ID this picturesque spot
July 5, 2013 12:10 PM Subscribe
Where in Manhattan is this?
Saw this picture online and the structure and surrounding lawn look so pretty; would love to visit sometime.
Saw this picture online and the structure and surrounding lawn look so pretty; would love to visit sometime.
If you have the original image, the EXIF data might have more information. You can view it using an EXIF viewer.
posted by yaymukund at 12:26 PM on July 5, 2013
posted by yaymukund at 12:26 PM on July 5, 2013
Sort of looks like what I've seen when wandering near the Hudson in the West 180s but I'm not sure exactly where.
posted by mlle valentine at 12:56 PM on July 5, 2013
posted by mlle valentine at 12:56 PM on July 5, 2013
Yeah, it kind of looks upper west side to me. Maybe on that rail line that was converted to a park?
The building also kind of looked a little bit something out of Stuyvesant Village. But I have nothing concrete with which to back that up.
posted by gjc at 1:05 PM on July 5, 2013
The building also kind of looked a little bit something out of Stuyvesant Village. But I have nothing concrete with which to back that up.
posted by gjc at 1:05 PM on July 5, 2013
Yeah, the building looks like NYCHA housing. So maybe way uptown or the East village?
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 1:06 PM on July 5, 2013
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 1:06 PM on July 5, 2013
Response by poster: From what I understand, it's somewhere on the UWS (I would ask the picture taker, but they posted the pic on their personal blog, and I hate to ask or link to it for fear of looking like a "stalker").
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:51 PM on July 5, 2013
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:51 PM on July 5, 2013
To gjc's point, it's definitely not Stuyvesant Town or Peter Cooper Village. I agree the design of the building looks like NYCHA.
posted by telegraph at 1:59 PM on July 5, 2013
posted by telegraph at 1:59 PM on July 5, 2013
I was going to say UWS. Having been there three times I woulda said to take my suggestion with a pinch of salt but since it seems to gel with what others are saying I will toss it in.
posted by Iteki at 2:24 PM on July 5, 2013
posted by Iteki at 2:24 PM on July 5, 2013
Looks like a combination of public housing in back with a co-op building in front which makes me think it's around 100th and Columbus, but that's just a guess.
posted by plastic_animals at 2:30 PM on July 5, 2013
posted by plastic_animals at 2:30 PM on July 5, 2013
Yeah, even narrowing it down to public housing in Manhattan gives you this list to work through.
Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village (which is private, not public housing) has a similar feel to the back structure but neither seems to have its distinctive window configuration, nor is it anywhere near the UWS, of course.
gjc, the High Line is also not on the UWS. It runs from the West Village (Meatpacking District, really) up through Chelsea at W. 30th, 27 blocks below the generally accepted beginning of the Upper West Side.
My thinking on this structure is that it's mainly gussying up what may essentially be a physical barrier (there's a berm) separating the tonier, newer, gentrified co-op property from the NYCHA.
posted by dhartung at 7:12 PM on July 5, 2013
Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village (which is private, not public housing) has a similar feel to the back structure but neither seems to have its distinctive window configuration, nor is it anywhere near the UWS, of course.
gjc, the High Line is also not on the UWS. It runs from the West Village (Meatpacking District, really) up through Chelsea at W. 30th, 27 blocks below the generally accepted beginning of the Upper West Side.
My thinking on this structure is that it's mainly gussying up what may essentially be a physical barrier (there's a berm) separating the tonier, newer, gentrified co-op property from the NYCHA.
posted by dhartung at 7:12 PM on July 5, 2013
It looks to me like west side, along Central Park, upper nineties maybe, or even upper eighties. That building in the background looks like private housing.
posted by melesana at 9:33 PM on July 5, 2013
posted by melesana at 9:33 PM on July 5, 2013
(I would ask the picture taker, but they posted the pic on their personal blog, and I hate to ask or link to it for fear of looking like a "stalker").
As stalkerish behavior goes, asking about the location of a picture of some really cool place that obviously isn't some individual's private property that you posted on the internet is pretty low.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 10:12 PM on July 5, 2013 [3 favorites]
As stalkerish behavior goes, asking about the location of a picture of some really cool place that obviously isn't some individual's private property that you posted on the internet is pretty low.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 10:12 PM on July 5, 2013 [3 favorites]
It reminds me of places I've seen on Columbus Ave. in the few blocks south of 96th St., but I haven't been able to find the exact spot on Street View.
posted by neroli at 5:23 AM on July 6, 2013
posted by neroli at 5:23 AM on July 6, 2013
Best answer: For what it's worth, the background building bears a very strong resemblance to the Amsterdam Houses, of which only three are tall enough (along Amsterdam Ave.) and none of them with any particular open space in the right place. Built in 1948 [photo], so I looked for other public housing built in the Forties, but didn't find a match that way.
I have been wondering whether this is possibly some sort of green roof structure that doesn't show up in Google Earth....
WAIT I FOUND IT
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, has a "quad" named for Robert Moses that is actually a green roof that's a couple of stories removed from the street. The campus interrupts 61st St.; this trellis is at the west end of campus, and the building to the near right -- The Alfred -- is on that resumed 61st St., as is the bit of the Amsterdam Houses in the background.
If you go here on Bing, and then I guess zoom in and use the West viewpoint, you can see the trellis with its greenery bare for the season.
posted by dhartung at 4:04 AM on July 8, 2013
I have been wondering whether this is possibly some sort of green roof structure that doesn't show up in Google Earth....
WAIT I FOUND IT
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, has a "quad" named for Robert Moses that is actually a green roof that's a couple of stories removed from the street. The campus interrupts 61st St.; this trellis is at the west end of campus, and the building to the near right -- The Alfred -- is on that resumed 61st St., as is the bit of the Amsterdam Houses in the background.
If you go here on Bing, and then I guess zoom in and use the West viewpoint, you can see the trellis with its greenery bare for the season.
posted by dhartung at 4:04 AM on July 8, 2013
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posted by showbiz_liz at 12:16 PM on July 5, 2013