A few days ago on a walk through the city I spotted a sign for Ozymandias Realty & straightway said to my Esteemed Colleague, "Look on my works, New Yorkers, and despair!"

Jeremiah's Vanishing New York offers a revealing riff on this theme in its report on synagondos--"religious-residential hybrid buildings [that] may become more common as developers look to capitalize on a great location and synagogues look to improve their finances and physical conditions."

Social enterprise or social decay? The debate continues . . .