Wow

Chelsea is no stranger to exhibitionists. But even if I were one, I'd want a discount!

The buildings you can see in the windows are at least as far away as the street is wide. I think the photos are a bit deceptive because the windows are quite large and the Hellmuth building (buff brick building on left) being an old commercial building, is just of a different scale.

Fundamentally, I believe the issue here is more a matter of floor level rather than how close together the buildings are. This is really just par for the course when you’re below the first setback in Manhattan.

That is not a bad "vis-a-vis". The backs of most old tenement buildings have windows just a few feet from each other.

And the sides in so-called dumbell tenements were even worse. The bedrooms were so close that there was no privacy at all (just read "Biography of a Tenement House: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street"). Things were really hideous back then..........

If you're going to be delusional at least give us a good rant about the dangers of living next to a ConEd substation.

People still live in those dumbbell tenements with legal windows facing a 2-1/2’-wide light well. If you’re lucky and there is another dumbbell tenement as your neighbor, the well grows to be about 5’ wide. If you’re unlucky, it’s 2-1/2’ to a brick wall.

People talk about a lot of noise coming from that substation.

Interesting to compare the different utility structures in NYC. The substation next door is a far cry from what is now Walker Tower just across 7th Av.

Lmao I bet Ethan129 regrets bothering to post this after getting ragged on by everyone