At the beginning of most every year I like to take a walk around the neighborhood and take stock of what's changed over the previous year. Last year it took one, two, three posts to show the photos. If I were smart there would be a method to the walk so changes could be compared. Instead you get an odd assortment of pictures. I can report that from Part 3 of last year's report that the Best Yet Market has opened and is a great addition to the neighborhood. Frizzante opened and fizzled in less than a year and is now being renovated into a new restaurant. And, after many delays and an oddly overhyped renovation Just Wingin' It reopened just long to promptly go out of business.
I seem to have skipped 2009, so here's parts one and two from 2008 and here's a montage from 2005. There's more if anyone wants to scroll through the archives on the right.
None of that has anything to do with the photos above other than sometimes when I go for a walk I just keep walking. On New Year's Day I found myself wandering along 125th Street.
The artist Franco the Great has been painting the storefront gates on 125th St. for more than thirty years. A lot of the murals have disappeared over those years as buildings were torn down, renovated or had their gates replaced. The best time to see is work is when the businesses are closed, like Sunday mornings, which is when you can sometimes find Franco painting.
"like Sunday mornings"
...or like, any night after 9 or 10pm? Most everything on 125th Street closes pretty early. And the lighting is bright enough.
Posted by: tacony palmyra | 07 January 2011 at 11:05 AM
Night would work as well.
Posted by: Joe | 07 January 2011 at 06:57 PM