6 November 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: 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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25 February 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: 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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26 June 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: 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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29 June 2020 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , New York City
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Hell’s Kitchen, sometimes known as Clinton (named for Governor
George Clinton ), is a neighborhood on the
West Side of
Manhattan in
New York City , west of
Midtown Manhattan . It is traditionally considered to be bordered by
34th Street to the south,
59th Street to the north,
Eighth Avenue to the east, and the
Hudson River to the west. Until the 1970s, Hell’s Kitchen was a bastion of poor and working-class
Irish Americans . Though its gritty reputation had long held real-estate prices below those of most other areas of Manhattan, by 1969, the City Planning Commission’s
Plan for New York City reported that development pressures related to its Midtown location were driving people of modest means from the area. Since the early 1990s, the area has been
gentrifying , and rents have risen rapidly. Home of the
Actors Studio training school, and adjacent to
Broadway theatres , Hell’s Kitchen has long been a home to fledgling and working actors.
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9 April 2018 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , New York City , Shopping
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Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of
Manhattan in
New York City . The district’s boundaries are roughly
14th Street to the south and the
Hudson River and
West Street to the west, with the northern boundary variously described as
30th Street or
34th Street , and the eastern boundary as either
Sixth Avenue or
Fifth Avenue . To the north of Chelsea is the neighborhood of
Hell’s Kitchen , as well as the
Hudson Yards ; to the northeast is the
Garment District ; to the east are
NoMad and the
Flatiron District ; to the southwest is the
Meatpacking District ; and to the south and southeast are the
West Village and the remainder of
Greenwich Village . It contains the
Chelsea Historic District and its extension, which were designated by the
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1970 and 1981 respectively. The district was added to the
National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and expanded in 1982 to include contiguous blocks containing particularly significant examples of period architecture.
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