Affolternstrasse

Affolternstrasse goes from Schaffhauserstrasse to Kügeliloostrasse. It is named after the town of Affoltern, which is today a district of Zürich. "Affoltern" itself comes from the old German word "Aphaltra", which means apple tree.

I have a few more pictures on this street because I visited it twice - in different (although adjacent) parts of the street!

A two way street with a 20km/h limitation painted on the ground and on a sign, hedges on the left, brown-read buildings on the right, and high-rise buildings in the background. There's a light green construction vehicles parked on the left of the street. — Affolternstrasse near Oerlikon train station

Some light-green construction vehicles in front of an industrial building with a high brick chimney. — Construction vehicles in front of an industrial building

A long, 3-storey yellow/orange brick building on the right side of a street. Train tracks are visible behind it, and a high-rise building appears in the background. — Buildings next to the Oerlikon train station on Affolternstrasse

A large L-shaped building with a lot of windows reflecting the blue sky, next to a smaller, older-looking building, above train tracks in Zürich Oerlikon. — High-rise buildings (including the Franklinturm) next to the Oerlikon train station in Zürich

A long, 4-storey yellow/orange brick building on the left side of a street, with trees and a bar terrasse in front of it. — Buildings next to the Oerlikon train station on Affolternstrasse

A row of similar-looking (but different color-painted) 3-storey houses in a residential street. — Buildings on Affolternstrasse

A residential street with 4-storey apartment buildings on each sides, green hedges and trees. — Affolternstrasse

The corner of a white building. The facing façade has a long plant with green leaves growing on it. The perpendicular façades shows a lot of windows. The right part of the picture shows a blue, slightly cloudy sky. — A plant growing on a wall

A red bookcase with two shelves full of German-language books behind glass doors. A sign asks "Bitte jeweils nur 1-2 Bücher bringen" - "please only bring 1-2 books at a time". A blue sign for a local festival is also stuck to the glass. — Tiny library / public bookcase on Affolternstrasse. The sign asks to not bring more than 1-2 books at a time.