Shadows & Light

A summery planting at the entrance to the Peter Stuyvesant apartment building, at 98th Street and Riverside.

Another artwork by Elbow-Toe, on Gansevoort Street near the West Side Highway. (For more about the street artist Elbow-Toe, click here .)

A slightly scary montage of '60s singers on W. 3rd Street, with the Beatles front and center. Looks like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and ...

These doors, on either side of a pub on Avenue B near Houston Street, appear to be the work of Chico. The Empire State Building seems a bit ...

The tile-and-terrazzo entrance to the State Insurance Fund building meets the sidewalk, on Church Street.

Without question the best new large building in New York in recent years, the Hearst Tower by Norman Foster cuts a jagged figure in the sky...

Sometimes advertisements and architecture come together in unusual ways. Here on E. 93rd Street, I liked the contrast between the very moder...