that was his chosen home and where his art became internationally known be in on it, too? Feels like so many fewer people will ever have contact with the collection now.