12 March 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Hotels , New York City
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5 Beekman Street is a building in the
Financial District of
Manhattan in
New York City , United States. It is composed of the 10-story, 150-foot-tall (46 m)
Temple Court Building and Annex (also known as
Temple Court ) and a connected 51-story, 687-foot-tall (209 m)
condominium tower called the
Beekman Residences , which contains 68 residential units. The 287-unit
The Beekman, a Thompson Hotel , also known as
The Beekman Hotel , occupies all three structures.
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25 February 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Hotels , New York City , Shopping
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The Hotel Chelsea (also the Chelsea Hotel; colloquially The Chelsea) is a hotel at 222 West
23rd Street in the
Chelsea neighborhood of
Manhattan in New York City. Built between 1883 and 1884, the hotel was designed by
Philip Hubert in a style described variously as
Queen Anne Revival and
Victorian Gothic . The 12-story Chelsea, originally a
housing cooperative , has been the home of numerous writers, musicians, artists, and entertainers, some of whom still lived there in the 21st century. As of 2022, most of the Chelsea is used as a luxury hotel. The building is a
New York City designated landmark and on the
National Register of Historic Places .
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9 February 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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Astoria is a
neighborhood in the western portion of the
New York City borough of
Queens . Astoria is bounded by the
East River and is adjacent to four other Queens neighborhoods:
Long Island City to the southwest,
Sunnyside to the southeast, and
Woodside and
East Elmhurst to the east. As of 2019, Astoria has an estimated population of 95,446.
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10 January 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, is a
neighborhood of
Upper Manhattan in
New York City , north of the
Upper East Side and bounded by
96th Street to the south,
Fifth Avenue to the west, and the
East and
Harlem Rivers to the east and north. Despite its name, it is generally not considered to be a part of
Harlem proper , but it is one of the neighborhoods included in Greater Harlem.
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7 September 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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The Bronx is a
borough of New York City , coextensive with Bronx County, in the
U.S. state of
New York . It is south of
Westchester County ; north and east of the New York City borough of
Manhattan , across the
Harlem River ; and north of the New York City borough of
Queens , across the
East River . The Bronx has a land area of 42 square miles (109 km²) and a population of 1,472,654 in the 2020 census. If each borough were ranked as a city, the Bronx would rank as the
ninth-most-populous in the U.S. Of the five boroughs, it has the fourth-largest area, fourth-highest population, and third-highest
population density . It is the only borough of New York City not primarily on an island. With a population that is 54.8% Hispanic as of 2020, it is the
only majority-Hispanic county in the
Northeastern United States and the
fourth-most-populous nationwide .
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31 August 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Cornell University is a
private Ivy League land-grant research university based in
Ithaca, New York . The university was founded in 1865 by
Ezra Cornell and
Andrew Dickson White . Since its founding, Cornell has been a
co-educational , non-
sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race. The student body for the fall 2022 semester consisted of more than 15,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students from all 50 American states and 130 countries.
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8 July 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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The Greenwich Savings Bank Building, also known as the
Haier Building and
1356 Broadway , is an office building at 1352–1362
Broadway in the
Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of
New York City . Constructed as the headquarters of the
Greenwich Savings Bank from 1922 to 1924, it occupies a trapezoidal parcel bounded by 36th Street to the south,
Sixth Avenue to the east, and Broadway to the west. The Greenwich Savings Bank Building was designed in the
Classical Revival style by
York and Sawyer .
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26 June 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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The Stonewall Inn, often shortened to Stonewall, is a
gay bar and recreational
tavern in the
Greenwich Village neighborhood of
Lower Manhattan ,
New York City , and the site of the
Stonewall riots of 1969, which is widely considered to be the single most important event leading to the
gay liberation movement and the modern fight for
LGBT rights in the United States .
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15 May 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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Industry City (also Bush Terminal) is a historic
intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex on the
Upper New York Bay waterfront in the
Sunset Park neighborhood of
Brooklyn ,
New York City . The northern portion, commonly called “Industry City” on its own, hosts commercial light manufacturing tenants across 6,000,000 square feet (560,000 m²) of space between 32nd and 41st Streets, and is operated by a private consortium. The southern portion, known as “Bush Terminal”, is located between 40th and 51st Streets and is operated by the
New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) as a garment manufacturing complex.
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