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A picture tour

Left to right, top: •115th Street brownstones ▪︎106&3rd Avenue ¤clothing store w painted front & parked cars 101st ●church on a side street■101st betw 3rd & Lex, painted stoop  ◇next 8: restaurant on Lex bet 101-100☆101-100 across from restaurant row, park and painted structure
Projects on 114th & 3rd, walking down 3rd to 112th

Unwelcome

Storekeepers spend a good deal on rent alone to sell their goods.

You would think they want to make customers happy. And that they would welcome any custom that came their way.

This makes me wonder about the sign in this big old laundromat. ¿They do not want you to bring in wet laundry from outside.¿

There were many vacant machines.

Where and why

John Singer Sargent had a remarkable eye. I was less impressed with the paintings I knew to associate with him then the ones I never heard of before. He did amazing things with light.
The views from the ortho floor at WCM. Ain’t it grand.
This was an MSK site at which people could relax and get massage care. Now it’s for rent. I love the 1429 1st Ave sign.
For my friend DP who has a fascination with summer wear boots. These were color coordinated with a great summer dress.
The clouds in 1-2 (left-right) caught my glance and won my heart. The really overwrought building from 57th Street actually just scares my heart.

07❓️

I have to make an admission, I thought this was my stall number.

I also thought it was some sort of omen.

Turns out that this is The Smith’s numero de plume, 07.

Let me explain, Burt and I shared the 7. We were children of 7, just on different months. That was a pleasing fact. We liked both being born on the seventh. Plus, for me the 07 was almost 007, which I thought was cool. That all sans benefit of alcohol.

Omen, no man.