{"id":3860,"date":"2008-12-04T16:21:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T21:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/12\/04\/3860\/"},"modified":"2008-12-04T17:23:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T22:23:11","slug":"3860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/12\/04\/3860\/","title":{"rendered":"The sidewalk canopies of New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3113\/3081812864_f23d83a893.jpg?v=0\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One detail I&#8217;ve always liked about the New York City streetscape are the canopies that lead from building entrances to the edge of the sidewalk. Admittedly they are car (or perhaps, historically, horse and buggy) oriented, but they seem at once a sophisticated and practical kind of urbanism. This past Sunday I went for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmap-pedometer.com\/?r=2425008\">a great walk<\/a> from midtown up to the Guggenheim and back through the Upper East Side. It was pouring the entire time, and the canopies provided a number of opportunities to take cover, clean off my glasses, and get ready for more. In Toronto we have bylaws preventing this kind of encroachment, and theater marquees like those on the Eglin &amp; Winter Garden or Royal &#8212; the closest we come &#8212; are grandfathered in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3265\/3081811390_028aaef387.jpg?v=0\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, they all don&#8217;t look like Fifth Avenue canopies like the ones in these pictures (1040 5th Ave, above, is famously <a href=\"http:\/\/abagond.wordpress.com\/2008\/08\/27\/1040-fifth-avenue-where-jackie-o-lived\/\">Jackie O&#8217;s former building<\/a>). In many places around NYC, the adjacent business uses the canopies as an opportunity to advertise in the same way as many Toronto businesses use A-Frame signs (aka sandwich boards) on the sidewalk. Keeping the signage above our heads doesn&#8217;t block the sidewalk the way A-Frames do, and provides that interstitial shelter when moving around the city on foot. In Toronto we are sensitive to the <a href=\"http:\/\/illegalsigns.ca\/\">well documented and pervasive bad practices<\/a> of the billboard industry, but in NYC the canopies are not 3rd-party adverts, but rather relate directly to the adjacent establishment. What I didn&#8217;t manage to take a picture of are the miles of sidewalks in Brooklyn, Queens and other less gentrified sections of NYC where canopies are often cheap and garish, advertising fried chicken joints or Dominoes Pizza. Not pretty, but they aspire &#8212; in their tacky, vernacular kind of way &#8212; to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/collection\/browse_results.php?object_id=110036\">Jackie O kind of urbanity<\/a>. I wonder if they mean &#8220;New York&#8221; to New Yorkers the way both the tasteful and tacky ones mean &#8220;New York&#8221; to me. Also, what do Torontonians think of these canopies: encroachment or nice additions to the sidewalk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One detail I&#8217;ve always liked about the New York City streetscape are the canopies that lead from building entrances to the edge of the sidewalk. Admittedly they are car (or perhaps, historically, horse and buggy) oriented, but they seem at once a sophisticated and practical kind of urbanism. 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