Empty

Or maybe not. Unidentifiable sounds echoing from unidentifiable locations in the courtyard of this massive Euclid Avenue apartment building near East 70th Street suggested that while there was no longer any landlord here, there were still tenants of one sort or another. Despite the adjacency of a brand-new Aldi Foods store, with its freshly asphalted parking lot, mulched landscaping and steady flow of customers, I felt a world away with the brick walls and inscrutable windows looming over me, and a sense of isolation and vulnerability, of being monitored by wary eyes, led me to cap my lens and move on.

UPDATE: The apartments fell to the wrecker's ball late December 2010-January 2011, exposing a clear view of the eastern side of the Hall-Sullivan House.