Photo Credit: Mark Lentz. Viewpoint: looking northwest towards 47th St. from 1st Ave., ; 1/20/02 2:24 PM.

Notes (Roving Rube): A street urchin's snowball explodes against the one of these sculptural monoliths near the UN.

To the great disappointment of the urchins and shock of the Rube, a prior toss had just missed the back of the latter's head.

The Trump World Tower looms in the background.