"I like the Hopper painting with the people in the diner at night."

In the afternoon sun, the area, just west of Times Square, still looks like a Hopper painting.

I remember, especially, some personal tales told by those children in response to the more familiar Hopper paintings.

Meanwhile, someone notices her standing in the window and stops to watch for a moment, as if she were a figure in a Hopper painting.

Sachs looked again at the poster of the Hopper painting.

"It's almost like stepping into a Hopper painting from the 1940's," she said.

Across the street there has always been a yellow-brick building that, in the evening light, looks like a Hopper painting.

There are eight characters in a total of six scenes based on four Hopper paintings.

She looks as lonely and exposed as a figure in a Hopper painting.

As in many Hopper paintings, the interaction is minimal.