The K Experience

So you're the town planner and it's your job to name these two streets. So you sit there and think, "What am I gonna name these streets?" and you sit there for a bit longer, and you think., "I just can't think, I need to go out for a few drinks with the lads." So you go out, and one thing leads to another and...

It was 2001, and I was in New York on this exchange programme between my uni, King's College London, and The Cooper Union, a uni in Manhatten. So apparently the guy who Cooper Union was named after, Peter Cooper invented Jello (We call it Jelly in England, but as the guy who invented it was American, I guess it should be called Jello), and the rights for that along with some other funds, help to maintain The Cooper Union. Interesting ay?

Anyway, that has totally nothing to do with my story, so please allow me to continue. A few new found New Yorker friends of mine invite me and a few other up to Harlem to see some other guys, and along the way, guess what we saw. The above quite interestingly named intersection.

With a little digging I did find out that the two names were not the prank of some wasted town planner, but were actually names of the land owners way back in the 17th Century. For more info on that you can check out this article in the Village Voice.

Come to think of it, night time probably wasn't the best time to be found walking down Cumming and Seaman. Goodness only knows what we might have witnessed. Luckily we were able to enter and exit the vacinity without commotion.

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