West Village, 13th Street Between Gansevoort and Hudson Streets

Mary Sargent © 2009 …….. click to enlarge

Remember Y-3 from 2 nights ago? If you went to the article as you should have, you'd know that Y-3 is a collaboration between Yohji Yamamoto and Adidas; the Y is for Yamamoto and the 3 is for the 3 stripes of the Adidas logo. This is the new Yamamoto store. Well, an edge of it. It's fitted onto the triangle that the streets make when Gansevoort meets 13th at an angle. It's way cool. Go here to see some wonderful photographs by Iwan Baan. He shows the building from all angles including above, and you can see the entire building and how it fits on the street. I hadn't heard of him until tonight, but apparently he's well known and "increasingly influential" in the architecture photography world. I wonder if he gives lessons.

Next go here for a short piece on why this store won a prize for the architects. You'll discover what that red line in the sidewalk is.

Note that this is across the street from the Notre Dame School.

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West Village, 13th Street Between Gansevoort and Hudson Streets

Mary Sargent © 2009 ………. click to enlarge

The building on the left is the Notre Dame School, a Catholic high school for girls, although they only recently located here. This was originally a New York City School (I think), built in 1916 in the uplifting style of the time.

I had another, wider shot of the school, but I wanted to show you this sliver with the building next to it, The Gansevoort, to see if you agree with me that this new architecture is very compatible with the old. If you follow the link, you'll see a rendering of the building nestled between the two older ones. You can also learn that the penthouse is still available for $5,250,000.

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West Village, 13th Street at 4th Street

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West Fourth Street's erratic run is finally stopped here at 13th Street (see the stop sign?), and it's a good thing, too. Otherwise, we'd have it going up the Upper West Side and we already have Broadway.

Across the street is Y-3, which I now find out I definitely should have visited. I was going to copy a paragraph from a New York Times article to explain, but they must have an anti-plagarism device embedded in their text because I made two attempts and both times my document froze solid. So you must go there. It's worth the effort.

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West Village, 13th Street at Eighth Avenue

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Sometimes I just want to throw up a photo of street signs.

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East Village, 13th Street Between Broadway and Fourth Avenue

Mary Sargent © 2006

Off work today (every other Wednesday, thank the lord). So downtown to the physiatrist on 12th Street. I arrived early, so veered off onto 13th Street and got this shot. This is just east of Broadway. I had another shot of this with the front of a green truck in it, which you would think would just set it off splendidly, and it pretty much did, but somehow, I came back to this one. This is MUCH improved enlarged.