Just to circle back on this … or should that be cycle back on this? I would’ve done so sooner, but the Prince news kinda let all the air out of my tires. TWO BIKING PUNS IN ONE PARAGRAPH! SOMEBODY STOP ME.
In any case, after first posting this, I slapped it over on Facebook, and within moments, my comrades Bob Egan and Paul/Dub (whom you probably remember from the Bogside Chronicles) identified the spot as East 9th Street, east of Tompkins Square Park. Here’s the composite Dub put together...
At first I didn’t buy this, as I was convinced the edifice of the school you see on the left hand side of the original photograph was on the wrong side of the street.
Then it hit me. Bob and Dub are right — I was just looking at it the wrong way. In the photograph, our Tony is biking west …. towards Tompkins Square Park.
Here’s that spot today…
And, fittingly, here’s a snippet of Tony talking about Pythagoras in that very park circa 2009...
Lastly, on my walk home I stopped into Other Music, and true to that original post…look what I spied on the racks (newly re-released)….
...and here's me on that spot.
ADDENDUM: My creative comrade Dub made this new composite with my photo from today.... lovely work....
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