West End Avenue is a bit of an oddball street on the Upper West Side, with a mix of landmarked brownstones and 15-story apartment buildings sitting beside new luxury high-rises, like a 33-story condo building by Apollo Real Estate Advisors. An eight-block section of the street was landmarked last fall, and preservationists are pushing for two expansions. But it's not the buildings that speak to the neighborhood's "timelessness," but rather what stands on the street: "two surviving phone booths, at West 90th and West 101st Streets, whose dial tones still hum." [NYT; photo via Wikipedia]
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