Strawberry Fields in New York City
5 April 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, New York City Reading Time: 5 minutes 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: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, New York City Reading Time: 8 minutes 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: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, New York City Reading Time: 10 minutes 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: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, New York City, Shopping Reading Time: 7 minutes 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: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Living, Working, Building, New York City, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time: 8 minutes 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: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Hotels, New York City Reading Time: 5 minutes
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One Vanderbilt in Midtown Manhattan
1 August 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, House of the Month, New York City Reading Time: 6 minutes
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NoLIta in New York City
22 June 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, New York City Reading Time: 6 minutes
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