Now Mr. Harmon, 68, who grew up in one of those buildings — a bow-fronted town house on West 76th Street near Central Park — has gone to the United States Supreme Court contending that New York City's rent laws constitute a "taking" of his property without just compensation, a violation of his constitutional rights.
One morning in February, McKeon walked down a marbled hallway on his way to a hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building and made a bow toward uniformed men standing near a doorway.
She thought the park ought to look "like it had been here 100 years," taking design cues from the nearby American Thread Building of 1895, a bow-fronted Beaux-Arts building where she happens to live.
Scattered around the building are a bathtub, a bow and arrow, a sombrero, a pumpkin-shaped lampshade, tools, milk crates, spray cans, a piano and a small ax.
Inspired by the Thames pageant, Andrew Southerden, a landlord in Kibworth, Leicestershire, transformed his pub into HMS Coach & Horses, affixing portholes, liferafts, funnels and a bow to the building.
"I think we are building up, I've said for quite a while, we [have] a bow wave coming.
Noah simply bows his head, listens, and starts building without a hint of challenge to the decree.
Each floor is symmetrically divided in two by a hallway, and a projection at the end of the building references the bow of a ship.
