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"Long Island City" by Robyn Smuin
Capturing a view from the Queensboro Plaza subway station in Queens, NY, this station is just Southwest of Astoria on Long Island; a neighborhood known as "Long Island City."

"Icon" by Robyn Smuin

A symbol of America since its completion in 1886, the Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical bronze sculpture that was gift from France. It was meant to commemorate the USA's centennial of independence, and was a symbol of America's friendship with France.

"East 81st Dreamin' " by Robyn Smuin
Three blocks southeast of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this painting is a psychedelic take on #119, E81st Street in Manhattan- a luxury townhome built in 1899. 

"Mulberry Street" by Robyn Smuin
With the vibrant sounds and smells of Little Italy in NYC still present, here we stand a block northeast of the few remaining restaurants of that now vastly shrunken community. The rod iron-decorated tenements of a bygone era still flank this historical street.

"D Train" by Robyn Smuin

Capturing an everyday moment in Harlem, NYC, this is 125 Street Station - an express station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line. 

There's a story behind those green tiles - they're part of a colour-coding system used by the IND line that helps navigate people traveling away from Lower Manhattan. 

"The Viaduct" by Robyn Smuin 

This structure is the Riverside Drive Viaduct in Harlem, NYC. Built in 1901, it's girders were the largest that had ever been built at that time. Deliberately ornamental in design, this feat of engineering for its time stretches over half a mile, with each architect being perfectly symmetrical. 

An adaptation (with permission) of a photograph by NY photographer, Joseph Giardino.