20 January 2020 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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Upper New York Bay, or Upper Bay, is the traditional heart of the
Port of New York and New Jersey , and often called
New York Harbor . It is enclosed by the
New York City boroughs of
Manhattan ,
Brooklyn , and
Staten Island and the
Hudson County, New Jersey , municipalities of
Jersey City and
Bayonne .
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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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2 December 2019 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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Bushwick is a
working-class neighborhood in the northern part of the
New York City borough of
Brooklyn . It is bounded by the neighborhood of
Ridgewood, Queens , to the northeast;
Williamsburg to the northwest;
East New York and the cemeteries of
Highland Park to the southeast;
Brownsville to the south; and
Bedford-Stuyvesant to the southwest.
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18 November 2019 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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CBGB was a
New York City music club opened in 1973 by
Hilly Kristal in
Manhattan ‘s
East Village . The club was previously a biker bar and before that was a
dive bar . The letters
CBGB were for
C ountry,
B lueG rass, and
B lues, Kristal’s original vision, yet CBGB soon became a famed venue of
punk rock and
new wave bands like the
Ramones ,
Television ,
Patti Smith Group ,
Blondie , and
Talking Heads . From the early 1980s onward, CBGB was known for
hardcore punk .
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8 November 2019 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Museums, Exhibitions , New York City , UNESCO World Heritage
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The Statue of Liberty (
Liberty Enlightening the World ) is a colossal
neoclassical sculpture on
Liberty Island in
New York Harbor in
New York , in the
United States . The copper statue, a gift from the people of
France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by
Gustave Eiffel . The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.
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1 November 2019 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , House of the Month , New York City
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The Hunts Point Cooperative Market, a 24/7 wholesale food market located on 60 acres (24 ha) in the
Hunts Point neighborhood of
the Bronx ,
New York City , is the largest food distribution center of its kind in the world. Its revenues exceed $2 billion annually.
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1 October 2019 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: Architecture , General , House of the Month , Hotels , New York City
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TWA Hotel is a hotel at
John F. Kennedy International Airport in
Queens ,
New York City , that opened on May 15, 2019. It utilizes the
headhouse of the
TWA Flight Center airline terminal, designed in 1962 by the architect
Eero Saarinen . The TWA Hotel project added two buildings on either side of the existing headhouse.
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27 September 2019 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: Architecture , General , New York City
Central Park is by far the largest interruption of the Commissioners’ Plan © Piotr Kruczek
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The Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 was the original design for the streets of
Manhattan above
Houston Street and below
155th Street , which put in place the rectangular
grid plan of streets and lots that has defined Manhattan to this day. It has been called “the single most important document in New York City’s development,” and the plan has been described as encompassing the “republican predilection for control and balance … [and] distrust of nature”. It was described by the Commission that created it as combining “beauty, order and convenience.”
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25 September 2019 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Miami / South Florida , Portrait
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Carl Graham Fisher was an
American entrepreneur . Despite severe
astigmatism , he became actively involved in auto racing. He was a seemingly tireless pioneer and promoter of the automotive industry and highway construction, and of real estate development in
Florida . He is widely regarded as a promotional genius.
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