Upper West Side, Central Park West Between 67th and 68th Streets

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This is the Second Church of Christ, Scientist which was completed in 1901, two years before the First Church of Christ, Scientist up on Central Park West at 96th Street.

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Upper West Side, Central Park West Between 66th and 67th Streets

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This is shot from the steps leading to Tavern on the Green, a beautiful restaurant for tourists.

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Upper West Side, Central Park West Between 65th and 66th Streets

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This is known only as 55 Central Park West, but it IS known - as a notable example of the new Art Deco style. This was in 1930. Read all about it and see lots of photos on Carter B. Horsley's page.

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Upper West Side, Central Park West at 65th Street

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Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. If you would like to see the entire building, click here.

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Upper West Side, Central Park West Between 64th and 65th Streets

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This is The Prasada - too clunky to be a beautiful building, but nice in small pieces.

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Upper West Side, Central Park West Between 64th and 65th Streets

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Upper West Side, Central Park West Between 63rd and 64th Streets

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Nice, don't you think?

This is the meeting hall of the Society For Ethical Culture, a nontheist society devoted to the study of ethics, founded in 1876 by Felix Adler.

From the New York Times in 1910, when the building was built, as quoted in New York Streetscapes, by Christopher Gray:

"The severe plain wall is eloquent in its protest against the breathless rush and hustle of the modern city; it beckons to the hastening, sordid throng, Tarry a while; there is in life more than stocks and shekels and vain show."


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Here is a close up the plaque on the right. Sounds a bit self-righteous today, but it probably had a different ring then. But why did they have to crowd the words in that ugly parsimonious way? Didn't they have graphic designers then?

Upper West Side, Central Park West at 63rd Street

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Tired of buildings? Rest your eyes on this vision of green.

For the first few years after I moved here, I was reluctant to leave the city because I didn't want to miss anything. I certainly wasn't missing nature. But I remember a time after I'd been here a few years and I went to Michigan and we drove through forests and I felt the green coming into my eyes and my eyes soaking it up as if I were suffering from green deprivation.

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