Walk in New York

dimanche, août 31

samedi, août 30

vendredi, août 29

Manhattan : Metropolitan Life Insurance Building

jeudi, août 28

Manhattan : Times Square : 42eme Street

mercredi, août 27

Manhattan : Bryant Park : Carrousel

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dimanche, août 24

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mercredi, août 20

Manhattan : Central Park : Bethesda Foutain

mardi, août 19

Manhattan : Central Park : Bethesda Foutain

lundi, août 18

Manhattan : Central Park : Bethesda Foutain

dimanche, août 17

Manhattan : Video : Central Park 3

samedi, août 16

Manhattan : Video : Central Park 2

vendredi, août 15

Manhattan : Video : Central Park 1

jeudi, août 14

Brooklyn : District williamsburg

mercredi, août 13

Brooklyn : District williamsburg

mardi, août 12

lundi, août 11

Manhattan : The Woolworth Building

dimanche, août 10

Manhattan : The Worlwide Plaza

samedi, août 9

Manhattan : The Worlwide Plaza

vendredi, août 8

Manhattan : The Worlwide Plaza

jeudi, août 7

Manhattan : The Worlwide Plaza

mercredi, août 6

Manhattan : The Worlwide Plaza

mardi, août 5

Manhattan : The Worlwide Plaza

lundi, août 4

Manhattan : The Worlwide Plaza

Built in 1989, One Worldwide Plaza is part of a three-building, mixed-use commercial and residential complex located in the New York City borough of Manhattan, known collectively as Worldwide Plaza. One Worldwide Plaza is a commercial office tower on Eighth Avenue. Two Worldwide Plaza is a condominium residential tower west of the center of the block, and Three Worldwide Plaza is a low-rise condominium residential building with street level stores on Ninth Avenue, to the west of the towers. The complex occupies an entire city block, bounded by Eighth Avenue, Ninth Avenue, 49th Street, and 50th Street. Located on the west side of Eighth Avenue, One Worldwide Plaza is built on the site of New York City's third Madison Square Garden. The 50th Street subway station is underneath.
Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the complex was developed by William Zeckendorf, Jr. The building of One Worldwide Plaza was documented in a BBC / PBS mini-series and a companion book Skyscraper: The Making of a Building by Karl Sabbagh (ISBN 978-0140152845).
One Worldwide Plaza is a 49-story, 1.5 million square feet (139,355 m²), 778-foot (237 m) tall office skyscraper. The building has three separate entrances to accommodate the various tenants in the building, which include the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore and the international advertising agency of Ogilvy & Mather. The base of the building is made of granite and precast concrete. The tower facade is made of brick. The building is crowned by a copper roof and glass pyramid known as "David's Diamond" after the architect, David Childs.
View of public plaza with fountain in foreground and Two WWP and Three WWP in background, from southeast Vew of One WWP, public plaza, and fountain, from southwestA mid-block public plaza separates One Worldwide Plaza from the residential buildings of Two Worldwide Plaza and Three Worldwide Plaza. The public plaza is a bonus space granted under New York City Department of City Planning. The creation and maintenance of the public plaza resulted in permission to build additional floors in the office tower. The landscaping of the plaza contains over 40 trees and numerous plantings, and a cafe. The center of the plaza is highlighted by a fountain created by Sidney Simon called "The Four Seasons". Four female statues hold up a globe; each represents a season. Public seating is available year round. Model for the female statues is the expansionist painter Molly Ackerman, who studied at the Art Students League of New York and lives nowadays in Leiden in the Netherlands. She's married to the Dutch photographer Fred Rohde. They are the owners of the Expansionist Art Empire Gallery.
A theater space is located beneath the public plaza. Originally a six-screen movie theater, the space is now occupied by five off-Broadway theaters known as New World Stages. Access is gained by two kiosk buildings, one located on 49th Street and the other on 50th Street.
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dimanche, août 3

Manhattan : Municipal Building

samedi, août 2

Manhattan : Municipal Building and United States Courthouse

vendredi, août 1

Manhattan : Municipal Building and United States Courthouse

jeudi, juillet 31

Manhattan : Municipal Building

mercredi, juillet 30

Manhattan : Municipal Building

mardi, juillet 29

Manhattan : Municipal Building

The government of New York City was increasingly starved for space since 1884, when in that year's annual report, Mayor Franklin Edson declared that more space was badly needed. But he also noted that City Hall was not expandable because its "style of architecture was such that without marring its present symmetry, it couldn't be enlarged to the required extent."
The central arch was inspired by the Arch of Constantine.The City's agencies rented various buildings strewn all the way from Downtown Manhattan up to Midtown Manhattan, with the number of such arrangements increasing by the year. The government, desiring to cut down the amount of rent paid to private landlords, held several design competitions for a new massive building that would be suitable to house many agencies under one roof. Mayor Abraham Hewitt appointed a commission to study suitable plans and plots of land in 1888, and four competitions were held between that year and 1907. The final competition was held by the Commissioner of Bridges, who had already secured a new plot of land to be used for a new trolley hub at the Manhattan base of Brooklyn Bridge. Twelve architectural firms entered what would be the last version of the competition, and the winning entry was received from a young partner of McKim, Mead and White, then the largest architectural firm in the world with a staff numbering over 100. Despite such standing in the architectural community, the Manhattan Municipal Building would be their first skyscraper.
The building was first occupied in January 1913, and the majority of the building's offices were opened to the public by 1916. Various types of sculpture and relief were used, but the building most closely resembles classic Roman architecture, with the Arch of Constantine being the inspiration for the design of the central arch. So grand is this arch that automobile traffic used to flow through, but in modern times the shortened Chambers Street no longer continues through to the eastern side.
The WNYC public radio station was located in the building until May 2008. At present the Municipal Building is home to thirteen public agencies, employing 2,000 staff in nearly 1 million square feet (90,000 m²) of floorspace. A gift shop sells New York City maps, history books, and souvenirs of the city.

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lundi, juillet 28

Manhattan : Municipal Building

The Manhattan Municipal Building, at 1 Centre Street in New York City, is a 40-story building built to accommodate increased governmental space demands after the 1898 consolidation of The Five Boroughs. Construction began in 1909 and ended in 1915, marking the end of the City Beautiful movement in New York. Standing 580 feet (177 m) tall, its highest point is the second largest statue in Manhattan. The architectural firm McKim, Mead and White designed it to be the first building to incorporate a New York City Subway station into its base. Enormously influential in the civic construction of other American cities, its application of Beaux-Arts architecture served as the prototype for the Terminal Tower in Cleveland, the Fisher Building in Detroit, and the Wrigley Building in Chicago.
Located at the intersection of Chambers Street and Centre Street, the Municipal Building is one of the largest governmental buildings in the world. It houses thirteen civic agencies of New York City, and 28,000 New Yorkers are married inside of it each year. There are 25 floors of work space (served by 33 elevators), with an additional 15 stories in the tower.

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samedi, juillet 26

Brooklyn : Brooklyn Borough Hall - court str

jeudi, juillet 24

Brooklyn : Brooklyn Borough Hall - court str - cadman plaza

mercredi, juillet 23

Brooklyn : Brooklyn Borough Hall - court str - cadman plaza

mardi, juillet 22

Brooklyn : Brooklyn Borough Hall - court str - cadman plaza

lundi, juillet 21

Brooklyn : Brooklyn Borough Hall - court str - cadman plaza

Brooklyn Borough Hall was designed in 1835 by architect Gamaliel King, and constructed under the supervision of superintendent Stephen Haynes. It was completed in 1849 to be used as the City Hall of the City of Brooklyn. In January 1898 the independent City of Brooklyn was annexed into the City of New York and Kings County became the Borough of Brooklyn.
Construction on Brooklyn's City Hall began in 1845 and continued until 1849. The Kings County Courthouse was built in 1868, turning this area (now known as Downtown Brooklyn) into a government center and busy area of commerce. In the 1940s, the Kings County Courthouse and other nearby buildings to the north were replaced by a complex of courthouses and a plaza that stand in front of Borough Hall. A mall connects the building to Cadman Plaza Park.
On February 26, 1895, waste paper caught fire and destroyed the cupola, the top floors of the building, and water damage ruined the walls and ceiling of the Common Council chamber. A flag crowned the building for the next 85 years, until the 1980s when the building was restored and the figure of Lady Justice was placed on top of a new cupola. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 10 January 1980.

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