Statue Repairs Size:20" x 25" The Times sent a reporter

The Times sent a reporter and photographer to follow an out-of-town couple on their first visit to New York

for the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

double-decker buses - manned by a driver and conductor - lent a certain quaint flavor to New York's Fifth Avenue

A Great Holiday to be Remembered in This City

which we hiked on the first day

Statue Repairs Size:20" x 25" The Times sent a reporterThe sculpture of Minerva atop Grand Central Terminal received something of a makeover, an arduous task done every so often to restore the building's facade, made of limestone but whose daily assault from pollution and other hazards of city life render it a "mossy brown." In 2004, The Times reported on another round of cleaning and restoration, which included "repairing cracks, repointing all 23,457 stones on the facade and replacing missing pieces,