The view from our room was very "voyeuristic" and I enjoyed keeping an eye on this lovely circa turn of the 20th century apartment building that with further studied revealed wonderful details like the "Romanesque" arches with the trade off of white and red bricks....
For our whole stay, I kept an eye on the windows, which appeared to be framing the front living rooms, some with the shades pulled down, some dark, but some illuminated and revealing just the edge of a couch, or a painting on the wall, or the view blocked by flowers in a window box.
While I watched in the morning, as the city came awake, a shade went up and a blond haired lady replaced the pillows on the window seat and then disappeared. From below, many residence came out of the double wide doors, bracing for the cold and headed to work or to walk their dogs. I watched as the street came alive with pedestrians, in long wool coats, scarves and messenger bags and I wondered where they were going, to what ugly high rise, which surrounded the red and white brick apartment on all sides, swallowing it?
Soon, even the blond haired lady exited the front door and headed down the street, but my attention was taken back to the door, where several ladies were returning with their dogs and as eached stopped at a keyed entry box, my intentions to go down and try to peek in the lobby were dashed. Voyeurism was bad enough without adding stacking to get in behind someone who knew the code to unlock the door.
But the view was so Rear Window- ish....
We did go see a couple of movies while we were there. There is a huge United Artist 16 right down on the 16th street mall. I yielded to Jon's choice of The Women in Black ...
