Chinatown, Bayard Street Between Baxter and Mulberry Streets

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

This is the northern end of Columbus Park which we first saw over a year ago at its southern side. The sign at the entrance says Columbus Park Pavilion. Googling the pavillion brought up some interesting stuff. If you go to NYBeyondSight, you can hear Wellington Chen talking about the area and the pavilion (scroll to the bottom of the page). Or Brian Lehrer describing the Empire State Building. Or . . . but you can check it out for yourself.

And then there is Project For Public Spaces, where the pavilion was placed in the Hall of Shame BEFORE it was renovated in 2007. Go there to see photographs of its sorry state pre-2007.

And finally, I learned on Yelp that once again I have been a dope, just taking my shot and walking on. Apparently old China exists right down that path.

One day when this project is finished, I'm going to start at the beginning of the blog and go back to all those places where I later regretted not going farther. Stick with me.



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

This is at the other end of the block at Mulberry where lots of people hang out outside of the park.

I'm happy to be posting this well before midnight now that the conventions are over. That was some two weeks.

See map.