“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” -Henry David Thoreau
“Growing old is mandatory…growing up is optional.” -Chili Davis
What Goes Up, Must Get Torn Down
April 3, 2010
I haven’t been to SoHo in a long time, but a few days ago I walked by the building where I grew up. The facade is still there, but it is a shell of its former self. Like many of the surrounding structures, the five-story loft building has a new coat of paint and a “store for lease” sign above what used to be an active loading dock. The fire escape crawling up the front is gone, probably shifted to the alleys in the back, and nearly everything else has been replaced. And everything that has been replaced has a story…
