Gargoyles in New York City

74-76-78 West 85th Street

These three buildings start at the corner of Columbus Avenue. No. 78 is a large corner building with a Jackson Hole hamburger restaurant on the first floor with the entrance on Columbus. No. 76 and No. 74 are smaller sidestreet buildings, but done in the same style-- a romantic almost art nouveau-ish twisting foliage design. The fact that ivy and vines have grown over the figures on these smaller buildings made them really arresting after turning off the bustle of Columbus Avenue. They look almost funerary.

54-58 West 84th Street

54-56-58 West 83rd St. are three well-kept white-faced four story walkups with these wonderful keystone faces hovering over each arched window and door. Note the stained-glass tops.

43 West 84rd Street

This neat little building is home to this excellently preserved winged griffon/dragon, and this snake-like leafy lion-headed creature next to the giant, oak front door.

41 West 84th Street

They are a bit worn, but here is an example of these fantastic carved bands between the 2nd and 3rd, and between the 3rd and 4th floors.

14 West 83rd Street

There are several buildings in a row with similar under-bay-window details.

18-20 West 83rd Street

The window and door work on these neighboring buildings is really exquisite- beautifully carved and in pristine condition, with scrollwork and greenmen hiding beneath the large arched second floor windows.

38-40 West 83rd Street

There isn't really anything too special about this building, with the exception of these heads on the corners of the second floor windows.

60 West 83rd Street

There are two protective dragons over the doorway, while another dragon guards the base of the stairs

There is this marvelous peg-toothed greenman beneath the second floor window, and the side of the building front is watched over by a pair of winged lions.

15 West 82nd Street

Horned demon over the windows of No.15 W. 82nd

Credit for this Photo tour: Amelia Wilson