New York Magazine - USA (2020-03-30)

march30–april12, 2020 | newyork 51

Artist PeterMcGoughhasalwaysinsistedonlivingasif he’s inanotherera.

HeshareshisWestVillage railroadapartmentwithmementosandQueenie.

BYWENDY GOODMAN

“Queenie is a miniature

long-haired Chihuahua.

Stella Schnabel couldn’t

take care of two dogs,

so she gave me Queenie

when she was the size

of a gerbil, and I didn’t

want a dog! And then

I took care of the dog,

and on the third day, I

said, ‘Okay, I’ll take her.’ ”

The phone
“has a dial tone.
I bought it, I don’t
know, years ago.
They had a shop
of just telephones.”

A view of the full run

of the apartment,

looking from

the living room,

through his office

(demarcated by the

original pocket

doors), to the kitchen

at the far end.