Shifting my vantage point and using a super wideangle lens, I bring together the art deco Empire State Building and the art nouveau canopy over the 34th street entrance to the former B. Altman department store. I juxtapose these two architectural triumphs, placing them only inches apart within my frame. I contrast the eras during which the two buildings were constructed. Altman’s, the first department store on Fifth Avenue, was built in 1906, while the Empire State Building was erected in 1931.