Waiting for a Superhero MD-2026 The original ball was five

The original ball was five feet in diameter

This aerial image captures lower Manhattan when the tip of the island was scored with piers and dotted with old buildings

Publication

Four "common" electric clocks stood in for the timepiece until workers installed the new one in March 1954 - an act that was photographed by Times staff photographer Neal Boenzi

along with this stunning photograph taken inside the historical museum by James Silverman

Waiting for a Superhero MD-2026 The original ball was fiveA superhero sits in a movie theater, biding her time until she can leap onto the silver screen for long awaited glory. Artist Ben Wiseman was the creative force behind this illustration published with Waiting for Wonder Woman, a Times Sunday Review article on December 21, 2013. Illustrations have played an instrumental role in The Timess journalistic legacy since December 11, 1861, when we published our first drawings front page cartoons of James