![The oversized images help open up the space and show off little seen photographs from the collection.](https://pentagram-production.imgix.net/wp/592c99d550ace/mb-stairwellb-03.jpg?rect=%2C%2C%2C&w=640&fm=jpg&q=70&auto=format)
The oversized images help open up the space and show off little seen photographs from the collection.
![The quotations are carefully typeset to fill the space.](https://pentagram-production.imgix.net/wp/592c99d67c3cf/mb-stairwellb-04.jpg?rect=%2C%2C%2C&w=640&fm=jpg&q=70&auto=format)
The quotations are carefully typeset to fill the space.
![Museumgoers climb past](https://pentagram-production.imgix.net/wp/592c99d755cf8/mb-stairwellb-05.jpg?rect=%2C%2C%2C&w=640&fm=jpg&q=70&auto=format)
Museumgoers climb past
![Stanley Kubrick's 1946 photograph of a couple on a fire escape.](https://pentagram-production.imgix.net/wp/592c99d985fe7/mb-stairwellb-11.jpg?rect=%2C%2C%2C&w=640&fm=jpg&q=70&auto=format)
Stanley Kubrick's 1946 photograph of a couple on a fire escape.
![Image of a child on a swing in Central Park taken by an unknown photographer, 1960.](https://pentagram-production.imgix.net/wp/592c99dc3edd5/mb-stairwellb-07.jpg?rect=%2C%2C%2C&w=640&fm=jpg&q=70&auto=format)
Image of a child on a swing in Central Park taken by an unknown photographer, 1960.
![Roller skaters at a rink in Astoria photographed by Agnes Zellin in 1981.](https://pentagram-production.imgix.net/wp/592c99dd6e9bb/mb-stairwellb-08.jpg?rect=%2C%2C%2C&w=640&fm=jpg&q=70&auto=format)
Roller skaters at a rink in Astoria photographed by Agnes Zellin in 1981.
![The quotations are carefully typeset to fit into the pattern of images and text. Here, a 1959 quote by Moss Hart.](https://pentagram-production.imgix.net/wp/592c99df2e656/mb-stairwellb-09.jpg?rect=%2C%2C%2C&w=640&fm=jpg&q=70&auto=format)
The quotations are carefully typeset to fit into the pattern of images and text. Here, a 1959 quote by Moss Hart.
![A view of Ninth Avenue photographed by Samuel H. Gottscho in 1932.](https://pentagram-production.imgix.net/wp/592c99e0c12fd/mb-stairwellb-10.jpg?rect=%2C%2C%2C&w=640&fm=jpg&q=70&auto=format)
A view of Ninth Avenue photographed by Samuel H. Gottscho in 1932.