The brick wall motif is use repeatedly throughout Street Scenes to delineate the formal and conceptual boundaries of the named space; the street, a vague yet symbolically charged locale. This formal device is inspired by the unique architecture of New York City's old tenement and public housing buildings. In Window (2019), the large brick wall of the tenement gives way to a domestic scene. Through the window-sill a women wrapped in a towl can be seen fixing her hair. This vignette nobs to the inner lives and quotidian rituals of the people who live within the city, above the streets depicted in the various works from the collection. Window's protagonist is placed behind a metal gate, drawn with delicate thread. The female protagonist is simultaneously visible and inaccessible. Iron gates like this are common throughout Harlem, there for both security and beautification, often bear sankofas and adinkra symbols, motifs brought to the Americas by enslaved West-Africans generations ago.