day 16 | ‘longing out loud’

* 1993

elizabeth street in little italy was the last place i lived in new york. i loved that
neighborhood. at the time it was a pretty quiet block; there was a hardware store, a
butcher (albanese meats), a bar on the corner at houston, and a cafe on the
corner at prince (bella’s). that was about it. lots of boarded up store fronts.

erica lived around the corner on bowery in a building that was originally a ymca