Visiting Places That No Longer Exist

“I haven’t actually submitted anything myself, but other people have suggested places I would have picked,” Harvey said. 5Pointz is one of those. On a monochromatic day last month, she returned there for the first time in a long time. “Oh, my God,” she said, as she got out of the car. Harvey has brown shoulder-length hair with bangs, and she was wearing a wool overcoat with biggish buttons. Two immense towers, which looked as though they’d been erected from squat blocks of cookie dough, loomed above her. “This is so anodyne,” she said. “I can’t believe they took the name.” A sign in the window of the rental office listed twenty-three amenities, among them a poker lounge, a spin room, golf simulators, an indoor pool, outdoor barbecues, shuffleboard, and boxing. A perk not mentioned—but evident on the sidewalk—is a lenient attitude toward residents who don’t clean up after their dogs.