St. Mark's Church
"... In the process of telling the story of her life, Smith also vividly captured a very specific moment in time in a very specific New York City. The unadorned, detailed prose paints vivid pictures of the streets and the subways, the people and the places that resound with the reader whether or not you are from that era. It’s the kind of book that can make you homesick for somewhere you never lived. It’s also a chronicle of the faded, the forgotten and the missing places in the city. Unsurprisingly, most of the places mentioned in Just Kids are gone (CBGB’s, Max’s Kansas City); others exist in some physical form, even if the spiritual facet of the location has been obliterated (Chelsea Hotel, Scribner’s Books). And a few, like Electric Lady Studios and St. Mark’s Church, are still with us and still fulfill their original mission. ..."
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586 Fifth Avenue, where Scribner's has left an imprint
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