my subway stop in the East Village

The old Empire State Building cam doesn't work the same, but here's what I posted a couple years ago:

Welcome to the Astor Place area of Manhattan, courtesy of the Empire State Building cam (and Dave). I live in the white brick building roughly a third of the way from the left of the image. The tower with the clock is the ConEd building. The brown towers with pyramid tops are the [Zeckendorf Towers]. That weird brown building at dead center is Cooper Union (planning major expansion), that light-brown building near the right edge with the weird black circle/stem running down it is the old [Carl Fischer] building (music publisher, that's an eighth-note with a clock in the center) (now going condo-loft). The white building whose corner is jutting into the Fischer building is the old Wanamaker annex (see diary ) (the main building across the street burned down, now holding that white apartment building ([Stewart House]) shown here in front of the annex), now housing [JCrew] (offices, not store), [KMart], and lots of other businesses.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/webseitz/tags/astorplace/

http://home.nyc.rr.com/jkn/nysonglines/lafayette.htm

http://www.eladproperties.com/press4.htm

Other landmarks

• Alamo Cube

• [Clinton Hall]/[Mercantile Library] building, on site of [Astor Opera House] - now a big Star Bucks on ground floor, expensive condos above.

• [Collonade Row] - row-houses for really rich people back then - Astor, Delano, Vanderbilt

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