26 April 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, New York City
Reading Time: 7 minutes
© Hu Totya/cc-by-sa-3.0
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…
5 April 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, New York City
Reading Time: 5 minutes
© RMajouji/cc-by-1.0
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…
18 March 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, New York City
Reading Time: 8 minutes
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…
26 February 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, New York City
Reading Time: 10 minutes
© Aude/cc-by-2.5
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…
31 December 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, New York City, Shopping
Reading Time: 7 minutes
© flickr.com – Ajay Suresh/cc-by-2.0
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…
6 November 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Living, Working, Building, New York City, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
Reading Time: 8 minutes
© Dansnguyen
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…
2 September 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Hotels, New York City
Reading Time: 5 minutes
© flickr.com – ajay_suresh/cc-by-2.0
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…
1 August 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, House of the Month, New York City
Reading Time: 6 minutes
© Kidfly182/cc-by-sa-4.0
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…
22 June 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, New York City
Reading Time: 6 minutes
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…
