Photo Challenge #178

Posted on May 27, 2018 | 15 Comments

Downtown Westport has tons of shortcuts.

You just have to know where to look.

Let’s say you bought a beautiful bedroom set at Design Within Reach (the old post office). But you also need a French press from the new Williams- Sonoma in Bedford Square.

You could cross the Post Road (carefully!), then circle all the way around Patagonia to Church Lane. You could do the same with Sconset Square.

It’s quicker to walk through the small underground parking area next to Westport Pizzeria, or cut straight through Urban Outfitters.

But the really fun way is to take the narrow alleyway between Urban Outfitters and Cotélac. It hides there in plain sight, a direct shot for those who know about it.

Yet maybe no one does. A mural painted — somehow — on the tight wall of Urban Outfitters was last week’s photo challenge. I took it earlier this month. (Click here for the photo. It’s pretty cool, if I do say so myself.)

But are the muralists and I the only people who know about the alley?

Perhaps. Only one person — one! — guessed last Sunday’s photo challenge.

And it took Staples High School senior Nicole Arellano 6 days — all the way until yesterday — to come up with the right answer.

Well done, Nicole. It was worth waiting for!

This week’s photo challenge should be easier.

I hope.

(Photo/Bob Weingarten)

If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.

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15 responses to “Photo Challenge #178”

  1. Nancy Powers Conklin | May 27, 2018 at 12:06 pm |

    Nyala Farm or the Kowalsky property on Morningside Drive.

  2. Lswrence Zlatkin | May 27, 2018 at 12:08 pm |

    Looks like the old Kowalsky farm between Morningside and Turkey Hill. I would have said Nyala Farms, but the terrain is too hilly or vertical.

  3. Andrew Colabella | May 27, 2018 at 12:09 pm |

    Nyala Farms

  4. Jack Backiel | May 27, 2018 at 12:10 pm |

    Isn’t that where they’re going to build a jail for Harvey Weinstein? He’s relocating from Beachside Ave to the new jail. I got this information from a reliable source, Michael Cohen!

  5. Fred Cantor | May 27, 2018 at 12:10 pm |

    Looks like Nyala Farm.

  6. Bobbie Herman | May 27, 2018 at 12:31 pm |

    Nyala Farms.

  7. Michael Calise | May 27, 2018 at 12:35 pm |

    Nyala

  8. Dan Woog | May 27, 2018 at 12:58 pm |

    Yes, it’s Nyala Farm. This was a bit easier than last week, right?

  9. Michael Calise | May 27, 2018 at 1:27 pm |

    06880 Your world from the side alleys to the wide open spaces

  10. Alli Q DiVincenzo | May 27, 2018 at 4:13 pm |

    Nyala Farms field

  11. Seth Braunstein | May 27, 2018 at 6:06 pm |

    Nyala Farms

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  12. Jose Villaluz | May 27, 2018 at 7:13 pm |

    Nyala Farm

  13. Jalna Jaeger | May 27, 2018 at 8:56 pm |

    stauffer chemical except they put weed killer all over the field!
    Nyala farm….

  14. Robert Fatherley | May 28, 2018 at 8:38 am |

    Thank you, Aggie. We will reflect upon our questions and get back to you ASAP. Thank you for your thoughtfulness…Julie

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  15. Jeanine Esposito | May 28, 2018 at 9:44 am |

    Nyala Farm is my guess too