Manhattan's Elegant Apartment Buildings

I remember as a child always being fascinated with the wonderful old apartment buildings on Chicago' s Lake Shore Drive.

Manhattan is full of great residential buildings like these...for a price, of course.

Let's face it, those pre-war buildings almost always look so much better than later ones.

Not all of them are in the best of repair of course. Rent control was not the best policy for making sure landlords kept up a lot of the great apartment buildings on places like Riverside Drive.

Weather was sunny and nice today and a long walk cheered me up ( and got my mind off the long drawn out battle with cimex lectularis, i.e., the common bed bug.

Supposed to be final exterminator treatment tomorrow, then have new mattress and box spring ( which have arrived) into protective cases and replace all the bedding...open up new comforter my sister sent me for instance.

In case you didn't know, bed bugs are epidemic in NYC right now. Asked exterminators and yes, they are very, very busy.