6 November 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Living, Working, Building , New York City , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
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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.
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1 June 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Berlin , French Riviera , Greater Los Angeles Area , Hamburg , London , Miami / South Florida , New York City , Paris / Île-de-France , San Francisco Bay Area
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LGBT Pride Month is a month, typically June, dedicated to celebration and commemoration of
lesbian ,
gay ,
bisexual , and
transgender (
LGBT )
pride . Pride Month began after the
Stonewall riots , a series of
gay liberation protests in 1969, and has since spread outside of the United States. Modern-day Pride Month both honors the movement for
LGBT rights and celebrates
LGBT culture .
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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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19 March 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City , Shopping
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Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the
borough of
Manhattan in
New York City ,
United States , that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from
Madison Square (at
23rd Street ) to meet the southbound
Harlem River Drive at
142nd Street , passing through
Midtown , the
Upper East Side (including
Carnegie Hill ),
East Harlem , and
Harlem . It is named after and arises from Madison Square, which is itself named after
James Madison , the fourth
President of the United States .
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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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9 February 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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The Last Word, Cocktails and Oysters, at Ditmars Boulevard © Kenneth C. Zirkel/cc-by-sa-4.0
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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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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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