Vintage Winter

Electric substation with sign reading Vintage, 3 blocks that-a-way with finger pointing icon, carn traffic and skyline in vbackground with red to blue sunset colors in sky

Location: Hiawatha Avenue and East 40th Street

Seems like days of old, when we’d have see snow piled this high, that carbon-dated back to November and changed color from a fluffy white, to a grey muck, to a crusty black before it melting into spring. At right, hints of the art deco facade of the IAC International building.

Photo: Brian Donahue