Brooklyn Heights, NY
Click on the picture to get a great, detailed view of these magnificent and architecturally significant structures. 
Claude Scales’s Photo of the day: there is a lot of Brooklyn Heights literary history in this photo.
The poet W.H. Auden lived in the top floor apartment of the brownstone row house at One Montague Terrace, nearest the corner of Montague Street and Montague Terrace, in the winter of 1940-41 when he wrote his “New Year Letter.” If you go to the right two doors, to 5 Montague Terrace, you find the house where Thomas Wolfe (not to be confused with the recently deceased Tom Wolfe) worked on his novel “Of Time and the River.” On the left of the photo, the building with the cylindrical tower and turreted top is where the playwright Arthur Miller and his first wife, Mary Slattery, lived during the early years of their marriage, and where he began work on his first Broadway play, “The Man Who Had All the Luck”. — in New York, New York.
Love the buildings and maybe because I worked on a few similar to them using rope or cable suspended scaffolds and ladders in downtown or near downtown Chicago. Harvard attorney Claude Scales is the photo-artist-author of this snapshot and commentary stolen from Facebook. I know him from when I would comment at Slate Magazine (along with JackD) when it was a cool place to be. Editor Moira Redmond (not to be confused with the English actress) described the Best of The Fray site, “the place I would tell the other editors to go to if you wanted to find out what Americans were actually thinking.”
Hope you enjoy . . .
Thanks for sharing this. One small correction: I went to Harvard Law School, not Yale. As any Yale Law alum will tell you, this means I’m a plumber not a physicist.
Hey Claude:
Thanks for stopping by to visit. Mistake corrected. I like the box window on the one building. When I was working for the Germans, I spent a month in Germany. I would cut down to Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Loved the box windows there, the Black Moor and the William Tell pools, and tour the Munot cut over to Neuhausen and Rheinfall. They gave me a VW Passat to get back and forth to my hotel and use during the weekends.
Not far from where I live. One incredible building!
PGL:
I was supposed to be an Architect/Engineer type. Through 4 years of high school, I studied architecture in preparation, took 4 years of math, and 3 years of science. I was convinced not to pursue this field of endeavor by the VP of Patents and Trademarks for USG. My wife worked for him. I still like this stuff. I worked with my dad on bricklaying and tuckpointing jobs. I learned his trade pre-USMC. I was in many parts of buildings (Wrigley, Union Carbide, Chicago Title and Trust, Prudential, Lane Tech. etc.) which many people never saw.
Those are incredible structures and architecture. You have to do what I did to really love it. An interesting area you live in PGL
Thank you for your comment.