Buildings from Behind...another POV experience

Sometimes seeing NYC apartment buildings from the back tells you something about the building in a peculiar way..or it is just interesting to see the side that is not presented to the street.

In some cases, it seems to make no difference...

The best shots to get are those of all the backyards of brownstones, and those are the hardest to get!
Have found just one where you can see a couple of tiny backyards...I felt sure I would find some sort of aerial overview of the backyards of some block in Manhattan, but no luck!

The one here of the backs of the luxury buildings on East 72nd Street ( you will guess easily which one that is) is probably the also the most informative...interesting how some apartments still have windows from the time the building was built and others have been replaced...this happens on an individual basis in the really upscale co-ops ...

The worst ( and most black humor) saga of window replacement was back in the 1990's in Stuyvesant Town down in Lower East Midtown.

Met Life sold it to a developer who decided to put in all the strange vacuum sealed windows..a long messy task which the tenants had to pay for.

Then it turned out that the new windows all tended to implode and strew glass both inside and outside the places..bad news all around.

So all these windows had to be replaced...tenants got charged for it again...I think they banded together and sued at this point, but I can't remember what the final resolution was.