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The view from my window in the Library Hotel
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The General Electric Building (1930) at 570 Lexington Avenue
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The Chanin Building (1929) at 122 East 42nd Street
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News Building (1929) at 220 East 42nd Street
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About the bronze reliefs of significant buildings near Grand Central Station
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Grand Central Station
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The Empire State Building peeking through
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About the Roosevelts' house on East 36th Street
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East 36th St. where FDR & Eleanor Roosevelt lived 1905-08
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Peter Cooper lived in Gramercy Park 1850-1883
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Standing on the corner of Lexington & E 22nd where Peter Cooper built his home in 1850
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Walking along East 20th St. I came to Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village, a post WW2 development designed by Metropolitan Life like Parkfairfax in DC
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I wandered around Stuyvesant Town (StuyTown for short), admiring the park-like grounds
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According to Wikipedia, Metropolitan Life president Frederick H. Ecker said of Stuyvesant Town in its initial offering that it would make it possible for generations of New Yorkers "to live in a park – to live in the country in the heart of New York."
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One of numerous community gardens on empty lots in the Lower East Side, 1
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One of numerous community gardens on empty lots in the Lower East Side, 2
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Neo-Romanesque Most Holy Redeemer Church on E 3rd Street
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On Delancey at the beginning of the Williamsburg Bridge
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At Dua Kafe, an Albanian restaurant, a Chardonnay I liked... from Kosovo
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Looking along 42nd St. from the Tudor City Bridge
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About the restoration of the conservatory garden
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The peaceful inner courtyard of Central Park's Conservatory Garden
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Tending to Central Park's Conservatory Garden
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Central Park near the Upper West Side
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The Peace Fountain next to St. John the Divine cathedral
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About the Peace Fountain next to St. John the Divine cathedral
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About St. John the Divine
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The west rose window in St. John the Divine
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Turos retes (cheese strudel) in the Hungarian Pastry Shop
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The Hungarian Pastry Shop
