Pluses include a pleasant roof terrace; free Wi-Fi; and folding bicycles for pedaling around the neighborhood, gratis.
WHERE TO EAT Outfitted with a pleasant roof deck, Third Eye Restaurant on the main drag in Thamel does very good Indian and Nepali foods, such as nan, kebabs, curries and fruit lassis.
Up on the pleasant roof deck, a Swiss gent ordered a pint of Narragansett lager with a healthy pour of Sprite, a take on his country's panaché, or shandy: "The perfect thing for summer".
"I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar, then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant.
Of course I knew their songs: "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "It Might as Well Rain Until September," "Take Good Care of My Baby," "Go Away Little Girl," "One Fine Day," "Oh No Not My Baby," "Up On The Roof," and "Pleasant Valley Sunday" were part of my life.
Mr. Edwin Goodman, in order to live in his pleasant apartment just under the roof, has had to sign himself up as the janitor.
The beginning of 2008 brought news of a Scottish pensioner who, concerned by a leaky roof, got a pleasant surprise in stumbling upon paintings worth over £250,000 in his attic.
Crescent Beach Road in Glen Cove, on Long Island, is a pleasant suburban stretch, all pitched roofs and tidy green lawns.
They are less ornate than the meat markets, and were damaged in the war, but consist of an airy, atmospheric, top-lit market hall with iron columns and a graceful timber roof, wrapped in pleasant-but-not-remarkable support buildings in red brick.
There's usually a convivial buzz in Brown's pleasant, vaguely European dining room with its sloping roof, slender, dark wood beams, cafe curtains, bouquets of roses and paintings of humble Scottish landscapes by Ms. Kaiser's husband, Richard.
A 25-year old man shot himself in the head on the roof of a hardware store in Point Pleasant, N.J., Wednesday morning.
