New York is more than a city of boxes on a grid of squares. While the architecture is rarely as eccentric as the abandoned World’s Fair pavilion, above, in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, it often expresses itself vividly in arches and angles, corners and curves, glinting edges and poignant shadows.
The Loew's Jersey Theater in Jersey City was once threatened with demolition but has been brought back to life through renovation.
The “eggs,” or digesters, at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant in Brooklyn are going into operation.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/06/10/nyregion/20080611_LENS_SLIDESHOW_index.html
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