Upper West Side, 87th Street Between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive

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Notice something strange and wonderful about this photo? No cars! It's street cleaning day on this side of the street and everyone parked on this side had to move their cars. I must say I like having a clear view here, even though I've argued in favor of cars in the past.

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Upper West Side, 87th Street Between West End Avenue and Riverside Drive

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For the next few nights, I want to show you townhouses on West 87th Street because they're all so individual in their details and so interesting. It makes me feel how rich we are to have all this to look at.

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Upper West Side, 87th Street Between Broadway and West End Avenue

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Here's a photograph of a parking garage. Nice, huh? Wait, wait. Notice the windows above? Here's a wide shot of the building.



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I assumed it was an apartment building, now empty, and went over to ask the guys about it. The one on the left said, no, that's where we park the cars! Well, says I, do you know what it was originally? What it was built for? He called in a consultant, the guy on the right, who told me that it was originally a stable! Horses stayed up there! But still, isn't that odd for a stable? Is that the way they built stables in the city? I need to find out.

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Upper West Side, 87th Street at Broadway

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Yesterday morning, after therapy, I walked two blocks on West 87th between Broadway and Riverside Drive. At Riverside the wind was so fierce, I abandoned my plan to walk south a block. I just turned around and came back. The hardships I endure for this blog. Wind! Bright sunlight!

I'm pretty sure this empty store was a good Vietnamese restaurant (before it was a Malaysian restaurant), but I can't look it up because I can't think of its name. If you remember, let me know. I miss their curried okra.

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