Washington Heights, 173rd Street Between St. Nicholas and Wadsworth Avenues

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Last night I confided my hope to start a new walk today. Alas, it did not happen. And so, I give you a photo from my Washington Heights walk a few weeks ago. It's a shot of the barber shop on my way back. More abstract than the first.

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Washington Heights, 173rd Street Between St. Nicholas and Wadsworth Avenues

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You may have noticed that when I got to the end of 173rd Street, I just turned around and went straight back the way I came. Usually I walk back on another street, but as I've said a few times already, it was cold.

I'm dreaming of long, long warm days.

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Washington Heights, 173rd Street at St. Nicholas Avenue

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City street beast in its winter camouflage.

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Washington Heights, 173rd Street Between Audubon and Amsterdam Avenues

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173rd Street Between Ft. Washington and Amsterdam Avenues is mostly big solid apartment buildings. You can get a feel for it back at the El Mundo photo last Sunday. Then there's this! If only buildings could speak.

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Washington Heights, 173rd Street Between St. Nicholas and Audubon Avenues

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Here it is: 568 W. 173rd Street. Mission accomplished. I was tempted to turn around and go back (because it was cold and there was no hot coffee to be had on 173rd Street), but there was only one more block to walk to the end of the street, so I trudged on. The worst is leaving one little block undone way out at the edges.

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Washington Heights, 173rd Street Between Wadsworth and St. Nicholas Avenues

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A lot of convivial noise was coming out of this place as I walked up the street toward it, so I snuck up on them and was able to get you an inside look at:

Ipico Barber Shop!

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Washington Heights, Broadway at 173rd Street

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El Mundo. The World.

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Washington Heights, 173rd Street Between Ft. Washington Avenue and Broadway

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I was looking for 568 and 650 West 173rd Street, 2 places where Gladys lived in the 60s. Since I've been walking around New York in a formal sort of way for over two years, one would think I'd have the number system down, but oh, no. This day I had it backwards and was thinking 650 would be farther away as I walked East. Way, way toward the end of my walk. That's why, when I took this picture at the beginning of my walk, I had no idea that it was 650 West 173rd Street.

So then I went through this whole stupid sequence where I started looking for numbers and was baffled that they seemed to be going the wrong way (what th--?) and then cranky that they weren't doing it right and THEN, yes, my memory of street numbering returned and I called myself some bad names.

The last two shots were taken on my way back when I knew it was what I'd been looking for.



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