His headquarters essentially consist of the subway grate and the window, with the occasional brush of passers-by and the screech of car tires.

This being a city show house, the designers also included a second-floor balcony made from a subway grate.

In 1955, Marilyn Monroe created cinematic history when she stepped on a subway grate.

He switches on a floor fan and Marilyn's pleated skirt flies up the way it did when she stood on a subway grate in the 1955 movie.

A spade blade's depth beneath the corner of one bed, I knew, there was a rock as big as a subway grate.

Suddenly, Lily saw something glisten by the subway grate.

For another, real choices tend to be not so much between glorious fulfillment and keeping warm on a subway grate as between a rock and a hard place.

Steam from a nearby subway grate catches her purple and orange sarong.

In the modern life of New York City, the subway grate has played many worthy roles.

Ms. Scott, 33, quickly found out that the subway grate is not a particularly willing subject.