Before you head back to your hotel, allow yourself time for an aimless stroll through the streets illuminated by gas lamps.
It was a delight at night to have the streets illuminated by well-lighted apartments whose windows were bare of curtains or had sheer ones.
Many of the buildings along the northern side of the street, illuminated by a streak of sunlight that splits the frame, still stand.
On a bombed-out street illuminated only by the stars and the glow from the lights attached to the mosque's walls and minarets, the tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles turned their turrets left and right, searching for targets.
In the folksy song "Light Up My Room," Mr. Robertson sang of how both his lover and the hydroelectric lines beneath his street illuminated his life: "We can dance to the radio station that plays in our teeth," he crooned.
Shop windows are decorated with Arne Jacobsen's egg chairs, and streets are illuminated by security lights.
Times Square was a darker place then, "basically just a red-light district," Jaar said; now the streets are illuminated by shimmery billboards.
But the past is never far away: the faces in museums repeated in the streets.Details illuminate Mr Rodenbeck's cleverly written story: facts are slipped in unobtrusively.
On Friday evenings he escorts curious tourists and locals on a route of his own devising that takes in major landmarks and less salubrious side streets – all illuminated by Karim's lively patter, which blends historical facts, tall tales and matter-of-fact explanations of the realities of homelessness.
Accompanied by English and Russian translations through headsets, the "American Family" (through Jan . 21at Theater Four, 424 West 55th Street, Clinton) illuminates the Jewish immigrant experience on the Lower East Side of Manhattan as it follows the joys and tragedies of a widowed mother of four through the tumultuous years from 1910 to 1931.
