Salvation Army Residences For Women Parkside Evangeline

Memories… stayed @ the Evangeline for 2 weeks in the late 1980’s. Fond memories. Sorry that things have changed, NY is so different now, but I can tap into the nostalgia and memories. Financial giants and banks can’t take that away from me. I win.

Today I walked by the Parkside, hoping to get a current photo of it, and found it covered in scaffolding! Apparently it’s being renovated and all the windows are being replaced. I also wasn’t aware that the building is landmarked; constructed in 1926−−27, it’s a classic single-​room-​occupancy hotel – I knew that! – which, according to the proposal posted at the site, «contributes to the special historical and architectural character for which the district was designated.»
They’ve apparently kicked out all the residents in preparation for their conversion to luxury condos. The phone number (212−677−6200) is now for some location in SoHo, so clearly the use and occupancy of the building are about to change drastically. There goes the neighborhood.
[Here is a 2005 New York Times article about the Parkside; the director the article mentions, Miss Opal Pierce – a Southern belle – was director when I lived there:
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