More on the restoration and renovation front

Well, no matter how many old townhouses in Manhattan get renovated, there are always more to do and some to be done over again...above, two workmen for a place that specializes in "High End Residential Interiors." I wonder if they do a lot of "gut renovation"..probably do, many of these old places need rewiring etc.

Where old townhouses have had their stoops removed, I notice that a lot go in for these industrial steel or iron stairways...they lack the charm of the old stoops, but aren't all that bad.