This blog serves to document and organize my interest in building exteriors. You can learn more about this project and my motivation in the About page. You can view newest, see a complete list, or use the navigation on the right and within each building’s page to discover the relationships.
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I love finding this kind of anachronistic building sitting in plain view (or the Bronx, har har). There is a short Wikipedia article on the church with the normal balance of trivia and fact.
Address: The Bronx; 2570 Independence Street
Style: tudor
Use: holy
Feedback: 0 CommentsAdded: February 16, 2009
Full view
Statue detail
Address: Midtown; 123 West 23rd Street
Style: classical
Use: holy
Feedback: 0 CommentsAdded: March 1, 2009
Top cornice on the building
This is a little pipsqueak of a building flanked by much larger ones on 57 street with some great details (and apparently it dates to the 1890s). It makes me wonder – in particular on major thoroughfares, such as 57 street – why squat little buildings exist when much larger ones surround them. I am told it is partly a function of the way in which leasing works in New York; someone might lease the land for 100 years, which means improvements made at the end of the lease probably will not benefit the leaseholder, who is also the person who will build the building.
Address: Midtown; 220 West 57th Street
Style: gothic
Use: retail
Feedback: 0 CommentsAdded: February 15, 2009
