This here is the place where I will be stayin’
There isn’t a number, you can call the payphone
Let it ring a long, long, long, long time
If I don’t pick up, hang up, call back
Let it ring some more
Lyrics from “The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite” by R.E.M., 1992.
Photos by Rick Stachura. November 10, 2018.
Staircase inside the former Rectory of St. John’s Episcopal Church. Park Slope, Brooklyn.
The structure is waiting to be chopping into apartments. It was built in 1869.