In the New York City morning tourists with Gray Line All-Loops tickets scramble from Times Square to catch the boat to the Statue of Liberty. At the end of the day, these tourists need tour buses in Battery Park to collect them back to the hotel. At Gray Line these sweeper buses are called a Boat Pick-Up: they depart empty from 47th & Broadway so as to maximize seating from the Battery lowland landfill lines, and en route downtown the tour guide gets to ride the bus alone. . .

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The Boat Pick-Up

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Future Luxy

Old Bar Sign, Cypress Avenue & Stockholm Street.

Underpass Storefronts, Wyckoff Avenue & Broadway.

Liquor Store, closed, Onderdonk Avenue.

Liquor Store Holiday Display, Onderdonk Avenue.

Madonna Collage, bodega, Wyckoff Avenue.

Grotesque, front hallway, 426 Himrod Street.

Cafe Europa, closed, Cypress Avenue.

Conjoined, Roxy Paine, 2007-08 & The Metropolitan Life Tower, Napoleon LeBrun & Sons, 1909. Take a guess which of the two installations was created by the same designer of Schuylkill County Prison?

Tree Huts, Tadashi Kawamata, 2008-09 & the Flatiron Building, Daniel Burnham, 1902.

The Croisic Building, Frederick C. Browne, 1910.

Wisdom, Frederick Wellington Ruckstull, NY Supreme Court Appellate Division,
the late Mauve Years.

Clock, Fifth Avenue Building, green light.

Conjoined & Fifth Avenue.

Public Bathroom, Madison Sq. Park Conservancy, 2008.

Clock, Fifth Avenue Building, red light.

MetLife Tower, 17th Floor of The Croisic Building.