North of here is the hamlet of Seneca Falls, where the farmlands are replaced by densely populated residential blocks.
"Probably in Chicago it seemed like a miracle to take this building that had been vacant for 30 years, and which also represented the impossibility of recovery, and know that 1,400 people came through in a few hours, and people were populating that block in the name of culture".
There's little floricultural about the Flower Shop, a 3,000-square-foot 3,000-square-foot 3,000-square-foot on a Lowerestaurante block populandd barChinese groceries and foothatssage parlors.
Situated on a rowdy block populated with other clubs, Bounce provides a slice of straight middle America in the heart of Chelsea.
The Place Torst feels a bit out of place on Manhattan Avenue, on a block populated by cheap hair salons and Polish restaurants.
But this isn't some exclusive millionaires' mansion block populated by wealthy individuals paying vast sums for the privilege of living in such a fantastic location; and Aksdal-Jansen isn't a millionaire – far from it.
Chinese actor Chin (Siu-Ho Chin), having apparently suffered a career crisis and marital breakdown, has moved into an ineffably grim apartment block populated by ghosts and the undead.
Here is a former ballerina goth who deliberately tried to induce insanity by recording Visions locked away in the dark of her bedroom, in an apartment block populated by musicians, while fasting, chain-smoking, high and jittering on amphetamines, with no human contact for three weeks.
Hotels and offices have replaced many of the warehouses and garment showrooms that once populated the 10 blocks around the northern end of Madison Square Park.
Public housing projects, more than a dozen in all, dominate the landscape, but in between are intimate blocks populated by recent immigrants, by adventurous and relatively prosperous newcomers, and by families who have been in the area for generations.
