Park Ave Between 23rd St and 21st St

23rd Street is a bit of a major transportation hub, and that's especially true for this stretch of Park Avenue. Being the eastern-most subway stop makes for a very busy area (arguably, that's true all along Park and Lexington avenues - which makes me wonder how these avenues will change once the 2nd Avenue subway opens) so running into Duane Reade, Bank of America and Morton Williams is to be expected. There's a lot of great, older buildings around here: On the corner of 23rd and Park one building still has the old "Fourth Ave" signage, which is oh-so-popular amongst people looking for anachronistic nuggets of trivia.

The building's themselves show signs of former intents - the building housing the Morton Williams supermarket still has an automated deposit safe for the bank which once stood there. I found this safe fascinating. It appeared to be operated by coin and even provided a receipt. Not bad.

Other than that, I always enjoy seeing what new movie has been painted up on the large wall in between 23rd and 24th - While it's not always a great movie, I'm always impressed with the handiwork of the artists.

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