The Trowel & Square Ballroom on Harlem's 125th Street had a great old sign. The typeface. The word "ballroom." And "social functions." Good stuff.
Anyway, it's gone.
The letters have been ripped down and the sign has been covered with a Ripco real estate banner. The
Salvation Army thrift store on the first floor has also vanished. The entire building is available. It
sold in 2014.
Located in the Croft Brothers Building, the Trowel & Square used to be the Tusken Ballroom, "used at least once as a meeting place by Malcolm X and his recently-formed Muslim Mosque, on June 22, 1964," according to
Daytonian in Manhattan.
And next for this space? Probably another chain, as the whole of
125th Street is being wrapped in chains.
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