As part of my project on the gentrification of my old neighborhood (upper Yorkville and lower East Harlem) I was visiting sites from my childhood. I didn’t remember this structure and asked some men who were hanging out near here on a bench about it. They told me it was one of a handful of backup generators that had been installed since Hurricane Sandy for the surrounding public housing apartment complex.
I don’t think I knew that you lived in upper Yorkville.
Yes, from age 10 to 18, with a year in the middle away in Israel. Then, after a year in the Bronx I was back on the upper East Side from 19 till about 28