Another view; this it what you’d seen if you worked across the street on the second floor. The name appears to have been chiseled off the top, just as dead pharaohs who’d fallen from favor had their pictograms hammered out of public walls.
I usually don’t like painted brick, but this works. On a bright day it looks like marble. The 1975 guide describe the structure as badly decomposed, but I believe it’s been it’s been rehabbed.
Now we go north to the corner of Broadway and Second, turn to the east, and head back to another time, to a different parade. . .
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