Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Northern Exposure Part 2: In The Other Heights
In late April I spent a blustery spring day with Fernando wandering around North of 125ths St 'In The Heights..' Not the Washington Heights, subject of a current Broadway musical, since W.H. extends from 155th St all the way up to Inwood and the Bronx. But rather Hamilton Heights, which runs from 135th to 155th. Hamilton Heights includes the elegant Sugar Hill rectangle in its northern section, which during the Harlem Renaissance was home to Duke Ellington and Thurgood Marshall...
'Sugar Hill,' for many fortysomethings, evokes their first exposure to a rap song back in 1979, the Sugar Hill Gang's Rappers' Delight...
Before we get to my Hamilton Heights photos, here's some highlights from the aforementioned musical about those other heights...
Inlaid statue at City College.. He/she seems to be carrying dynamite and a spice container.. What could it all mean?
City College is the intersection of Ivy League splendor and the workaday grey grid of Manhattan... I love the arched, gated entrance way... across a street....
< In a neighborhood of elegant brownstones and timeless brick, these boarded-up dwellings are a rarity...
Mishkin's pharmacy is 108 years old, a time capsule on a corner....
Cartoon du Jour:
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"Inlaid statue at City College.. He/she seems to be carrying dynamite and a spice container.. What could it all mean?"
Actually he is carrying a Fasces symbol of unity and power of the Roman Republic same can be found on the Roosevelt Dimes. What you call a spice container is really a book.
The face resembles Niccolo Macchiavelli.
You may extrapolate your own meaning.
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Actually he is carrying a Fasces symbol of unity and power of the Roman Republic same can be found on the Roosevelt Dimes. What you call a spice container is really a book.
The face resembles Niccolo Macchiavelli.
You may extrapolate your own meaning.
