It is on display in the Musée National d'Art Moderne at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.

[1] An unfinished version of the work, titled New York City I, has strips of painted paper tape, which the artist could rearrange at will to experiment with different designs.

[3] It was then briefly in the hands of Galerie Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, in 1980 before being acquired by Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen later that same year.

[3] Art historian Susanne Meyer-Büser announced in October 2022 that the artwork had been displayed upside down at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen for decades.

[8][10] It was feared that righting the artwork would cause parts of it to disintegrate, as the adhesive used had deteriorated and some of the tapes were "hanging by a thread".