Holland Tunnel Ventilation

Nothing like a good looking, useful building.

42nd St. Bowery Savings Bank

Above and below left, details on 42nd, across from Grand Central.    Below right, the bank's faded name on the 41st St. backside of the building.  The bank is now a Cipriani catering hall; see a 360 panorama of its interior here.

Marriott Marquis Hotel

At 7th Ave. & 54th St.  The tower above looks like the command center for a future fascist planet, while its entrance, below, is buried under warped plastic advertizing like the rest of Times Square.

Scaffold Mountain

At 68th St. & 2nd Ave.

Brick Red

Above, PS1 at 21st St. & 46th Ave. in Long Island City.  Below, the Puck Building at Mulberry & Jersey Sts.

Kips Bay Towers

At 1st Ave. & 30th St.  Built in the brutalist style in 1965, but nowhere near as brutal as the plastic boxes thrown up this decade.


Note the way the individual air conditioners soften the brutal grid.