19 March 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City , Shopping
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Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the
borough of
Manhattan in
New York City ,
United States , that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from
Madison Square (at
23rd Street ) to meet the southbound
Harlem River Drive at
142nd Street , passing through
Midtown , the
Upper East Side (including
Carnegie Hill ),
East Harlem , and
Harlem . It is named after and arises from Madison Square, which is itself named after
James Madison , the fourth
President of the United States .
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12 March 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: 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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25 February 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Hotels , New York City , Shopping
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The Hotel Chelsea (also the Chelsea Hotel; colloquially The Chelsea) is a hotel at 222 West
23rd Street in the
Chelsea neighborhood of
Manhattan in New York City. Built between 1883 and 1884, the hotel was designed by
Philip Hubert in a style described variously as
Queen Anne Revival and
Victorian Gothic . The 12-story Chelsea, originally a
housing cooperative , has been the home of numerous writers, musicians, artists, and entertainers, some of whom still lived there in the 21st century. As of 2022, most of the Chelsea is used as a luxury hotel. The building is a
New York City designated landmark and on the
National Register of Historic Places .
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10 January 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, is a
neighborhood of
Upper Manhattan in
New York City , north of the
Upper East Side and bounded by
96th Street to the south,
Fifth Avenue to the west, and the
East and
Harlem Rivers to the east and north. Despite its name, it is generally not considered to be a part of
Harlem proper , but it is one of the neighborhoods included in Greater Harlem.
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8 July 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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The Greenwich Savings Bank Building, also known as the
Haier Building and
1356 Broadway , is an office building at 1352–1362
Broadway in the
Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of
New York City . Constructed as the headquarters of the
Greenwich Savings Bank from 1922 to 1924, it occupies a trapezoidal parcel bounded by 36th Street to the south,
Sixth Avenue to the east, and Broadway to the west. The Greenwich Savings Bank Building was designed in the
Classical Revival style by
York and Sawyer .
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26 June 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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The Stonewall Inn, often shortened to Stonewall, is a
gay bar and recreational
tavern in the
Greenwich Village neighborhood of
Lower Manhattan ,
New York City , and the site of the
Stonewall riots of 1969, which is widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the
gay liberation movement and the modern fight for
LGBT rights in the United States .
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17 April 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Living, Working, Building , Museums, Exhibitions , New York City
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The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, located at 97 and 103
Orchard Street in the
Lower East Side neighborhood of
Manhattan ,
New York City , is a
National Historic Site . The museum’s two historical
tenement buildings were home to an estimated 15,000 people, from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 2011. The museum, which includes a visitors’ center, promotes tolerance and historical perspective on the
immigrant experience .
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2 March 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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NoMad (“
No rth of
Mad ison Square Park”), also known as
Madison Square North , is a neighborhood centered on the
Madison Square North Historic District in the borough of
Manhattan in
New York City . The name NoMad, which has been in use since 1999, is derived from the area’s location north of
Madison Square Park . The neighborhood is bordered by
East 25th Street to the south,
East 29th or
East 30th Street to the north,
Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) to the west and
Madison or
Lexington Avenue to the east. The surrounding neighborhoods are
Chelsea to the west,
Midtown South to the northwest,
Murray Hill to the northeast,
Rose Hill to the east, and the
Flatiron District to the south.
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1 February 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
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The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a 25-acre (10 ha)
public park located at the southern tip of
Manhattan Island in
New York City facing
New York Harbor . It is bounded by Battery Place on the north,
State Street on the east, New York Harbor to the south, and the
Hudson River to the west. The park contains attractions such as an early 19th-century fort named
Castle Clinton ; multiple monuments; and the
SeaGlass Carousel . The surrounding area, known as
South Ferry , contains multiple ferry terminals, including the
Staten Island Ferry ‘s
Whitehall Terminal ; a boat launch to the
Statue of Liberty National Monument (which includes
Ellis Island and
Liberty Island ); and a boat launch to
Governors Island .
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