NYC Grid is a photo blog dedicated to exploring New York block-by-block and corner-by-corner. Updated every weekday, each post covers a new street with a focus on the mundane and ephemeral.

  

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Thursday
Feb252010

20th St Between 6th Ave and 5th Ave

Steps away from the scene of this month's transformer explosion, this stretch of 20th Street is full of random stores and restaurants. The block itself is drenched in shadow by the tall and boxy buildings that surround it. To the west, the very utilitarian 6th Avenue sits in stark contrast to the higher-end 5th Avenue on the other side. 

While not exclusively the same, many of the larger buildings here share the same monochromatic color scheme. This allows for some of the other structures to pop-out a bit more. But again, everything tends to be so dark that by the time you get to 5th Avenue, you're just happy to see the sun casting itself down the street once more.

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