Dumpy Buildings

At the northern frontier of the East Village are some of the last remaining dumpy buildings in the neighborhood.

Behold, at East 14th Street and Avenue A:

Dumpy buildings.

Directly across Avenue A from these, is this new row of clean and shiny buildings:

Clean and shiny.

It's not because the buildings are short either, that they're dumpy. These buildings, on East 14th Street and Avenue B, are short, but they're not dumpy:

Not dumpy.

I don't know; maybe it's the trees?

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