RAYS, SOUTH PRAIRIE AVENUE AT EAST 47TH STREET - MAP

We’ve all been to Rays. With the Blues Brothers. Here’s the scene. When i went to New York for the first time I felt like i’d already met it a thousand times. With Chicago I only knew it through the Blues Brothers. So when i started meandering around the city on streetview, one of my first thoughts was to head over to Rays. And here it is. And here’s me loitering outside. I feel sorry for loiterers who aren’t selling drugs or guns or whatever because people naturally assume that they are. I should be able to loiter if I like. So here I am, next to Ray’s, loitering.

I tried to find Obama’s family home but it was just off-map. When the streetview plan got made and the panoramic photo-car spun round the city they probably didn’t know what was coming. In fact it was probably the last thing on their minds. A lot of people probably turn up as I did, one street away and get stuck on the kerb which can just about see the end of the street. It would have been in my tour otherwise.