Limelight Marketplace | Flatiron

Limelight Marketplace

47 W 20th St New York, NY 10010

여긴 참 사연이 많은 곳이다. 19세기 중반에 고딕 양식의 교회로 지어진 이 건물은 1970년대에 와서 경제위기와 함께 팔려버려 83년도에 Limelight 라는 나이트클럽로 재탄생했다. 2003년도에 Avalon 이라는 이름으로 다시 열렸다가 2007년도에 아예 문을 닫았다. 없어진 듯 했는데, 2010년 5월 7일에 다시 Limelight Marketplace 로 일종의 멀티샵 같은 쇼핑몰로 다시 문을 열었다. 여전히 별로 장사는 안 될 것 같아 곧 문을 닫을 것 같다. 왠지 이 건물을 각 시대의 믿음을 담고 있는 것 같이 느껴진다. 19세기의 교회라고 한다면 20세기의 종교는 쇼핑인가 ? 라는 하는 생각을 하게 한다.

SNOW DAY | Port Imperial

SNOW DAY @ PORT IMPERIAL

2009 Village Halloween Parade | NYC

2009 Village Halloween Parade | NYC

Halloween, a contraction of All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), is an annual holiday observed on October 31, and common activities include guising/trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

Trick-or-treating is a customary celebration for children on Halloween. Children go in costume from house to house, asking for treats such as candy or sometimes money, with the question, "Trick or treat?" The word "trick" refers to a (mostly idle) "threat" to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given. In some parts of Scotland children still go guising. In this custom the child performs some sort of trick, i.e. sings a song or tells a ghost story, to earn their treats.

Alice Austen House | Staten Island

 Alice Austen House | Staten Island

2 Hylan Blvd Staten Island, NY 10305

Balloon Day | Columbia Univ.

LOVE | Midtown

LOVE | Midtown

1359 Ave of the Americas New York, NY 10019

SOHO | NYC 070513

SOHO | NYC 070513

New York, NY 10012

 

Club Avalon | Flatiron

Club Avalon | Flatiron

47 W. 20th St., New York, NY 10010 

The New York City location, situated on the Avenue of the Americas at West 20th Street, was ultimately the most significant and infamous of all, in New York City, was owned by Peter Gatien. It opened in November 1983. The site was a former Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion. The church was a Gothic Revival brownstone building which was built in 1844-1845 and designed by architect Richard Upjohn. In the early 1970s, when the parish merged with two others, the church was deconsecrated and sold to Odyssey House, a drug rehabilitation program. Amidst financial hardship, Odyssey House sold it to Gatien in 1982.[4]

The New York Limelight originally started as a disco and rock club. In the 1990s, it became a prominent place to hear techno, goth, and industrial music, and to meet dealers of recreational drugs. It earned the media's attention in 1996, when club kid and party promoter Michael Alig was arrested and later convicted for the killing and dismemberment of Angel Melendez, a fellow member of the Club Kids and a drug dealer who frequented the club.[5] The 2003 biopic Party Monster, starring Macaulay Culkin and Seth Green, was based on this event. The Limelight was closed by the police, and subsequently reopened several times during the 1990s. In September 2003, it reopened under the name "Avalon"; however, it closed its doors permanently in 2007.[6] Since May, 2010, the building has been in use as the Limelight Marketplace, but as of May 2014 was being converted into an outlet of the David Barton Gym chain.

KOREA WAY | KOREAN TOWN | K-TOWN

Korea Town

32nd St Between 5th Ave & Broadway

한인타운, 코리아타운, 케이타운, 한타 등으로 다양하게 불리는 KOREA WAY (한국타운)은 32가를 중심으로 하고 있다. 주변에 Empire State Building, Herald Square과 Penn Station, Macy 백화점까지 다양한 명소들이 있어서 항상 사람들로 북적거린다. 크리스마스 이브 날에 32가 브로드웨이에 있는 우리 은행 앞에 서 있으면 뉴욕 혹은 동부에 있는 한국 사람들을 거의 다 만날 수 있다는 약간은 과장 섞인 말이 나올 정도로 뉴욕에 있는 혹은 오는 한국 사람이면 찾아오는 장소인 것 같다. 실제로도 가끔씩 이름도 잘 기억나지 않는 친구를 몇년만에 우연찮게 만나기도 하고, 뉴욕에 사는 친구들을 종종 길에서 마주치기도 한다. 규모면에선 훨씬 큰 뉴저지엔 팰팍과 포트리, 그리고 퀸즈엔 플러싱이 있지만 그래도 한인타운의 중심은 여기인 듯 하다.