Hudson Heights, Overlook Terrace Between 186th and 187th Streets

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Long time readers may remember this mysterious structure from last January. Someone has been remodeling.

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Hudson Heights, Overlook Terrace Between 186th and 187th Streets

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Washington Heights, Overlook Terrace at 187th Street

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When I photographed this, I remember thinking about its abstract qualities (see photo below) and the battered structure itself. I do not remember thinking: what the heck is this? It sits at the bottom of the fearsome stairs at 187th Street. It has its own address: 218 (which, by the way, is not acknowledged in Mapquest). But what is it? I have to wonder at myself photographing this thing and only thinking about its appearance. Note to self: engage brain.

In other unpleasant news, Blogger is letting us down. Photos posted last night disappeared this morning. After I post this (hoping they don't disappear), I'm going to reload last night's photos a different way and see if that works. As soon as I get a spare minute, I will look into a different web host.

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Washington Heights, Overlook Terrace between West 190th and 187th Streets

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Apologies for the incoherent posting last night. Blame it on that last glass of wine.

And now (completely sober and mercifully brief), continuing down Overlook Terrace, getting closer to 187th Street.

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Washington Heights, Overlook Terrace between West 190th and 187th Streets

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It is 11:24 p.m. and I just got home and I would really like to be able to tell you which web site to go to to tell you if there is more or less and how much more or less construction there is going on in New York right now. But a quick look on the web doesn't come up with that information. So. Let me just say that it seems as if there is a whole lot of construction going on right now, but I don't know if that's because there really is, or it's because I'm out and looking.

Maybe more solid information another time.

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Washington Heights, Overlook Terrace Between 186th and 187th Streets

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At 184th Street, Overlook Terrace does to Bennett what Bennett does to Broadway: curve off it and then run parallel to it; except Overlook curves back in the opposite direction, so now I'm walking uptown.

This shot evokes for me the kind of day it was, still warm, but fall almost on us. This was Saturday, September 9.

By the way, Overlook Terrace doesn't overlook anything, but is rather overlooked upon as you will see in the next post.