Horrifying. Right down to the architect's choice to depict Harlemites as rich Anglo-Saxon conquerors with cell phones, shopping bags--and formal wear.
Monday, November 21, 2016
Lenox Lounge to...Sephora?
This morning I shared the news that the Lenox Lounge might be demolished completely. Now Harlem Bespoke offers the architect's rendering of what's to come (thanks Andrew)--and it's horrifying:
Horrifying. Right down to the architect's choice to depict Harlemites as rich Anglo-Saxon conquerors with cell phones, shopping bags--and formal wear.
Horrifying. Right down to the architect's choice to depict Harlemites as rich Anglo-Saxon conquerors with cell phones, shopping bags--and formal wear.
Who needs Dubai when you have all that cheezy made to order glitz right here in good O'l New York???
ReplyDeleteThis is horrible. Wow I don't know what to say.
ReplyDeleteWishful thinking: Maybe they are planning to put the new Lennox Lounge on the top two floors?
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't parse
ReplyDeleteThe fit is wrong
O one more farce
A sad blues song
woohoo, I love Sephora!! bring on the gentrification!!!
ReplyDeleteStripping Harlem of it's ethnic roots?
ReplyDeleteNow THAT'S gentrifying at its lowest!!
I agree totally! I was born, and raised I. harlem. What has happened? Why can't we hold on to the pieces that has placed us on the history map?
DeleteOh for fuck's sake ...
ReplyDeleteWe are a disgrace. We have no respect for the past, for neighborhoods, for jazz music. We really are hated all over the world and with good reason.
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