The Alley Project

 
Around the corner from the famous Tosca Cafe, where it’s not unlikely to spot Francis Ford Coppola doing espresso shot after espresso shot, is a little old bar called Specs. Specs is the kind of place where you’re unlikely to see anyone of note, ever. Specs is cluttered with crap from beat generations past and [...]

If I’d been faster, this lead picture would have been of the guy pissing between cars rather than the eerie smokestacks that loom over Jessie St. Mezzanine is a club that sits in the middle of the alley, just south of where it T’s off at the back of the old Mint building.
 In line to [...]

Tucked away off 4th Street just south of South St. lives a night club called Fluid and every Sunday they have a little shindig called Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control.
It was fast (I was only there for an hour), the drinks were cheap (if you get the lager & whiskey shot combo) but it [...]

Tying to locate the famous The Smell, I walked the wrong way down one-way Harlem Place past a place that smelled really bad. A man approached and asked, "Are you looking for The Smell?"
 Frank, my guide, took me back to a closed grated door, exactly at the epicenter of the horrible odor. A [...]