The artist Ellen Harvey takes a tour of disappeared New York City landmarks that appear in her project “The Disappointed Tourist,” David Owen writes.
Harvey was born in southeastern England in 1967 and moved to the United States in time for high school. “Immigrants like myself are the most nostalgic,” she said recently. “The thing that’s nice about this project is that people stand in front of it and tell stories, forever.” Nominations for subjects come from all over the world, usually through the Web site disappointedtourist.org.
Harvey headed next for Florent, a now defunct all-night diner, on Gansevoort Street, a block from the Hudson River. “Florent had the most amazing mix of people—drag queens, artists, celebrities,” she said. On the drive over, Harvey’s car navigation warned that Florent “may be closed,” thereby raising the slender hope that it wasn’t. But it definitely was. Heavy black plastic sheeting hung like a stage curtain inside the big front window.
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