This Christmas, Don't Miss the FUN

From Greenwich Village Daily Photo.

New York City Fire Escapes

This great picture, from the excellent photoblog Greenwich Village Daily Photo, captures a colorful block of tenement buildings here in NYC. From the looks of it, I would guess it was taken on Macdougal Street in the Village near N.Y.U. One of the buildings says "Macdougal" at the very top - but that could have been a company or family name.

The block I live on consists entirely of similar tenement (or "walk-ups", as we call them) buildings - but my block isn't nearly as colorful. Check out Greenwich Village Daily Photo HERE.

Convenient

Down in the financial district of lower Manhattan, the Federal Reserve (on the left) is located directly across the street from a branch of Chase Bank (right). Which means that when the bankers at Chase need more bailout money, all they have to do is walk across Maiden Lane with hat in hand.

And if I have my directions correct, the empty skyline between the two buildings is where the World Trade Center once stood.

Picture from the excellent photo site - Greenwich Village Daily Photo.