The Animal Building on East 67th Street

I was walking past this art deco apartment building on East 67th Street yesterday…

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…when I noticed a series of really neat animal designs surrounding this side entrance.

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Above the door, a bulldog:

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Inside The Fletcher Mansion on Fifth Avenue

If you’ve ever been annoyed at the fact that most of Fifth Avenue’s mansions probably don’t want you knocking at their front door, do yourself a favor and check out one most don’t realize is open to the public: the Ukrainian Institute at the corner of 79th Street and Fifth Ave, built in 1899 as the private home of banker and railroad . . .

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Decapitation at the Ziegfeld

If you go to the brownstone at 52 East 80th Street between Madison & Park…

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…you’ll see the decapitated limestone head of a Greco-Roman goddess in the front yard next to some trash barrels (gives you some perspective on its size).

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. . .

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Speaking of Elephants…

Yesterday, I posted about the ornate sign on East 10th Street featuring a herd of elephants. As it happens, I was later in the Upper East Side when I saw this building around the East 60′s, which sort of one-ups it…

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I mean, the building has its own set of . . .

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