Upper West Side, 87th Street Between Broadway and West End Avenue

Mary Sargent © 2007 …………………………………….. click to enlarge

Here's a photograph of a parking garage. Nice, huh? Wait, wait. Notice the windows above? Here's a wide shot of the building.



Mary Sargent © 2007 …………………………………….. click to enlarge

I assumed it was an apartment building, now empty, and went over to ask the guys about it. The one on the left said, no, that's where we park the cars! Well, says I, do you know what it was originally? What it was built for? He called in a consultant, the guy on the right, who told me that it was originally a stable! Horses stayed up there! But still, isn't that odd for a stable? Is that the way they built stables in the city? I need to find out.

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