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Days gone by

The red building to the right and left sport a cornice and frieze. These decorative items have frequently been replaced by an upper floor in the reconstruction of some row houses.
It’s so much more exciting to see a cornice or other ornament at the pinnacle of a building.
Here’s a nice old-fashioned entryway.
By design: above the door and atop the windows. These details are also called cornices. Note the stringcourse-the band emerging below the ac unit and running below the windows.
A pots pouri of typical UES housing.

86th Street

The building of The Harper was blocked for many years because the lady at 312 wouldn’t sell.

She barricaded herself into her building. I lost track of her story after December 2015 but I noticed the construction recently.

Shaller and Weber seem to have sublet space to a jazz club and an art gallery.

No pix

Today’s pictorial is all words, no snaps. Of course I hope the words will prove snappy.

I took the walk from home to gym with East End Avenue as my conduit.

There was sunshine and people, along with the many familiar buildings for me to enjoy.

One dog signaled impending aggression by wagging his tail. Another was so dejected by his owner’s immersion in his cellphone that his tail nearly swept the ground.

There was a slight breeze and the hum of traffic. Did I mention the sunshine?

I wondered when the Queen Anne complex at Henderson Place was built. I noticed that Gracie Mansion has an address; it’s 181 East End Avenue.

This was a pleasant and fruitful trip.

My path today

This struck me as cute, seeing a scooter parking “lot” emerge next to a UES school.

An appropriately waspy-seeming establishment I had never noticed while passing on other trips
CUTE sign at a CityMD
The Heavenly chain is prolific about town. This is one of 3 on York.
Heavenly Market has expanded to 3 locations on 88th and 89th Streets.
View from Asphalt Green classroom.
Snapped as I walked about: TY for walking with me.
February 9th has been deemed pizza day. I don’t recall if it got a “national” or “international” designation.