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 Multistory parking lot or upturned beehive? Whatever you think of the Guggenheim Museum, it's the building that steals the show. Designed in six spiraling tiers by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Guggengeim Musuem at Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th streets is home to a tremendous collection of Picasso paintings and the works of other modern masters.
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 The Cathedral Church of St John the Divine (Amsterdam Ave between W 110th and 113th streets) rises out of the tenements of the southern fringes of Harlem with a sure, solid kind of majesty. Building progress is long and slow: still only two-thirds of the cathedral is finished, and completion isn't due until around 2050 – even assuming it goes on uninterrupted. The outdoor garden holds a dozen of bronze sculptures, including the Peace Fountain, shown on right.
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 New York at night is a sea of lignts. This picture shows the night scene as looking south from the Empire State Building. The two skyscrapers in the distance are the World Trade Center twin towers. The Broadway and the Fifth Avenue, the two brilliantly illuminated thoroughfares can also be seen in the picture.
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 Seen from Ellis Island, Downtown Manhattan under overcast sky appears floating on the water. The land under these skyscapers seems so fragile that it makes you wonder if it is strong enough to support the massive buildings on it.
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Just across the water, and just a few minutes on by ferry, sits Ellis Island. The island, originally known as Gibbet Island, became an immigration station in 1894. It remained open until 1954, when it was abandoned and left to fall into atmospheric ruin.
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 The triangular Flatiron Building was initially the world's tallest building when it was completed in 1902 and one of the first to be constructed around a steel frame, the method subsequently used to erect all moden-day skyscrapers.
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