Thames' Twins

Twin-towered apartment houses are a New York signature — paired ornate crowns rising side by side so a single building reads as two, a silhouette built to be seen against the sky from the avenues and the park.

Photographed May 2013, from below. The two matching towers climb together against a bright sky, their carved stone crowns catching the light. In black and white the symmetry and the ornament do the work — a piece of the city's romantic skyline seen the way you'd never see it from across the street.