Someone in Manhattan House (200 E 66) has put a picket fence on their deck:

Kinda weird since there aren’t as many Judith’s around these days. Leiber on the West (Left), Ripka on the East of Madison Avenue at 61st Street.

We first posted this photo on April 11, 2008- the day after a stroll with my friend Samara where she pointed out this missing “U” in the signage on Gucci’s store at Madison and 69th Street. I passed it about a week ago and it was still missing. I walked by last night intending to [...]

My friend Samara pointed out this missing “U” while we were taking a walk yesterday. This is the logo from their website-

During the 1990′s HMV was the major local record store, located on 86th and Lex. Like most giant record stores, new releases were promoted in the windows. Several years ago HMV closed and eventually Best Buy opened. Amidst the shuffling of businesses in 1278-1280 Lexington Avenue which now houses the equivalent of a very convenient [...]

Hidden in the scattered grey and brick pattern of a building on Madison and 84th Street is a heart shape containing the letters I + R. I first noticed it a few years ago looking up for a second out of a cab window which just happened to be framing the secret message in such [...]

Whenever I mention the building I grew up in, I invariably get, “Oooh, that’s the building with the flag” or “that’s a fucking big flag on that building.” It is. After September 11 and the proliferation of stars and stripes running up Park Avenue, any building without a flag was suspect in its lack of, [...]