Thursday, May 15, 2008

Inwood, 215th Street Between Broadway and Tenth Avenue


Mary Sargent © 2008 …………………………………….. click to enlarge

Now we're talking. I went on a photowalk today. This is a photograph from today. Fresh off the camera. This was a free day; I could go anywhere I wanted to, so I looked long and hard at the map. I finally decided on Lenox Avenue south from 116th Street, which connects a couple of streets, and then west on 110th Street to Broadway, which finishes the top of Central Park and completes 110th Street. This is a walk that's caught my eye a lot, so it was satisfying to finish it.

But first: right here in my neighborhood, on the way to the subway, this lush little scene.

This is the club, I mean former club, I first mentioned here. More turquoise paint has been revealed since then.

See map.

2 comments:

JerryNJ said...

I'm curious, since to mention that it's in your neighborhood, whether you ever did go to that club.

A few months after I moved to work in NYC, the "Happy Land" tragedy occured.

I was stunned to learn then that parts of NYC were like the Wild West. Scofflaw-like.

One could actually set up a "night club" with no municipal permits of anykind whatsoever.

I remember the non-ending descriptive "illegal night club".

That was a different NYC.

That place looks like a place shuttered by contemporary law enforcement mores.

Never again.

Mary Sargent said...

No, I was never in the club in any of its manifestations, no regrets there.

I think the problems they've had were with late night rowdiness, noise, fights, etc.