21st St Between 6th Ave and 7th Ave

If you can walk down this street without getting hit in the head with a canvas carried by an SVA student, then you're either walking there in the summer, or ARE an SVA student.  Once around the corner from a very large Barnes & Nobel bookstore that has since closed, this stretch of street may as well belong to The School of Visual Arts.  One of the school's larger buildings is located about half-way down the block, housing it's fine arts and art history programs.  Across from SVA one can find a DaVinci art store, which in this author's opinion would have been QUITE helpful if it decided to open a few years earlier.  In recent years the street has become a hotbed for new construction.  Next to an old cemetery rises 21 Chelsea, a presumably expensive luxury complex.  Across from 21 Chelsea is a newer building which scores some extra points on the creative front, but still worries me in it's blandness. 

There's an old parking garage further down the block (alas there is no competing parking across the street).  The west end of the street has several really great, old buildings which are either covered in paint or are simply cool looking.  Be sure not to miss the big, old Kove Brothers Hardware mural at the end of the block. 

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[Alexandra]

Don't forget, the west 21st building also houses the BFA and MFA Computer Art programs. :-)