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A few other favorites not pictured:
The Chinese garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The ladies’ room at the Four Seasons Hotel, off the lobby
Thé Adoré, a Japanese tea shop, late afternoon
The Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, next to the Void sculptures
The New York Society Library, third floor
The steps near the Alma Mater statue at Columbia University, overlooking central campus
The 69th Street pier in Bay Ridge on a Sunday morning
The Quaker meeting house on 16th St. and Rutherford Pl.
Walter De Maria’s New York Earth Room in Soho
Momotaro hair salon in the Olympic Tower, any chair
The Jefferson Market library, in the reading space upstairs
The garden behind St. Luke”s church on Hudson Street.
Photograph by Marcelo Gomes