It was surprising enough to spot people playing badminton^[1] on a Manhattan^[2] rooftop. But it’s downright miraculous that Mary^[3] was their line judge. They’re playing on the roof of Ascension School^[4] on West 108th Street. The red-roofed building in the background is P.S. 165, the first ‘H-plan’ school designed by architect C. B. J. Snyder^[5]. The rooftops of New York City teem with unexpected life, other examples in this set: “Rooftop Embrace,” “Teen with Toy Gun on Roof,” and “Rooftop Venus.” Also in New York Magazine’s “The Strangest, and Loveliest, Views in New York”^[6].