Cinching the Towline

Neighborhood Bar

When the P&G Cafe was pushed out of its decades-old roost on Amsterdam Avenue the street lost one of its most evocative neon landmarks. Happily, the bar still thrives a few blocks uptown.

Central Park Sunset #11

"Conservatory Water," the gemlike pond below the "castle" -- the old Central Park weather station -- can seem like a magical realm with a summer sunset behind it.

Belleclaire Hotel

Under its coat of grime, the Belleclaire is a truly classy building. Opened as a hotel in 1903, it was the first major work by one of New York's great architects, Emery Roth.

Summer Reflections, Central Park West

From a summer snapshot, with the windows of the Art Deco Century Apartments giving back images of Central Park's sky & sunlit trees.