Off Paradise is a gallery founded by Natacha Polaert in 2019 on Walker Street. The name evokes the old neighborhood of Five Points, at the center of which was a small, triangular park full of hopes and grime called Paradise Square. It also invokes Paradise Alley — the artists’ and poets’ colony on the then-godforsaken corner of Avenue A and East 11th Street that is referenced in Jack Kerouac’s novel “The Subterraneans.” Off Paradise is a fictional place right off Paradise, adjacent to it, but not exactly it.