An curved arrow pointing right. Watch as artist Pat Vale draws the New York City skyline by hand for his art piece "Colossus." The entire process took Pat four weeks, and involved a lot of photos ...

As much as new buildings and scenes speak to the gentrification of New York City, so too do the photographs of people, many of whom are now long gone, having since died, grown up, or moved away.

Interior of SVA Library (left); students working in a classroom facility. New York City skyline as seen from the 23rd Street Residence, which exclusively houses first-year students. An SVA drawing ...