From the same comic as yesterday’s view, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That’s the Fifth Avenue facade, drawn quite faithfully. Here’s a view from around 1902, when the center of that wing was just being completed. (The original museum is the victorian building behind and to the right.) The side wings were completed about 10, 15 years later.
Again, this story is set in the future, so that’s Catwoman on the left with a streak of white in her hair. The Riddler is also going white at the temples. Poison Ivy, being part plant, is apparently immune to this sign of aging.
The second frame shows the gang in the attic of the museum, preparing for a theft. An interesting choice by the artist: the attic is shown as framed in heavy timber. If this were a European museum or an older American one, that would probably be correct. By the time that the Met was built, the New York code and local practice made it almost impossible to construct except using fire-rated construction. It’s a hybrid of steel framing and bearing walls, with masonry vault floors carried on steel beams. So that view of the attic is more romantic – as befits a comic book – than realistic.
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