What do you get when you take one part school, one part apartment, one part church and mix it all together? If you said "Sesame Street", you're right. If you also said "This stretch of 50th Street", you're also right. Containing just about everything you would need to foster a self-contained community, this block is fairly low key – at least on weekends when there's no classes to be had. 

Dominating the northern side of the street, the Park West High School has a series of really great mosaic murals that grace several walls on the front of the building. Across the street, a series of (mostly older) apartment buildings sit in a row. There was one brand new building that stuck out like a sore thumb amongst its brick-faced neighbors.