Just a quick addendum to an earlier post. Turns out the alley depicted in Amos Poe's "The Foreigner" is in Noho. According to Google Maps, it's Shinebone Alley, but I always thought that was on the east side of Lafayette Street (opposite Jones Alley, and name-checked in a great Cop Shoot Cop b-side). We actually attended a birthday party for one of my daughter's little classmates in the alley in question some weeks back (see pic of Oliver in same below). If I'm not mistaken -- and this is, of course, well beyond trivial -- the alley wherein Max encounters Debbie Harry is in the portion that abuts Bond Street from the south (see way behind Oliver, on the other side of Bond).
Incidentally, I've since finished reading Rombes' book and I still can't recommend it highly enough. My copy is now distressed with dog-eared pages of entries I plan on exploring further. Go get it.
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