Inwood, Tenth Avenue Between 207th and 206th Streets

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That's a support of the elevated subway. The No. 1 train runs over Tenth Avenue here and then veers off onto Nagle Avenue, where I'll soon be walking.

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Inwood, 207th Street Between Tenth and Post Avenues

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El Lina is the left-most building in last night's photograph.

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Inwood, 207th Street Between Tenth and Post Avenues

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Didn't want to go on a photowalk today, didn't want to go, but I did. I needed some new shots, starting tonight, so I had to go. If you're here in New York, you know how unappealing that was. Hot, very muggy, rain threatening. I just wanted to drink iced coffee in the air conditioning and watch pundits on TV. But out I trudged, picking a street close to home, Nagle Avenue, which turned out to be most uninspiring. Or was it the poor light? Or was it me?

However, all complaining aside, I have a few nice photos for you. Here's the first one, taken from the subway platform (elevated) when I arrived at 207th Street.

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Upper West Side, 68th Street Between Columbus Avenue and Broadway

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Go here to see a photograph of the whole building. It's the one on the right.

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Upper West Side, 68th Street Between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue

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Upper West Side, 68th Street Between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue

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Same building, around the corner on 68th Street. The Christian Science Reading Room, open to all.

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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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Upper West Side, 63rd Street Between Broadway and Central Park West

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This is just east of our little apartment building of 2 nights ago. This is the Young Men's Christian Association (chiseled on the front of the building), otherwise known as the Westside YMCA. It is described in the AIA Guide as a "neo-Romanesque pile . . . complete with machicolations, arched corbel tables, and other medieval encrustations." Built in 1930. Here is its page in nyc-Architecture.com.

From Dictionary.com, the definition of machicolation: A projecting gallery at the top of a castle wall, supported by a row of corbeled arches and having openings in the floor through which stones and boiling liquids could be dropped on attackers.

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Upper West Side, 63rd Street Between Broadway and Central Park West

And now, if I just turn to the left . . .


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There's Lincoln Center.

And inside they're performing Die Walkure.


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Upper West Side, 63rd Street Between Broadway and Central Park West

Last night, Saturday, I went down to Lincoln Center to give away an orchestra seat (Center, Row O, on the aisle) to Die Walkure. I had seen Das Rheingold the night before and it was horrible, awful, ludicrous. The production, I mean, by the Kirov. I just couldn't stand to go back. You understand, I love Wagner and The Ring; I just hated this production. The seat was pure gold – given to me by someone who could not attend.

Afterwards, I walked 63rd Street to Central Park, then up to 68th Street, back down Broadway, and after stopping at Barnes & Noble to look at books (did not buy any), came back home.

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West 63rd Street is right in the thick of it, with Lincoln Center across Broadway, Lincoln Plaza Cinemas around the corner and tall apartment houses up the block. And here is this dear old apartment building with its fire escapes in front, shorn of its neighbors but holding on. I'm posting four photos of it because I love these last three.


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Financial District, Pedestrian Street between Pearl and Gold Streets

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This street was marked Pedestrian Street on my map but not in real life and certainly not in Mapquest. It seems that when a street is permanently closed to traffic, it loses its official name and my mapmaker calls it Pedestrian Street or Pedestrian Way for lack of anything better to do. I'm just guessing. So this area is where Beekman stops at Southbridge Towers.


So you'd like a closer look at that store covered in neon?

Financial District, Beekman Street at Front Street

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Now we're walking back on Beekman to the subway. I'd say more but my eyes are closing.

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Financial District, South Street Between Maiden Lane and Fletcher Street

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That's Brooklyn Heights over there across the river.


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Financial District, South Street at Maiden Lane

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I'm going to make a wild guess that this is part of the South Street Seaport Museum. Another time I'll focus on that area. Too late tonight to do anything more. The name of this ship is Wavertree. Note the glimpse of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Financial District, East River between Wall and Pine Streets

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Financial District, East River at Wall Street

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There's something so relaxing about staring at water.





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Financial District, Wall Street Between Front and South Streets

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We're getting close to the river now and the wind is blowing hard.

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Financial District, Wall Street, Between Hanover and Pearl Streets

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Does your neighborhood shoe repair shop reside in a building this distingushed? Mine most definitely does not.

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Financial District, Hanover Street at Wall Street

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Hanover Street is about 3 little blocks long. Looks kind of European?

Financial District, Wall Street Between William and Hanover Streets

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This photograph is NOT about the man in black.

Financial District, Wall Street Between William and Broad Streets

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Bill is visiting and today after lunch at Turkuaz with some friends, he and I went on a photowalk in the Financial District, thinking it was somehow festive and in the spirit of the holiday.

It did get us out of the Upper West Side. So here's a vaguely Fourth of July photograph, looking East at Trinity Church. See the smidgen of American flag?

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West Harlem, 125th Street at Morningside Avenue

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1 Year Anniversary

Check it out. Manhattan Street Project posted its first shot on July 3, 2006.

Two things:

One, I'm proud of the fact that I haven't missed a single night unless out of town or prevented by malevolent forces of evil, i.e., internet or Blogger.

Two, I'm ashamed that I haven't learned more, like how to post two photographs side by side. Next year I promise to be a better, more skillful blogger.

The top photograph is current; the bottom one is from July 3, 2006. Not too impressive at first glance. But enlarge them and study them closely and you'll see how much ground I've covered in my relentless mile eating gait (I think that's from White Fang).



July 3, 2007



July 3, 2006

West Harlem, 125th Street Between Amsterdam and Morningside Avenues

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Citarella on 125th Street?!!! Who knew?

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West Harlem, 125th Street at Amsterdam Avenue

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This is what it looks like on the south side of 125th Street.

This is one of nine buildings in the General Ulysses S. Grant Houses community, part of the New York City Housing Authority. They cover two long blocks, from Broadway to Morningside Avenue, and contrast nicely with the little old buildings across the street.