Hamilton Heights
12/08/03
Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
New photolog, with a suspiciously familiar design: Chicago Snapshot
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ack! that's my design too! let's start a fight.
Posted by: nick at December 8, 2003 09:48 PM
you want I should go beat him up?
Posted by: JCA at December 8, 2003 10:29 PM
Wow. That design is so similar to Satan's Laundromat that it makes me wonder where inspiration stops and plagiarism begins. I think the least he could do is acknowledge some debt to your site, eh?
Posted by: Paul at December 8, 2003 11:11 PM
It's not plagiarism if it's done with permission. I meant "suspiciously" facetiously. No need for alarm.
Posted by: Mike at December 8, 2003 11:19 PM
Look on the bright side. At least he didn't name it Lucifer's Laundry, or Satan's Suds, or...
Posted by: fuzzyoctopus at December 8, 2003 11:23 PM
this set of photos is great.. i laughed outloud at more than one of them :)
Posted by: rachelleb at December 9, 2003 12:42 PM
am I terrible for having lived in NYC almost all my life without having ever heard of Hamilton Heights?
Posted by: aileen at December 9, 2003 07:47 PM
You aren't terrible. It's pretty obscure.
(For those following along at home, it's between Morningside Heights, also slightly obscure, and Washington Heights.)
Posted by: Mike at December 9, 2003 07:51 PM
like old-timey toity-toid and toid obscure, or like newfangled real estate price jackin' up obscure?
Posted by: Aileen at December 10, 2003 07:56 PM
I'm not entirely sure. I think the name is old, but may have been "rediscovered" recently by real-estate developers who don't want to be selling property in West Harlem. It's definitely more legit than, say, Dumbo.
Posted by: Mike at December 10, 2003 08:48 PM
I'm a resident of HH. why no photos of the amazing architecture? too boring for you? not salicious enough?
Posted by: joy at December 12, 2003 03:40 PM
Architecture shots aren't really what this site is about. Sometimes I have some, when they strike my fancy. But they're tough to take at night, which is when I was in HH. No slight intended.
Posted by: Mike at December 12, 2003 03:46 PM
I realized that too late...I found your site while searching for Hamilton Heights stuff...sorry about that. I do like your cross photo - I was thinking of doing a photo project of the neon church signs in Harlem.
Oddly enough, the giant mansion featured in "The Royal Tenenbaums" is on our block in HH.
Posted by: joy at December 12, 2003 03:49 PM
I love the urinate sign. Pleeeease stop, or we will make you eat at Shanty.
Posted by: homerjay at December 13, 2003 07:44 PM
to aileen: no, you aren't terrible for never having heard of hamilton heights after having lived in nyc almost all of your life. you are simply a bright shining example of how truly segregated this city is (and this country, for that matter). hey. i'll bet you didn't know that alexander hamilton was black, either. (do you even know who he is?) but that's a whole other conversation...
to mike: calling it the way you and yours see it is one thing but the way it is from my perspective -- now, that's something else. none of the several million low income residents of harlem (the average joe up here makes about $25,000 a year) thinks that hamilton heights, morningside heights or anything else up here is "obscure." i'm not from nyc but i knew of the neighborhoods you describe as obscure ever since i was a child because so many artists that i admired -- Dina Washington, Duke Ellington, etc. lived there. The writer Ralph Ellison used to take his morning walks through said obscurity. Malcolm X lived on Convent Ave. when he was a busboy on 125th St. Fats Waller lived there, too. Now Cassandra Wilson and Fab Five Freddy own homes there now. And yes. I live here too. What with gentrification being what it is, i'll have to buy a place or suffer the consequences.
so much for obscurity...
Posted by: Queen Esther at January 11, 2004 08:13 AM
hey...by the by..they took down the stop urinating sign...didn't do much good
Posted by: jules at July 20, 2004 01:13 AM
Queen Esther: well said! My guess is that ppl who are unaware of Manhattan's neighborhoods like HH are "Sex and the City" Nyers: moving here AFTER Manhattan became "comfortable" and live in places like the E. Village or LES, thinking these places are still "cool", but would NEVER have moved there, say, 20 years ago, when it was cheap, dirty and culturally diverse (not a Starbucks or friggin' American Apparel in sight). That's why I live uptown - it's still real (for now) -poseurs, go home!