Mary Sargent © 2007 …………………………………….. click to enlarge
This is just east of our little apartment building of 2 nights ago. This is the Young Men's Christian Association (chiseled on the front of the building), otherwise known as the Westside YMCA. It is described in the AIA Guide as a "neo-Romanesque pile . . . complete with machicolations, arched corbel tables, and other medieval encrustations." Built in 1930. Here is its page in nyc-Architecture.com.
From Dictionary.com, the definition of machicolation: A projecting gallery at the top of a castle wall, supported by a row of corbeled arches and having openings in the floor through which stones and boiling liquids could be dropped on attackers.
See map.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Upper West Side, 63rd Street Between Broadway and Central Park West
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Yet another building for me to avoid (but the pic makes up for that).
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