A huge upscale sportswear store on Fifth Avenue provides an appropriate symbolic backdrop for the silver stretch limousine that stands at rest beside it, most of it hidden in deep shadow. Everything in this image symbolizes affluence, yet no actual people are visible except for sanitized versions of humanity: the mannequins and fashion models displayed in the store windows. The ominous tone of this image suggests that wealth and power is both temporary and illusory, and their trappings may have lost their edge in these troubled times.