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The Doors of Grand Street

- Peter - Friday, August 26th, 2005 : goo

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elaine: people are strange

dennisatl: 26th Aug 2005 - 13:58 GMT

some are so interesting w/ a certain beauty but some just seem violated
anyway, thanks for the tour

mozt: i like this last door ;-)

Peter: 26th Aug 2005 - 14:02 GMT

yep, I tried to put them in order of "most decorated" to "most default", as it were.

oddly enough, in that neighborhood (), the cleast doors tend to stand out like sore thumbs as most every free space around is covered with graf... the clean doors here are about as subtle as a hit-up door would be in a clean, graff-free suburban community elsewhere.

518 gin mill: 7th Nov 2005 - 03:40 GMT

i remember grand street in the mid 40s. trolley cars. clean streets. no graffitti. doors were old, they were new. they were clean. ragamuffin day, bell buttons jammed on with chewn gum. the rko republic, the grand on grand next to graham. next to the chemical bank, across from the greenpoint saving bank. signs in the windows , either english or hebrew,the fish store manhattan and grand. ps18, manhattan ave. St. marys church, the projects, enuff...all gone..cleans doors, streets,

J.Smith: 2nd Jun 2008 - 15:08 GMT

My Great Grand father lived at 175 Grand St Brooklyn Between 1858 to 1900 is the Building still there?

Peter: 2nd Jun 2008 - 16:11 GMT

indeed, it still appears to be there...

J.Smith: 3rd Jun 2008 - 02:08 GMT

Hey Peter, thanks for info. Any chance of getting a photo of building at 175 grand next time you are down that way?

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