If it is a fake it’s pretty good. Notice the shadows of the bridges onm the water and the shadows of the handrail and lady are all leaning toward the photographer.
It is very compelling.
I agree with the poster who said you should have requested to look at the actual back of the print.
To me it is obviously a composite picture...
Notice I didn’t say fake, I just believe in the interest the restarant had in decorating their establishment with compelling and interesting photos and other “frou-frou” (BTW, where is FrouFrou???) they certasinly got their money’s worth...
Notice the mode of dress the woman (if it really is a woman), her hair style, sunglasses are way to contemporary in my opinion to corrolate to the nostalgic fair of the photograph...
The railing and device behind her are nautical in theme...The hatches and other accessways into the device behind her indicate (in my vast naval experience) a device that could be a “reciever” or some other transmitting device that might be used for either communications or some other form of sensing RF (radio frequency) emmissions from other ships or land installations...
The high altitude shot of lower Manhattan is just that...When it was taken is subject to additional scrutiny, as the exact configuration of that area is not readily apparent to me...I have not spotted the WTC as yet...It would have had to have been taken after 1977 I suppose...
Overall the perspective of the picture indicates that the woman, much less her immediate surroundings indicate that she would be very comfortable at that altitude in the first place...
The whole derrigible (airship) idea doesn’t compute with me...
The “shadow” comment gets me to thinking of the whole cut-n-paste picture of Lee Harvey Oswald standing there holding the rifle, some documents and the shadows on the head differ from the alignment of the shadows on the body that the head is cut and pasted to...
The first question is why??? Why do you pose with a rifle, wearing the clothes he had on with one hand holding a rifle, and the other holding documents???
Somehow I am going to have to figure out why I would ever want to pose for a picture like that...Then see if anyone calls me a goober for doing so...I know some would call me a goober anyway...
Onward and upward I say!!!