Walk

Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

Watertowers stand sentry above New York like a silent army. You sometimes become aware of their existance only when you see their shadows against a building's wall (a sight which must be more common in winter than in summer given the angle of the sun). Anyway-they're a benign presence. Helpfully providing water pressure to put out fires, or allow you to shower on the 13th floor. Despite their uniformity, they represent a pre-industrial technology, put together by hand and (to an extent) custom built. Pigeons are their only enemy. Hawks perch on them scanning the sidewalk for squirrels and other small critters.