The very day I returned home from this trip to New York, I saw an article in the New York Times reporting that the famous Roseland Ballroom, a club in Midtown Manhattan where generations of bands have performed since 1919, would be closing later this year. Without knowing this, I had earlier made this image of Roseland’s striking painted façade, featuring a single tourist leaning on a barrier as she waits to photograph one of the many celebrities that often appear in New York’s theatre district. The tourist is small, quiet and patient, which provides an incongruous comparison in scale and attitude to the monumental mural filled with vivid primary colors and the energetic symbolic hands of silhouetted Roseland customers. New York is always changing, and now Roseland, which once hosted the likes of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Sting, Madonna, the Rolling Stones, and Beyoncé, appears ready to close its doors.