Noho changing
Started by 30yrs_RE_20_in_REO
almost 6 years ago
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I couldn't find the thread where MCR and I were reminiscing about our times spent on Bond St and others seemed to claim it wasn't all that different than in is now. https://www.boweryboogie.com/2020/02/newly-restored-59-bleecker-pimps-levain-bakery-and-bape-boutique/ I'm not sure seeing the Women's Shelter being sold to Any Rosen for $27 million to convert into high end retail so that people wouldn't have to suffer the discomfort of thinking about homeless women while purchasing their $4 a piece cookies, $100 T-shirts, $400 hoodies, etc represents "little change".
I don't recall anyone saying that Noho hadn't changed much since the early eighties, that would just be silly. Everything south of 23rd Street East to West has changed dramatically since then.
I made the point I didn't think Bond Street in NoHo was"dangerous" in the 80s, seedy certainly. That said, I lived at 633 East 6th Street from 81 to 83, slightly different story down on avenue C back then. Lucky for me and my then-girlfriend, the Latin Kings (prominent gang at the time) sort of took a liking to us. In our punk rock regalia, thought we looked like 'Indians'.
Even so my esteemed mother-in-law, Geraldine Page had no problem walking down to our apartment for afternoon visits. Of course no one knew who she was, but she was always treated with a great deal of respect by our neighbors.
Keith
Every time I walk by 59 Bleecker I look up at where the second through twentieth floors would be and am reminded of the power of LPC.
Oh my word, Keith, I am a HUGE, HUGE fan of your mother-in-law. How fortunate you are to have been an important figure in her life, and I'm sure the stories you have to tell are fantastic! Just wanted you to know that my husband and I watch anything at all that she is a part of. What an incredible actress she was who could really inhabit the characters she portrayed. Sorry this is off subject for real estate, but I just wanted you to know.
Keith is your wife an actor as well? I may have seen her in a play -
Adding yes I saw her in a play a while back. Very entertaining -
My ex to be clear. We married very young at around 18. We have two wonderful children and we remain very good friends. My youngest daughter, was Angelica's flower girl at her wedding a few years ago in New Orleans.