17 August 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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The Titanic Memorial is a 60-foot-tall (18 m)
lighthouse at
Fulton and
Pearl Streets in the
Financial District of
Lower Manhattan in
New York City . It was built, due in part to the instigation of
Margaret Brown , to remember the people who died on the
RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. Its design incorporates the use of a
time ball .
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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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30 July 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , Living, Working, Building , New York City
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U.N. Secretariat Building and Dag Hammarskjoeld Library behind Prospect and Tudor Towers
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Tudor City is an
apartment complex located on the southern edge of
Turtle Bay on the
East Side of
Manhattan in
New York City , near Turtle Bay’s border with
Murray Hill . It lies on a low cliff, which is east of
Second Avenue between 40th and 43rd Streets and overlooks
First Avenue . Construction commenced in 1926, making it the first
residential skyscraper complex in the world. Tudor City was one of the first, largest, and most important examples of a planned middle-class residential community in New York City. It is named for its
Tudor Revival architecture .
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27 April 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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Smorgasburg is an open-air food
market that originated in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn next to the
East River . It takes place every Saturday in an empty lot. The name Smorgasburg is a
portmanteau of “
Smörgåsbord ” and “Williamsburg”. Dozens of vendors sell their food and wares. It initially was started in 2011, by Jonathan Butler and Eric Demby as an offshoot of
Brooklyn Flea .
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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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17 January 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
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Washington Square Park is a 9.75-acre (39,500 m²) public park in the
Greenwich Village neighborhood of
Lower Manhattan ,
New York City . One of the best known of New York City’s
public parks , it is an icon as well as a meeting place and center for cultural activity. It is operated by the
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks).
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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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11 September 2021 | Author/Destination: Knut Wingsch | Rubric: General , Museums, Exhibitions , New York City
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The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated
terrorist attacks by the
Wahhabi Islamist terrorist group
Al-Qaeda against the
United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
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16 August 2021 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General , New York City
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🔊 Listen to this Post 1 Wall Street Court (also known as the
Beaver Building and the
Cocoa Exchange ) is a residential building in the
Financial District of
Manhattan in
New York City . The 15-story building, designed by
Clinton and Russell in the
Renaissance Revival style, was completed in 1904 at the intersection of
Wall ,
Pearl , and
Beaver Streets .
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