Like the a chess board, the Chrysler building with its feminine cap, like a Thai princesses crown is the queen to the Empire State building's king. But the machine age chromium gargoyles are pure Gotham.

City at Night, by Paulo Barcellos

The American Radiator building, now the Bryant Park Hotel, was designed by Raymond Hood. It represents a malevolent image of New York, being dark brown and menacing, very Gotham.

The wonderful tracery gothic roof of the General Electric building is one of New York architectural wonders.

Now known as the Verizon building, the Barclay-Vesey Building borders ground zero and although badly damaged in the 911 attacks, has been fully restored.

Opposite the original New York Times building, at the entrance to 'the Canyons' on Nassau St. is a Penthouse apartment often used in movies. The steel braced angels are like Batman's banshees.

The original top, before the addition of the radio mast was supposedly imagined as a dock for an airship, an incredible idea.

This building is like no other in New York. It stands at the corner of 14th Street and 8th Avenue, and from what I can find out it is called the County Trust Building. It looks like a Manhattan Gothic recreation of the Tower of Babel.

New York has a giant underground rotting toilet - that happens to have a surprisingly efficient network of trains running through it. 100 percent Gotham. This is a detail of Spring St.

With its organic street plan and skyscrapers, the canyon-like Financial district is more Gotham than mid-town, nowhere more so than the curved cliff face of Broad Street.

Stick a shovel in the ground in most cities and you expect to hit dirt - in Gotham you get several feet of steaming pipes.

Blurred and on a rainy winter night, there is nothing quite so deliciously retro-futuristic as the New Yorker Sign. Pure Gotham.

The Woolworth building with its Gothic exterior and Romanesque interior is a New York masterpiece, this view of the rear is opened up for the first time as the buildings behind have been demolished. The tallest building in the world, between 1913 and 1930, the building in the foreground was the tallest building at the beginning of the 20th Century.

Part of a collection of photos of curbs in NY, this is in Dumbo.

Home to both the man who was bigger than Jesus, John Lennon, and the Devil, in the movie, Rosemary's Baby, the Dakota is a creepy exclusive folly on Central Park West, that was built at a time when the neighbors were grazing cattle.