What’s Your Favorite Corner?

Neighbor Nader Vossoughian is a professor of architecture at the New York Institue of Technology. He’s spent a lot of time considering cities all over the world while studying communities and urban planning. With that kind of expertise, he of course has a special insight about his favorite corner, Argyle and Cortelyou.

“It feels like Sesame Street,” he explained.

Nader said that the closeness of major neighborhood services–the library, the playground, the school, the firehouse–gives the impression of that famous television street, where everything is contained in a neat little space. Not to mention the community feel that all creates.

“When my daughter waves at the fire engine, the firemen wave back,” Nader said. “There’s something very nostalgic about it all, in a good way.”

Nader, his wife, and their three children will be exploring a new city this summer while he works on a fellowship in Montreal about anarchy and utopias. They’re looking forward to their return to the neighborhood in the fall, but they’ll need a place to live–if you’ve got any leads on three-bedroom apartment openings beginning in September, please let us know, and we’ll pass it on.