"The Childs Boardwalk restaurant, on the Coney Island boardwalk at West 21st built in 1923. This stucco and terracotta palace has marble columns and a facade  decorated with polychrome, nautical theme medallions." - "Coney Island Lost and Found" by Charles Denson   MikeH has some really good closeups of this building further down the page.

Strangers - I'm addicted to these.
At my lunch perch on the NE corner of 34th street and 7th Ave. She is photographing her friends with the Empire State Building as a background.
Times Square, 44th and Broadway.  The man taking the photo is selling them for $20 a piece.  He has a cart on the sidewalk with a printer connected to a car battery.