As a native New Yorker, professional photographer, and long distance runner, I am keenly interested in what the urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg called third places - places beyond home and work where people gather and interact. For me, great third places are public parks, gardens, landmarks, museums, and stadiums where people socialize and practice the vital aspects of human nature. I’m interested in how public space enhances human interaction and makes cities great places to live. I’m also specifically interested in exploring and magnifying visually captivating public spaces. That’s what this series of panoramas is primarily about. It often happens that when I am out running through the city, something visually interesting will stop me in my tracks with an aha! moment. I simply take my iPhone from my runners pouch and work to describe the space as I experience it. It is the photographer’s task to translate the three dimensions of the physical world down to the two dimensions of the picture plane. In so doing, the photographer has an opportunity to create poetry. These pictures are an expression of the poetry of place. Gardens, parks, landmarks, museums, and other third places throughout the boroughs of New York City: all are spaces to explore the beauty of humanity and humanity in the public sphere. All of these photographs were made with an iPhone using the default iOS camera in Panorama mode. The iPhone is the most common camera today. That's why I use it. There is much more to do making panoramas that celebrate and amplify the importance of our third places.