Wednesday, October 28, 2009
No better
This stationery store burned down a few years ago. When it reopened several months later, it looked just as messy and tired as it had before. (Not shown: the long line of people buying lottery tickets.)
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
473 West End Avenue
When I lived here (with my family) in the 1950's and 1960's, this was a rental building. There was no doorman or concierge and no rack in the lobby for dry cleaning. There was an elevator operator (now the elevator is automatic).
Plantings
In 1950's and 60's Manhattan, I don't remember there being all of these unattractive plantings --too many varieties crammed together--even (especially) in front of fancy buildings. I wonder if they have sprouted up, as it were, because so many residents now have country houses; perhaps they have a desire--and the money-- to see ALL of their environments landscaped. But city landscapers haven't yet figured out how to do it; or they'll do anything to please their clients.
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