Rothko I can stomach.

The city is a house and you are a child in it.

Mulberry Street, Manhattan. © Getty Images. [via dailymail.]

DC-4 over Manhattan, 1939.

Aerial view of a DC-4 passenger plane flying over midtown Manhattan, NYC, 1939, by Margaret Bourke-White. [via collectivehistory.]

The High Line

My very favorite public park. [via Co.Design.]

Celebrating the wartime pleasure of getting loaded and cleaning your guns

This wartime ad from Life encourages you to get loaded on fine booze at home while cleaning your guns, to leave the roads and railways clear for Our Boys. [via Boing Boing.]