What sort of prestigious institution is housed within these magnificent confines?
Day 118
I wonder
April 26th, 2012
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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9,326 miles walked
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I always fail on these tests that are run on forgotten ny- I’m gonna say the greenpoint savings bank in greenpoint- except I don’t see any stains on the ceiling from soda cans that had been shook up before opening!
That’s a pretty ceiling! I haven’t been inside this CVS but I was in the area a couple of weeks ago, there’s a nice clock outside the building and the subway station right next to it is full of cute small figures by Tom Otterness who also did this .. http://imjustwalkin.com/2012/03/30/sewer-gator/
Interesting….if it was a branch of Green Point Savings Bank. in the 1990’s I worked for a company in San Diego owned by Green Point Bank. It was called Green Point Housing Services. It no longer exists.
There’s a very similar CVS in Chicago…
http://oururbantimes.com/business-news/new-cvs-pharmacy-opens-old-wicker-park-bank
I guess it pays to look up. You might get a nice visual reward.
This was a bank. When I arrived in NY in 1997, it was a fancy carpet store. Then it became a gourmet food shop, a Sutton Place Gourmet or Balducci’s. Then it became a CVS.