TheRealTamara

From one corner to another

How do you relax?

Heat. Humidity. Yeah. But still a beautiful day.

Water works

The river in front of us makes for a bright and beautiful panorama.

Work or pleasure?

Working boats or pleasure boats or maybe a mix?

Question?

Answer: what’s on my block

Answer: what’s nearby

Circular

What does your ideal home look like?

Where do you want to live?

The circular ramp at the Guggenheim is an amenity I would love to have. Just 2, maybe three floors of living space connected by this type of access. Some of my 4 or 5 rooms will have wainscoting like this museum exhibit below.

Others will have views like these:

And outdoor seating like this:

Places we live, places we work

1 There’s a generic quality, I was thinking, to some of these big apartment buildings. The one on this near corner is a case in point. It resembles others in the general neighborhood, like one designed by Robert A.M. Stern on East End and 80th. That one looks a lot like a Stern property just west of Central Park near Columbus Circle.

Of course, dwellings can be considered generic in the sense that they are, for the most part, boxy and rectangular.

2, 3, 4 A row of houses that have been remodeled in a way that makes them look stylized and a touch cartoonish. One set of dormers are elongated. The columns are extra long on one facade. All the fronts are crisper than the original would be. The effects of modernization are attractive if a touch odd.

5 This corner of Lexington Avenue is where to find an old-time soda fountain. The spot has been around long enough to make history.

6, 7 Looking up at tall and new buildings on our immediate horizon