Building and Trylons. Note the eagles jutting out from the 61st floor of Building.
Here's a somewhat ridiculous piece of information. According to its owners, the building outside of which this sculpture sits, 655 Third Avenue, was "the first building with a free-standing abstract sculpture on a New York City sidewalk: Windward by Jan Peter Stern."
Modeled after the Friedrichsbau at Heidelberg Castle, this building was originally a beer hall in the now-extinct neighborhood of Little Germany. It's been used well over the years, by O. Henry and Bob Dylan, among others.
This house is not the only rooftop residence in the city.
This is apparently how mango purée is transported.
One of the remaining eagle sculptures from the original Penn Station is perched on the roof of this striking new academic building at Cooper Union.
Opened in 1831, this little cemetery on East Second Street was home to the remains of James Monroe for 27 years until his body was returned to Virginia and reinterred at Hollywood Cemetery. Another notable burial-then-removal was that of John Ericsson, designer of the USS Monitor (built and launched in Greenpoint, as we've discovered).
Far more important than those two gentlemen, however, is an early-19th-century merchant buried here who just happens to have one of the coolest names of all time: Preserved Fish. But you can just call him Pickled Herring.
I've seen countless memorial murals on this walk, but I believe this is the first one I've come across that's dedicated to a pet.
We've already passed by the intersection with the highest street-number product in the city; here's the intersection at the other extreme.
