The stairs are considered easy to climb, and at the top, the payoff is grand: picture-postcard views of Brooklyn and the Manhattan skyline.

It was a typical picture-postcard view.

Riley has a picture-postcard view of the tower from his new office at the Modern's temporary location in Long Island City.

Hands down, this is Seward's culinary high point, with attentive service, picture-postcard views and the finest seafood above water.

A picture-postcard view of each locale records its history, and a cloth dipped in water shows the pollution that now fouls it.

Lap up picture-postcard views across the Bristol Channel to Wales from your loft-style living room with floor-to-ceiling windows and woodburner.

She had a picture-postcard view of soft snow falling in the moonlight.

This is the section of river most popular with tourists, with its picture-postcard views of elegant bridges, green lawns and graceful willows.

Finally the picture-postcard view of misty mountaintops vanishes, replaced by window bars.

But the lingering picture-postcard views of the Capitol, in sun and snow and gloom of night, are a snooze.