Harlem Bespoke: Those who wonder what was originally at the nondescript 125th Street fire station address can look no further as of today. We dug up a couple of photos from the city files showing a small wood frame house and a tenement building that used to stand at this location just west of Morningside Avenue. The older photo showing the wood frame home with the original clapboard siding is from around 1939 and reveals that a restaurant had been set up at the commercial space on the ground floor. Over a decade later
in the 1950s, the top windows would be all bricked over and Al's Bar would be situated as the anchor tenant. Everything probably was demolished by the 1960s and the the brutalist looking fire station as then built. We will have a current photo up later on today for those not familiar with this intersection of Harlem.
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