NEW YORKERS // BY MLOW · ROOMS 112 TO 121

The city behind
the city.

Ten new working worlds for the painted New Yorkers. Imagined NYC interiors built around the collection: the people, the labor, the unseen systems. Pick a room, then walk, inspect each work, or take the guided tour.

Letters through the void virtual gallery
112 / PNEUMATIC POST / CIVIC CENTER

Letters through the void

Copper message tubes converge above a circular sorting chamber. Portraits become letters to the city.

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The pattern cathedral virtual gallery
113 / GARMENT DISTRICT / CUTTING LOFT

The pattern cathedral

Sawtooth roof lights, suspended pattern rails and a runway of painted New Yorkers.

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Forty-seven facets virtual gallery
114 / 47TH STREET / DIAMOND VAULT

Forty-seven facets

An octagonal vault with folded metal ceilings and jewel-like portrait niches.

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The city exhales virtual gallery
115 / MANHATTAN / STEAM CHAMBER

The city exhales

Huge pressure vessels flank a clear inspection walk, threaded with electric-blue valve lines.

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Tomorrow is wet ink virtual gallery
116 / NEWSPAPER ROW / PRESS FLOOR

Tomorrow is wet ink

Giant paper reels and suspended blank paper ribbons frame an editorial gallery of city characters.

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Spin cycle for a sleepless city virtual gallery
117 / QUEENS / MIDNIGHT LAUNDROMAT

Spin cycle for a sleepless city

A horseshoe of giant washer drums surrounds a calm central court, with art on flat enamel panels.

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Every light is a fare virtual gallery
118 / LONG ISLAND CITY / TAXI DISPATCH

Every light is a fare

A fan of yellow dispatch bays beneath an oversized radio antenna, each holding a city portrait.

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Before the flowers wake virtual gallery
119 / 28TH STREET / FLOWER COLD ROOM

Before the flowers wake

A refrigerated botanical archive with bucket gardens and floating, frost-colored display fins.

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The fourth wall belongs to us virtual gallery
120 / LOWER EAST SIDE / HANDBALL COURT

The fourth wall belongs to us

Three monumental handball walls become a civic triptych, with smaller portraits along the sidelines.

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Winter stored as a mountain virtual gallery
121 / WEST SIDE / SALT VAULT

Winter stored as a mountain

A crystalline municipal cavern: a salt mountain under a folded shell, encircled by an art promenade.

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