31 October 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City , Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries
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🔊 Listen to this Post New York City ‘s Theater District (sometimes spelled Theatre District, and officially
zoned as the “Theater Subdistrict”) is an area and
neighborhood in
Midtown Manhattan where most
Broadway theaters are located, as well as many other theaters, movie theaters, restaurants, hotels, and other places of entertainment. It is bounded by West
40th Street on the south, West
54th Street on the north,
Sixth Avenue on the east and
Eighth Avenue on the west, and includes
Times Square .
The Great White Way is the name given to the section of
Broadway which runs through the Theater District. It also contains recording studios, record label offices, theatrical agencies, television studios, restaurants, movie theaters,
Duffy Square ,
Shubert Alley , the
Brill Building , and
Madame Tussauds New York .
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5 August 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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The Lipstick Building, also known as
885 Third Avenue and
53rd at Third , is a 453-foot (138 meter) tall
skyscraper at
Third Avenue between
53rd Street and
54th Street in the
Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of
New York City . It was completed in 1986 and has 34 floors. The building was designed by
John Burgee and
Philip Johnson for Hines Interests and was developer
Gerald D. Hines ‘s first project in New York City. The building’s nickname is derived from its shape and color, which resembles a tube of
lipstick (
lipstick index ). The 17th floor was the office of
Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.
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11 April 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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Turtle Bay is a
neighborhood in
New York City , on the east side of
Midtown Manhattan . It extends from roughly
43rd Street to
53rd Streets, and eastward from
Lexington Avenue to the
East River ‘s western branch (facing
Roosevelt Island ). The neighborhood is the site of the
headquarters of the United Nations and the
Chrysler Building . The
Tudor City apartment complex is to the south of Turtle Bay. Turtle Bay is named after a former cove of the East River. The neighborhood was originally settled as a Dutch farm in the 17th century, and was subsequently developed with tenements, power plants, and slaughterhouses in the 19th century. These industrial structures were largely demolished in the 1940s and 1950s to make way for the United Nations headquarters. Today, Turtle Bay contains multiple missions and consulates to the nearby United Nations headquarters.
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8 November 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Hotels , New York City
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The Peninsula New York is a historic
luxury hotel located on the corner of
Fifth Avenue and
55th Street in
Manhattan ,
New York City . The hotel is part of the
Hong Kong -based
Peninsula Hotels group, which is owned by
The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited . The hotel was bought in 1988 by the Peninsula group for a price of $127 million. The Peninsula New York has received the
AAA Five Diamond Award for thirteen consecutive years, and in 2007, it was named one of the greatest hotels in the world by
Travel + Leisure magazine.
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1 May 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , House of the Month , New York City
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The Bank of America Tower is a 1,200 ft (365.8 m)
skyscraper in the
Midtown neighborhood of
Manhattan in
New York City . It is located at One Bryant Park, on
Sixth Avenue between
42nd and 43rd Streets diagonally opposite
Bryant Park . The $1 billion project was designed by
COOKFOX Architects . Work on the building started in 2004 and it was completed in 2009. The building was
appraised in July 2019 at over $3.5 billion, ranking it among the most valuable office buildings in the city. The Bank of America Tower is advertised to be one of the most efficient and ecologically friendly buildings in the world. It is the
eighth tallest building in New York City , after
One World Trade Center ,
432 Park Avenue ,
30 Hudson Yards , and the
Empire State Building , and the
seventh tallest building in the United States .
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21 February 2020 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Architecture , Living, Working, Building , New York City
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Hudson Yards is a neighborhood on the
West Side of
Midtown Manhattan , bounded roughly by 30th Street in the south,
43rd Street in the north, the
West Side Highway in the west, and
Eighth Avenue in the east. The area is the site of a large-scale
redevelopment program that is being planned, funded, and constructed under a set of agreements among the
State of New York ,
City of New York , and
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), with the aim of expanding the Midtown Manhattan business district westward to the
Hudson River . The program includes a major
rezoning of the
Far West Side , an
extension of the
New York City Subway ‘s
7 and
<7> trains to a new
subway station at 34th Street and
11th Avenue , a renovation and expansion of the
Javits Center , and a financing plan to fund the various components. The various components are being planned by
New York City Department of City Planning and
New York City Economic Development Corporation .
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1 January 2020 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , House of the Month , Hotels , New York City
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InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel is a historic luxury hotel in
Midtown Manhattan in
New York City .
Caswell-Massey had its flagship store in InterContinental New York Barclay for over 80 years. Caswell-Massey, the oldest chemist and perfumer in America, was the first and oldest tenant of the Barclay.
Bette Davis ,
Gloria Swanson ,
Mary Pickford ,
Marlon Brando ,
Jimmy Durante ,
Debbie Reynolds ,
Ernest Hemingway and
David O. Selznick all called the Barclay home. In 1992, when
Bill Clinton first ran for President, the Barclay was his New York headquarters.
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13 February 2019 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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Fifth Avenue is a major
thoroughfare in the
borough of
Manhattan in
New York City . It stretches north from
Washington Square Park in
Greenwich Village to
West 143rd Street in
Harlem . It is considered one of the most expensive and elegant streets in the world. Between
49th Street and
60th Street , Fifth Avenue is lined with prestigious boutiques and flagship stores and is consistently ranked among the most expensive shopping streets in the world. Many
luxury goods ,
fashion , and sport
brand boutiques are located on Fifth Avenue, including
Louis Vuitton ,
Tiffany & Co. ,
Gucci ,
Prada ,
Armani ,
Tommy Hilfiger ,
Cartier ,
Omega ,
Chanel ,
Harry Winston ,
Salvatore Ferragamo ,
Nike ,
Escada ,
Swarovski ,
Bvlgari ,
Emilio Pucci ,
Ermenegildo Zegna ,
Abercrombie & Fitch ,
De Beers ,
Emanuel Ungaro ,
Gap ,
Lindt Chocolate Shop ,
Henri Bendel ,
NBA Store,
Oxxford Clothes ,
Microsoft Store ,
Sephora ,
Zara , and
H&M . Luxury department stores include
Lord & Taylor ,
Saks Fifth Avenue and
Bergdorf Goodman . Fifth Avenue also is home to New York’s fifth most photographed building, the
Apple Store . Many
airlines at one time had ticketing offices along Fifth Avenue. In the years leading up to 1992, the number of ticketing offices along Fifth Avenue decreased.
Pan American World Airways went out of business, while
Air France ,
Finnair , and
KLM moved their ticket offices to other areas in
Midtown Manhattan .
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3 July 2017 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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Midtown Manhattan, or Midtown, represents the central lengthwise portion of the
borough and island of
Manhattan in
New York City . Midtown is home to some of the city’s most iconic buildings, including the
Empire State Building , the
Chrysler Building , and the
headquarters of the United Nations , and it contains world-renowned commercial zones such as
Rockefeller Center ,
Broadway , and
Times Square . Along Manhattan’s north-south long axis, Midtown Manhattan separates
Lower Manhattan from
Upper Manhattan . Geographically, the northern border of Midtown Manhattan is commonly defined to be
59th Street on
Manhattan Island , and although its southern border is less clear, it is variously taken to be
34th Street ,
23rd Street , or even
14th Street . Midtown spans the entire island of Manhattan along an east-west axis, being bounded by the
East River on its east and the
Hudson River to its west. Midtown is the original district in the United States to bear the name and included historical but now defunct neighborhoods such as the
Ladies’ Mile , along
Fifth Avenue from 14th to 23rd Street; and the
Tenderloin , from 23rd to
42nd Street and from Fifth Avenue to
Seventh Avenue .
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