Cartier Building in New York City

21 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City, Shopping Reading Time:  5 minutes

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The Cartier Building, also 653 Fifth Avenue, is a commercial building on the southeast corner of 52nd Street and Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The building serves as the flagship store of Cartier in New York City. It consists of two conjoined residences completed in 1905: the Morton F. Plant residence at 651–653 Fifth Avenue, designed by Robert W. Gibson, and the Edward Holbrook residence at 4 East 52nd Street, designed by C. P. H. Gilbert.   read more…

Financial District in New York City

26 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City Reading Time:  7 minutes

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© Hu Totya/cc-by-sa-3.0

The Financial District of Lower Manhattan, also known as FiDi, is a neighborhood located on the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by the West Side Highway on the west, Chambers Street and City Hall Park on the north, Brooklyn Bridge on the northeast, the East River to the southeast, and South Ferry and the Battery on the south.   read more…

Strawberry Fields in New York City

5 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City Reading Time:  5 minutes

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© RMajouji/cc-by-1.0

Strawberry Fields is a 2.5-acre (1.0 ha) landscaped section in New York City‘s Central Park, designed by the landscape architect Bruce Kelly, that is dedicated to the memory of former Beatles member John Lennon. It is named after the Beatles’ song “Strawberry Fields Forever“, written by Lennon. The song itself is named for the former Strawberry Field children’s home in Liverpool, England, located near Lennon’s childhood home.   read more…

Wall Street in New York City

18 March 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City Reading Time:  8 minutes

Charging Bull at Bowling Green Park near Wall Street © PFHLai/cc-by-sa-2.5

Charging Bull at Bowling Green Park near Wall Street © PFHLai/cc-by-sa-2.5

Wall Street is a street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It runs eight city blocks between Broadway in the west and South Street and the East River in the east. The term “Wall Street” has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, the American financial services industry, New York–based financial interests, or the Financial District. Anchored by Wall Street, New York has been described as the world’s principal fintech and financial center.   read more…

Bergdorf Goodman in New York City

31 December 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City, Shopping Reading Time:  7 minutes

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Bergdorf Goodman Inc. is an American luxury department store based in New York City, founded in 1899 by Herman Bergdorf. As of 2024, it operates a women’s store and a men’s store across the street from each other on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It is part of Neiman Marcus which since 2024 has been owned by Saks Global, the American division of the Hudson’s Bay Company.   read more…

High Line in New York City

6 November 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Living, Working, Building, New York City, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks Reading Time:  8 minutes

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© Dansnguyen

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.   read more…

Pride Month

1 June 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Berlin, French Riviera, Greater Los Angeles Area, Hamburg, London, Miami / South Florida, New York City, Paris / Île-de-France, San Francisco Bay Area Reading Time:  9 minutes

2018 San Francisco Pride Parade down Market Street © Samuel Wantman/cc-by-sa-4.0

2018 San Francisco Pride Parade down Market Street © Samuel Wantman/cc-by-sa-4.0

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.   read more…

Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in Manhattan

30 March 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City Reading Time:  6 minutes

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© David Shankbone/cc-by-sa-3.0

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.   read more…

Madison Avenue in Manhattan

19 March 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, New York City, Shopping Reading Time:  7 minutes

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© MTATransitFan/cc-by-3.0

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.   read more…

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