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9-14-15 Manhattan, NY. A man, surrounded by pigeons, reads the latest edition of the NY Times in his trash bag recliner in the corner of his study on a sidewalk in Manhattan.
This mural panel depicts "Cotton Club" with (left to right) Josephine Baker, Duke Ellington and Bessie Smith
From "Flying Home: Harlem Heroes and Heroines" (downtown) 1996. Glass Mosaic - Faith Ringgold assisted by Tim Tait Designs.
The music history of this building is simply too fantastic and detailed for just a few words to describe it. Check out this link which goes into vast detail about the talented songwriters who once worked here (people like Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Ellie Greenwich, etc.)
The former Freie Bibliothek und Lesehalle ("Free Library and Reading Hall", left; now the Ottendorfer Branch of the New York Public Library) and Deutsches Dispensary ("German Dispensary", right; now Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital) on Second Avenue in the East Village. Both were designed by William Schickel and built in 1883-1884, and both are NYC Landmarks.
Located at East 29th Street in the Kips Bay neighborhood, this was once a farmhouse. Considered one of the oldest houses in Manhattan, it is estimated that it might have been built as early as 1790, when the neighborhood was known as Rose Hill.