: Uptown Rapunzels Take Note, Better Balconies (And Decks) Coming To Harlem

Hot In Harlem recently took notice of one of the more offensive things to happen to architecture in some time. The painfully nondescript box in question features poorly fit doors that open onto either the fire escape or what looks to be leftover fire escape materials.

It made me think WWRD? (Actually, it made me think of the Beastie Boys lyric "Rapunzel Rapunzel let down your hair / So I can climb up and get into your underwear", and then I thought about what Rapunzel would do.)

As the prince, I would willingly blind myself, witch or no witch at the business end of a hair ladder.

Thankfully, there are a number of other uptown projects I saw today on the way back from Central Park that would make restoring one's eyesight worthwhile.

The first was 125 Central Park North, a former hospital turn condos.

More decks and balconies worth climbing flowing locks to get to after the jump.

Kitty-corner back at 157 West 111th is the Park North Condominium (not found on the Warburg site), which features balconies and fire escapes that are distinct from one another.

On the corner of 112th and Morningside Park is this place, which features a roof-top deck and what looks to be a solarium just big enough to grow plants one at a time.

Down 112th is perhaps Harlem's first steel and glass facade building, with a deck, and a brownstone under renovation near the end of the block showing yellow insulation going up on what might be a duplex penthouse.

The newly renovated 157 West 118th, on the right, has a deck fitting for Juliet to call to Romeo. Too bad they are both dead. The building on the left is undergoing a gut rehab.