Cityscape Views Gifts

"Isn't the universe wonderful?" "I thought there was supposed to be fireworks."

'I'm sure that one wasn't there last week.'

"Of all the buildings I've designed, it's probably the most handsome."

"The woman on the fire escape who acted like it was a balcony"

"Some day, son, all this will be yours. ... Actually, you know what? You can have it now."

"Sorry, the sound of your chewing sends me into a rage."

"This is a side of Manhattan you don't often see."

"I don't believe in you!"

A man looks up at the earth

“It's $195 million. Now, I know what you're thinking: 'OK, what's the catch?'”

Country farmhouse loaf / Inner city highrise loaf.

Fish-tank Skyscraper.

"Hey, I just consider myself very fortunate to be getting paid for something I'd be doing anyway."

A couple looks at posters of Rio, Paris and Tokyo, all of which feature skyscrapers.

Manhattan Cat atop the Woolworth Building

'Welcome! You are now in Shambles!'

"Son, one day two hundred square feet of this city could be yours to rent."

"Someday this will all be yours...assuming that someday you'll have enough to buy it from me."

"It's wonderful, darling. It really says Manhattan."

Monster Clown

Manhattan Cat atop the Flatiron Building

City Centre Development - "...We've spent all the money on the model."

75 Years: The Commemorative Issues

"With great power comes great, great stress."

'It's amazing that with all the things I've done that I haven't gotten a big head.'

"He knows 'sit, stay, paw' and 'upstate.'"

"And, yet another plus, it will block out the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays from a considerable portion of the city."

"Hard to believe this was all rain forest just fifteen years ago."

Entering Dystopia - Formerly Pleasant Hills

"It's a sad state of affairs when Lever House begins to seem like a warm old friend."

"We call it, 'Green meadows' because that's what it was before we decided to build on it."

"Sarah, get me my own billboard right across the way. I'd like an office with a nice view."

Gambling on office building construction

'I see the Europeanisation of the city has begun.'

"I feel like I was just a foundation yesterday."