Posts Tagged ‘St. Nicholas Avenue’
On Washington Heights
20Sep07
Of all the Manhattan venues available to the gay recluse, Washington Heights is undoubtedly the preferred. Here we live among extremes of material decadence and breathtaking neglect, apparent in the crumbling cornices of Ft. Washington Avenue and eroding limestone facades of St. Nicholas, not to mention the tiled mosaics in the entrance foyers of the […]
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Tags: Marlene Dietrich, St. Nicholas Avenue, The Alhumbra, The Cloisters, The Morris-Jumel Mansion, Washington Heights