For the seventh summer, I’m spotlighting little aspects of life here that I love. To see the previous Valentines, click the Valentine tag at the end of the post.

You have to squint pretty hard to see the bright side of demolition, but here it goes: After a building has been torn down, you often get a heretofore unavailable view of something, usually the back side of a neighboring building. The removal of the trees at 100 Franklin, of instance, gave us a better glimpse of the back of 102 and 104 Franklin:

The east side of 5 Beekman, in the process of being blocked again:

And the north side of 15 Park Row won’t be visible for long:

The north side of 349 Broadway, already covered up again (by 91 Leonard, a.k.a. 351-355 Broadway):

••• The back and side of 50 Murray, which will be blocked by 45 Park Place, if it ever rises above street level:

•••The various buildings being torn down to make way for 59-61 Warren (a.k.a. 75 W. Broadway) don’t reveal much, except for some windows (including, eventually, in the New York Dolls building…).

••• The back of 458 and 460 Greenwich, visible as long as the 456 Greenwich hotel stays stalled:

••• The project at 30 Warren has revealed parts of neighboring buildings on Chambers and Warren. It’s especially interesting to see the top and back of gray, modern 24-26 Warren:

••• And here’s the western side of Trinity Church, visible after the destruction of 68-74 Trinity Place.