I realize I’ve been discussing it an awful lot since first invoking it in, gosh …2021, when I first stumbled upon a telling photograph by a tourist named Bo G. Eriksson that was shared in a Facebook group called Manhattan Before 1990, but in the long wake of that revelation, today the corner of Cortlandt Alley on Walker Street played host to an official naming ceremony that re-christened the plot of Manhattan real estate as Charly Garcia Corner. Sadly, the individual who first reached out to me about it – one Iñaki Rojas – was not able to make the trip from Mendoza, Argentina.
Once again, for a more-or-less succinct summary and timeline of all this, click here.
Anyway, today was the big day, so I went on down to check it out. Here are the pics…
Here's the corner, .... all dressed up for the unveiling of the plaque.
Here's me, waiting for things to kick off...
...and then it started to get crowded....
...and then it got REALLY crowded...
...and then a proverbial mob scene.... the Charly Army was out in FORCE!!....
Then came, at long last, the ceremony ... here's Mariano Cabrera, who was instrumental in putting this together....
Here's the formal proclamation (the woman is, I believe, Charly Garcia's sister)...
Here's a view from the east, looking west from Cortlandt Alley down Walker Street....
After the plaque and the street sign were unveiled, alumni from Charly's band came on and played five or six songs from the record in question, that being Clics Modernos, which is a very big deal in Latin American/Argentinian music.
There might be video later. Watch this space.
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