© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
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Bowling Green Housing Co – 102-104 Greenwich Street – Lower Manhattan
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
In a historical research document released by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp (RENEW- NY) 102-104 Greenwich Street is described as follows:
The five-story brick Italianate building at 102-104 Greenwich Street is similar to the adjacent building at 106 Greenwich Street. It also appears to date to the second half of the 19th century and was originally a store and factory building. It has stone window lintels and sills and a bracketed metal cornice (see Figure 5-18). The ground floor has been altered with modern storefronts, and the windows have been replaced.
Sun Chun Mei 1 – Chinese Restaurant – Closed Over Six Years – West Village, NYC
June 2015 © Frank H. Jump
I remembering coming to eat at Sung Chun Mei 1 after ACT UP meetings in the late 80s. Enzo and I would go there on occasion when in the Village. We happened upon it again after the LGBT Pride NYC and it looked so perpetually closed. I could remember the last time we were there. Pork and string beans in a brown sauce. Pan fried dumplings. Cold noodle with sesame sauce. Eggplant with garlic sauce. I found this article that mentions it called No Longer Driving the Culture, is the Village Now “a Geography of Nowhere?” in the Washington Square Park Blog where Catherine says:
I knew Sung Chun Mei, the restaurant referenced in the article as closed and sitting shuttered for six years (picture above), well. It was a vibrant thriving business, a Chinese restaurant I considered my “go to” place to order dinner often. It is hard for me to even think of it as closed.
Jeremiah Moss references Sung Chun Mei more recently on September 28th in his Vanishing NY Blog. Living in Brooklyn, working in Brooklyn – I am so out of touch with Manhattan anymore. So much is changing in Flatbush, I find it hard to keep up with the changes and harder still to keep up with what isn’t changing beyond my immediate horizon.
