92nd St Between Park Ave and Lexington Ave

In the interest of making my job as difficult and expensive as possible, today's photos were shot on film.

Streets like this are always so self-contained. It seems like someone living here wouldn't have to go further than a block for any of their day-to-day needs. On one end is a dry cleaners, across the street a restaurant, and across Lex is a grocery store.

The New York Times had a nice little write-up about the block (including the great, old houses on it) in 2005:

It's locally famous for two small wooden houses built in the mid-19th century, but there is also current news on the picturesque, steeply sloping block of 92nd Street from Park to Lexington Avenues. On the long-vacant lot at 125 East 92nd -- where the 92nd Street Y tried (and failed) to build a modernist annex -- a banker has gotten permission from the Landmarks Preservation Commission to put up an imposing mansion, a note de luxe on a block of more modest dwellings.

From what I could tell, the lot in question was still under construction.

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