Tower 1, nicknamed "Hat Tower" (Šešir-kula), is one of the oldest towers, and doubles as citadel and dungeon tower.
At the end of the launch track, the train climbs the main top hat tower, reaching a height of 456 feet and spanning over a 3118 feet track by the end of the ride.
Now the residence of the bishop of Brooklyn, this one has a witch's-hat tower, a luscious tile roof, a heavy-lidded eyebrow dormer and a great arched drive-through.
With its jumble of witch's-hat towers and mansard roofs, the house would have made a fine home away from home for the Addams Family or Norman Bates's mother.
One in five buyers are going a step further, they say, and razing houses, especially the area's trademark Tudors, some adorned with witch's-hat towers and leaded-glass windows.
To judge from early photographs, the diamond-pattern slate shingles were also in patterned colors, giving the roofs the sense of a restless sea, especially on the "witch's hat" corner tower.
Most people buy hats in places like the claustrophobic World Hats, a block or so down Orchard Street, which had an impressive selection but required a D.I.Y. aplomb that would also come in handy at Bencraft Hatters, just across the Williamsburg Bridge, where the hat boxes tower 20 feet high, and help is scarce.
More scantily clad women walked through the rooms serving hors d'oeuvres, and soon there were at least three showgirls wearing hats of towering testicle-chocolates.
The handsome retro illustrations in pen and ink — no computers here — complement Reid's text, which suggests a series of outlandish swaps: a butterfly in the hand earns a wishbone, which in turn can be exchanged for a kite with a tail, then a straw hat, until eventually a tower is traded up for a small army (looking like proper tin soldiers) and even "11 towering icebergs".
Jimi ("it's spelled like Hendrix") Holzheimer, a barrel-chested 49-year-old New Jersey native, wore a towering green hat in the shape of a pint glass.
The weather was continuously glorious; Chelsea's King's Road thronged with boys in Victorian military tunics and "dolly birds" in wasp-striped minidresses and floppy hats; the new Post Office tower, which then had a revolving gourmet restaurant at its summit, glittered thrillingly on the skyline.
