photographer: Michael Leon
Low Memorial Library, Columbia University
inside the J.Crew men’s shop at the Liquor Store, Tribeca, New York
designed by Partners & Spade and J.Crew
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New York City print by Anna Bond (Rifle Paper Co.)
photographer: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
The painted lines that define Manhattan crosswalks and anti-gridlock stripes at 59th and Fifth Avenue.
“The New York sky is beautiful because the skyscrapers push it back, very far over our heads,” Sartre wrote. “Pure and lonely as a wild beast, it guards and watches over the city.”
also: the I LUV U truck
photographer: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
A patchwork of row houses in Harlem.
photographer: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
For much of the city’s history, that purview was reserved mostly for birds and the romantic imagination of conceptual artists. By the end of the 18th century, hot-air balloons had opened the vantage point to a select few. Today, the vista is available to anyone watching images from a television news helicopter and, if they bother to look, to passengers flying in and out of the metropolitan area’s airports. Here, an aerial view of the seemingly peaceful Queensbridge houses in Long Island City, Queens.
photographer: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
“New York reveals itself only at a certain height, a certain distance, a certain speed!” Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a half-century ago, before the city grew even higher. The ideal perch, Sartre suggested, is not at the pedestrian’s height, distance or speed, but in the sky. Here, benches and mounds of shrubbery combine to form an urban oasis of curlicues, now being redesigned, at the Jacob K. Javits Plaza in Lower Manhattan.
