New York Postcard: The Changing Face of the Empire

From George Shaw...
I love buildings. My mother is an architect (retired), and when I was little I used to sit next to her at home and draw while she worked on sketches and plans at her drafting table. While she squinted at her slide rule before guiding/gliding a wooden T-square across large sheets of blue paper, I would pencil in endless versions of heavily armed and fortified houses, wobbly skyscrapers, and boxy New York-style skylines. To keep a short leash on my truant ways, I would spend mo