26 April 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , New York City
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The Financial District of
Lower Manhattan , also known as
FiDi , is a
neighborhood located on the southern tip of
Manhattan in
New York City . It is bounded by the
West Side Highway on the west,
Chambers Street and
City Hall Park on the north,
Brooklyn Bridge on the northeast, the
East River to the southeast, and
South Ferry and
the Battery on the south.
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18 March 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , New York City
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Wall Street is a street in the
Financial District of
Lower Manhattan in
New York City . It runs eight
city blocks between
Broadway in the west and
South Street and the
East River in the east. The term “Wall Street” has become a
metonym for the
financial markets of the United States as a whole, the
American financial services industry , New York–based financial interests, or the Financial District. Anchored by Wall Street, New York has been described as the world’s principal
fintech and
financial center .
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12 March 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Hotels , New York City
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5 Beekman Street is a building in the
Financial District of
Manhattan in
New York City , United States. It is composed of the 10-story, 150-foot-tall (46 m)
Temple Court Building and Annex (also known as
Temple Court ) and a connected 51-story, 687-foot-tall (209 m)
condominium tower called the
Beekman Residences , which contains 68 residential units. The 287-unit
The Beekman, a Thompson Hotel , also known as
The Beekman Hotel , occupies all three structures.
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5 December 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Bon appétit , San Francisco Bay Area , Shopping
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North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco adjacent to
Chinatown , the
Financial District , and
Russian Hill . The neighborhood is San Francisco’s “
Little Italy ” and has historically been home to a large Italian American population, largely from Northern Italy. It still has many Italian restaurants, though many other ethnic groups currently live in the neighborhood. It was also the historic center of the
beatnik subculture and has become one of San Francisco’s main
nightlife districts as well as a residential neighborhood populated by a mix of young urban professionals, families, and Chinese immigrants. The
American Planning Association (APA) has named North Beach as one of ten “Great Neighborhoods in America”.
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29 December 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , New York City
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Lower Manhattan (also known as Downtown Manhattan or Downtown New York) is the southernmost part of
Manhattan , the central
borough for business, culture, and
government in
New York City , which is the most populated city in the United States with over 8.8 million residents as of the
2020 census . Lower Manhattan is defined most commonly as the area delineated on the north by
14th Street , on the west by the
Hudson River , on the east by the
East River , and on the south by
New York Harbor . The Lower Manhattan business district, known as the
Financial District (FiDi), forms the main core of the area below
Chambers Street . It is a leading global center for commerce, housing
Wall Street , the
New York Stock Exchange , and the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York .
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17 August 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , New York City
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The Titanic Memorial is a 60-foot-tall (18 m)
lighthouse at
Fulton and
Pearl Streets in the
Financial District of
Lower Manhattan in
New York City . It was built, due in part to the instigation of
Margaret Brown , to remember the people who died on the
RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. Its design incorporates the use of a
time ball .
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30 August 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Greater Los Angeles Area
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Wilshire Boulevard is a 15.83 miles (25.48 km)
boulevard in the
Los Angeles area of
Southern California , extending from
Ocean Avenue in the city of
Santa Monica east to
Grand Avenue in the
Financial District of
downtown Los Angeles . One of the principal east-west
arterial roads of Los Angeles, it is also one of the major city streets through the city of
Beverly Hills . Wilshire Boulevard runs roughly parallel with
Santa Monica Boulevard from Santa Monica to the west boundary of Beverly Hills. From the east boundary it runs a block south of Sixth Street to its terminus. The boulevard was named after
Henry Gaylord Wilshir e (1861-1927), a
landowner ,
publisher and
socialist (only in America: A boulevard that stands for income inequality between the poor (homeless camps) and the super rich like no other in the world is named after a socialist. You can’t help but grin).
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16 August 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , New York City
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Beaver Building and the
Cocoa Exchange ) is a residential building in the
Financial District of
Manhattan in
New York City . The 15-story building, designed by
Clinton and Russell in the
Renaissance Revival style, was completed in 1904 at the intersection of
Wall ,
Pearl , and
Beaver Streets .
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18 January 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , New York City
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The Cunard Building, also known as the
Standard & Poors Building , is a 22-story office building located at 25
Broadway , adjacent to
Bowling Green Park in the
Financial District of
Lower Manhattan in
New York City . The Cunard Building was designed in the
Italian Renaissance style by
Benjamin Wistar Morris , in conjunction with consultants
Carrère and Hastings .
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