Scenes from the top of the city

Link: Scenes from the top of the city. – Photographs – NYTimes.com

It’s one of the unspoken rules of summer in New York: if you can’t get out of the city, go up. In search of open space, better views and relief from the heat and noise, New Yorkers take to the rooftops. These pictures — all posted on Instagram, all submitted by readers last month — are glimpses of life on top