It’s not a retail location, baby. No more corner stores. Not for us. This is a branding opportunity.
On the corner of Clinton and Stanton:
Click it, and it’ll be easier to read. Is this advertising? Are they going to follow this up with a “Then It Hit Me: I might as well buy an expensive handbag while I’m at it, so at least I feel better!” poster?
In any event, it reminded me this pile o’ ironic garbage from earlier in the year.
This photo illustrates the epilogue for How to Be Useful. We didn’t end up using it. 136 Rivington was the fictional home of Sammy Glick (/home of the fictional Sammy Glick?), anti-hero of the book What Makes Sammy Run? That entire block of tenements eventually made way for this high school…what? exercise area? Prison yard? Occasionally I’d spot a sophomore girls’ gym class lined up to perform lazy, uncoordinated high kicks, but it didn’t appear to be used that often.
