I always assumed this building was abandoned. It certainly looks that way from the street.
Boy, was I wrong!
Day 260
Portal of the day
September 15th, 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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~9,954 miles walked
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Thanks for the info, I have wondered about this building a long time. I took a photo of the big corner door about 9 years ago and saw a beat up old sign that read “Jay Meisel Photography” which I assumed meant he once had a little studio there, not owned the whole building and lived there. These few blocks of the Bowery have drastically changed over the last decade.