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Yesterday we posted an old photo of a lone brownstone located somewhere in the East 60s, which in 1959 was about to be demolished for a future development. So where was the brownstone when it met its end? Our commenters figured it out... good job! The building was at 215 East 68th Street.
And some added bit of knowledge: the director of the 1960 film Bells Are Ringing, Vincente Minnelli, "wanted some establishing shots of New York, including an exterior of the shabby building where Susanswerphone's basement headquarters was located. He was having no luck finding the right location, until he saw a picture in Life magazine of a lone brownstone standing in the middle of a razed block on East 68th Street."
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Interesting to look at the Google map street view. The opposite side of the street is a full row of brownstones still completely intact (and probably worth many millions each now). You can get a sense of what the whole block might have looked like if this destruction wasn't allowed...
Pretty cool stuff.
great photo.