WPA was a beautiful thing

So we're completing the plans for the interior changes as I write this, including elevations for the kitchen and bathroom details. We like what our architect is doing in terms of adding cool (post) modern details. We're just as anxious to get started, if not more so, than we were a week or so ago when we started this blog.

So in the interim, before we start (really) busting down walls and getting out the Sawzall, we'll be posting some more photos of our new abode that I have been (and will continue to) share -- some outside (like above) and some inside. You'll see, in some of the pics we've been so antsy to see what is behind the walls that we took the liberty of using a sure-footed kick to, ah, 'liberate' the underside for viewing. Those pics will come soon.

But to the point -- today I scanned the above delightfully educational NYC Dept of Records tax photograph of our place from 1940-ish. Without the WPA, we would be up a creek with likely no historical photo of many properties from their former lives. Its fascinating actually if you study the photo. Particularly for what is not there. There are no cars, no trees, no people, not even a garbage can -- only windowshades and cobblestones and some trolley tracks... Next door someone left their front door ajar. But essentially, that's it. Almost surprising. Kindof looks like a movie set, no?