Barack Obama Slept and Washed Here

There's another place Barack Obama stayed, however briefly, while he was a student at Columbia.  Obama wrote in Dreams of My Father that when he arrived at the building on 109th Street there was nobody there to give him a key to the apartment.  He waited on the steps for a while before heading off to find somewhere to sleep.  Michael Daly of the Daily News believes Obama slept in this alley that runs between 108th and 109th streets just west of Amsterdam Ave.  In the morning the future president joined a homeless man to wash up at this fire hydrant.

Comments

[Cheryl]

Thanks for the backstory and the photos, Joe.

[Joe]

You're welcome! This was a fun assignment I gave myself.

[Qiana]

Hi Joe, thanks again for allowing me to use your photo! The post I wrote can be found here:

http://literaryobama.com/2009/03/08/know-where-you-belong-obama-and-langston-hughes-in-new-york/

[Joe]

You're welcome!