In New York City, there’s a very fun tradition of leaving messages in your windows for those who live or work in the buildings across from you. If your buildings are located opposite each other, a whole invisible bridge of sympathy is created, across which all sorts of messages can travel.
For example, my photographs show the windows of the Saatchi & Saatchi Building, which stands across from the Google St. John’s Terminal (I wrote about it here).
Across the floors, you’ll find a variety of messages addressed to Google employees, from a sweet “Hi, how are you?” to an offer to play tic-tac-toe.
Another example, from the opposite side of Manhattan. The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Research Building belongs to Rockefeller University: its laboratories stand on a platform built over the FDR Drive along the East River, between 64th and 68th Streets. Here an entire floor spells out BLACK LIVES MATTER, taped up letter by letter and large enough to read from the far bank of the river.
