Financial District in New York City

26 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City Reading Time:  7 minutes

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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.   read more…

Strawberry Fields in New York City

5 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City Reading Time:  5 minutes

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Strawberry Fields is a 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) landscaped section in New York City‘s Central Park, designed by the landscape architect Bruce Kelly, that is dedicated to the memory of former Beatles member John Lennon. It is named after the Beatles’ song “Strawberry Fields Forever“, written by Lennon. The song itself is named for the former Strawberry Field children’s home in Liverpool, England, located near Lennon’s childhood home.   read more…

Wall Street in New York City

18 March 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City Reading Time:  8 minutes

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Charging Bull at Bowling Green Park near Wall Street © PFHLai/cc-by-sa-2.5

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.   read more…

Strivers’ Row in New York City

26 February 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City Reading Time:  10 minutes

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The St. Nicholas Historic District, known colloquially as “Striver’s Row”, is a historic district located on both sides of West 138th and West 139th Streets between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue), in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is both a national and a New York City historic district, and consists of row houses and associated buildings designed by three architectural firms and built in 1891–93 by developer David H. King Jr. These are collectively recognized as gems of New York City architecture, and “an outstanding example of late 19th-century urban design”: There are three sets of buildings:   read more…

Bergdorf Goodman in New York City

31 December 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City, Shopping Reading Time:  7 minutes

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Bergdorf Goodman Inc. is an American luxury department store based in New York City, founded in 1899 by Herman Bergdorf. As of 2024, it operates a women’s store and a men’s store across the street from each other on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It is part of Neiman Marcus which since 2024 has been owned by Saks Global, the American division of the Hudson’s Bay Company.   read more…

High Line in New York City

6 November 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Living, Working, Building, New York City, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  8 minutes

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The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long (2.33 km) elevated linear park, greenway, and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. The High Line’s design is a collaboration between James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Piet Oudolf. The abandoned spur has been redesigned as a “living system” drawing from multiple disciplines which include landscape architecture, urban design, and ecology. The High Line was inspired by the 4.7 km (2.9 mi) long Coulée verte (tree-lined walkway), another elevated park in Paris completed in 1993.   read more…

The Mercer Hotel in SoHo

2 September 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Hotels, New York City Reading Time:  5 minutes

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The Mercer Hotel, located at the corner of Mercer and Prince Streets in SoHo, Manhattan, New York City. It offers 73 guest rooms on six floors of a Romanesque revival building. Opening in 1997, The Mercer is the sister hotel to The Greenwich Hotel.   read more…

One Vanderbilt in Midtown Manhattan

1 August 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, House of the Month, New York City Reading Time:  6 minutes

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One Vanderbilt is a 73-story supertall skyscraper at the corner of 42nd Street and Vanderbilt Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox for developer SL Green Realty, the skyscraper opened in 2020. Its roof is 1,301 feet (397 m) high and its spire is 1,401 feet (427 m) above ground, making it the city’s fourth-tallest building after One World Trade Center, Central Park Tower, and 111 West 57th Street.   read more…

NoLIta in New York City

22 June 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City Reading Time:  6 minutes

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Mural on East Houston Street and Bowery © Nolita Studio LLC/cc-by-sa-4.0

Nolita, sometimes written as NoLIta and deriving from “North of Little Italy“, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Nolita is situated in Lower Manhattan, bounded on the north by Houston Street, on the east by the Bowery, on the south roughly by Broome Street, and on the west by Lafayette Street. It lies east of SoHo, south of NoHo, west of the Lower East Side, and north of Little Italy and Chinatown.   read more…

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