A Block of Old Saint Plotniko

Plotnik discovered a beautiful block last night. He and Ducknik were taking their friend Liz to dinner in the Mission. Liz has failing eyesight and a helper dog named Federicka, so it is a lot easier to drive. Plot dropped Duck and Liz and Federicka in front of the restaurant and then tried to park.

He knows better than this.

After half an hour of endless circling he drove up to the lot near the Marsh and pulled in there. To get back to the restaurant he walked down a small street he never walks down at night, called Lexington Street. The half a block of Lexington between 20th and 21st is absolutely pristine. It looks like Cobble Hill in Brooklyn, or Federal Hill in Boston. The row houses are all original, trees have buckled the pavement and rub up against house exteriors, the tiny yards are well maintained, without the modern-day flash of everything old having being torn out and new stuff put in. Narrow sidewalks. It looks like 1910, especially in the rain. This is truly a little piece of romantic Old Saint Plotniko.

(Remember that fabulous book (Plot can never remember the title) of science fiction where there is a portal between the 1880s and present day New York City? All you have to do is find one piece of the modern city that looks exactly the same as it did in 1880 and you can go back and forth. It's hard to do. (The answer is up at the Dakota, staring out at Central Park.) What was the name of that book?)

The next block pf Lexington and all the ones after: ehhh. New square 1950s remodels, cars up on sidewalks, everything plain and beaten up. It's just this one little corner.

Plot has ridden down Lexington Street many times during the day on his Plotkicycle but never noticed it before. Walking slows you down, and rain softens up the picture. Speaking of pictures, it was raining, so Plottie didn't get any. Sorry.