So this is what that fancy new hotel in NoHo looks like at street level. I just noticed it the other day when passing by on my way to class. It’s easy to forget that there are, like, really old buildings with apartments in them right next to the foundation. It’s interesting how they’re (dis-)integrating parts of this neighborhood — just around the corner there’s the remaining front part of a church with a giant office/apartment complex behind it. I guess New York’s not exactly what we’d called historically-centered in its building practices.