tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048034911181517049.post8574714080473412655..comments2024-03-27T05:56:36.051-04:00Comments on H A R L E M + B E S P O K E: REMEMBER: BROADWAY & 122ND CIRCA 1910Ulysseshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00817576268296958520noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048034911181517049.post-1629880232795126712014-06-14T16:19:46.535-04:002014-06-14T16:19:46.535-04:00You are correct about Samuel Delaney and his paren...You are correct about Samuel Delaney and his parents living in Morningside Gardens. Although I have never met him, his mother was a mentor to me in the 1960s, when I worked at the nearby library as a teen. <br /><br />The message to Anonymous at 10:45 am, is that beautiful and bountiful lives can exist and thrive everywhere; even in what you may call "eyesores". Wendynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048034911181517049.post-20057013296756915592014-06-12T11:57:56.227-04:002014-06-12T11:57:56.227-04:00Also: The decorative wall with the streetlamps see...Also: The decorative wall with the streetlamps seems to be gone--it was there a few years ago. I wonder what the plans are now...Jonathan Gillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048034911181517049.post-41058498845364685232014-06-12T11:56:09.845-04:002014-06-12T11:56:09.845-04:00They maybe eyesores, but remember that one of them...They maybe eyesores, but remember that one of them in the distance is Morningside Gardens, one of the very first progressive, mixed-race, mixed-income housing developments in the city. Thurgood Marshall lived there with his second wife for a while before heading off to Washington to become LBJ's Solicitor General (and then Supreme Court Jusitice). I believe that the pioneering gay, black sci-fi writer Samuel Delany also grew up there.<br /><br />Also: I believe that Duke Ellington's 1933 composition "Daybreak Express" was made into a short film showing the #1 train subway either coming out of the tunnel at 122nd Street and down onto the elevated in Harlem, or the other way around. I can't find it on youtube, though (It's not the 1953 D.A. Pennebaker film of the same name, though Pennebaker's does use the same music).Jonathan Gillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048034911181517049.post-15278189776483022172014-06-12T10:45:33.930-04:002014-06-12T10:45:33.930-04:00these 2 pictures just highlight what eyesores thes...these 2 pictures just highlight what eyesores these housing projects really areAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048034911181517049.post-33844415765888259952014-06-11T21:30:32.319-04:002014-06-11T21:30:32.319-04:00My old neighborhood. I prefer the old by far.My old neighborhood. I prefer the old by far.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com