Sometimes, Ed Kashin walks into the WOW Hall when no one else is around.
The historic building at the corner of Eighth Avenue and Lincoln Street is very quiet when Kashin does this.
There’s an ambiance the hall has absorbed from its long history, he said: decades of music and live events, the social dances, the 1975 fundraising marathon music festival that saved the historic building from demolition (he was there, throwing money in the front), and even before, when it was the Woodmen of the World’s fraternal lodge…