Spanish Harlem, Lexington Avenue Between 107th and 106th Streets

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

Checking the boundaries of Spanish Harlem in Wikipedia, I see someone has changed them and I think I like these boundaries better. This makes East Harlem and Spanish Harlem one and the same, so now there's no more East Harlem (on the blog, I mean).

New boundaries: northern: 141st Street at the Harlem River; eastern:, the East River; southern: 96th Street; western: Fifth Avenue.

I'm reserving the right to change the northern border, other alternatives are 125th or 116th Streets.


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

If you enlarge this photograph, you can see the changes that were made to the building. See how the doorway is split in half by the turquoise paint? So it seems that on the painted side of the building, the stairway was removed, the door was closed up and made into a window, and the entrance was put on the ground floor. This may or may not interest you.

See map.