Friday, December 17, 2010

My Latest Real Estate Porn Site Addiction

Architectural Voyeurs!

Columbia University Libraries Digital Collection has scanned 54 years worth of easily accessible NYC real estate related ramblings from the weekly gossip publication Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide.

I can't tell you how much time I've spent online, but it certainly was well worth shaving my palms.


...Of Mixed Structural Character
"South of Ninth street the structural character of Eighth avenue is extremely varied all the way to its end at Twentieth street or Greenwood Cemetery. The buildings comprise flats with stores, old fashioned brick and frame two and three-story dwellings, old brownstone fronts that have seen better days and what not."-from Varying Phases of Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn.

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