When we turned the page in our Metropolitan Museum of Art engagement calendar of New York in art two Sundays ago to find a detail of this picture by Rackstraw Downes, our hearts skipped a beat. This unbeautiful neighborhood is the one in which we'd found a beautiful apartment we wanted to bid on! Was it a sign? Had anyone else noticed? Fifteen days later, we're in contract! More news as it happens; it'll take months even if all goes well and smoothly.