Man in rain, 1952. This is probably West 88th Street, where Orkin lived.

🎄The Museum’s Origami Tree opens to visitors today! With a nod to the Museum’s newest exhibition Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs, the theme of this year’s tree is New Beginnings. It celebrates the spectacular variety of species that evolved after an asteroid impact ended the age of dinosaurs some 66 millions years ago. An annual New York City tradition, the 13-ft (4-m) tree is adorned with thousands of origami models. Among them are dinosaurs and other extinct reptiles—pterosaurs that ruled the skies, mosasaurs and plesiosaurs that roamed the seas, as well as Triceratops and T. rex, which walked the Earth during the Cretaceous Period.

The tree also includes an array of mammals and insects that evolved after the asteroid impact. These new mammals include ancestors of the Museum’s iconic Blue Whale, as well as our primate ancestors. Look for birds, too—dinosaurs living among us today.