Blog: East of Bowery

On cold nights we burned the slats from the benches in the median park on Allen St. Only Cisco didn't approve. Maybe you know that 1st Avenue below Houston St. becomes Allen St, that Allen was designed as a settlement, and that the tenements were built just after the turn of the century with their backs to the wide avenue. They had backyards and even balconies. In the middle of the boulevard, a park stretches all the way into Chinatown near the Manhattan Bridge and the south end of the East River, once the home of [...]

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