Upper West Side, 104th Street Between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive

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My walk today was a short one just prior to meeting Luka at Henry's. Henry's is on Broadway at 105th and I haven't walked 105th so that was easy. Plus there were those pesky connecting streets on Riverside Drive; one between 104th and 105th and one between 105th and 106th. As you might imagine, there's a lot of inefficiency in this project. So there I was walking across 104th Street to get to Riverside. We've DONE this block, I tried to say to myself, but I wouldn't listen, so here's this rather austere shot looking down the block to the river.

What's interesting to me is that I wouldn't know I was on the same block as the one I shot a year and a half ago. See? Nothing's changed. It's just what I shot and how I shot it.




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I'll end with this sweet little building so we'll all have pleasant dreams.

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Upper West Side, 104nd Street Between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive

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After I posted last night, I realized I had an example of a brownstone according to the definition from metropolisapts.com:

"Brownstones will have a street entrance to the ground floor sometimes referred to as an 'English basement' half a story below street level but ground level with the garden at the back of the house. The first floor or 'parlor floor' can be accessed inside from the ground floor, or from the street via a grand staircase to what serves as the front door of the house."

This is a long shot of this photograph. It has the English basement and the grand staircase which last night's apartments lack.

I'll be back tonight with a new photograph and not one mention of brownstone.

Upper West Side, 104th Street between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive

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Ummm, very nice lower half of façade. The upper half, though . . . somehow the tasteful dark red paint of the balcony and bottom window frames has been replaced with a garish, neon red orange paint around the window frames. Bad for tastefulness, good for photogenicness.

Especially when there is a turquoise satin sofa on the sidewalk below.

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Upper West Side, 104th Street between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive

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I love these trees with their calligraphic branches. Someone please tell me what kind of tree it is.

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Upper West Side, 104th Street at Broadway

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I should buy flowers more. I grew up thinking they were only for special occasions and that's wrong, wrong, wrong.

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Upper West Side, 104th Street Between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway

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Malasia Grill, just like Barbara said.

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Upper West Side, 104th Street Between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway

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I can't resist a second shot of this market, this time from the side.

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Upper West Side, 104th Street at Amsterdam Avenue

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Losing my job means, among other things, that it becomes glaringly obvious that my neighborhood post office is just too inconvenient. It's too far away. About 12 blocks. For some reason, those are twelve long blocks. And so Tuesday, I took the subway to 103rd Street and went to the post office at 104th Street. You may have picked up that I love the subway. You get to sit down and read your book. And in the winter sometimes you're squished up between two chubby people but since you all have coats on it's not disgusting, instead it's cozy. And then when you've finished your task at the post office, instead of having to walk twelve long blocks back home, you get to ride the subway and read your book. For the record, it's Atonement.

Plus I get to work a photowalk in. Here's the color I promised you.

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