Theme Week New York City – National September 11 Memorial and Museum

14 March 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Museums, Exhibitions, New York City Reading Time:  10 minutes

© Cadiomals/cc-by-sa-3.0

© Cadiomals/cc-by-sa-3.0

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is the principal memorial and museum, respectively, commemorating the September 11 attacks of 2001 (which killed 2,977 people) and the World Trade Center bombing of 1993 (which killed six). The memorial is located at the World Trade Center site, the former location of the Twin Towers (which were destroyed during the attacks). It is operated by a non-profit corporation, headed by Joe Daniels, whose mission is to raise funds for, program, own and operate the memorial and museum at the World Trade Center site.   read more…

Greenwich Village in Manhattan

11 March 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, New York City Reading Time:  10 minutes

Washington Square Park © Matthew Jesuele

Washington Square Park © Matthew Jesuele

Greenwich Village, often referred to by locals as simply “the Village”, is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in the city of New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families. Greenwich Village, however, was known in the late 19th to mid 20th centuries as an artists’ haven, the bohemian capital, the cradle of the modern LGBT movement (Stonewall Inn, Stonewall riots, Christopher Street, Christopher Street Day, BBC, 17 June 2019: Stonewall: A riot that changed millions of lives, The Guardian, 19 June 2019: The riot that changed America’s gay rights movement forever, France24, 23 June 2019: A look back at the Stonewall uprising, a milestone for gay rights, The New York Times, 27 June 2019: The Night the Stonewall Inn Became a Proud Shrine, The Washington Post, 28 June 2019: Thousands gather at Stonewall 50 years after LGBTQ uprising, France24, 1 July 2019: New York City gay pride parade one of largest in movement’s history, Christopher Street Day Parade), and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat and ’60s counterculture movements. What provided the initial attractive character of the community eventually contributed to its gentrification and commercialization.   read more…

SoHo in Lower Manhattan

14 February 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Architecture, New York City, Shopping Reading Time:  11 minutes

Broome Street © Beyond My Ken/cc-by-sa-3.0

Broome Street © Beyond My Ken/cc-by-sa-3.0

SoHo is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, which in recent history came to the public’s attention for being the location of many artists’ lofts and art galleries, but is now more noted for its variety of shops ranging from trendy upscale boutiques to national and international chain store outlets. The area’s history is an archetypal example of inner-city regeneration and gentrification, encompassing socio-economic, cultural, political and architectural developments. The name “SoHo” refers to the area being “SOuth of HOuston (Street)”. This began a naming convention that became a model for the names of emerging and re-purposed neighborhoods in New York such as TriBeCa for “TRIangle BElow CAnal Street”, DUMBO (“Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass”), NoHo (“NOrth of HOuston Street”), Nolita (“NOrth of Little ITAly”) and NoMad (“NOrth of MADison Square”), among others.   read more…

Theme Week New York City – Manhattan on Hudson River

17 January 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, New York City Reading Time:  11 minutes

Midtown and Lower Manhattan © flickr.com - Eneas De Troya/cc-by-2.0

Midtown and Lower Manhattan © flickr.com – Eneas De Troya/cc-by-2.0

Manhattan is the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is coterminous with New York County. The borough mostly consists of Manhattan Island, bounded by the East, Hudson and Harlem Rivers, but also includes several small adjacent islands and a small area on the mainland. Manhattan has been described as the economic and cultural center of the United States, and is home to the United Nations Headquarters. Wall Street in Lower Manhattan has been called the financial capital of the world, has an estimated GDP of over $1.2 trillion, and is home of both the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Manhattan’s real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, and many multinational media conglomerates are based in the borough.   read more…

Fulton Fish Market in New York

7 January 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, New York City, Shopping Reading Time:  5 minutes

New Fulton Fish Market © Doc Searls / ArnoldReinhold/cc-by-sa-3.0

New Fulton Fish Market © Doc Searls / ArnoldReinhold/cc-by-sa-3.0

The Fulton Fish Market is a fish market in The Bronx in New York City. It was originally a wing of the Fulton Market, established in 1822 to sell a variety of foodstuffs and produce. In November 2005, the Fish Market relocated to a new facility in Hunts Point in the Bronx, from its historic location near the Brooklyn Bridge along the East River waterfront at and above Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan. The Fulton Fish Market was one of New York’s earliest open-air fish markets. From a New York newspaper dated 1831:   read more…

Macy’s

3 September 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, New York City, Shopping Reading Time:  6 minutes

Macy's plaque at Herald Square, New York © Wikijazz/cc-by-sa-3.0

Macy’s plaque at Herald Square, New York © Wikijazz/cc-by-sa-3.0

Macy’s, originally R. H. Macy & Co., is a mid-range to upscale chain of department stores owned by American multinational corporation Macy’s, Inc. It is one of two divisions owned by the company, with the other being the upscale Bloomingdale’s. As of January 2014, it operates 850 department stores locations in the United States, Guam and Puerto Rico, with a prominent Herald Square flagship location in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It also has eSpot ZoomShops kiosks in over 300 store locations selling consumer electronics.   read more…

Brooklyn Heights in New York City

21 May 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, New York City Reading Time:  6 minutes

© GK tramrunner229/cc-by-sa-3.0

© GK tramrunner229/cc-by-sa-3.0

Brooklyn Heights is an upper middle class residential neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Originally referred to as “Brooklyn Village”, it has been a prominent area of Brooklyn since 1834. As of 2000, Brooklyn Heights sustained a population of 22,594 people. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 2.   read more…

The museums island Ellis Island

17 May 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Museums, Exhibitions, New York City, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  10 minutes

Ellis Island, as seen from Liberty Island © Daniel Schwen/cc-by-sa-3.0

Ellis Island, as seen from Liberty Island © Daniel Schwen/cc-by-sa-3.0

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation’s busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990. A 1998 United States Supreme Court decision found most of the island to be part of New Jersey. The south side of the island, home to the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, is closed to the general public and the object of restoration efforts spearheaded by Save Ellis Island. The island has been closed to the public since Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 with re-opening date at some point of 2014.   read more…

One World Trade Center

23 April 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Intelligent Buildings, New York City Reading Time:  9 minutes

One World Trade Center © flickr.com - Joe Mabel/cc-by-sa-2.0

One World Trade Center © flickr.com – Joe Mabel/cc-by-sa-2.0

One World Trade Center is the primary building of the new World Trade Center complex in New York City‘s Lower Manhattan and is the tallest building in the United States. The 104-story supertall skyscraper stands on the northwest corner of the 16-acre (6.5 ha) World Trade Center site, on the site of the original 6 World Trade Center. The building is bordered to the west by West Street, to the north by Vesey Street, to the south by Fulton Street, and to the east by Washington Street. Construction on below-ground utility relocations, footings, and foundations for the building began on April 27, 2006. On March 30, 2009, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed that the building would be known by its legal name, One World Trade Center, rather than the colloquial name, Freedom Tower.   read more…

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