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Riverside Drive

Riverside Drive next to Riverside Park in the low 80s on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Shall I tell you a secret? The benches along Riverside Drive are one of the best places to enjoy bagels with cream cheese and coffee from Zabar's on a sunny day.

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Dormer window. Imagine how hot that top floor apartment becomes in Summer. Maybe they had a heat-tolerance gene in the 1890s, when this building was built. But people have lost that gene in the century since then. I sure have.

Of the four snaps in this series, this visual shows the most roofline fascia. Not a lot, just a smidge. According to our trusty wikipedia,

Fascia is a term used in architecture to refer to a frieze or band running horizontally and situated vertically under the roof edge or which forms the outer surface of a cornice and is visible to an outside observer.

Betcha you thought 'fascia' was a political term.

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Riverside Drive

As I wrote in the previous post and as wikipedia confirms, "Riverside Drive was designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted as part of his concept for Riverside Park. It passes through the Manhattan neighborhoods of the Upper West Side, Morningside Heights, over Manhattanville in West Harlem by way of the Riverside Drive Viaduct and through Washington Heights."

Some notable residents of Riverside Drive, again according to wikipedia, were:

• Damon Runyon was a resident of Riverside Drive. 
• George Gershwin occupied a penthouse at 33 Riverside Drive. 
• Sergei Rachmaninoff owned a townhouse at 33 Riverside Drive. 
• Uwe Johnson, German author, lived with his family from 1966 till 1968 at 243 Riverside Drive, today The Cliff Dwelling apartments. 
• Hannah Arendt lived at 370 Riverside Drive from 1959 until her death in 1975. 
• Saul Bellow lived at 333 Riverside Drive in the 1950s.
• J. Robert Oppenheimer and his family lived at 155 Riverside Drive on 88th Street.

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Roofline of a house on Riverside Drive between 80th and 81st Streets. According to a historic marker around the corner, houses in this area were built about 1890 to accompany the opening of Riverside Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, also the designer of Central Park. The houses were an eclectic mix of many historic architectural styles.

It is very likely that parts of the original ornamentation have been removed. About 30 years ago New York City passed a law forcing building owners to have the exterior of their buildings inspected every few years to insure there are no parts of their buildings which might fall onto passersby on the streets. The building in this visual faces the Hudson River, so it must survive strong gusts, especially in winter.

The next few visuals in the blog will show parts of the rooflines and exteriors of buildings between 80th and 81st Streets on Riverside Drive.

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Shadow Fence

W 81st St off Riverside Drive. This picture was taken in late Spring, when the shadows become deeper because the light gets stronger.

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W 80th St Entrance

 

W 80th St Entrance

They don't make buildings with such detail anymore. I'm not trying to be crotchety. There are some interesting buildings being built these days. The detail of new buildings is quite different from this detail.

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Who You Looking At?

Guard Cats

W 80th St near Riverside Drive. It happens that the resident of the apartment with these cats arrived moments after this picture was taken and the cats fled their window seats. This is generally a safe neighborhood, so these guard cats have an easy job.

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Woman Caged

W 80th St near Riverside Drive. An interesting stone sculpture of a woman placed in the space between the building (of the presumed owner) and the iron fence facing the street. I'm not sure what intentions of sculptor and or owner are or was. This juxtaposition and photo cropping makes it look as if it represents a caged woman. Don't let your eyes deceive you. The caged look might be mere coincidence.

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Fish Scales Window

Fish Scales

W 84th St

In Japan, the same design upside down would be called Waves

There is a rapper known as Fish Scales.  That is his stage name. To his pediatrician he is known as Melvin Adams.

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The torii of Itsukushima Shrine, the site's most recognizable landmark, appears to float in the water. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In The Eye Of The Beholder

excerpt from Forgotten New York 2011

A spectacular painted ad on Hewes Street between Broadway and Harrison Avenue has survived virtually intact from when I first spotted it in 1998, and it had been there for a number of decades before that; it is for “Middlebrooke Lancaster, Inc., manufacturers of Nutrine Beauty Preparations”; this building was likely where it was manufactured. The Nutrine brand is still around — I’m not sure it still operates out of this building. It doesn’t appear that way.

corporationwiki reports that the Middlebrooke Lancaster firm appears defunct.

Middlebrooke Lancaster Inc. has a location in Brooklyn, NY. Middlebrooke Lancaster Inc. has no known officers. Filings: Statement & Designation By Foreign Corporation (CA - Inactive) Source: California Secretary of State last refreshed 3/13/2013

On the other hand, Nutrine products are still being sold on the Amazon website and here

If you want some Nutrine Garlic Shampoo you can find it on ebay.com here.

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Branches In Spring

Surely you don't need this website to define either the word "branches" or "Spring." There, I did it anyway.

For the fastidious, this example was shot while sitting at Riverside Drive and 80th St, looking in the direction of New Jersey. But you didn't need to know those details, did you?

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Bus Stop

Malcolm X Blvd actually has many names

Lenox Avenue / Malcolm X Boulevard is the primary north-south route through Harlem in the upper portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. This two-way street runs from Farmers' Gate at Central Park North (110th Street) to 147th Street.

It is also considered the heartbeat of Harlem by Langston Hughes in his poem Juke Box Love Song.[1]

The IRT Lenox Avenue Line runs under the entire length of the street. Originally a part of Sixth Avenue, it was renamed in late 1887[2] for philanthropist James Lenox. In 1987, it was co-named Malcolm X Boulevard (both names are officially recognized), in honor of the slain civil rights leader.[3][4]

Cover of Malcolm X

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