The neighborhood.

I can hear the band practicing from our apartment. We live next to the president, sort of, and in the late afternoons I can hear the roll and snap of a snare drum in the distance. We also live near the UN building. In the distance I can see mountains, but they are crowded out by the nearer buildings. The valleys around our home are severe. I would like to measure the elevation change from one neighborhood to the next because in places it is like a city of ridges and ravines.