Here are more pictures from our trip to New York City. Besides the huge skyscrapers and art deco buildings, sculptures and other architectural details caught my eye. Here is a random sampling of some of them.
Who can resist Times Square? With its energy and buzz, it's quintessential New York and a people-watching paradise.On the 50th Street side of Radio City Music Hall, there are three large plaques that represent the main activities inside - "Dance, Drama and Song." This one is "Drama."At 30 Rockefeller Plaza, directly in front of the famous ice-skating rink, is "Wisdom" (1933).Flanking "Wisdom" are "Sound and Light" (1933). These stylized panels represent new technologies of the times - radio (sound) and television (light). This one is "Light.""Saint Francis of Assisi with Birds" (1937) sits above a building entrance on 50th Street.At the viewing area at the "top of the rock" you can see these large metal panels up close. I halfway expected to see the bat signal floating up in the sky over "Gotham City."This tiled panel was appropriately located at the 50th Street subway stop near the Theater District. It is part of the "Alice: The Way Out" tile work by Liliana Porter (1994).Subway stops are labeled by colorful tile mosaics, like this one at the 116th Street-Columbia University stop.A stone rosette adorns either side of the entrance to Low Memorial Library, a National Historic Landmark, on the Columbia University campus.
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