around town – Page 9 – Walk with Me, Too

Repurposing

The mansions about here are repurposed as museums [Cooper Hewitt], schools (Spence), etc.

2 protests for 6/14 & 6/6: all important

Walk early & Walk often

There once were magnificent estates lining Fifth Avenue. Today, we call it Museum Mile but originally, it was mostly Millionaires’ Mile. That’s back when millionaires were very rich; before we changed the “m” to a “b” to assure us of their grandeur.

Frick’s mansion is very splendid and the Carnegie property is now the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

Lots of sandstone, not unlike the buildings across the street from the said C-HSDM. [Figure 1 top left.]

(#2, top r) is a view of rooftops, high and low, old and new. Did you know? Arthur Murray offers a free dance lesson. [3]. Spring is so flowery. (4&5). The wrought iron on doors [# 6] at adjacent addresses are identical. Is that odd?

There, on E82, are 2 wood framed buildings an avenue or so apart. Wooden homes are rather rare in NYC these days. [photos 7 & 8 is one; 9-11 is the other].