2 September 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Hotels , New York City
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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 .
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1 August 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , House of the Month , New York City
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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 .
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22 June 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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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 .
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1 June 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Berlin , French Riviera , Greater Los Angeles Area , Hamburg , London , Miami / South Florida , New York City , Paris / Île-de-France , San Francisco Bay Area
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LGBT Pride Month is a month, typically June, dedicated to celebration and commemoration of
lesbian ,
gay ,
bisexual , and
transgender (
LGBT )
pride . Pride Month began after the
Stonewall riots , a series of
gay liberation protests in 1969, and has since spread outside of the United States. Modern-day Pride Month both honors the movement for
LGBT rights and celebrates
LGBT culture .
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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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