Streetscapes: A Hodgepodge Block

Here's an interesting piece from the Times on the history of East 82nd Street. My favorite part is the graphic that lets you toggle between a picture of the street taken in 1917 and one from 2009. It's striking the extent to which the architectural changes that took place altered the feel of the street, particularly the addition of the high-rise buildings and the narrowing of the street's width.

This article also made me think about how cities continually build and rebuild themselves. For the most part, I think we view this evolution at a macro-level (in terms of neighborhoods or cities as a whole), but it's also interesting to consider the impact of these changes on a more micro scale (i.e. by block or by building).

Link to the article.