April 2, 2004
Do You Know What It Means to Find Peace in Queens?
"Louis Armstrong could have had a swimming pool in the shape of a trumpet," says Michael Cogswell. "Instead, he lived here like a regular guy."
Well, "regular" does not seem quite the word as Mr. Cogswell leads the way into the downstairs bathroom of the two-story, brick-veneer Louis Armstrong House, here on a working-class street in the Corona neighborhood. Every square inch of wall and ceiling is covered with mirrors -- one imagines endlessly regressing Satchmos turning the
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