Scenes from Mexico City

A wide tree-lined pedestrian median in Mexico City, likely along Álvaro Obregón or a similar boulevard in Roma, on a sunny midday. Three workers in orange safety vests and wide-brimmed hats sweep and tend the path, which is flanked by iron fencing, planted beds of agave, and ornamental lampposts. An HSBC bike-share dock with several bicycles is visible at the right edge; cars and a white van pass on the streets to either side.
A white and green porcelain teapot with gold detailing and a matching white teacup on a saucer, arranged on a round wooden tray set on an outdoor table. A small glass vase holds yellow daisies and goldenrod. In the background, parked cars and motorcycles line a sunlit street.
A busy urban intersection on a clear sunny day in Mexico City, centered on the entrance to Metro Sonora, a Line 8 station marked by a curved steel canopy and a red-and-white station sign. A woman in a summer dress crosses a zebra crossing in front of the entrance. Large Samsung Galaxy S26 billboard advertisements cover the faces of two buildings in the background, and a green Claro billboard advertising up to 35% off phones is mounted on a building to the left. A red sedan, a dark SUV, and several other cars occupy the street, with pedestrians and a pink-awninged market stall visible on the right sidewalk.
A group of people sit around a folding table on a wide sidewalk in Roma Norte, eating tacos under a white canopy tent on a sunny midday. A white SUV is parked to the left beside trimmed shrubs in concrete planters, a standing man in dark tracksuit looks on, and an orange interlocking plastic barrier tower stands in the foreground to the right.
The storefront of Caldos de Gallina Luis, a small Mexican soup stall, with a large illuminated sign in red three-dimensional letters above the open counter. A logo medallion shows a mustachioed man in a blue hat. Two workers stand behind the counter, and menu boards listing caldos, enchiladas, quesadillas, and aguas are visible inside. A Pepsi sign hangs to the left.
A black-and-white stencil or cutout artwork of a chicken mounted on a bright pink stucco wall. The hen is depicted in profile facing left, with detailed feather patterning in black and gray, a small red comb, and clawed feet.
The entrance to Tacos al Fuego, a street-level restaurant at Av. Sonora 205 in Colonia Hipódromo Condesa, with a large yellow banner listing desayunos, chilaquiles, jugos, aguas de fruta, and ensaladas. Three people stand at the counter speaking with an older man in a burgundy apron, a large plastic water bottle sits on the counter to the left, and an OXXO convenience store is visible next door to the right.
The Álvaro Obregón Metrobús station on a bright, clear afternoon along a busy boulevard in Roma Norte, with a covered platform, digital displays, and a station sign visible. Behind it rises a tall glass-curtain-wall office tower with a narrow white side wall decorated with large painted balloon shapes in purple, blue, and gray. A Krispy Kreme storefront and a Suzuki Swift in traffic appear in the foreground.
A street-art paste-up on a dark wall in Mexico City showing a young Indigenous woman in traditional striped and floral huipil dress, wearing pink heart-shaped sunglasses and holding a boombox, with a light-blue halo behind her head. The artwork is signed @FUNKYCOOK at the bottom right. To the left, a small convenience store displays chip bags, Bonafont water signage, and snack racks in its doorway; a fern grows from the sidewalk in front of the mural, and a pedestrian in a blue jacket and gray pants stands just outside the shop.
A shaded residential street in Polanco lined with tall mature trees whose canopies filter strong midday sunlight into rays. Motorcycles and a white SUV are parked along the left curb, another white SUV and a white van occupy the right side, and a no-entry traffic sign is visible mid-block on the right. Low trimmed hedges run along a central median in the distance.
A busy pedestrian corner on Avenida Insurgentes in Condesa, with a red-awninged Tim Hortons café and bake shop occupying the ground floor of a weathered three-story white building. A wig shop called Marpel Pelucas sits above, small groups of people stand on the sidewalk, a woman in jeans and a striped blouse crosses the intersection in the foreground, cars queue along the boulevard under overcast midday skies, and large mature trees line both sides of the avenue.
The Fuente de la Diana Cazadora roundabout fountain on Paseo de la Reforma, lit in blue-purple at night, with a statue of Diana at its center and water cascading from tiered basins. A dark SUV and a white sedan pass through the roundabout in the foreground, trees glow green under streetlights, and the BBVA tower—its facade illuminated in blue—rises in the background.
A busy outdoor street market in Centro Histórico, with crowds of shoppers moving past vendor stalls covered by red umbrellas and white tarps, shoe merchandise displayed on black grid racks, and a large weathered pink multi-story building behind them. A sign for Plaza Charl is visible on the left, a cell tower rises above the building, and the sky is overcast.
An elevated view of the Palacio de Bellas Artes in the Centro Histórico on an overcast day, its white marble neoclassical facade topped by a large Art Nouveau dome tiled in orange and gold with a bronze eagle at the peak. The surrounding plaza is filled with scattered pedestrians, trimmed hedges, and ornamental fountains, with blue construction barriers lining the adjacent avenues and the broader city skyline visible in the background.
The pre-Hispanic stone ruins of Tlatelolco under a clear blue sky, weathered dark stone terraces and steps in the foreground, with the small twin bell towers of the colonial Iglesia de Santiago Tlatelolco rising behind the platform to the right.
A narrow Mexico City side street with cobblestones, colorful low-rise buildings on either side — cream and red on the left, yellow and mural-covered on the right — tangled electrical wires overhead, a tree in the middle distance, parked cars along the curb, and a man in a cap in the foreground.
A handsome early-20th-century corner building in Roma Norte, seen from across the street through the open window of a car on a clear morning. Stone detailing on the upper floors, ground-floor shops below, a Stanza hotel sign on the building to the right, pedestrians crossing the intersection.
A jacaranda tree in full bloom canopying a street corner in Condesa, with a small white car and a white pickup truck parked along the curb and a pedestrian crossing in front.
A woman in a red-heart apron stands behind her tianguis stall, greeting two shoppers across counters stacked with buckets, plastic bags, and household goods. White tarps stretch overhead.
Looking through a dark-green iron gate into the courtyard of La Casa Azul in Coyoacán: cobalt-blue walls, a tall yucca and cactus, magenta bougainvillea spilling down the left, visitors walking the garden paths.
A black vintage Volkswagen Beetle parked at the curb beside a Sunday tianguis, with white and blue tarps stretched over the stalls behind it and trees lining the street.