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La Casina, a neon ziggurat that became a clothing factory
Jamaica, Queens, New York
Epicgenius · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A plain 1907 building on 160th Street was rebuilt around 1936 as a Streamline Moderne nightclub, its front stepped back like a ziggurat with a vertical neon sign running down the middle. The nightclub era was short. From the 1940s until 1987 the same room held a clothing factory, and the sign stayed up through all of it. The city landmarked the building in 1996.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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