This building, 9 East 10th Street (once the home of author Dawn Powell), features a really, really neat building number sign.
It’s beautifully ornate, especially on this otherwise unremarkable building.
I love the African theme, sort of feels like it should be on the outside of a safari club (note: commenters are saying this is Indian – I apologize for my cultural ignorance).
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I love religious crosses with neon-lettering attached to buildings, especially when they have ominous messages. Ignoring the tackiness factor, the fact that anyone seriously thinks these are still effective in modern day New York, to the point where they continue to replace the neon, is just incredible to me…and in a way, makes them all…
Quick announcement – I’m going to be a guest on the Leonard Lopate show on NPR! I should be on the Tuesday show – I’ll post the times on Monday for anyone interested in tuning in. Now for my Friday assortment of random pictures I took during the past week. First, what can only be…
I was walking around East 60th Street and 1st Avenue when I suddenly realized I’ve rarely explored this area of the city. The reason is a practical one: the traffic nightmare created by the nearby 59th Street Bridge makes filming in the neighborhood very difficult, and the few places I’ve scouted here have always been…
I was just going through an old hard drive when I came across some pictures of one of the odder things I think I’ve ever come across scouting… Last August, I was scouting around Little Italy when I suddenly noticed a crowd of people forming at the corner of Mulberry & Grand. On closer inspection,…
After posting about the Beach House on an East Village apartment roof, one of our readers, Karen, commented that it reminded her of the rooftop house on 13th and 3rd, above the Kiehl’s store. Today was the first time I had a chance to check it out, and sure enough, there’s a clapboard house –…
Spotted on a wall in Williamsburg… -SCOUT
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The sigh is stunning!!! The floral pattern reminds me of Balinese wood craft, but looking at the elephants, it could be Indian wood craft..
i agree, i think it’s more likely indian than african.
good find regardless!!!
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lovely blog, was directed here from curbed.com. I love your discovery of the Minetta Creek, I’m a student at NYU and learned about the creek/a lot of the city’s history pre-people but didn’t know it’s THAT close to campus, thanks 🙂
Too bad the trunks are facing down. That is one bad luck charm or should I say 6 bad luck charms at your front door.
I’m going through your archives, so I apologize for the lateness of this post but I love that you reference Dawn Powell!!! One of my favorite authors. Her books about NYC are fantastic.
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I actually lived in this building growing. You’d be sad to know that although they have chosen to keep the exterior original (there used to be black paint covering all the wood work on the front, which they had removed), they gutted the inside to make it more modern. the initials “AVA” are those of the architect’s wife fyi. I love that front too much
The initials, “AVA” are, unfortunately NOT the initials of the architect’s wife. His wife’s name was Florence Lucretia Sands. They were married in 1893. The origin of the name “AVA” is something of a mystery; one guess is that it relates to a town upstate by that name where the architect, William Hamilton Russell, summered with his family when he was a boy.