![]() ![]() On Madison Avenue and 31st Street, an old-school tenement that blended in with its neighbors was torn down (above). I wonder what the view from the back must have looked like, and how easy it was to see what the neighbors in other tenements were doing. This tenement-looking outline is an unusual one (above) it’s on Lexington Avenue in the 50s. Was an old Dutch or Federal-style building here in the 17th or 18th centuries, when Benson Place was still a dead-end alley? It was once attached to the side of a larger tenement on West 96th Street near Riverside Drive.Ī peaked roof (above) at Franklin Street and one-block Benson Place north of City Hall piques my interest. ![]() My favorites are the edges of the kinds of buildings New York doesn’t build anymore, like this second one above, what looks like a squat, three-story walkup with a small chimney. Knocked down or uncovered during construction, they usually reveal themselves only for months, maybe a few years, before they are quickly covered up again when a new structure is built over it. They’re the faded outlines of what was once a New York home or building, sometimes still with the demarcations separating rooms-as the side of an empty tenement on Third Avenue and 109th Street shows in the image below. ![]() Anyone who walks the streets of the city comes across these ghosts. ![]()
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