Manhattan's historic Tin Pan Alley is up for sale

AP via Yahoo ^ | Thu Oct 9, 9:32 AM ET | no byline

[weegee]

Tin Pan Alley, the home of George Gershwin, Irving Berlin and other great American songwriters, is up for sale.

Five buildings on West 28th Street in Manhattan's Chelsea district are being offered as a group for $44 million. A listing on real estate Web site Loopnet recommends that the buildings be torn down and a high-rise take their place.

Preservationists and tenants aren't happy...

Tin Pan Alley housed a concentration of music publishers and songwriters from the 1890s to the 1950s.

[mgstarr]

Then

Now

[HIDEK6]

I'm OK with tearing it down.

Let it live in memory.

Those who have followed have not lived up to the promise.

[RayChuang88]

A lot of these buildings are worth a lot of money if properly restored into residential and office space. That’s why during the 1990’s, both Harlem and the Bronx enjoyed economic booms as a lot of burnt-out structures suddenly became valuable as “fixer uppers.”

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	Ordinarily I'd just add, not ping the list, but this relates to George and Ira Gershwin. Track down *any* version of "Rhapsody in Blue", but particularly the "from piano rolls" version, which is George's "unplugged" version. Thanks weegee! To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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[To Hell With Poverty]

That song always brings tears to my eyes, which is kinda embarrassing...especially during the airline commercials! :-P

But anyway, it's such a perfect encapsulation of "America" to me.