Tag: 125/Lex

  • Power Outages

    Power Outages

    Last month’s power outages in Texas (Thanks deregulation!) led to the exponential use of a previously obscure website that tracks (nationally) power outages. This might be a good site to bookmark, although, the obvious ‘If the power is out, how are you going to look at it?’ question applies: https://poweroutage.us/area/regions The site shows states with…

  • Drugs and Children

    Drugs and Children

    I Walk on Water Filmmaker Khalik Allah has a new film – IWOW: I Walk On Water – coming in at a massive 200 minutes. As with earlier work, Allah returns to Lex/125 and films a hallucinatory portrait of the men and women of the M35, K2, mental illness, and homelessness: Since 2011, filmmaker and…

  • 125th and Lexington

    This photo of 125th Street at Lexington (looking south – the cut-off buildings to the left are where the Pathmark site is): is from 1912. A. Schulte is now a dollar pizza. Here is a fuller image of the A. Schulte business: