“I was really wrestling with, if one of us got sick and died, what would happen to Rigsby,” Mr. When the pandemic came, the threesome decamped to a rented house in Salt Point, N.Y., where Mr. We went back to couples therapy, and we kept on raising Rigsby, doing our thing.” Hammond left the restaurant hurt and embarrassed. Barasch, who was already in the process of adopting Rigsby, said he needed to think about it. They were still working on their relationship. When they brought Rigsby home, it was to a two-bedroom apartment in the West Village they moved into in 2017. But by the time they left the restaurant, he agreed to have dinner with Mr. “I was sure he would reject me,” he said. Hammond, who was so nervous his legs were jackhammering under the table, told Mr. Barasch risking heartbreak a third time seemed remote, but he went with his gut. “The other thing my gut kept saying was, get back together with Dan.” “I had made a big deal about leaving, but my gut was telling me to stay,” he said. But he was still struggling.Īt the end of 2014, when his replacement at Friends of the High Line quit after only a few months, Mr. “It was one of the most difficult years of my life.” He had recently stepped down from his role at Friends of the High Line and was figuring out his next move. In the summer of 2014, after he returned from a trip to India, where he became a Vedic meditation teacher, they broke up again, this time a mutual decision. Barasch’s earlier instinct had been right.
“But I thought maybe he’s a tortured soul. Hammond was still tugging at him, and he sensed he wasn’t the only one with unrequited feelings. “We would go on these lunches and not call them dates, and then have these awkward goodbyes.” His attraction to Mr. The Lowline, announced in 2012, remains in the planning phase. “At a certain point I felt he was the only person in the city who understood what it was like to try to do something that involves politics and fund-raising and space-making and community development and starting a nonprofit.” Barasch co-founded with the designer James Ramsey. Except instead of bringing art to the subway, the project evolved into the Lowline, an underground park in the former Williamsburg Bridge Trolley Terminal Mr. Barasch before the Cookshop date that he would help with the subway art project no matter what, kept that promise.
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