Upper West Side, Broadway Between 102nd and 101st Streets

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Broadway! Can you just kind of squint your eyes and see this as a rug?

This walk was on 104th Street from Amsterdam to Riverside, then Riverside to 102nd Street and then back to Broadway to get the subway home and read my book. Life is good.

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Upper West Side, 102nd Street Between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue

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Brownstone. Just what is it exactly? Wikipedia defines it as a townhouse clad in a brown Triassic sandstone, whereas American Heritage Dictionary says it can be a more general "house built or faced with brownish-red sandstone." Bob Vila thinks they are faced with brownstone and also have some design qualities in common. I know some people who call any townhouse a brownstone. What to do? I'm going to go with the very specific definition given in Metropolisapts.com. I like their orderly classification of apartments, beginning with pre and post-war. These, then, are not brownstones. You, however, may call them what you will.

By the way, I learned that brownstone is also slang for heroin and that Guns N' Roses wrote a song about heroin called Mr. Brownstone. Wikipedia again. Can I believe them?

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Upper West Side, 102nd Street East of Amsterdam Avenue

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102nd Street east of Amsterdam Avenue ends in a cul de sac surrounded by the Frederick Douglass Houses and on the south side, the Edward A. Reynolds West Side High School. This photograph shows a little piece of the school. But, of course, it's all about the car.

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Upper West Side, 102nd Street, West of Broadway

Mary Sargent © 2006

Intermittant swearing today about the friggin rain. I need to shoot, dammit. Couldn’t shoot yesterday, couldn’t shoot today and won’t be able to shoot tomorrow. So, bowing to the inevitable, I discovered that I do have a fair number of shots from the past that I left behind in the thrill of the new. And they’re good! There, I’ve made lemonade.

Meantime, I have two more from last Wednesday. Here’s a candy colored shot, still on 102nd Street, as I make my way to Broadway and the subway home.

Upper West Side, 102nd Street, West of Broadway

Mary Sargent © 2006


Mary Sargent © 2006

Still last Wednesday, I rounded Riverside and walked east on 102nd Street toward Broadway. On the way, this fortuitous juxtaposition occurred. I originally picked one of the two photos to post, but then I had the great idea of putting them both up and asking which one you would choose. Or is that such a great idea? We'll see. If I get any comments, I'll tell you at the end which one I chose and why.