I didn’t hear about this until today, even though it was covered in the NY Times City Blog a few days ago.
The trailer from Dave Chappelle’s Block Party:
I lived/ stayed around the corner from Angel House for years without knowing what it was. It was just a curious, bizarre structure rising from a desolate stretch of warehouses and abandoned buildings. Later, I rode my bike from the park down Downing street, past the entrance. I hadn’t realized that a fire had taken out sections of the building, that code violations had led to the city putting a lean on it. I doubt code had been much on Arthur and Cynthia Wood’s mind when they started constructing their whimsical home in 1979. If the area was desolate in the ’00s, I can only imagine what it was like in the ’80s.
Thus ends a small chapter in local and Brooklyn history, as the neighborhood becomes ever more gentrified, seemingly by the week.
From Bed-Stuy Patch: Supporters Say Goodbye to Angel House
Wish I’d been there. A couple of faces I recognize from Zuccotti Park, glad to see they’re still around.
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