Where in NYC is this thing?

• I'm trying to track down a very unusual gate on a NYC sidewalk. (A friend posted a photo of it on Facebook, challenging us to find it ourselves — she won't give us any clues.) It's a brown, cast-iron gate, with a thick circle in the middle, and there are 11 single-dial combination locks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combination_lock#/media/File:Masterpadlock.jpg irregularly spaced inside the circle. Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to post the photo here, and a reverse image search didn't turn up any similar photos. https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=brown+gate+combination+locks&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#rls=en&q=brown+gate+with+combination+lock+knobs+in+nyc a description isn't working. It's tagged on Facebook as "near New York, NY," so I assume it's in Manhattan, probably on a minor east-west street. And I know it's in NYC. The big circle is a gear-like shape, kind of http://wiki.midsouthmakers.org/a/File:Mame_stencil_little_gear.svg (but with more space in the middle). The loop-shaped things sticking out of the knobs (the part you insert and take out to lock and unlock the lock) seem to be rusty and cleverly turned into part of the gate; so, inside the big brown circle, there are a lot of little loop-shaped things. Straight and curvy pieces of metal are sticking out of the big circle, so it looks kind of like an artist's representation of the sun. 3 knobs in a row are near the top, angling down toward the right. In the middle are 5 knobs in a row (not in a straight line), and the other 3 knobs are below those. Inside the gate are some stairs (which go up toward the left side of the photo). There's nothing unusual about the other sides of the gate. There seems to be a parking lot in the middle of the block. Further down the block, there's a green awning with white script lettering, which extends onto the sidewalk. The awning is blurry and mostly obscured, but I think it has a number (maybe 32 or _32), and then "East" — so I'm thinking this is somewhere east of 5th Avenue (although I'm not certain — I could be reading it wrong). Closer to the gate, there's something sticking out of a building that looks like the https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Target_logo.svg except with a black-and-white drawing instead of a red dot in the middle (I have no idea what it's a picture of — looks almost like crumpled paper or a fist). If you could just tell me what block it's on, that'd be great — then I can go find it in person.

• Answer:

  Got it. http://boozemenus.com/venues/middle-branch.