Sunday, July 25, 2021

XOXO 2nd Avenue

Last Sunday, we marked the 10th anniversary of the closing of Mars Bar on Second Avenue's southwest corner at First Street. 

On this occasion, Julius Klein shared the two photos below of what the northwest corner of Second Avenue and First Street looked like for a time in the 1990s ... when he ran XOXO, a performance space and gallery.

This first shot is from 1997, three months before workers demolished the building to make way for part of the Avalon Bowery Place luxury complex...
And this next photo — circa 1992 — is looking to the northwest from Houston and Second Avenue... Roy, a handyman at Mars Bar, attends to owner Hank Penza's car...
Here's a current-day view of the NW corner of Second Avenue and First Street (thanks to Steven for the pic)...
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4 comments:

  1. PennyJuly 25, 2021 at 5:52 PM

    Great place, great crazy zone!! What a time!!

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  2. AnonymousJuly 25, 2021 at 9:09 PM

    What an ugly boring city it became

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  3. AnonymousJuly 26, 2021 at 8:38 AM

    The building on the corner of W 2nd and 2nd ave was knocked down by the city in the middle of the night during the Giuliani Administration.

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  4. AnonymousJuly 27, 2021 at 1:19 PM

    That's the weirdest most out of place block now

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