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The World Trade Center gleams in the evening light in a photo taken from nearby Battery Park in May of 2001.
A cop strides across the flag-topped Brooklyn Bridge.
Sometimes the clouds hang low enough over the city that it obscures the tops of the buildings. Here, the Chrysler Building seems to snag the fog on its spire.
Grand Central Terminal seems to glow in the morning light.
Rockefeller Center, home of NBC, the Rainbow Room, and the Rockettes, is a classic of Art Deco architecture.
When it was built, the Plaza Hotel was so far from downtown that no one thought it could succeed as a hotel. (The Dakota, a few blocks further, was named after the state because it seemed so far from town.) The Plaza now has been converted to a residence hotel.