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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14 July 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Bon appétit , New York City
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A bagel (
Polish : bajgiel;
Yiddish : beygl; also spelled beigel) is a
bread roll originating in the
Jewish communities of
Poland . Bagels are traditionally made from
yeasted wheat dough that is shaped by hand into a
torus or ring, briefly
boiled in water, and then baked. The result is a dense, chewy, doughy interior with a browned and sometimes crisp exterior.
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9 July 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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The
Five Towns is an informal grouping of
villages and
hamlets in
Nassau County , United States on the
South Shore of western
Long Island adjoining the border with
Queens County in New York City. Although there is no official Five Towns designation, “the basic five are Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett and Inwood.” Each of these “towns” has a consecutive stop on the
Far Rockaway Branch of the
Long Island Rail Road . All five communities are part of the
Town of Hempstead . Woodmere is the largest and most populous community in the Five Towns, while Inwood is the second largest community in the Five Towns.
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29 June 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Hastings-on-Hudson is a
village in
Westchester County located in the southwestern part of the
town of
Greenburgh in the state of
New York , United States. It’s a suburb of
New York City , located approximately 20 miles (32 km) north of midtown
Manhattan , and is served by a
stop on the
Metro-North Hudson Line . To the north of Hastings-on-Hudson is the village of
Dobbs Ferry , to the south, the city of
Yonkers , and to the east unincorporated parts of Greenburgh. As of the 2020 US Census, it had a population of 8,590. The town lies on
U.S. Route 9 , “Broadway” and the
Saw Mill River Parkway .
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24 June 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
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Sag Harbor is an
incorporated village in
Suffolk County, New York , United States, in the
towns of
Southampton and
East Hampton on eastern
Long Island . The village developed as a working port on
Gardiners Bay . The population was 2,772 at the 2020 census.
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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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20 May 2024 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General , Hotels , Paris / Île-de-France
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Pullman Hotels and Resorts is a French multinational upscale hotel brand owned by
Accor . Pullman has 145 hotels and resorts in 42 countries spread across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle-East and Oceania.
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30 March 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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The Congregation Shearith Israel (
lit. : Congregation Remnant of Israel), often called
The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue , is an
Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 2 West
70th Street , at
Central Park West , on the
Upper West Side of
Manhattan in
New York City ,
New York , United States.
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