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Old Buildings and Fire Escapes…Definitely not Prosaic   Leave a comment

Stand on a street in Manhattan, pick a building and let your eye run from the ground all the way up to the highest point. Depending on the type of building you are looking at, you will experience one of two things. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted September 13, 2013 by Jaclyn in Architecture, New York, Travel

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Walk from Brooklyn to Manhattan   Leave a comment

From Times Square, we get the Downtown loop to connect with the Brooklyn loop of the All Around Town Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour and head over the Manhattan Bridge into Dumbo. Such a cool name for this area near the bridge but it’s actually an acronym: District Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass – DUMBO. We pass through the upper middle class area of Brooklyn Heights with its picturesque row houses and mansions and then along Atlantic Ave (you remember, from Monopoly?). Read the rest of this entry »

Posted September 8, 2013 by Jaclyn in Architecture, Holidays, New York

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