Approaching your building on West Twelfth Street, you observe the architect’s dim concept of European fortresses: a crenelated tower atop the building conceals the water tank

On the crenellations of the old Spanish fort, they did whippets with stolen cans.

a wispy breath of mist now seeped from the terraced buildings, from the rooftops with their vague crenellations…

Vistas open up through the green crenellations

with turreted walls, parapets, crenelations, machicolations, bartizans, a harrowing variety of domes and spires in staggering Romanesque, Byzantine effulgence, and Gothic run riot in mullioned windows