1.   A carved wooden lion with fierce eyebrows growls, and a carousel greyhound in a red and gold harness leans, ears flattened, into an imaginary wind.

2.   A carved wooden lion with fierce eyebrows growls.

3.   Stuffed lions, carved lions, painted lions.

4.   The New York Public Library, with its grand Corinthian columns and carved lions standing guard over Fifth Avenue, is visible just one block west.