Rainy days and Thursdays don't always get me down. After meeting a manufacturer's rep to review a recently completed roof replacement project at a 14-story building on West End Avenue yesterday morning, I paused to appreciate the gloomy allure around me.
The view offers the characteristic contrast of yesterday's and today's New York: Across the street, a stately limestone and terra cotta decorated building with a mansard roof, and in the distance, new gleaming brash towers along Broadway.
I stood for just a minute after taking the photo from the fire escape. A dated sign on the railing warned "Any one placing any incumbrance on this balcony will be fined ten dollars." I didn't want to risk it.
