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The club CBGB opened at 315 Bowery in 1973 and launched punk rock in New York.","year":"1973","learn":"Manhattan's oldest road began as a Lenape trail and a Dutch farm lane.","source":{"name":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","url":"https://www.britannica.com/place/Bowery"},"keywords":["the Bowery","Bowery history","CBGB 315 Bowery","Bowery Mission","Bowery skid row","Stuyvesant bouwerij"],"article":"triangle-fire-1911","articles":["triangle-fire-1911","blackout-1977","the-bodega"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bowery","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=bowery","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/bowery.jpg"},{"id":"subway","name":"Below the city","area":"THE SUBWAY","mood":"Last train","color":"#e2ca89","description":"Broadway, Lafayette Street on the IND Sixth Avenue Line: white tile with a blue band, blue I beam columns, a silver train at the platform and the yellow edge.","signatures":"White glazed tile with a blue trim line on a black border, black name plates with white lettering, blue riveted I beam columns, the third rail, the tactile platform edge.","daylit":false,"index":2,"place":"The New York City Subway","fact":"The first subway line opened on October 27, 1904, run by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company. It ran from City Hall north to 145th Street. The architects Heins and LaFarge designed the original stations with ceramic tile and mosaic name plaques. The system now runs 24 hours a day on more than 470 stations.","year":"1904","learn":"The first train left City Hall on October 27, 1904, and the system never closed.","source":{"name":"Metropolitan Transportation Authority","url":"https://new.mta.info"},"keywords":["New York City subway","IRT 1904","subway history","City Hall station","subway tile","MTA subway map"],"article":"the-subway-1904","articles":["the-subway-1904"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/subway","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=subway","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/subway.jpg"},{"id":"met","name":"Above the park","area":"THE MET ROOF GARDEN","mood":"Golden hour","color":"#dabb96","description":"A limestone terrace over the treetops, sculpture commissions in enamel, the skyline turning gold.","signatures":"Limestone parapets over the park canopy, freestanding sculpture on the terrace, the midtown skyline as backdrop.","daylit":true,"index":3,"place":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Iris and B. 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Since then the museum has invited one artist each season to make a work for the roof.","year":"1987","learn":"The Met's roof has hosted one artist's commission each season since 1987.","source":{"name":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art","url":"https://www.metmuseum.org"},"keywords":["Met roof garden","Cantor Roof Garden","Metropolitan Museum of Art","Met rooftop commission","Met museum Central Park view","Met museum history"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/met","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=met","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/met.jpg"},{"id":"brooklyn","name":"Across the river","area":"BROOKLYN WATERFRONT","mood":"Blue hour","color":"#91bacf","description":"A granite promenade under the bridge, weathered steel screens on the river side, Manhattan lit across the water.","signatures":"Gothic pointed arches in the towers, sagging main cables with vertical suspenders and diagonal stays, the deck truss.","daylit":true,"index":4,"place":"Brooklyn Bridge Park","fact":"Brooklyn Bridge Park covers 85 acres of former shipping piers along the East River in Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates designed it. The first section, Pier 1, opened in 2010, and Jane's Carousel opened in its glass pavilion the next year. Granite from the old Roosevelt Island bridge went into the park's steps and seating.","year":"2010","learn":"The park under the bridge was working shipping piers until 2010.","source":{"name":"Brooklyn Bridge Park","url":"https://www.brooklynbridgepark.org"},"keywords":["Brooklyn Bridge Park","Dumbo waterfront","Jane's Carousel","Pier 1 Brooklyn","Brooklyn Heights Promenade","Empire Fulton Ferry"],"article":"brooklyn-bridge-1883","articles":["brooklyn-bridge-1883"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/brooklyn","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=brooklyn","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/brooklyn.jpg"},{"id":"times","name":"Electric crossroads","area":"TIMES SQUARE","mood":"Midnight","color":"#e477bc","description":"A canyon of lit billboards showing nothing but New Yorkers, the red steps and the ball at the end.","signatures":"Stacked wraparound screens, the red TKTS staircase, One Times Square with its mast and ball.","daylit":false,"index":5,"place":"Times Square","fact":"The crossroads at Broadway and Seventh Avenue was called Longacre Square until 1904, when The New York Times moved into its tower there and the city renamed it. The first New Year's Eve ball dropped from that tower on December 31, 1907. The red glass steps above the TKTS booth opened in 2008.","year":"1904","learn":"It was Longacre Square until a newspaper moved in and the city renamed it in 1904.","source":{"name":"Times Square Alliance","url":"https://www.timessquarenyc.org"},"keywords":["Times Square","Times Square history","New Year's Eve ball drop","TKTS red steps","Longacre Square","Times Square billboards"],"article":"blackout-1977","articles":["blackout-1977","times-square-ball-drop"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/times","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=times","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/times.jpg"},{"id":"ferry","name":"The harbor crossing","area":"STATEN ISLAND FERRY","mood":"Sunset crossing","color":"#f8af72","description":"Orange decks, white rails, the cabin walls hung with New Yorkers, Liberty off the port side.","signatures":"The orange hull and white superstructure, side promenade decks, wheelhouse and funnel, Liberty and the skyline off the water.","daylit":true,"index":6,"place":"The Staten Island Ferry","fact":"Ferries have crossed between Staten Island and Manhattan since the early 1800s. The City of New York took over the service in 1905. The fare was dropped in 1997, and the ride has been free since. The boats carry cars no longer, only people, on a 25 minute crossing past the Statue of Liberty.","year":"1905","learn":"The city has run the boats since 1905, and the ride has been free since 1997.","source":{"name":"NYC Department of Transportation","url":"https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/ferrybus/staten-island-ferry.shtml"},"keywords":["Staten Island Ferry","free ferry New York","Staten Island Ferry schedule","Whitehall Terminal","St. George Terminal","ferry Statue of Liberty view"],"article":"liberty-and-ellis-island","articles":["liberty-and-ellis-island","staten-island-ferry"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/ferry","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=ferry","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/ferry.jpg"},{"id":"botanical","name":"The living city","area":"NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN","mood":"Morning light","color":"#a4c7a1","description":"A glass conservatory nave under a great dome, palms and lily water, the census set among the planting.","signatures":"The glazed nave and central dome with lantern, white iron ribs, tropical planting and a still pool.","daylit":true,"index":7,"place":"The New York Botanical Garden, Enid A. 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That station was demolished in 1963, and its loss helped start the city's landmarks law. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill designed the new hall under a skylight held by the old mail sorting trusses.","year":"2021","learn":"The trusses over the hall once held up a mail sorting room.","source":{"name":"Moynihan Train Hall","url":"https://moynihantrainhall.nyc"},"keywords":["Moynihan Train Hall","Penn Station","Farley Post Office","original Penn Station demolition","Moynihan Train Hall clock","Amtrak New York"],"article":"the-subway-1904","articles":["the-subway-1904","grand-central-1913"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/penn","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=penn","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/penn.jpg"},{"id":"grand","name":"Under the stars","area":"GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL","mood":"Timeless","color":"#b6c5ad","description":"The concourse under a celestial vault, light falling through the great arched windows, the brass clock at the centre.","signatures":"The green celestial ceiling with gold constellations, the arched east and west windows, the opal faced clock on the information booth, marble everywhere.","daylit":false,"index":9,"place":"Grand Central Terminal","fact":"Grand Central Terminal opened on February 2, 1913. 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The first section of the park opened in 2009, designed by James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio and Renfro, and the planting designer Piet Oudolf.","year":"2009","learn":"Freight trains ran here until 1980. 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The Riegelmann Boardwalk opened in 1923. The Wonder Wheel has turned since 1920 and the Cyclone since 1927, and both are city landmarks.","year":"1920s","learn":"The boardwalk opened in 1923. 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The arcade ceiling holds about 16,000 Minton encaustic tiles, the only such tile ceiling in the world. Emma Stebbins's fountain, Angel of the Waters, was dedicated in 1873 to mark the Croton Aqueduct that brought clean water to the city.","year":"1873","learn":"The tile ceiling is the only Minton tile ceiling in the world.","source":{"name":"Central Park Conservancy","url":"https://www.centralparknyc.org"},"keywords":["Bethesda Terrace","Bethesda Fountain","Angel of the Waters","Minton tile ceiling Central Park","Bethesda Arcade","Emma Stebbins"],"article":"central-park-greensward","articles":["central-park-greensward"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bethesda","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=bethesda","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/bethesda.jpg"},{"id":"oculus","name":"White ribs, infinite city","area":"THE OCULUS","mood":"Pure daylight","color":"#c6e4ef","description":"Tapered white ribs closing over a long skylight, marble underfoot, the census standing on white fins in the light.","signatures":"Paired tapering steel ribs meeting at a central skylight spine, a white marble hall, mezzanine galleries behind glass.","daylit":true,"index":13,"place":"The Oculus, World Trade Center Transportation Hub","fact":"The World Trade Center Transportation Hub opened in March 2016. Santiago Calatrava designed it, and it cost about four billion dollars, the most ever spent on a train station. Its ribs form a skylight 355 feet long that opens each September 11. It connects the PATH trains to the subway and the towers of the rebuilt site.","year":"2016","learn":"The skylight along the spine opens once a year, on September 11.","source":{"name":"Port Authority of New York and New Jersey","url":"https://www.panynj.gov"},"keywords":["the Oculus","World Trade Center Transportation Hub","Calatrava Oculus","Oculus PATH station","Westfield World Trade Center","Oculus skylight September 11"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/oculus","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=oculus","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/oculus.jpg"},{"id":"guggenheim","name":"Endless ascent","area":"THE GUGGENHEIM SPIRAL","mood":"A continuous journey","color":"#e9debf","description":"One helical ramp rising three turns under a radial skylight, the works following the curve of the outer wall.","signatures":"A continuous helical ramp widening as it rises, banded parapets, the ribbed circular skylight, the open rotunda void.","daylit":true,"index":14,"place":"Solomon R. 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The marble lions at the door were named Patience and Fortitude by Mayor La Guardia in the 1930s.","year":"1911","learn":"The reading room is nearly two blocks long under a painted sky.","source":{"name":"Stephen A. 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The city made it a landmark on June 28, 1983.","year":"1934","learn":"Amateur Night began with a manager's Wednesday competitions in 1934.","source":{"name":"Apollo Theater, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Theater"},"keywords":["Apollo Theater","Apollo Theater Harlem","Amateur Night at the Apollo","Apollo Theater history","Tree of Hope Apollo","125th Street Harlem"],"article":"harlem-renaissance-apollo","articles":["harlem-renaissance-apollo"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/apollo","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=apollo","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/apollo.jpg"},{"id":"unisphere","name":"The boroughs in orbit","area":"FLUSHING MEADOWS","mood":"Worlds within worlds","color":"#a5cfdf","description":"The steel globe over its fountain basin, orbit rings, radial panels of New Yorkers around the promenade.","signatures":"The open steel lattice globe with continents in relief, three orbit rings, the circular fountain basin, the pavilion towers beyond.","daylit":true,"index":17,"place":"The Unisphere, Flushing Meadows Corona Park","fact":"The Unisphere was the symbol of the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens. Gilmore D. Clarke designed the stainless steel globe, 140 feet tall and 120 feet across, and United States Steel built it. The park had also hosted the 1939 World's Fair on what had been an ash dump. The Unisphere became a city landmark in 1995.","year":"1964","learn":"The steel globe stands 140 feet tall on the ground of two World's Fairs.","source":{"name":"NYC Parks, Flushing Meadows Corona Park","url":"https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/flushing-meadows-corona-park"},"keywords":["Unisphere","Flushing Meadows Corona Park","1964 World's Fair","1939 World's Fair Queens","Unisphere fountain","Queens Museum Unisphere"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/unisphere","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=unisphere","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/unisphere.jpg"},{"id":"tram","name":"Suspended New York","area":"ROOSEVELT ISLAND TRAM","mood":"Above the East River","color":"#eaa58a","description":"The Manhattan tram station high over Second Avenue, a red cabin docked and open, the bridge and river below.","signatures":"The red glazed cabin under its hanger arm, the cable wheel machinery, the Queensboro Bridge cantilever alongside, the river far below.","daylit":true,"index":18,"place":"The Roosevelt Island Tramway","fact":"The Roosevelt Island Tramway opened in 1976 as the first aerial tramway used for public transit in the United States. It was meant as a stopgap until the subway reached the island, which took until 1989, but riders kept it. The cabins cross the East River beside the Queensboro Bridge in about three minutes. New cabins and towers replaced the originals in 2010.","year":"1976","learn":"Built in 1976 as a stopgap until the subway came. The subway came. 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Outlook Hill rises 70 feet and looks straight at the Statue of Liberty.","year":"2016","learn":"The island was sold to New York for one dollar in 2003.","source":{"name":"Trust for Governors Island","url":"https://www.govisland.com"},"keywords":["Governors Island","The Hills Governors Island","Governors Island ferry","Outlook Hill","Fort Jay Castle Williams","Governors Island slide"],"article":"staten-island-ferry","articles":["staten-island-ferry"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/governors","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=governors","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/governors.jpg"},{"id":"chrysler","name":"The crown and the lobby","area":"THE CHRYSLER BUILDING","mood":"Deco at dusk","color":"#d9c48a","description":"Lexington Avenue under the steel crown, then the red marble lobby with its painted ceiling and inlaid elevator doors.","signatures":"The terraced steel crown with triangular windows and its needle, eagle gargoyles at the setbacks, the red Moroccan marble lobby with a ceiling mural and lotus elevator doors.","daylit":true,"index":22,"place":"The Chrysler Building","fact":"The Chrysler Building was completed in 1930 to a design by William Van Alen. Its steel spire was assembled in secret inside the tower and raised through the roof to reach 1,046 feet and claim the title of world's tallest building. It held the title for eleven months until the Empire State Building. The lobby ceiling carries a mural by Edward Trumbull, and the elevator doors are inlaid wood.","year":"1930","learn":"The spire went up in secret and made it the tallest building on earth for eleven months.","source":{"name":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","url":"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chrysler-Building"},"keywords":["Chrysler Building","Chrysler Building lobby","Chrysler Building spire","Art Deco New York","William Van Alen","Chrysler Building eagles"],"article":"race-to-the-sky-1930","articles":["race-to-the-sky-1930"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/chrysler","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=chrysler","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/chrysler.jpg"},{"id":"flatiron","name":"The prow","area":"THE FLATIRON","mood":"Noon on the wedge","color":"#c9b79a","description":"The triangular building at the split of two avenues, a plaza of chairs at its point, a wedge shaped gallery inside the prow.","signatures":"The triangular plan with its rounded point, limestone and terracotta tiers of bay windows, the pedestrian plaza with green chairs, the cast iron street clock, the park across the way.","daylit":true,"index":23,"place":"The Flatiron Building","fact":"The Flatiron Building was completed in 1902 on the wedge where Broadway crosses Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street. Daniel Burnham's Chicago firm designed it, and it was first called the Fuller Building. It rises 22 stories on a steel frame and is only about six feet wide at the point. The plaza in front of it was turned over to pedestrians in 2008.","year":"1902","learn":"At its point the building is about six feet wide.","source":{"name":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","url":"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Flatiron-Building"},"keywords":["Flatiron Building","Flatiron District","Daniel Burnham Flatiron","Flatiron plaza","Fuller Building 1902","Madison Square Park"],"article":"race-to-the-sky-1930","articles":["race-to-the-sky-1930"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/flatiron","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=flatiron","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/flatiron.jpg"},{"id":"bleachers","name":"Bottom of the ninth","area":"THE BRONX BALLPARK","mood":"Two out, full count","color":"#9fb4d6","description":"You are standing on the warning track in right centre with your back to the wall and the whole bowl in front of you: the skin of the infield raked, four towers of light on the grass, forty thousand people in three decks under the white frieze, and a full count in the bottom of the ninth. The New Yorkers hang along the outfield wall where the advertising would be, and every so often the ball comes out to meet them.","signatures":"The white steel frieze around the top of the upper deck, the navy padded outfield wall with its yellow line and the warning track, the infield skin and the mound, the black batter's eye in centre field, Monument Park behind it, four light towers, the scoreboard over the bleachers, and the bleachers themselves.","daylit":false,"index":24,"place":"Yankee Stadium, the Bronx","fact":"This room stands for Yankee Stadium. The original opened on April 18, 1923, on 161st Street, and Babe Ruth hit its first home run that day. It was the first ballpark in the country to be called a stadium. The team moved across the street to the new Yankee Stadium in 2009, and the old site is now Heritage Field, a public park.","year":"1923","learn":"Babe Ruth hit the first home run here on opening day, 1923.","source":{"name":"New York Yankees","url":"https://www.mlb.com/yankees/ballpark"},"keywords":["Yankee Stadium","Yankee Stadium history","original Yankee Stadium 1923","Bronx bleachers","Monument Park","Yankee Stadium tour"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bleachers","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=bleachers","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/bleachers.jpg"},{"id":"deli","name":"Take a number","area":"THE APPETIZING COUNTER","mood":"Sunday morning","color":"#e9c46a","description":"A Lower East Side corner store: neon over the awning, a tin ceiling, glass cases lit from inside, the census in every case and up on the photo wall.","signatures":"The long glass and marble counter, smoked fish hanging on a rail, a pressed tin ceiling, the numbered ticket dispenser, the corner neon and awning, the photo wall.","daylit":true,"index":25,"place":"The appetizing store: Russ and Daughters and Barney Greengrass","fact":"This room stands for the appetizing store, a New York trade in smoked fish, cured salmon, herring, and cream cheese, the foods eaten with bagels. Kosher law kept fish and dairy apart from the meat of the delicatessen, so the two became separate shops. Joel Russ opened his store on the Lower East Side in 1914 and renamed it Russ and Daughters in 1933, the first business in the country with 'and Daughters' in its name. Barney Greengrass has sold sturgeon on the Upper West Side since 1908.","year":"1914","learn":"Appetizing is fish and dairy. Deli is meat. Kosher law made them two shops.","source":{"name":"Russ and Daughters","url":"https://www.russanddaughters.com"},"keywords":["appetizing store","Russ and Daughters","Barney Greengrass","Lower East Side lox","New York smoked fish","bagel and lox history"],"article":"the-bodega","articles":["the-bodega"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/deli","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=deli","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/deli.jpg"},{"id":"washington","name":"Under the arch","area":"WASHINGTON SQUARE","mood":"Saturday afternoon","color":"#b9c8a4","description":"The marble arch, the fountain plaza, chess tables under the trees, the works set on steel easels around the water.","signatures":"The white marble arch with its relief panels and the avenue framed through it, the round fountain basin with a jet, the chess tables in the southwest corner, the red brick row houses on the north side.","daylit":true,"index":26,"place":"Washington Square Park","fact":"The land was a potter's field from 1797 until 1825, and thousands are still buried under the lawn. It became a parade ground and then a park. Stanford White designed the marble arch, dedicated in 1895 to replace a wooden one built for the centennial of Washington's inauguration. In 1958 neighbors led by Shirley Hayes and Jane Jacobs won the fight to close the park to cars.","year":"1895","learn":"The lawn covers a potter's field. The arch came later, in 1895.","source":{"name":"NYC Parks, Washington Square Park","url":"https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/washington-square-park"},"keywords":["Washington Square Park","Washington Square Arch","Greenwich Village park","Washington Square fountain","chess tables Washington Square","Stanford White arch"],"article":"triangle-fire-1911","articles":["triangle-fire-1911","stonewall-1969","jane-jacobs-and-robert-moses"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/washington","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=washington","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/washington.jpg"},{"id":"boathouse","name":"The Lullwater","area":"PROSPECT PARK BOATHOUSE","mood":"Late summer","color":"#a9c9b0","description":"A white terracotta boathouse on the lake, its loggia hung with the census, rowboats drifting under the bridge.","signatures":"The Beaux Arts loggia of five arches with a balustraded roof, the terrace over the water, the arched Lullwater bridge, rowboats and swans, the tree line closing the lake.","daylit":true,"index":27,"place":"Prospect Park Boathouse","fact":"The Boathouse on the Lullwater opened in 1905, designed by Helmle, Huberty and Hudswell in white terracotta, after the Library of Sannazaro in Venice. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux laid out Prospect Park itself in 1867 and called it their best work. The Boathouse was saved from demolition in the 1960s and since 2002 has housed the Audubon Center.","year":"1905","learn":"Olmsted and Vaux called Prospect Park their best work, better than Central Park.","source":{"name":"Prospect Park Alliance","url":"https://www.prospectpark.org"},"keywords":["Prospect Park Boathouse","Lullwater Prospect Park","Prospect Park Audubon Center","Olmsted Vaux Prospect Park","Prospect Park Lake","Boathouse wedding Brooklyn"],"article":"central-park-greensward","articles":["central-park-greensward"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/boathouse","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=boathouse","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/boathouse.jpg"},{"id":"halloffame","name":"The colonnade","area":"HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS","mood":"Bronze afternoon","color":"#c9b08a","description":"A semicircular colonnade on a Bronx bluff, the census where the bronze busts stand, a domed library at its heart.","signatures":"The open air Corinthian colonnade curving around the library, bust pedestals between the columns, the terraced site over the Harlem River, the green copper dome and portico.","daylit":true,"index":28,"place":"The Hall of Fame for Great Americans","fact":"The Hall of Fame for Great Americans is a 630 foot stone colonnade on a bluff above the Harlem River in the Bronx. Stanford White designed it, and it opened in 1901 on the University Heights campus of New York University, wrapped around his Gould Memorial Library. It holds 98 bronze busts of Americans chosen by vote. The campus became Bronx Community College in 1973.","year":"1901","learn":"The first hall of fame in the country is a colonnade of 98 bronze heads in the Bronx.","source":{"name":"Bronx Community College","url":"https://www.bcc.cuny.edu"},"keywords":["Hall of Fame for Great Americans","Bronx Community College Hall of Fame","Gould Memorial Library","Stanford White Bronx","University Heights campus","bronze busts Hall of Fame"],"article":"jane-jacobs-and-robert-moses","articles":["jane-jacobs-and-robert-moses"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/halloffame","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=halloffame","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/halloffame.jpg"},{"id":"twa","name":"Departures, 1962","area":"TWA FLIGHT CENTER","mood":"Jet age","color":"#e07a7a","description":"The swooping concrete terminal at the airport, a sunken red lounge, the flight tubes, a plane on the apron.","signatures":"The winged concrete shell and its four vaults, the sunken conversation pit in red, the split flap board, the curved tube corridors, the airliner at the gate.","daylit":true,"index":29,"place":"The TWA Flight Center, JFK Airport","fact":"Eero Saarinen designed the TWA Flight Center at Idlewild Airport, now JFK. It opened in 1962, a year after his death, with a concrete roof shaped like wings and red carpeted tubes leading to the gates. Trans World Airlines used it until the airline ended in 2001. It reopened in 2019 as the lobby of the TWA Hotel, with a 1958 Lockheed Constellation parked outside as a bar.","year":"1962","learn":"Saarinen's terminal opened in 1962, a year after he died.","source":{"name":"TWA Hotel","url":"https://www.twahotel.com"},"keywords":["TWA Flight Center","TWA Hotel JFK","Eero Saarinen terminal","TWA terminal 1962","Connie cocktail lounge","JFK Terminal 5 history"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/twa","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=twa","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/twa.jpg"},{"id":"snug","name":"The sailors' rest","area":"SNUG HARBOR","mood":"Staten Island stillness","color":"#c9c3a4","description":"Five Greek temples in a row on a Staten Island lawn, a hall of the census inside the main one, a walled scholar's garden behind.","signatures":"The row of Greek Revival temple fronts with Ionic porticos, the long front lawn, the Music Hall, the Chinese Scholar's Garden with its pond, pavilion and moon gate.","daylit":true,"index":30,"place":"Sailors' Snug Harbor","fact":"Sailors' Snug Harbor opened in 1833 on the north shore of Staten Island as a home for aged and worn out seamen, funded by the will of Robert Richard Randall. Its row of five Greek Revival temples faces the harbor; Minard Lafever designed the central building. They were among the first buildings protected under the city's landmarks law in 1965. The site is now a cultural center with the New York Chinese Scholar's Garden, which opened in 1999.","year":"1833","learn":"A home for old sailors, opened 1833, with five Greek temples facing the harbor.","source":{"name":"Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden","url":"https://snug-harbor.org"},"keywords":["Snug Harbor","Sailors' Snug Harbor Staten Island","Chinese Scholar's Garden Staten Island","Snug Harbor Cultural Center","Staten Island Museum Snug Harbor","Greek Revival Staten Island"],"article":"staten-island-ferry","articles":["staten-island-ferry"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/snug","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=snug","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/snug.jpg"},{"id":"wollman","name":"Ice under the towers","area":"WOLLMAN RINK","mood":"December night","color":"#bcd7ea","description":"The rink in the southeast corner of the park, the works hung on the boards, skaters as light, snow falling on the skyline.","signatures":"The oval rink below the outcrops, the Midtown towers rising over bare trees, the boards, the rental house and terrace, snow on every ledge.","daylit":true,"index":31,"place":"Wollman Rink, Central Park","fact":"Wollman Rink opened in 1950 in the southeast corner of Central Park, paid for by a gift from Kate Wollman in memory of her family. It replaced skating on the Pond, which had drawn crowds since the park opened. The rink sits below the towers of Central Park South and has appeared in many films.","year":"1950","learn":"New Yorkers skated on the Pond here for ninety years before the rink opened in 1950.","source":{"name":"Central Park Conservancy","url":"https://www.centralparknyc.org"},"keywords":["Wollman Rink","Central Park ice skating","Wollman Rink tickets","Central Park skating rink","Wollman Rink history","Central Park South skyline"],"article":"central-park-greensward","articles":["central-park-greensward"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/wollman","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=wollman","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/wollman.jpg"},{"id":"doyers","name":"The bend","area":"DOYERS STREET","mood":"Lantern hour","color":"#e05a4a","description":"The crooked lane in Chinatown under strings of lanterns, a dim sum hall up one flight, the census on every wall.","signatures":"The sharp bend of the lane, tenements with fire escapes, red lanterns strung overhead, the painted mural on the bend, the upstairs banquet hall with round tables and a lazy susan.","daylit":true,"index":32,"place":"Doyers Street, Chinatown","fact":"Doyers Street is a 200 foot lane in Chinatown with a sharp bend in the middle. It takes its name from Hendrik Doyer, who ran a distillery there in the 1700s. In the early 1900s the bend was known as the Bloody Angle for its tong wars. Nom Wah Tea Parlor opened on the street in 1920 and is the oldest dim sum restaurant in the city.","year":"1920","learn":"The bend was called the Bloody Angle. Nom Wah has served dim sum on it since 1920.","source":{"name":"Museum of Chinese in America","url":"https://www.mocanyc.org"},"keywords":["Doyers Street","Chinatown Doyers Street","Nom Wah Tea Parlor","Bloody Angle Chinatown","Chinatown history New York","Doyers Street mural"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/doyers","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=doyers","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/doyers.jpg"},{"id":"strivers","name":"The parlour floor","area":"STRIVERS' ROW","mood":"Sunday in Harlem","color":"#c98a6a","description":"A block of Harlem row houses, and inside one of them the parlour floor: pocket doors, a piano, the census in gilt on the walls.","signatures":"The unbroken row of yellow brick with white limestone trim and stoops, the alley gate that says walk your horses, the tree lined block, the parlour with its bay window, marble mantel, pocket doors and pressed tin ceiling.","daylit":true,"index":33,"place":"Strivers' Row, the St. Nicholas Historic District, Harlem","fact":"The developer David H. King Jr. built these four rows of houses on West 138th and 139th Streets from 1891 to 1893. Three firms designed them: James Brown Lord, Bruce Price with Clarence Luce, and McKim, Mead and White. They were built for white buyers and stood half empty until they were sold to Black New Yorkers around 1919. The doctors, musicians and lawyers who moved in gave the block its name. It became the St. Nicholas Historic District in 1967.","year":"1891","learn":"Built in 1891 for buyers who never came. Harlem's strivers filled it after 1919.","source":{"name":"NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission","url":"https://www.nyc.gov/site/lpc/index.page"},"keywords":["Strivers' Row","St. Nicholas Historic District","Harlem row houses","King Model Houses","West 138th Street Harlem","Harlem brownstones history"],"article":"harlem-renaissance-apollo","articles":["harlem-renaissance-apollo"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/strivers","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=strivers","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/strivers.jpg"},{"id":"rock","name":"Seventy floors up","area":"TOP OF THE ROCK","mood":"Blue hour","color":"#8fb3d9","description":"The observation decks of a limestone tower, glass panels at the edge, the whole island laid out around the works.","signatures":"The stepped limestone crown of the slab, three terraced decks, safety glass panels between stone piers, the park to the north and the spire to the south, the city as the wall.","daylit":true,"index":34,"place":"Top of the Rock, 30 Rockefeller Plaza","fact":"30 Rockefeller Plaza, first the RCA Building, was completed in 1933 as the centerpiece of Rockefeller Center. Raymond Hood led the design. Its observation deck on the 70th floor opened the same year, styled after the deck of an ocean liner. It closed in 1986 and reopened in 2005. The deck faces Central Park to the north and the Empire State Building to the south.","year":"1933","learn":"The deck was styled after an ocean liner in 1933, then closed for nineteen years.","source":{"name":"Top of the Rock","url":"https://www.topoftherocknyc.com"},"keywords":["Top of the Rock","30 Rockefeller Plaza","Rockefeller Center observation deck","Top of the Rock tickets","RCA Building 1933","Top of the Rock sunset"],"article":"race-to-the-sky-1930","articles":["race-to-the-sky-1930"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/rock","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=rock","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/rock.jpg"},{"id":"frick","name":"The garden court","area":"THE FRICK","mood":"Gilded quiet","color":"#d9cfb0","description":"A Fifth Avenue mansion, the skylit garden court with its fountain and ionic columns, the census where the old masters hang.","signatures":"The limestone mansion behind its lawn and iron fence on Fifth Avenue, the glass roofed garden court with paired ionic columns and a central fountain, the paneled galleries opening off it.","daylit":true,"index":35,"place":"The Frick Collection","fact":"Henry Clay Frick built his mansion on Fifth Avenue at 70th Street in 1913 and 1914, designed by Carrere and Hastings. His will left the house and its paintings to the public. John Russell Pope turned it into a museum, and the Garden Court with its fountain was built over the old carriage court. The Frick Collection opened in 1935 and reopened in 2025 after a renovation that opened the family's upstairs rooms.","year":"1935","learn":"The Garden Court was the carriage court until the house became a museum in 1935.","source":{"name":"The Frick Collection","url":"https://www.frick.org"},"keywords":["Frick Collection","Frick museum","Frick Garden Court","Frick mansion Fifth Avenue","Henry Clay Frick house","Frick Vermeer"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/frick","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=frick","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/frick.jpg"},{"id":"seaport","name":"The tall ship","area":"SOUTH STREET SEAPORT","mood":"Morning fog lifting","color":"#9fb8c4","description":"Cobblestones, the brick counting houses, a square rigger at the pier, the census hung in the rigging and along the row.","signatures":"The Schermerhorn Row brick warehouses, Belgian block paving, the iron and timber pier, a three masted ship with yards and rigging, the bridge over the rooftops.","daylit":true,"index":36,"place":"South Street Seaport","fact":"South Street was the city's main port in the age of sail. Schermerhorn Row, the brick counting houses on Fulton Street, was built in 1811 and 1812. The Fulton Fish Market traded here from 1822 until it moved to the Bronx in 2005. The South Street Seaport Museum was founded in 1967 and keeps the 1885 ship Wavertree at Pier 16.","year":"1811","learn":"The fish market ran on this cobbled street for 183 years.","source":{"name":"South Street Seaport Museum","url":"https://www.southstreetseaportmuseum.org"},"keywords":["South Street Seaport","Seaport Museum","Schermerhorn Row","Wavertree ship","Fulton Fish Market","Pier 17"],"article":"brooklyn-bridge-1883","articles":["brooklyn-bridge-1883","before-the-city-lenape-new-amsterdam"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/seaport","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=seaport","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/seaport.jpg"},{"id":"vessel","name":"The climb","area":"HUDSON YARDS","mood":"Copper noon","color":"#c98a5a","description":"A vase of interlocking staircases in copper steel, climbed one landing at a time, the works on every parapet, the towers all around.","signatures":"The widening honeycomb of landings and flights, the copper coloured cladding, the plaza and its glass towers, the river and the rail yards below.","daylit":true,"index":37,"place":"Vessel, Hudson Yards","fact":"Vessel opened in March 2019 as the centerpiece of Hudson Yards, built over the West Side rail yards. Thomas Heatherwick designed it: 154 flights of stairs, 2,500 steps and 80 landings in a copper colored steel frame 150 feet tall. It closed in 2021 after a series of deaths and reopened in 2024 with mesh barriers.","year":"2019","learn":"154 flights of stairs that lead nowhere, opened over the rail yards in 2019.","source":{"name":"Hudson Yards","url":"https://www.hudsonyardsnewyork.com"},"keywords":["Vessel Hudson Yards","Hudson Yards","Heatherwick Vessel","Vessel tickets","Vessel reopening","Hudson Yards staircase"],"article":"high-line-rewilded-city","articles":["high-line-rewilded-city"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/vessel","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=vessel","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/vessel.jpg"},{"id":"littleisland","name":"The tulips","area":"LITTLE ISLAND","mood":"Golden hour on the river","color":"#a8c4a0","description":"Two and a half acres of park held over the Hudson on a hundred and thirty two concrete tulips, none of them the same height, so the ground rolls. 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Now it holds a park on 132 concrete tulips.","source":{"name":"Little Island","url":"https://littleisland.org"},"keywords":["Little Island NYC","Little Island park","Pier 55","Little Island amphitheater","Hudson River Park","Little Island tulips"],"article":"high-line-rewilded-city","articles":["high-line-rewilded-city"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/littleisland","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=littleisland","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/littleisland.jpg"},{"id":"cathedral","name":"The unfinished nave","area":"ST. 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At 601 feet long it is one of the largest churches in the world, and it is still unfinished.","year":"1892","learn":"Begun in 1892, still unfinished, and one of the largest churches on earth.","source":{"name":"The Cathedral of St. John the Divine","url":"https://www.stjohndivine.org"},"keywords":["St. John the Divine","Cathedral of St. John the Divine","Morningside Heights cathedral","largest cathedral New York","Blessing of the Animals","St. John the Divine rose window"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/cathedral","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=cathedral","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/cathedral.jpg"},{"id":"queensboro","name":"The elevated","area":"QUEENSBORO PLAZA","mood":"Rush hour","color":"#a0a8d8","description":"An elevated platform over the plaza, trains rolling through on two levels, Manhattan across the river, the census on the platform walls.","signatures":"The double deck steel viaduct, curving tracks and platform canopies, the bridge and the skyline to the west, the glass towers of Long Island City, the traffic under the el.","daylit":true,"index":40,"place":"Queensboro Plaza","fact":"Queensboro Plaza is a two level elevated station in Long Island City at the Queens end of the Queensboro Bridge. It was built under the Dual Contracts of the 1910s, when the city's two subway companies shared the tracks here. The bridge itself opened in 1909, designed by Gustav Lindenthal with Henry Hornbostel. The N, W and 7 trains meet on the platforms with Midtown across the river.","year":"1909","learn":"Two subway companies once shared these elevated tracks. 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The Dutch chartered the town as Boswijck in 1661, and in the 1800s it became the city's brewery district. Since 2011 Joseph Ficalora has invited artists to paint the walls around Troutman Street and St. Nicholas Avenue as the Bushwick Collective, an open air mural gallery that changes every year.","year":"2011","learn":"The walls below have been repainted every year since 2011.","source":{"name":"Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History","url":"https://www.bklynlibrary.org/center-for-brooklyn-history"},"keywords":["Bushwick Collective","Bushwick murals","Bushwick street art","Bushwick rooftop","Bushwick Brooklyn history","Troutman Street murals"],"article":"blackout-1977","articles":["blackout-1977","the-bodega"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bushwick","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=bushwick","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/bushwick.jpg"},{"id":"cyclone","name":"The ride","area":"THE CYCLONE","mood":"Boardwalk summer","color":"#f2e6c8","description":"The wooden coaster at Coney Island, the station, the lift hill, the first drop, and the works along the queue and the boardwalk. Press W to take the ride.","signatures":"The white steel lattice under a wooden track, the 75 foot lift hill with its red CYCLONE letters and the 58 degree first drop, the low station under its roof, the boardwalk, the beach and the tall parachute tower beyond.","daylit":true,"index":42,"place":"The Coney Island Cyclone","fact":"The Cyclone opened on June 26, 1927, at Surf Avenue and West 10th Street. Vernon Keenan designed it and Harry C. Baker built it, a wooden coaster with an 85 foot first drop. The city saved it from demolition in the 1970s and made it a landmark in 1988. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and still runs each summer.","year":"1927","learn":"A wooden coaster from 1927 with an 85 foot first drop, and still running.","source":{"name":"Luna Park in Coney Island","url":"https://lunaparknyc.com"},"keywords":["Coney Island Cyclone","Cyclone roller coaster","wooden roller coaster Coney Island","Cyclone 1927","Luna Park Coney Island","Cyclone first drop"],"article":"coney-island","articles":["coney-island"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/cyclone","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=cyclone","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/cyclone.jpg"},{"id":"brooklynbridge","name":"Between the cables","area":"THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE","mood":"Golden hour crossing","color":"#c9b08a","description":"The plank promenade above the traffic, the gothic towers, the web of cables, Manhattan ahead and the harbor below, the works hung on the tower piers and the lamp banners.","signatures":"The two granite towers with pointed double arches, four main cables and the diagonal stay web, the raised timber walkway between the roadways, the iron lamps, the river far below.","daylit":true,"index":43,"place":"The Brooklyn Bridge","fact":"The Brooklyn Bridge opened on May 24, 1883. John A. Roebling designed it and died of an injury at the site before work began. His son Washington Roebling took over, and when caisson disease left him bedridden, his wife Emily Roebling carried his instructions to the site for a decade. Its 1,595 foot main span was the longest in the world, and it was the first suspension bridge hung on steel wire.","year":"1883","learn":"Emily Roebling ran the site for a decade while her husband watched from a window.","source":{"name":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","url":"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Brooklyn-Bridge"},"keywords":["Brooklyn Bridge","Brooklyn Bridge walk","Brooklyn Bridge history","Roebling Brooklyn Bridge","Emily Roebling","Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian path"],"article":"brooklyn-bridge-1883","articles":["brooklyn-bridge-1883"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/brooklynbridge","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=brooklynbridge","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/brooklynbridge.jpg"},{"id":"panorama","name":"The city on a table","area":"THE QUEENS MUSEUM","mood":"Model dusk cycle","color":"#8ab0c8","description":"The Panorama of the city, every borough in miniature under a hall, its lights cycling from day to dusk, a glass walkway around it, the works on the walls above.","signatures":"The 1964 scale model of all five boroughs with its rivers and bridges, the darkened hall with a raised ramped walkway circling the model, the day to night lighting cycle, the Unisphere outside the glass.","daylit":true,"index":44,"place":"The Panorama of the City of New York, Queens Museum","fact":"The Panorama was built for the 1964 World's Fair at the order of Robert Moses. Raymond Lester and Associates made it: every building in the five boroughs at a scale of one inch to 100 feet, on 9,335 square feet. It was updated in 1992 and holds about 895,000 buildings. The hall around it is the New York City Building from the 1939 fair, where the United Nations General Assembly met from 1946 to 1950.","year":"1964","learn":"Every building in the city in miniature, made for the 1964 fair. The UN met here first.","source":{"name":"Queens Museum","url":"https://queensmuseum.org"},"keywords":["Panorama of the City of New York","Queens Museum","Queens Museum Panorama","1964 World's Fair Queens","New York City Building Flushing Meadows","scale model of New York City"],"article":"consolidation-1898","articles":["consolidation-1898","counting-new-york"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/panorama","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=panorama","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/panorama.jpg"},{"id":"liberty","name":"The climb to the crown","area":"LIBERTY ISLAND","mood":"Harbor morning","color":"#7fb8a8","description":"The eleven pointed star of the old fort, Hunt's pedestal on top of it, and then the spiral inside the copper: up the armature Eiffel built, past the works hung on the inner wall, to the room in her head under the seven rays of the crown. 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The crown has 25 windows.","source":{"name":"National Park Service, Statue of Liberty National Monument","url":"https://www.nps.gov/stli"},"keywords":["Statue of Liberty","Liberty Island","Statue of Liberty crown tickets","Fort Wood","Bartholdi Statue of Liberty","Statue of Liberty pedestal"],"article":"liberty-and-ellis-island","articles":["liberty-and-ellis-island","staten-island-ferry"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/liberty","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=liberty","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/liberty.jpg"},{"id":"oysterbar","name":"Under the tile vaults","area":"GRAND CENTRAL OYSTER BAR","mood":"Lunch rush","color":"#d8b070","description":"Down the ramp under the whispering gallery into the tiled vaults, the long counters, red checked tables, the works between the arches.","signatures":"The Guastavino herringbone tile vaults, the whispering gallery at the ramp crossing, the U shaped lunch counters with stools, the red and white cloths, the neon over the entrance.","daylit":true,"index":46,"place":"Grand Central Oyster Bar","fact":"The Oyster Bar opened in 1913 with the terminal, under vaulted ceilings of tile by Rafael Guastavino. The arches outside its door form the Whispering Gallery, where a murmur into one corner carries to the opposite one. It closed in 1972 and reopened in 1974 under Jerome Brody, who rebuilt it as a seafood house. A fire in 1997 closed it again, and it reopened within a year.","year":"1913","learn":"Whisper into one corner of the arch outside and it lands in the opposite corner.","source":{"name":"Grand Central Oyster Bar","url":"https://www.oysterbarny.com"},"keywords":["Grand Central Oyster Bar","Oyster Bar Grand Central","Guastavino tile Grand Central","Whispering Gallery Grand Central","oyster pan roast","oldest restaurant Grand Central"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/oysterbar","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=oysterbar","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/oysterbar.jpg"},{"id":"morgan","name":"Three tiers of books","area":"THE MORGAN LIBRARY","mood":"Reading lamp afternoon","color":"#b8864a","description":"East 36th Street off Madison Avenue, the marble palazzo, then the East Room: three storeys of walnut bookcases with two walkable balconies, the painted ceiling, the works between the tiers.","signatures":"The McKim palazzo of dry laid marble, the East Room of triple tiered inlaid walnut bookcases behind bronze grilles, the narrow balconies, the tapestry over the fireplace, the lunettes and the painted ceiling.","daylit":true,"index":47,"place":"The Morgan Library and Museum","fact":"Charles McKim designed the library for J. Pierpont Morgan next to his home on Madison Avenue at 36th Street, built from 1902 to 1906. The East Room holds three tiers of walnut bookcases under a painted ceiling. Morgan's son made it a public institution in 1924. Renzo Piano's expansion in 2006 joined the buildings, and the collection holds three Gutenberg Bibles.","year":"1906","learn":"Three tiers of walnut shelves, built for one banker, opened to everyone in 1924.","source":{"name":"The Morgan Library and Museum","url":"https://www.themorgan.org"},"keywords":["Morgan Library","Morgan Library and Museum","J.P. 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Edward Durell Stone was its architect and Donald Deskey designed the interiors. Its proscenium arches rise like a sunrise over a stage 144 feet wide, and the house seats about 6,000. The Rockettes have danced here since it opened. The city made it a landmark in 1978 after plans to close it.","year":"1932","learn":"The arches over the stage are a sunrise, and they have been since 1932.","source":{"name":"Radio City Music Hall","url":"https://www.msg.com/radio-city-music-hall"},"keywords":["Radio City Music Hall","Radio City Christmas Spectacular","Rockettes","Radio City Music Hall tour","Art Deco theater New York","Radio City marquee"],"article":"times-square-ball-drop","articles":["times-square-ball-drop"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/radiocity","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=radiocity","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/radiocity.jpg"},{"id":"woolworth","name":"The cathedral of commerce","area":"THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING","mood":"Gothic gold","color":"#d4c48a","description":"Broadway under the terracotta tower, then the cruciform lobby: gold mosaic vaults, marble, the gothic grilles, the works in the arcade bays.","signatures":"The 792 foot terracotta gothic tower with its green copper crown, the cross shaped lobby of two barrel vaulted arms under glass mosaic and a dome at the crossing, veined Skyros marble walls, bronze gothic tracery, the mezzanine murals.","daylit":true,"index":49,"place":"The Woolworth Building","fact":"The Woolworth Building opened in 1913 on Broadway across from City Hall Park. Cass Gilbert designed it in terracotta Gothic, 792 feet tall, the tallest building in the world until 1930. Frank Woolworth paid for it in cash. President Wilson lit its lights from the White House on opening night, and a preacher named it the Cathedral of Commerce. The lobby is vaulted in gold mosaic.","year":"1913","learn":"Woolworth paid cash for the tallest building in the world in 1913.","source":{"name":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","url":"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Woolworth-Building"},"keywords":["Woolworth Building","Woolworth Building lobby","Cass Gilbert Woolworth","Cathedral of Commerce","Woolworth Building tour","tallest building 1913"],"article":"race-to-the-sky-1930","articles":["race-to-the-sky-1930"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/woolworth","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=woolworth","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/woolworth.jpg"},{"id":"wallstreet","name":"The canyon","area":"WALL STREET","mood":"Opening bell","color":"#9aa8b8","description":"The narrow canyon at Broad Street, the Doric steps of Federal Hall, the exchange front with its columns and the giant banner, the crowd at the bell, the works in the canyon.","signatures":"The stone canyon of Wall and Broad, the Greek Revival Federal Hall with its eighteen steps and statue plinth, the six fluted columns and pediment of the exchange facing Broad Street with a banner on them, 23 Wall Street on the corner, the flags, the crowds, the cobbles.","daylit":true,"index":50,"place":"Wall Street and Federal Hall","fact":"Wall Street runs along the line of the wooden wall that closed the north side of New Amsterdam in the 1650s. Twenty four brokers signed the Buttonwood Agreement under a tree here on May 17, 1792, the start of the New York Stock Exchange. The Exchange's columned front at 11 Wall Street opened in 1903, designed by George B. Post. Across the street at Federal Hall, George Washington took the oath as first president in 1789.","year":"1792","learn":"A wall, a tree, a handshake in 1792, and a stock exchange.","source":{"name":"National Park Service, Federal Hall National Memorial","url":"https://www.nps.gov/feha"},"keywords":["Wall Street","New York Stock Exchange","Federal Hall","Buttonwood Agreement","Wall Street history","Charging Bull"],"article":"before-the-city-lenape-new-amsterdam","articles":["before-the-city-lenape-new-amsterdam"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/wallstreet","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=wallstreet","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/wallstreet.jpg"},{"id":"lincolncenter","name":"The plaza at eight","area":"LINCOLN CENTER","mood":"Curtain in ten minutes","color":"#e8d8a8","description":"The travertine plaza around the fountain, the opera house arches with the works hung where the murals are, the crystal chandeliers rising, the crowd in evening clothes.","signatures":"The travertine plaza with the round fountain at its centre, the five soaring arches of the opera house glowing through glass, the two great murals in the lobby, the starburst chandeliers, the flanking theaters with their colonnades.","daylit":false,"index":51,"place":"Lincoln Center","fact":"Lincoln Center was built on 16 acres of the Upper West Side cleared under urban renewal in the 1950s, the neighborhood of San Juan Hill. President Eisenhower broke ground in 1959. Philharmonic Hall opened in 1962, and the Metropolitan Opera House opened in 1966, designed by Wallace K. Harrison with two murals by Marc Chagall in its lobby. Its chandeliers rise to the ceiling before each performance.","year":"1962","learn":"The chandeliers rise into the ceiling before every performance.","source":{"name":"Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts","url":"https://www.lincolncenter.org"},"keywords":["Lincoln Center","Metropolitan Opera House","Lincoln Center plaza fountain","Chagall murals Met Opera","David Geffen Hall","Lincoln Center history San Juan Hill"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/lincolncenter","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=lincolncenter","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/lincolncenter.jpg"},{"id":"belvedere","name":"The castle on the rock","area":"BELVEDERE CASTLE","mood":"October afternoon","color":"#9ab088","description":"Vista Rock, the little castle and its terraces over Turtle Pond and the Great Lawn, the towers of the west side beyond, the works on the ramparts.","signatures":"The granite and schist folly with its tower, the two terraces at different heights, the pond below with turtles and the Delacorte stage, the Great Lawn and the twin towered skyline of Central Park West.","daylit":true,"index":52,"place":"Belvedere Castle, Central Park","fact":"Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould designed Belvedere Castle as a folly on Vista Rock, the second highest point in Central Park, completed in 1872. It was built to be looked at from the Mall and had no use but the view. The National Weather Service has taken the city's official weather readings here since 1919. The Conservancy restored it in 1983 and again in 2019.","year":"1872","learn":"The castle had no purpose but the view. Since 1919 it has also read the weather.","source":{"name":"Central Park Conservancy","url":"https://www.centralparknyc.org"},"keywords":["Belvedere Castle","Central Park castle","Vista Rock","Turtle Pond","Central Park weather station","Belvedere Castle view"],"article":"central-park-greensward","articles":["central-park-greensward"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/belvedere","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=belvedere","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/belvedere.jpg"},{"id":"highbridge","name":"The aqueduct walk","area":"THE HIGH BRIDGE","mood":"Blue hour","color":"#8898b8","description":"The oldest bridge in the city, an aqueduct on stone arches across the Harlem River, the walk on top from the Bronx to the water tower on the Manhattan bluff.","signatures":"The tall masonry arches on the Bronx bank and the steel arch over the river, the brick paved walkway with iron railings and lamps, the octagonal water tower on the Manhattan cliff, the river and the Deegan below.","daylit":true,"index":53,"place":"The High Bridge","fact":"The High Bridge opened in 1848 to carry the Croton Aqueduct across the Harlem River into Manhattan, and it is the oldest standing bridge in the city. Its stone arches were built after the Roman model. A steel arch replaced the river spans in 1928 to clear shipping. The Highbridge Water Tower rose on the Manhattan side in 1872. Closed to walkers in 1970, the bridge reopened in 2015.","year":"1848","learn":"The city's oldest bridge carried water, not people, and it opened in 1848.","source":{"name":"NYC Parks, Highbridge Park","url":"https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/highbridge-park"},"keywords":["High Bridge","High Bridge Harlem River","oldest bridge in New York City","Croton Aqueduct","Highbridge Water Tower","High Bridge walk"],"article":"jane-jacobs-and-robert-moses","articles":["jane-jacobs-and-robert-moses"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/highbridge","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=highbridge","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/highbridge.jpg"},{"id":"arthuravenue","name":"The market hall","area":"ARTHUR AVENUE","mood":"Saturday morning","color":"#c89a5a","description":"The Belmont street of bakeries and butchers, awnings down both sides and the produce out on the sidewalk, then the city market the pushcarts moved into: one long brick hall with light coming down the aisles, provolone and salami hanging over the counters, and the works hung over the stalls where the prices would be.","signatures":"The retail market La Guardia built to bring the pushcarts indoors, its brick front and name over the door, the skylit aisles, the stalls with salami and provolone hung from rails, the slicer at the deli counter, the cigar roller by the door, the avenue of awnings with bread and fruit out front.","daylit":true,"index":54,"place":"Arthur Avenue Retail Market, Belmont","fact":"Arthur Avenue in Belmont has been the heart of the Bronx's Little Italy since a wave of Italian immigrants arrived with the building of the Bronx Zoo and the Jerome Park Reservoir at the turn of the twentieth century. The city built the Arthur Avenue Retail Market under Mayor La Guardia to bring the pushcart vendors off the street and under one roof. The Historic Districts Council dates its opening to October 28, 1941, with 120 stalls; other accounts give 1940. The avenue is named for President Chester A. Arthur, and in 2016 the American Planning Association named it one of America's Greatest Streets.","year":"1941","learn":"La Guardia moved the pushcarts indoors. The stalls are still there.","source":{"name":"Arthur Avenue Retail Market, Historic Districts Council","url":"https://6tocelebrate.org/site/arthur-avenue-retail-market/"},"keywords":["Arthur Avenue","Arthur Avenue Retail Market","Belmont Bronx Little Italy","Bronx Little Italy","La Guardia pushcart markets","Arthur Avenue market stalls"],"article":"the-bodega","articles":["the-bodega"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/arthuravenue","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=arthuravenue","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/arthuravenue.jpg"},{"id":"wavehill","name":"The pergola over the river","area":"WAVE HILL","mood":"Late light on the Palisades","color":"#a8c8a0","description":"The garden estate in Riverdale: the great lawn, the pergola on the terrace edge, the conservatory, and across the Hudson the cliffs of the Palisades catching the last sun.","signatures":"The long timber pergola on the terrace edge, the flower garden with its rustic fence, the glass conservatory, the fieldstone house, the lawn falling to the river and the wall of the Palisades beyond.","daylit":true,"index":55,"place":"Wave Hill","fact":"Wave Hill House was built in 1843 by William Lewis Morris on a bluff above the Hudson in Riverdale, the Bronx. Theodore Roosevelt's family summered there, Mark Twain rented it from 1901 to 1903, and Arturo Toscanini lived there in the 1940s. The financier George W. Perkins assembled the estate and its gardens. His family gave it to the city in 1960, and it opened as a public garden in 1965.","year":"1965","learn":"Mark Twain rented this house. Toscanini lived here. The city got it in 1960.","source":{"name":"Wave Hill","url":"https://www.wavehill.org"},"keywords":["Wave Hill","Wave Hill garden Bronx","Wave Hill pergola","Riverdale Bronx garden","Palisades view Hudson","Mark Twain Wave Hill"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/wavehill","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=wavehill","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/wavehill.jpg"},{"id":"gantry","name":"The gantries","area":"GANTRY PLAZA","mood":"Neon on the water","color":"#e05a5a","description":"The Long Island City waterfront: the two iron transfer gantries, the piers reaching into the East River, the great neon sign, the whole Midtown skyline across the water at night.","signatures":"The pair of black riveted gantry frames with their lettering, four long piers with benches and lounge chairs, the red neon bottle sign on its frame, the towers of Midtown mirrored in the river.","daylit":false,"index":56,"place":"Gantry Plaza State Park","fact":"Gantry Plaza State Park opened in 1998 on the East River in Long Island City, Queens. Its two iron gantries, built in 1925, once lifted railcars onto barges bound for Manhattan. The Pepsi-Cola sign came from the bottling plant that stood nearby from 1936; it was moved to the park in 2009 and became a city landmark in 2016. The piers face Midtown across the water.","year":"1998","learn":"The gantries lifted railcars onto barges. The Pepsi sign came from the plant next door.","source":{"name":"New York State Parks","url":"https://parks.ny.gov"},"keywords":["Gantry Plaza State Park","Pepsi sign Long Island City","Long Island City waterfront","Hunters Point gantries","Gantry Plaza piers","LIC skyline view"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/gantry","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=gantry","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/gantry.jpg"},{"id":"rockaway","name":"Surf at the end of the A","area":"ROCKAWAY BEACH","mood":"Sunrise swell","color":"#f0c890","description":"The concrete boardwalk, the lifeguard chairs, the surfers waiting in the swell, the A train rolling in on the trestle behind the dunes, the works on the beach shacks.","signatures":"The long new concrete boardwalk with its curved shade shelters, the numbered lifeguard chairs, the dune grass and fences, the surf break at the jetties, the elevated A train and the low bungalows.","daylit":true,"index":57,"place":"Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk","fact":"Rockaway Beach runs along the Atlantic side of the Rockaway peninsula in Queens, and NYC Parks calls it the largest urban beach in the United States. Hurricane Sandy destroyed the wooden boardwalk in October 2012, and the city rebuilt it in concrete, finishing in 2017. It holds the only beaches in New York City where surfing is allowed.","year":"2017","learn":"The only beaches in New York City where surfing is allowed, at the end of the A.","source":{"name":"NYC Parks","url":"https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/rockaway-beach-and-boardwalk"},"keywords":["Rockaway Beach","Rockaway boardwalk","surfing in NYC","A train to Rockaway","Rockaway Beach Queens","Rockaway surf beach"],"article":"coney-island","articles":["coney-island"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/rockaway","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=rockaway","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/rockaway.jpg"},{"id":"greenwood","name":"The gothic gate","area":"GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY","mood":"Autumn gold","color":"#c8a050","description":"The brownstone gothic gate with its parrots, then the hills of the old cemetery: monuments, mausoleums, the harbor glimpsed from the highest ground, the works on the vault doors.","signatures":"The 1861 brownstone gatehouse with three spires and the monk parakeet nests, rolling glacial hills of obelisks and angels, granite mausoleums set into slopes, ancient trees in fall color, the harbor view from Battle Hill.","daylit":true,"index":58,"place":"Green-Wood Cemetery","fact":"Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 on 478 acres of hills in Brooklyn, laid out by David Bates Douglass. Richard Upjohn designed the Gothic Revival main gate at 25th Street in the 1860s, and a colony of monk parakeets now nests in its spires. Battle Hill, the highest point in Brooklyn, saw fighting in the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776, and the cemetery became a National Historic Landmark in 2006.","year":"1838","learn":"Wild parrots nest in the gate of a cemetery founded in 1838.","source":{"name":"Green-Wood Cemetery","url":"https://www.green-wood.com"},"keywords":["Green-Wood Cemetery","Green-Wood gate parrots","Battle Hill Brooklyn","Green-Wood Cemetery tours","who is buried in Green-Wood","Green-Wood Brooklyn"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/greenwood","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=greenwood","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/greenwood.jpg"},{"id":"domino","name":"The refinery","area":"DOMINO PARK","mood":"Industrial gold","color":"#d88a4a","description":"The brick shell of the sugar refinery on the Williamsburg waterfront, a glass building grown inside it, the syrup tanks and gantry cranes in the park, the bridge and the skyline over the river.","signatures":"The 1880s brick refinery with its round arched windows and the great smokestack, the modern glass vault rising within the shell, the elevated walkway over the park, the salvaged syrup tanks and cranes, the Williamsburg Bridge.","daylit":true,"index":59,"place":"Domino Park and the Domino Sugar Refinery","fact":"The Havemeyer family's sugar refinery on the Williamsburg waterfront was rebuilt in brick after a fire in 1882, and at its peak it refined more sugar than any plant in the world. The refinery closed in 2004 and the city landmarked the building in 2007. Domino Park, designed by James Corner Field Operations, opened on the site in 2018 with the old syrup tanks and gantry cranes kept as relics.","year":"2018","learn":"A sugar refinery that once led the world, kept as a park on the Williamsburg shore.","source":{"name":"Domino Park","url":"https://www.dominopark.com"},"keywords":["Domino Park","Domino Sugar Factory","Domino Sugar Refinery Williamsburg","Domino Park Brooklyn","Williamsburg waterfront park","Domino refinery landmark"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/domino","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=domino","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/domino.jpg"},{"id":"boatgraveyard","name":"The ships in the marsh","area":"THE ARTHUR KILL","mood":"Fog on the kill","color":"#7a8a80","description":"Staten Island's western shore: rusting hulls of tugs and ferries settled in the marsh grass, a kayak route through them, herons on the wrecks, the works on the wheelhouses.","signatures":"Dozens of scuttled tugboats, barges and a ferry sunk to their decks in the tidal marsh, rust and peeling paint, cordgrass and mud at low tide, the New Jersey refineries and cranes across the water, fog.","daylit":true,"index":60,"place":"The Arthur Kill boat graveyard, Rossville, Staten Island","fact":"The Arthur Kill is the tidal strait between Staten Island and New Jersey. Since the 1930s the marsh off Arthur Kill Road and Rossville Avenue has been a dumping ground for ships: John J. Witte ran the salvage yard and refused the curious public any access, and as many as 400 vessels once lay there. When Witte died in 1980 the yard passed to his son and became the Donjon Marine Company. Between 25 and 40 hulls remain, among them the fireboat Abram S. Hewitt, which helped rescue victims of the General Slocum disaster in 1904.","year":"1930s","learn":"Four hundred ships once rotted in a Staten Island marsh; a few dozen remain.","source":{"name":"Baruch College, NYCdata Hidden Gems","url":"https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/hidden_gems/boat_graveyard.html"},"keywords":["Staten Island boat graveyard","Arthur Kill ship graveyard","Witte Marine scrap yard","Rossville Staten Island","Donjon Marine","Abram S. 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It later served in Vietnam and recovered Mercury and Gemini space capsules. The ship opened as a museum at Pier 86 on the Hudson in 1982, and the Space Shuttle Enterprise joined it on the flight deck in 2012.","year":"1943","learn":"A carrier that took kamikaze hits in 1944 and now holds a space shuttle.","source":{"name":"Intrepid Museum","url":"https://www.intrepidmuseum.org"},"keywords":["Intrepid Museum","USS Intrepid","Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum","Space Shuttle Enterprise New York","Pier 86 aircraft carrier","Intrepid flight deck"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/intrepid","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=intrepid","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/intrepid.jpg"},{"id":"studio8h","name":"Live from New York","area":"STUDIO 8H","mood":"Eleven thirty Saturday","color":"#e8b040","description":"The lobby of the tower on the plaza, the elevator up, then the studio: the home base stage, the band stand, the cameras, the bleachers, the cue cards, the works on every set wall.","signatures":"The art deco lobby with its grey Champlain marble and the sepia Sert mural on the ceiling, the studio floor with its brick home base arch and the musical guest stage, the boom cameras and the applause sign, the steep audience bleachers, the cue card easel.","daylit":false,"index":62,"place":"Studio 8H, 30 Rockefeller Plaza","fact":"Studio 8H was built in 1933 as the largest radio studio in the world, and Arturo Toscanini conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra there from 1937 to 1954. Saturday Night Live first aired from the studio on October 11, 1975, created by Lorne Michaels, with George Carlin as the first host. The show has broadcast live from the same room ever since.","year":"1975","learn":"Toscanini's radio studio became the home of Saturday Night Live in 1975.","source":{"name":"NBC, Saturday Night Live","url":"https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live"},"keywords":["Studio 8H","Saturday Night Live studio","SNL 30 Rock","30 Rockefeller Plaza","NBC Studios tour","Lorne Michaels SNL"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/studio8h","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=studio8h","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/studio8h.jpg"},{"id":"carnegie","name":"The horseshoe","area":"CARNEGIE HALL","mood":"Concert black","color":"#c8a070","description":"Fifty seventh Street at night, the brick and terracotta front with its arches, a lobby in cream and gold, then the hall: five levels in a horseshoe round the stage, a full house, and the orchestra playing with the bows all going together. The works hang round the parquet under the first tier, where you walk the ring.","signatures":"The Roman brick and terracotta front on 57th Street with its arched windows and the studio floors above, the lobby, the cream and gold horseshoe of five levels, the boxes of the first and second tiers, the red seats and a full house, the stage under its elliptic arch, the orchestra in its arcs and the conductor on the podium.","daylit":false,"index":63,"place":"Carnegie Hall","fact":"Carnegie Hall opened on May 5, 1891, with a concert conducted by Walter Damrosch and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. William Burnet Tuthill designed it in a modified Italian Renaissance style in Roman brick and terracotta. The main hall seats 2,790 on five levels. Sold to developers in 1956, it was saved by Isaac Stern's campaign and bought by the city for five million dollars in 1960, and it became a National Historic Landmark in 1962.","year":"1891","learn":"Tchaikovsky conducted on opening night, and a violinist saved the hall.","source":{"name":"Carnegie Hall, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Hall"},"keywords":["Carnegie Hall","Carnegie Hall history","Isaac Stern Auditorium","Carnegie Hall 57th Street","Tchaikovsky Carnegie Hall 1891","how do you get to Carnegie Hall"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/carnegie","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=carnegie","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/carnegie.jpg"},{"id":"vanguard","name":"The wedge downstairs","area":"THE VILLAGE VANGUARD","mood":"Second set","color":"#c83a3a","description":"The red awning on Seventh Avenue South, the narrow stair down, the triangular room: fourteen feet of stage, the piano, the drums, the photographs, the works between them.","signatures":"The red canopy and the steep staircase, the wedge shaped basement with the stage in the point, the red walls hung with photographs of the players, the tiny round tables and bentwood chairs, the kitchen door that never opens.","daylit":false,"index":64,"place":"The Village Vanguard","fact":"Max Gordon opened the Village Vanguard in a basement at 178 Seventh Avenue South in 1935, first for poetry and folk music, then for jazz alone from the late 1950s. Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane and Bill Evans all recorded live albums there. Lorraine Gordon ran the club after Max died in 1989, and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra has played Monday nights since 1966.","year":"1935","learn":"A basement wedge that has held jazz since 1935.","source":{"name":"The Village Vanguard","url":"https://villagevanguard.com"},"keywords":["Village Vanguard","Village Vanguard jazz club","Village Vanguard schedule","Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard","oldest jazz club New York","Vanguard Jazz Orchestra"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/vanguard","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=vanguard","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/vanguard.jpg"},{"id":"rucker","name":"The court","area":"RUCKER PARK","mood":"Summer night game","color":"#f08a2a","description":"One hundred fifty fifth and Frederick Douglass: the fenced court under the lights, the bleachers packed, a game moving, the river and the Bronx beyond, the works on the fence.","signatures":"The full court inside a chain link fence, the aluminium bleachers along both sidelines, the light towers, the Polo Grounds Towers behind, the Harlem River and the Macombs Dam Bridge, a crowd three deep at the fence.","daylit":false,"index":65,"place":"Holcombe Rucker Park","fact":"Holcombe Rucker, a Parks Department worker, started a summer basketball tournament in Harlem in 1950 to keep young players in school. The park at 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard was later named for him. Julius Erving, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant have all played on the court.","year":"1950","learn":"A Parks worker's 1950 tournament made a Harlem court famous.","source":{"name":"NYC Parks","url":"https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/holcombe-rucker-park"},"keywords":["Rucker Park","Rucker Park Harlem","Holcombe Rucker Park","Rucker Park tournament","streetball Rucker","Entertainer's Basketball Classic"],"article":"birth-of-hip-hop-1973","articles":["birth-of-hip-hop-1973"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/rucker","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=rucker","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/rucker.jpg"},{"id":"sedgwick","name":"The rec room","area":"1520 SEDGWICK AVENUE","mood":"August 1973","color":"#e0c030","description":"The eighteen storey building over the Cross Bronx, the block party on the plaza, then the rec room downstairs: two turntables and a mixer, the speakers, the break, the works on the cinderblock.","signatures":"The brown brick eighteen storey building at the top of the hill, the highway trench below, the lobby and the community room with its drop ceiling and cinderblock, two turntables on a folding table, a wall of speakers, a crowd in a circle around the floor.","daylit":false,"index":66,"place":"1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the Bronx","fact":"On August 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc played a back to school party for his sister Cindy Campbell in the rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. He isolated and repeated the breaks in records so dancers could keep going, a technique that became the foundation of hip hop. The building beside the Cross Bronx Expressway is widely recognized as the birthplace of the culture.","year":"1973","learn":"A 1973 rec room party in the Bronx started hip hop.","source":{"name":"Britannica, hip-hop","url":"https://www.britannica.com/art/hip-hop"},"keywords":["1520 Sedgwick Avenue","birthplace of hip hop","DJ Kool Herc","Kool Herc party 1973","Sedgwick Avenue Bronx","hip hop history Bronx"],"article":"birth-of-hip-hop-1973","articles":["birth-of-hip-hop-1973"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/sedgwick","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=sedgwick","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/sedgwick.jpg"},{"id":"balloons","name":"The night before the parade","area":"CENTRAL PARK WEST","mood":"Inflation night","color":"#f0a0c0","description":"The blocks beside the museum the night before Thanksgiving: giant balloons under their nets, the crews, the crowd shuffling past under the streetlights, the works on the barricade walls.","signatures":"The pink granite Roosevelt Memorial front with its four columns and four figures on the parapet, the side streets closed off, enormous character balloons lying on their sides under cargo nets and sandbags, helium trucks, police barricades, families in coats, bare trees in the park.","daylit":false,"index":67,"place":"Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon inflation, Central Park West","fact":"The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade began in 1924, and the first giant balloons appeared in 1927. The night before the parade, crews inflate the balloons on the streets around the American Museum of Natural History, and the public walks past them under nets. This room interprets that inflation night, not the parade itself.","year":"1924","learn":"The night before Thanksgiving, the balloons lie under nets beside the museum.","source":{"name":"Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade","url":"https://www.macys.com/s/parade/"},"keywords":["Macy's balloon inflation","Thanksgiving balloon inflation NYC","Macy's parade balloons night before","Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade","Central Park West balloons","balloon inflation 77th Street"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/balloons","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=balloons","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/balloons.jpg"},{"id":"stonewall","name":"Christopher Street","area":"SHERIDAN SQUARE","mood":"The last Sunday in June","color":"#e83a8a","description":"The little brick bar with its arched windows, the park across the street with the white figures, the banners on every building, the march coming down Christopher with its floats.","signatures":"The two storey front, brick below and stucco above, the storefront window between two arched doors and the neon in the window, the triangular park with its benches and the four white sculptures, rainbow flags on the fire escapes, floats and marchers filling the narrow street, confetti in the air.","daylit":true,"index":68,"place":"The Stonewall Inn and Christopher Park","fact":"Police raided the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street on June 28, 1969, and patrons fought back over several nights. The first pride march followed one year later. Christopher Park across the street holds George Segal's Gay Liberation sculpture, and in 2016 the site became Stonewall National Monument, the first national monument to LGBTQ history.","year":"1969","learn":"The 1969 uprising here became the first national monument to LGBTQ history.","source":{"name":"National Park Service, Stonewall National Monument","url":"https://www.nps.gov/ston/"},"keywords":["Stonewall Inn","Stonewall National Monument","Stonewall riots 1969","Christopher Park","Christopher Street Pride","Sheridan Square"],"article":"stonewall-1969","articles":["stonewall-1969"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/stonewall","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=stonewall","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/stonewall.jpg"},{"id":"sangennaro","name":"The feast on Mulberry","area":"THE FEAST OF SAN GENNARO","mood":"Eleven nights in September","color":"#e8503a","description":"Mulberry Street under the arches of lights, the zeppole stands, the sausage smoke, the saint carried down the block, the works between the strings of bulbs.","signatures":"Arches of red white and green lights spanning the street block after block, food stands with striped awnings and steam, the tenements with fire escapes, the statue of the saint on his litter pinned with ribbons, the cannoli.","daylit":false,"index":69,"place":"The Feast of San Gennaro, Mulberry Street","fact":"Immigrants from Naples first held the Feast of San Gennaro on Mulberry Street in 1926 to honor their patron saint, whose feast day falls on September 19. The festival runs eleven days each September along Mulberry Street in Little Italy. A statue of the saint is carried in procession through the street.","year":"1926","learn":"Neapolitan immigrants started the Mulberry Street feast in 1926.","source":{"name":"Feast of San Gennaro","url":"https://www.sangennaronyc.org"},"keywords":["Feast of San Gennaro","San Gennaro festival","Mulberry Street festival","Little Italy feast","San Gennaro dates","San Gennaro NYC"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/sangennaro","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=sangennaro","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/sangennaro.jpg"},{"id":"chelseahotel","name":"The lobby of the hotel","area":"THE CHELSEA HOTEL","mood":"Room rate paid in paintings","color":"#b8483a","description":"Twenty third Street under the iron balconies, the lobby hung floor to ceiling with the art residents left instead of rent, the stair climbing up through the building, the works in every frame.","signatures":"The red brick front with white stone bands and flowered iron balconies on floors two to eight, eleven storeys high, the neon vertical sign, the lobby with its fireplace and salon hang, the famous open stair with iron balusters climbing through the building, the corridors of numbered doors.","daylit":true,"index":70,"place":"The Hotel Chelsea","fact":"The Hotel Chelsea at 222 West 23rd Street opened in 1884 as one of the city's first cooperative apartment buildings, designed by Philip Hubert, and became a hotel in 1905. Mark Twain, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith lived there, and Andy Warhol filmed Chelsea Girls in its rooms. The city landmarked it in 1966, and it reopened as a hotel in 2022 after a long renovation.","year":"1884","learn":"Residents paid in paintings, and the lobby still shows them.","source":{"name":"Hotel Chelsea","url":"https://www.hotelchelsea.com"},"keywords":["Hotel Chelsea","Chelsea Hotel history","Chelsea Hotel residents","Chelsea Hotel 23rd Street","Chelsea Hotel Patti Smith","Chelsea Hotel lobby art"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/chelseahotel","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=chelseahotel","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/chelseahotel.jpg"},{"id":"strand","name":"Eighteen miles of books","area":"THE STRAND","mood":"Rainy Tuesday","color":"#c83a3a","description":"Broadway and Twelfth in the rain, the dollar carts under the awning, then the aisles: tables of new arrivals, the tall stacks, the rare book room upstairs, the works on the end caps.","signatures":"The red awning and the sidewalk carts of one dollar books, the ground floor of long tables and tall wooden stacks under fluorescent light, the tote bags, the staff picks wall, the rolling ladders, the rare book room with its leather and glass.","daylit":true,"index":71,"place":"The Strand Book Store","fact":"Benjamin Bass opened the Strand in 1927 on Fourth Avenue's Book Row, where dozens of bookshops once stood. The store moved to 828 Broadway at 12th Street in 1957 and claims eighteen miles of books. The city landmarked the building in 2019, and the store is still run by the Bass family.","year":"1927","learn":"The last survivor of Fourth Avenue's Book Row, open since 1927.","source":{"name":"Strand Book Store","url":"https://www.strandbooks.com"},"keywords":["Strand Bookstore","Strand Book Store NYC","18 miles of books","Strand Broadway 12th Street","Book Row New York","Strand rare book room"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/strand","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=strand","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/strand.jpg"},{"id":"dakota","name":"The courtyard and the mosaic","area":"THE DAKOTA","mood":"December dusk","color":"#c8b090","description":"Seventy second and Central Park West at dusk with the first snow coming down: the gabled fortress of an apartment house, the carriage arch off 72nd Street into its courtyard and its two fountains, and across the avenue the round mosaic in the park with its one word, flowers, and somebody playing. The works hang round the courtyard, in the arch, and on the park wall.","signatures":"The sandstone and brick block with its gables, dormers and iron railings, the deep arched carriage entrance with the sentry box, the square inner courtyard with two fountains, the teardrop park across the avenue with the black and white mosaic ringed with flowers.","daylit":true,"index":72,"place":"The Dakota and Strawberry Fields","fact":"The Dakota at 72nd Street and Central Park West was built between 1880 and 1884 to designs by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh for Edward Cabot Clark of the Singer Manufacturing Company. Its main entrance is a double height carriage archway on 72nd Street into the courtyard. It became a city landmark in 1969 and a National Historic Landmark in 1976. John Lennon lived there and was killed at its entrance on December 8, 1980; Strawberry Fields, across the street in Central Park, was dedicated to him on October 9, 1985, around a mosaic that reads Imagine.","year":"1884","learn":"A carriage could drive through the Dakota's front door into its courtyard.","source":{"name":"The Dakota, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dakota"},"keywords":["The Dakota","Dakota apartments","72nd Street Central Park West","Strawberry Fields","Imagine mosaic","John Lennon Dakota"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/dakota","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=dakota","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/dakota.jpg"},{"id":"garden","name":"The world's most famous arena","area":"MADISON SQUARE GARDEN","mood":"Fourth quarter, two minutes","color":"#f0842a","description":"Above the train hall, the round drum of the arena: the bowl in blue and orange, the cable ceiling, the scoreboard cube, a game on the floor, the works around the concourse.","signatures":"The circular drum on Seventh Avenue, the bowl of orange and blue seats climbing to the suspended cable roof, the four sided scoreboard over centre court, the hardwood with its lines, the bridges hanging under the ceiling.","daylit":false,"index":73,"place":"Madison Square Garden","fact":"The current Madison Square Garden, the fourth to carry the name, opened in 1968 above Penn Station on the site of the demolished original Pennsylvania Station, designed by Charles Luckman. It is home to the Knicks and the Rangers. Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought there in March 1971, and Willis Reed limped onto its floor for game seven of the 1970 NBA Finals.","year":"1968","learn":"Built over Penn Station in 1968, it has hosted the Knicks ever since.","source":{"name":"Madison Square Garden","url":"https://www.msg.com"},"keywords":["Madison Square Garden","MSG arena","Knicks Madison Square Garden","Madison Square Garden history","Ali Frazier 1971 Garden","Penn Station Madison Square Garden"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/garden","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=garden","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/garden.jpg"},{"id":"dendur","name":"The temple by the window","area":"THE TEMPLE OF DENDUR","mood":"Snow light through glass","color":"#d8c8a0","description":"The great sloped glass wall on the park, the pool standing in for the Nile, the sandstone gate and temple on their platform, the works along the granite walls of the wing.","signatures":"The Sackler wing with its tilted wall of glass and the park beyond, the reflecting pool with its edge of black granite, the temple and its pylon gateway raised on a stone platform, the sloped granite walls of the hall, the sunlight sliding across the floor.","daylit":true,"index":74,"place":"The Temple of Dendur, The Met","fact":"The Temple of Dendur was built in Nubia around 15 BC under the Roman emperor Augustus and dedicated to Isis and two deified local brothers. Egypt gave it to the United States in 1965 in thanks for help saving monuments from the waters of the Aswan High Dam. The Met's Sackler Wing, designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, opened around it in 1978.","year":"15 BC","learn":"A Roman era Egyptian temple given to the United States in 1965.","source":{"name":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art","url":"https://www.metmuseum.org"},"keywords":["Temple of Dendur","Temple of Dendur Met","Sackler Wing Met","Egyptian temple in the Met","Dendur Aswan gift","Met Egyptian art"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/dendur","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=dendur","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/dendur.jpg"},{"id":"moma","name":"The garden on 54th","area":"THE SCULPTURE GARDEN","mood":"First warm Friday","color":"#8ab0a8","description":"The marble court between the towers: two long pools, the birches and the weeping beech, the bronze figures on their plinths, the glass galleries looking in, the works on the garden walls.","signatures":"The sunken marble court with two rectangular pools crossed by narrow bridges, groves of birches and a weeping beech, bronzes on low plinths, the tall aluminium screen to the street, the glass curtain walls of the galleries above.","daylit":true,"index":75,"place":"The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, MoMA","fact":"MoMA's first sculpture garden opened in 1939. Philip Johnson redesigned it in 1953 and named it for Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, one of the museum's three founders. Its marble court, pools and trees hold works by Picasso, Rodin, Matisse and Maillol.","year":"1953","learn":"Philip Johnson's 1953 court named for a MoMA founder.","source":{"name":"The Museum of Modern Art","url":"https://www.moma.org"},"keywords":["MoMA sculpture garden","Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden","Philip Johnson sculpture garden","MoMA garden free","MoMA 54th Street garden","MoMA outdoor sculpture"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/moma","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=moma","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/moma.jpg"},{"id":"whitney","name":"The terraces over the High Line","area":"THE WHITNEY","mood":"Blue afternoon on the river","color":"#a8c0d0","description":"Gansevoort Street where the High Line ends: the stepped museum, its outdoor stairs and terraces climbing the east face, the largest column free gallery inside, the river and the works on both.","signatures":"The asymmetric stack of steel and glass with cantilevered terraces stepping down toward the High Line, the outside steel stairs between them, the vast open gallery with its sawtooth skylights, the Hudson and the piers to the west, the cobbled meatpacking streets.","daylit":true,"index":76,"place":"The Whitney Museum of American Art","fact":"Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the Whitney in 1930 after the Met declined her collection, and it opened on West 8th Street in 1931. The museum moved to Marcel Breuer's building on Madison Avenue in 1966 and to Renzo Piano's building at 99 Gansevoort Street in 2015. 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The Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at Grand Army Plaza, designed by John H. Duncan, was dedicated in 1892. 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Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Hayden Planetarium named and popularized the event.","year":"1811","learn":"Twice a year the sunset lines up with the 1811 street grid.","source":{"name":"American Museum of Natural History, Hayden Planetarium","url":"https://www.amnh.org/research/hayden-planetarium/manhattanhenge"},"keywords":["Manhattanhenge","Manhattanhenge dates","Manhattanhenge 42nd Street","best place to see Manhattanhenge","Manhattanhenge Tudor City","Neil deGrasse Tyson Manhattanhenge"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/manhattanhenge","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=manhattanhenge","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/manhattanhenge.jpg"},{"id":"metgreathall","name":"The Great Hall","area":"THE MET","mood":"Saturday at opening","color":"#d8c8a8","description":"Fifth Avenue steps under the MLow banners, then the Great Hall: three domes on their arches, the flower urns, the grand staircase rising to the paintings, the works on the limestone.","signatures":"The Beaux Arts facade with its paired columns and the banners between them, the broad steps and fountains, the vaulted Great Hall with three saucer domes and oculi, the information desk and the five great flower arrangements, the grand staircase.","daylit":true,"index":82,"place":"The Great Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art","fact":"The Met was founded in 1870 and opened its first building on this site in Central Park in 1880, designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould. 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Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works reclad it, and the museum opened there in 2008.","year":"2008","learn":"The lollipop building at Columbus Circle, reclad in 2008.","source":{"name":"Museum of Arts and Design","url":"https://madmuseum.org"},"keywords":["Museum of Arts and Design","MAD museum","2 Columbus Circle","lollipop building","MAD Columbus Circle","craft museum New York"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/mad","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=mad","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/mad.jpg"},{"id":"hispanicsociety","name":"The terracotta court","area":"THE HISPANIC SOCIETY","mood":"Audubon Terrace, afternoon","color":"#c8784a","description":"The Beaux Arts terrace on Broadway at 155th, the bronze horseman, then the two storey court in red terracotta with its arcaded gallery, the works among the Spanish painters.","signatures":"The plaza of white limestone institutions with the bronze El Cid at its centre, four warriors at his pedestal, the two flagpoles and their pool, the main court lined in ornate red Spanish Renaissance terracotta with an arcaded upper gallery, the skylight, the Sorolla room of vision of Spain.","daylit":true,"index":98,"place":"The Hispanic Society Museum and Library","fact":"Archer Milton Huntington founded the Hispanic Society of America in 1904 and opened its building at Audubon Terrace on Broadway at 155th Street in 1908, designed by his cousin Charles Pratt Huntington. 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The museum's first purpose built home on West 125th Street, designed by Adjaye Associates with Cooper Robertson, opened in 2025. 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Since 1977 it has occupied part of the Heckscher Building at 1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street, and it began its Three Kings Day parade the same year. The parade brings camels and giant puppets through East Harlem each January.","year":"1969","learn":"Born in East Harlem in 1969, with camels on Fifth Avenue every January.","source":{"name":"El Museo del Barrio","url":"https://www.elmuseo.org"},"keywords":["El Museo del Barrio","El Museo Fifth Avenue","Three Kings Day Parade East Harlem","Latino art museum New York","Museum Mile El Museo","El Museo del Barrio 104th Street"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/elmuseo","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=elmuseo","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/elmuseo.jpg"},{"id":"mcny","name":"The city's museum","area":"MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK","mood":"Museum Mile, the top of the mile","color":"#b8a8a0","description":"The red brick Georgian building on Fifth at 103rd with Hamilton and Clinton in their niches, the marble rotunda with its twin curving stairs, the timeline gallery with its wall of screens changing, school groups following a guide, and the works hung round the rotunda and down the gallery telling the city's own story.","signatures":"The Colonial Revival red brick and marble front with its portico and cupola, the entrance rotunda with two sweeping marble staircases, the New York at its core gallery with its wall of screens, the terrace on Fifth.","daylit":true,"index":101,"place":"Museum of the City of New York","fact":"Henry Collins Brown founded the Museum of the City of New York in 1923 to preserve and present the history of the city and its people; it began in Gracie Mansion. 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Its granite building on Central Park West at 77th Street, designed by York and Sawyer, opened in 1908. The collection includes John James Audubon's watercolors for The Birds of America and a large group of Tiffany lamps.","year":"1804","learn":"The city's oldest museum, founded in 1804.","source":{"name":"New York Historical","url":"https://www.nyhistory.org"},"keywords":["New-York Historical Society","New York Historical museum","oldest museum in New York","Audubon watercolors New-York Historical","Tiffany lamps Central Park West","New York Historical library"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/nyhistorical","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=nyhistorical","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/nyhistorical.jpg"},{"id":"diachelsea","name":"The long light","area":"DIA CHELSEA","mood":"Twenty second Street, grey day","color":"#a8a8a0","description":"The brick warehouses on West 22nd, the sawtooth roofs, then the joined galleries: bare brick and concrete under skylights the length of a block, the works given all the room they want.","signatures":"Three adjoining industrial buildings, one of them the old Alcamo Marble Works, joined into one behind three new brick fronts, the single storey galleries under banks of skylights, the poured floors, the basalt stones and trees of Beuys's 7000 Oaks on the sidewalk, the High Line passing behind.","daylit":true,"index":103,"place":"Dia Chelsea","fact":"Dia Art Foundation was founded in 1974 to support ambitious long term projects by artists. Dia opened its first Chelsea exhibition building at 548 West 22nd Street in 1987, years before galleries filled the neighborhood. Its current Dia Chelsea, joined former warehouses across the street at 535 to 541 West 22nd, reopened in 2021 after a renovation by Architecture Research Office.","year":"1987","learn":"Dia came to West 22nd Street in 1987, before the galleries followed.","source":{"name":"Dia Art Foundation","url":"https://www.diaart.org"},"keywords":["Dia Chelsea","Dia Art Foundation","Dia West 22nd Street","Dia Chelsea exhibitions","Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea","Chelsea art foundation"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/diachelsea","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=diachelsea","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/diachelsea.jpg"},{"id":"chelseablock","name":"Thursday openings on 24th","area":"WEST 24TH STREET","mood":"Six to eight, plastic cups","color":"#f4f4f0","description":"The block of white cubes between Tenth and Eleventh: garage doors rolled up, the crowds spilling onto the sidewalk with their wine, three galleries open in a row, the works inside each.","signatures":"The low former garages turned galleries with roll up fronts, white cube interiors under fluorescent grids, the desks with the price lists, the crowd on the sidewalk at an opening, the High Line at the corner and the river at the end of the street.","daylit":false,"index":104,"place":"The Chelsea gallery district, West 24th Street","fact":"This room interprets the gallery blocks of West Chelsea between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, a district that grew after Dia opened on West 22nd Street in 1987 and SoHo rents pushed dealers north in the 1990s. Gagosian opened its West 24th Street gallery in 1999, and Gladstone and other galleries share the block. 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Its galleries are kept dark so the prints carry the light.","year":"2019","learn":"A photography museum in an 1894 mission house.","source":{"name":"Fotografiska","url":"https://www.fotografiska.com"},"keywords":["Fotografiska New York","Fotografiska Park Avenue South","Church Missions House","photography museum New York","Fotografiska exhibitions","Fotografiska 22nd Street"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/fotografiska","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=fotografiska","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/fotografiska.jpg"},{"id":"ps1","name":"The old school","area":"MOMA PS1","mood":"Warm Up Saturday","color":"#c8a888","description":"The Romanesque public school in Long Island City, the concrete courtyard with its summer stage and the crowd, the classrooms turned galleries down long corridors, the boiler room, the works in the old school's bones.","signatures":"The Victorian brick schoolhouse with its tower, the walled concrete courtyard with the summer installation and DJ stage, the long corridors of classrooms with their original wood and radiators, the sky room with the roof cut open.","daylit":true,"index":106,"place":"MoMA PS1","fact":"Alanna Heiss founded the Institute for Art and Urban Resources in 1971 and in 1976 opened P.S.1 in a Romanesque Revival public school built in 1892 in Long Island City. The classrooms became galleries, and James Turrell cut his skyspace Meeting into the building in 1986. It joined MoMA in 2000, and its summer Warm Up parties fill the courtyard.","year":"1976","learn":"An 1892 public school turned into galleries in 1976.","source":{"name":"MoMA PS1","url":"https://www.momaps1.org"},"keywords":["MoMA PS1","PS1 Long Island City","PS1 Warm Up","James Turrell Meeting PS1","PS1 Queens museum","Alanna Heiss PS1"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/ps1","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=ps1","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/ps1.jpg"},{"id":"noguchi","name":"The stone garden","area":"THE NOGUCHI MUSEUM","mood":"Vernon Boulevard, still","color":"#8a8a80","description":"A block of industrial Queens, the concrete block building and the walled garden: basalt and granite standing in gravel under a katsura tree, the open air gallery, the works among the stones.","signatures":"The 1920s brick photoengraving plant and its concrete block addition, the open roofed first gallery, the garden paved with granite railway stones, stones among bamboo, katsura, black pines and cherries, The Well of six sided basalt, the paper lanterns hung inside, the raw light.","daylit":true,"index":107,"place":"The Noguchi Museum","fact":"Isamu Noguchi designed and opened his own museum in 1985 in a converted factory building across from his Long Island City studio. The galleries and walled garden hold his stone, metal and wood sculpture, his Akari light sculptures and models for his gardens and playgrounds. He died in 1988, and the museum stays as he arranged it.","year":"1985","learn":"A sculptor built his own museum around a garden in 1985.","source":{"name":"The Noguchi Museum","url":"https://www.noguchi.org"},"keywords":["Noguchi Museum","Isamu Noguchi Museum Queens","Noguchi garden","Noguchi Museum Long Island City","Akari lamps Noguchi","Noguchi sculpture garden"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/noguchi","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=noguchi","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/noguchi.jpg"},{"id":"socrates","name":"Sculpture on the river","area":"SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK","mood":"Wind off Hallets Cove","color":"#7aa07a","description":"The reclaimed lot on the East River: big sculpture on the lawn, the cove and the island across the water, kayaks pulled up, the works standing in the open air.","signatures":"The open waterfront lawn with monumental outdoor sculpture, the wooden studio shed and gate of found steel, the rocky shore and kayak launch, Roosevelt Island and the Manhattan skyline across the river.","daylit":true,"index":108,"place":"Socrates Sculpture Park","fact":"Sculptor Mark di Suvero led a group of artists and neighbors who turned an abandoned landfill on the East River in Long Island City into Socrates Sculpture Park in 1986. It became a city park in 1998. It shows large outdoor sculpture and stays free and open every day.","year":"1986","learn":"Artists cleared a dump on the East River in 1986 and made a park.","source":{"name":"Socrates Sculpture Park","url":"https://socratessculpturepark.org"},"keywords":["Socrates Sculpture Park","Socrates Sculpture Park Queens","Mark di Suvero park","outdoor sculpture park Long Island City","Socrates park events","East River sculpture park"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/socrates","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=socrates","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/socrates.jpg"},{"id":"brooklynmuseum","name":"The Beaux-Arts Court","area":"THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM","mood":"First Saturday","color":"#c8b8a0","description":"The glass pavilion and the great stepped plaza with its fountain, then the third floor court: glass floor, columns on two levels, the skylight, the works around the balcony.","signatures":"The McKim Mead and White facade with its six column Ionic portico, pediment and cornice figures, the 2004 glass entrance pavilion, the fanned plaza steps and the jet fountains, the Beaux-Arts Court with its translucent glass floor, arcaded gallery and skylight, the museum's Rodin bronzes.","daylit":true,"index":109,"place":"The Brooklyn Museum","fact":"The Brooklyn Museum traces its origins to the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library of 1823. Its Beaux Arts building by McKim, Mead and White opened in 1897, and the glass entrance pavilion by Polshek Partnership opened in 2004. The museum is known for its Egyptian collection and holds Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party.","year":"1897","learn":"McKim, Mead and White's 1897 palace on Eastern Parkway.","source":{"name":"Brooklyn Museum","url":"https://www.brooklynmuseum.org"},"keywords":["Brooklyn Museum","Brooklyn Museum Beaux-Arts Court","Brooklyn Museum Egyptian art","The Dinner Party Brooklyn Museum","Brooklyn Museum First Saturdays","Eastern Parkway museum"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/brooklynmuseum","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=brooklynmuseum","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/brooklynmuseum.jpg"},{"id":"pioneerworks","name":"The ironworks in Red Hook","area":"PIONEER WORKS","mood":"Second Sunday, the garden open","color":"#a88a6a","description":"Pioneer Street near the water: the 1866 iron works building, three storeys of open floor around the great hall, the garden with its kiln and stage, the works hung on brick under the trusses.","signatures":"The long brick ironworks with its arched windows, the triple height main hall with balconies on three sides, the timber trusses, the garden of raised beds and a stage, the Statue and the harbor at the end of the street.","daylit":true,"index":110,"place":"Pioneer Works","fact":"Artist Dustin Yellin founded Pioneer Works in 2012 in a three story iron works building from 1866 on Pioneer Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The center hosts residencies, exhibitions, science programs and concerts in its open hall and garden. Admission is free.","year":"2012","learn":"An 1866 iron works in Red Hook, an art center since 2012.","source":{"name":"Pioneer Works","url":"https://pioneerworks.org"},"keywords":["Pioneer Works","Pioneer Works Red Hook","Dustin Yellin Pioneer Works","Pioneer Works Second Sundays","Red Hook art center","Pioneer Iron Works building"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/pioneerworks","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=pioneerworks","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/pioneerworks.jpg"},{"id":"bronxmuseum","name":"The Concourse museum","area":"THE BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS","mood":"Grand Concourse, Friday","color":"#c8a0b8","description":"The Grand Concourse with its Art Deco apartment houses, the folded metal and glass front of the museum, the atrium and the galleries inside, the works of the borough on the walls.","signatures":"The pleated aluminium and glass facade folding along the Concourse, the tall lobby with its stair, the flexible white galleries, the north wing courtyard, the Deco buildings across the boulevard with their casement corners.","daylit":true,"index":111,"place":"The Bronx Museum of the Arts","fact":"The Bronx Museum of the Arts was founded in 1971 and moved in 1982 into a former synagogue at 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street. Arquitectonica's 2006 expansion gave it the folded metal and glass front on the Concourse. The museum focuses on artists of the Bronx and of African, Asian and Latin American descent, and admission is free.","year":"1971","learn":"A free museum on the Grand Concourse since 1982.","source":{"name":"The Bronx Museum of the Arts","url":"https://www.bronxmuseum.org"},"keywords":["Bronx Museum of the Arts","Bronx Museum Grand Concourse","free museum Bronx","Bronx Museum exhibitions","Grand Concourse Art Deco","Bronx Museum 165th Street"],"article":"birth-of-hip-hop-1973","articles":["birth-of-hip-hop-1973"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bronxmuseum","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=bronxmuseum","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/bronxmuseum.jpg"},{"id":"pneumatic","name":"Letters through the void","area":"THE PNEUMATIC TUBE MAIL, 1897 TO 1953","mood":"Every letter in the city at thirty miles an hour","color":"#be854c","description":"A brick sorting rotunda under a copper dome and a skylight, the cast iron tubes converging overhead with brass collars, capsules sliding through, sorting desks and mail sacks below. 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In 1953 Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield cancelled the contract and replaced the tubes with trucks.","year":"1897","learn":"For 56 years New York shot its mail through iron tubes under the streets.","source":{"name":"United States Postal Service, Postal History","url":"https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/pneumatic-tubes.pdf"},"keywords":["pneumatic tube mail New York","Brooklyn Bridge mail tubes 1898","pneumatic post 1897","New York Mail and Newspaper Transportation Company","pneumatic tubes 1953"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/pneumatic","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=pneumatic","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/pneumatic.jpg"},{"id":"garment","name":"The pattern cathedral","area":"SEVENTH AVENUE CUTTING LOFT, 1920S TO 1950S","mood":"North light, the last fitting","color":"#baa9cc","description":"A sawtooth roofed loft off Seventh Avenue: north light through industrial glazing on long cutting tables, bolt racks, dress forms, a Singer row, a freight elevator, a rack rolling the aisle. 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In 1987 the city created the Special Garment Center District zoning to protect the manufacturing lofts.","year":"1920","learn":"A 1916 zoning fight pushed the needle trades onto Seventh Avenue.","source":{"name":"Garment District Alliance","url":"https://garmentdistrict.nyc/history"},"keywords":["Garment District history","Seventh Avenue garment lofts","494 and 500 Seventh Avenue 1920","1916 zoning law Fifth Avenue","Special Garment Center District 1987"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/garment","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=garment","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/garment.jpg"},{"id":"diamondexchange","name":"Forty-seven facets","area":"WEST 47TH STREET, THE DIAMOND DISTRICT","mood":"Midnight appraisal","color":"#a6d7e7","description":"An exchange floor off West 47th Street: dealer booths under green glass shades, loupes and scales, chandeliers turning, jewel niches with lit velvet, a vault standing open on a wall of safe deposit boxes. 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Today about 90 percent of the diamonds entering the United States pass through the block.","year":"1923","learn":"The diamond trade moved uptown from Maiden Lane by way of the Bowery.","source":{"name":"47th Street Business Improvement District","url":"https://diamonddistrict.org/history"},"keywords":["Diamond District 47th Street history","Maiden Lane jewelers","Canal Street Bowery diamond trade","Fenimore Goode 47th Street 1923","Diamond Dealers Club"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/diamondexchange","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=diamondexchange","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/diamondexchange.jpg"},{"id":"steamworks","name":"The city exhales","area":"CON EDISON DISTRICT STEAM, SINCE 1882","mood":"Pressure held","color":"#d18561","description":"A cathedral scale boiler house on the East River: three riveted pressure vessels, a catwalk, valve wheels and gauges, steam leaking from the flanges, the orange and white stack through the high window. The New Yorkers hang on the boiler flanks and along the inspection wall.","signatures":"Three riveted horizontal boilers with domed ends and steam drums, the raised catwalk with engineers on it, the long brick and steel inspection wall with caged bulbs, valve wheels and gauge dials, the firebox glow, instanced steam rising from the flanges, the banded stack and skyline through the end window, the shift board of time cards.","daylit":true,"index":115,"place":"The steam system","fact":"Manhattan has been heated by district steam since 1882, when the New York Steam Company began service in Lower Manhattan. Con Edison runs it today as the largest steam system in the country. Six generating stations push up to 8.5 million pounds of steam an hour through 105 miles of mains, serving more than 1,500 customers from the southern tip of Manhattan to 96th Street. About 60 percent of the steam comes from cogeneration alongside electricity.","year":"1882","learn":"Since 1882 Manhattan's radiators have run on steam piped under the street.","source":{"name":"Con Edison","url":"https://www.coned.com/en/about-us/media-center/news/2022/03-23/con-edisons-steam-system-will-become-nycs-hottest-new-clean-energy-solution"},"keywords":["Con Edison steam system","New York Steam Company 1882","Manhattan district steam 105 miles","steam stacks Manhattan","largest steam system in the country"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/steamworks","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=steamworks","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/steamworks.jpg"},{"id":"newsprint","name":"Tomorrow is wet ink","area":"NEWSPAPER ROW PRESS FLOOR, ABOUT 1890","mood":"The city goes to press","color":"#ded2b5","description":"A Park Row press floor at night: giant paper reels turning, the web running through a line of presses, ink rollers, a composing room of type cases, the copy desk under green shades, a newsstand at the door and the World Building dome through the window. The New Yorkers hang along the press gallery.","signatures":"Three paper reels on cradles feeding a moving web through four press units, ink rollers turning, cast iron columns and pendant lamps, the composing room with sloped type cases and the imposing stone, the copy desk, the ticking wall clock over the end window, the gilt World Building dome outside, the EXTRA newsstand on the sidewalk, the front page board of the census.","daylit":false,"index":116,"place":"Newspaper Row","fact":"In the late 19th century the city's papers crowded onto Park Row facing City Hall. The Tribune Building of 1875, by Richard Morris Hunt at Printing House Square, was among the first with elevators, and the Times built at 41 Park Row in 1889 before leaving for Times Square in 1903. Joseph Pulitzer's World Building at 99 Park Row, by George B. Post, rose 309 feet under a copper dome in 1890 and was the world's tallest building until 1894. It was demolished in 1955 for the Brooklyn Bridge ramps.","year":"1890","learn":"Every big paper in the city once printed on one block facing City Hall.","source":{"name":"6sqft","url":"https://www.6sqft.com/the-history-of-newspaper-row-on-downtowns-park-row/"},"keywords":["Newspaper Row Park Row","World Building 99 Park Row","Tribune Building 1875 Richard Morris Hunt","Printing House Square","Pulitzer Building demolished 1955"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/newsprint","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=newsprint","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/newsprint.jpg"},{"id":"laundry","name":"Spin cycle for a sleepless city","area":"ROOSEVELT AVENUE, JACKSON HEIGHTS","mood":"Three in the morning","color":"#85b9bf","description":"A 24 hour laundromat under the 7 train at 3 a.m.: a horseshoe of washers and stacked dryers turning behind round glass, folding tables down the middle, fluorescent light on the sidewalk, the works on enamel panels above the machines.","signatures":"The yellow and red LAVANDERIA sign, the OPEN 24 HOURS neon in the window, the horseshoe of front loaders with drums turning, rolling wire baskets, orange plastic chairs at the window, the change machine and the soap vending wall, the TV on its bracket, the el across the avenue.","daylit":false,"index":117,"place":"The laundromat","fact":"The coin laundromat is a New York institution: the place where a new arrival first pays their own way, and where the night shift folds its clothes at three in the morning. The city licenses every one of them through the Department of Consumer Affairs. In February 2015 there were 2,570 licensed coin operated laundries in the five boroughs, a 10 percent drop from a decade earlier. Rising retail rents from Harlem to SoHo had pushed longtime laundromats out of Manhattan, which counted fewer than 400, into the outer boroughs where costs are lower.","year":"2015","learn":"Twenty five hundred coin laundries wash the city, fewer every year.","source":{"name":"Crain's New York Business","url":"https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20150315/RETAIL_APPAREL/150319908/once-a-fixture-laundromats-disappear"},"keywords":["New York laundromat","24 hour laundromat Queens","coin laundry New York City","licensed laundries NYC","laundromats disappearing Manhattan","night shift laundromat"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/laundry","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=laundry","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/laundry.jpg"},{"id":"taxidispatch","name":"Every light is a fare","area":"VERNON BOULEVARD, LONG ISLAND CITY","mood":"Five o'clock shift change","color":"#e1b850","description":"A medallion garage in Long Island City at the five o'clock shift change: roll up doors open to the low sun, a fan of numbered dispatch bays, a cab on the lift, the dispatcher in a glass booth under the radio mast, the works hung one to a bay and along the medallion wall.","signatures":"The corrugated roll up doors, the fan of yellow bay lines on an oil stained floor, hanging bay numbers, yellow cabs with their roof lights blinking, the hydraulic lift, tire stacks, the dispatch booth and its antenna, the Manhattan skyline at the end of the street across the river.","daylit":true,"index":118,"place":"The taxi garage","fact":"Electric cabs first ran on New York streets in 1894, followed in 1907 by 600 French built gasoline cabs painted red and green. In 1937 Mayor LaGuardia introduced the medallion system and hack licenses, in 1967 a state law made every cab yellow, and in 1971 the Taxi and Limousine Commission replaced the NYPD Hack Bureau. Rising Manhattan rents in the 1970s and 80s pushed the fleet garages to Long Island City, near Midtown, both airports and the expressways. Drivers there work 12 hour shifts that change near five o'clock.","year":"1937","learn":"The yellow cab's home base moved to Long Island City when Manhattan rents rose.","source":{"name":"Brownstoner","url":"https://www.brownstoner.com/history/where-to-mister/"},"keywords":["taxi medallion 1937 LaGuardia","yellow cab law 1967","taxi garages Long Island City","Taxi and Limousine Commission 1971","New York taxi history"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/taxidispatch","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=taxidispatch","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/taxidispatch.jpg"},{"id":"flowercold","name":"Before the flowers wake","area":"WEST 28TH STREET, THE FLOWER DISTRICT","mood":"Four in the morning","color":"#abbba2","description":"A wholesaler's cold room on West 28th Street before dawn: strip curtains at the door, steel racks of buckets, tulips and roses by the hundred under frost coloured light, cold air pooling on the wet floor, the works on white fins floating over the flowers.","signatures":"The green awnings and sidewalk buckets of the wholesalers, the plastic strip curtain, insulated panel walls, black buckets on wire racks, tulips and roses in colour blocks, a hand truck of buckets rolling the aisle, the evaporator fans, the loading dock and the delivery van at the curb.","daylit":false,"index":119,"place":"The Flower District","fact":"Wholesale cut flower dealers began gathering on West 28th Street in the late 1870s. George E. Bradshaw and John R. Hartman opened one of the first wholesale florist houses in 1891 at 53 West 28th Street, and Guttman and Raynor followed in 1894 at 101 West 28th Street. The trade spread from 23rd Street to 34th Street before settling between 25th and 29th Streets. At its height more than 200 wholesalers and suppliers worked the block, through Easter week 1895 and the snowstorm of January 1908.","year":"1891","learn":"The flower wholesalers have held West 28th Street since the 1890s.","source":{"name":"New York's Historic Floral District","url":"https://www.flowermuseum.org/our-history"},"keywords":["Flower District West 28th Street","New York wholesale flower market history","Bradshaw and Hartman 1891","Guttman and Raynor florist 1894","Chelsea flower district cold rooms"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/flowercold","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=flowercold","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/flowercold.jpg"},{"id":"handball","name":"The fourth wall belongs to us","area":"ALLEN STREET, LOWER EAST SIDE","mood":"Golden hour, last game","color":"#96a7bd","description":"Three one wall handball courts on the Lower East Side at golden hour, the walls scaled up to monuments: low sun raking the concrete, a blue ball between wall and hand, the crowd along the chain link, the tenements and their fire escapes behind, the works as a civic triptych on the walls and portraits along the fence.","signatures":"Three sixteen foot walls with the court lines painted on, the short line and sidelines on asphalt, the chain link fence with its gate, the park benches and the trees, the open hydrant on the sidewalk, tenements with fire escapes behind the walls, a pickup game in the middle court.","daylit":true,"index":120,"place":"The handball court","fact":"Irish immigrants brought hard handball to New York in the late 19th century, and the city made the one wall game its own. A court is just a wall 20 feet wide and 16 feet high with a short line drawn 16 feet out. NYC Parks held its first citywide tournament in 1948 at Heckscher Playground in Central Park, and the U.S. Handball Association formed in 1951 to fix the rules. In January 2000 the city set out to renovate 1,500 of its 2,052 handball courts.","year":"1948","learn":"One wall, one rubber ball and more than 2,000 city courts.","source":{"name":"NYC Parks","url":"https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/barrier-playground/history"},"keywords":["one wall handball New York","NYC Parks handball courts 2,052","Coney Island handball courts","Heckscher Playground handball tournament 1948","Handball Haven Barrier Playground"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/handball","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=handball","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/handball.jpg"},{"id":"saltvault","name":"Winter stored as a mountain","area":"SPRING STREET AND WEST STREET","mood":"The city before snow","color":"#c6d4e1","description":"The Spring Street Salt Shed: a faceted concrete crystal on the Hudson beside the sanitation garage in its skin of fins. Inside, five thousand tons of salt as a white mountain under the folded shell, plow blades against the wall, a loader idling, the works on the promenade around the pile.","signatures":"The tilted concrete facets cantilevering over the base, the truck door on Spring Street, the garage next door wrapped in perforated fins, the Hudson and the Jersey shore behind, the salt cone with grains sliding, the yellow plow blades, a salt spreader rolling past on West Street, gulls.","daylit":true,"index":121,"place":"The salt shed","fact":"The Spring Street Salt Shed was completed in 2015 for the New York City Department of Sanitation at the foot of Canal Street on the Hudson River. Dattner Architects designed it with WXY architecture and urban design as a faceted concrete crystal rising nearly 70 feet, the cast in place concrete serving as both structure and finish. Inside it holds 5,000 tons of road salt. Across Spring Street the Manhattan Districts 1, 2 and 5 Garage houses more than 150 sanitation vehicles and earned LEED Gold.","year":"2015","learn":"A concrete salt crystal on the Hudson holds 5,000 tons of winter.","source":{"name":"urbanNext","url":"https://urbannext.net/spring-street-salt-shed/"},"keywords":["Spring Street Salt Shed","Dattner Architects WXY salt shed","Department of Sanitation salt shed 2015","5,000 tons road salt Manhattan","Manhattan Districts 1 2 5 Garage"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/saltvault","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=saltvault","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/saltvault.jpg"},{"id":"katz","name":"Katz’s: The portrait lunch","area":"KATZ’S DELICATESSEN / LOWER EAST SIDE","mood":"Houston Street, lunchtime","color":"#b8262a","description":"The corner of Houston and Ludlow since 1888: the red sign band, salamis in the window, a ticket at the door, the long cutting counter with its numbered stations, and the wall of regulars, every one of them a New Yorker.","signatures":"The corner sign band and neon, salamis hung in the windows, the ticket at the door, the numbered cutting stations, steam tables, the tin ceiling and ceiling fans, the photo wall of regulars, the table where Harry met Sally.","daylit":true,"index":122,"place":"Katz's Delicatessen","fact":"Katz's began in 1888 as Iceland Brothers, a small deli on Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side. Willy Katz arrived in 1903 and the name became Iceland and Katz; his cousin Benny bought out the brothers in 1910 and Harry Tarowsky joined the partnership in April 1917. Subway construction pushed the deli across the street to 205 East Houston, where the present storefront went up between 1946 and 1949. During World War II the owners' care packages to their sons became the slogan: Send a salami to your boy in the army. Martin Dell, his son Alan and son in law Fred Austin bought in on the 100th anniversary in 1988.","year":"1888","learn":"The Lower East Side deli that started as Iceland Brothers in 1888.","source":{"name":"Katz's Delicatessen, Our Story","url":"https://katzsdelicatessen.com/our-story"},"keywords":["Katz's Delicatessen","Katz's Deli history","Iceland Brothers 1888","205 East Houston Street","send a salami to your boy in the army","oldest deli in New York"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/katz","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=katz","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/katz.jpg"},{"id":"barney","name":"Barney Greengrass: Sunday regulars","area":"BARNEY GREENGRASS / UPPER WEST SIDE","mood":"A table near the window","color":"#2f6b46","description":"The Sturgeon King on Amsterdam Avenue since 1929: green awnings under the red and blue sign, sidewalk tables behind the green rail, the appetizing case on the right as you come in with the chalkboards behind it, the bakery shelves opposite, and through the doorway on the left the dining room with its New Orleans wallpaper, where the regulars hang. Moe's Chachkas, the merch MLow drew for the store, covers the front room walls.","signatures":"The three green awnings and the sign band, the sidewalk rail, the terrazzo, the glass appetizing case with its caviar and herring boards and the chalkboards over it, the formica tables, the bakery shelves, the doorway on the left, the faded New Orleans wallpaper, the green wainscot, the wall clock on New York time, the pendant globes.","daylit":true,"index":123,"place":"Barney Greengrass","fact":"Barney Greengrass opened his appetizing store in Harlem in 1908 and moved it to 541 Amsterdam Avenue in 1929. State senator and Tammany Hall leader James J. Frawley coined the title The Sturgeon King, and in 1939 the store shipped smoked sturgeon to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A restaurant section opened in 1938. Barney's son Moe took over in 1955 and grandson Gary in 1982, and the store turned 100 in 2008.","year":"1929","learn":"A Tammany boss named him the Sturgeon King and the title stuck.","source":{"name":"Barney Greengrass, Our History","url":"https://www.barneygreengrass.com/pages/new-history"},"keywords":["Barney Greengrass","the Sturgeon King","541 Amsterdam Avenue","Upper West Side appetizing store","Barney Greengrass history","smoked sturgeon New York"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/barney","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=barney","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/barney.jpg"},{"id":"astorhall","name":"Between the lions","area":"NYPL / ASTOR HALL","mood":"Fifth Avenue, mid afternoon","color":"#e4ddcf","description":"Fifth Avenue, Patience and Fortitude on their plinths, the readers on the steps, the three arched portals, then Astor Hall: white Vermont marble under a vault, twin stair flights to the landings, bronze candelabra, the rotunda beyond.","signatures":"The Beaux Arts marble front with paired Corinthian columns between three round portals, the two marble lions flanking the broad steps, the vaulted white marble entrance hall with its lateral stair flights and bronze torcheres.","daylit":true,"index":124,"place":"Astor Hall, New York Public Library","fact":"Astor Hall is the marble entrance lobby of the New York Public Library at 476 Fifth Avenue, the Stephen A. 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An 1880s poll of architects voted it the fifth most beautiful building in the United States. After the courts left, preservationist Margot Gayle led a Village campaign to save it and restart its four faced clock. Architect Giorgio Cavaglieri converted it into a New York Public Library branch in 1967.","year":"1967","learn":"A Victorian Gothic courthouse the Village saved and turned into a library.","source":{"name":"Village Preservation","url":"https://villagepreservation.org/2012/02/01/the-jefferson-market-library-a-striking-landmark-shines-again/"},"keywords":["Jefferson Market Library","Jefferson Market Courthouse","Vaux and Withers","Margot Gayle","Greenwich Village clock tower","Giorgio Cavaglieri"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/jefferson","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=jefferson","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/jefferson.jpg"},{"id":"eldridge","name":"An immigrant constellation","area":"ELDRIDGE STREET SYNAGOGUE","mood":"Painted stars, a window of blue glass","color":"#2f4f9a","description":"The 1887 front of the Eldridge Street Synagogue on a Lower East Side street of tenements, with its horseshoe arches, twin towers and rose window. Go in by the museum doors in the towers: the New Yorkers hang on the lower level, and a stair climbs from there into the restored sanctuary, where gold stars cover the blue vaults, brass chandeliers hang over the pews and the round east window of 2010 glows above the ark.","signatures":"The Moorish Revival front by Peter and Francis William Herter with its horseshoe arches, towers and rose window of twelve roundels, the Museum at Eldridge Street on the lower level, the sanctuary with its women's gallery on columns, painted stars on blue vaults, brass chandeliers, the central bimah and the carved walnut ark, the ner tamid, and the 2010 east window by Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans.","daylit":true,"index":126,"place":"Eldridge Street Synagogue","fact":"The Eldridge Street Synagogue opened in 1887 at 12 Eldridge Street, the first synagogue in America purpose built by immigrants from Eastern Europe. After the 1924 immigration quotas the congregation shrank, moved into the lower chapel in the 1940s and left the main sanctuary to decay. It was rediscovered in 1986, named a National Historic Landmark in 1996, and restored by December 2007. A stained glass window by Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans was added in 2010.","year":"1887","learn":"A grand 1887 sanctuary sealed for decades and rediscovered in 1986.","source":{"name":"Museum at Eldridge Street","url":"https://www.eldridgestreet.org/history/"},"keywords":["Eldridge Street Synagogue","Museum at Eldridge Street","12 Eldridge Street","Kiki Smith window","Lower East Side synagogue history","Eastern European Jewish immigrants"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/eldridge","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=eldridge","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/eldridge.jpg"},{"id":"cityhallrotunda","name":"The public portrait","area":"CITY HALL ROTUNDA","mood":"Civic daylight","color":"#d4c4aa","description":"City Hall Park and its fountain, the marble front under the cupola, then the rotunda: twin marble stairs sweeping up to a ring of ten Corinthian columns under a coffered dome, the Governor's Room through its door, the portraits of the city between the columns.","signatures":"The 1812 Federal front in white marble with its arcade, colonnade and cupola, the circular rotunda with a coffered dome on ten columns, the self supporting curved twin stairs, the second floor gallery, the Governor's Room and its portrait collection, the park and its fountain.","daylit":true,"index":127,"place":"New York City Hall Rotunda","fact":"New York City Hall was completed in 1812 to designs by Joseph Francois Mangin and John McComb Jr. It is one of the oldest continuously used city halls in the nation and still houses its original government functions. The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the building an individual landmark in 1966 and its central rotunda an interior landmark in 1976. Free tours pass through the rotunda and the Governor's Room.","year":"1812","learn":"The 1812 rotunda where New York still governs itself.","source":{"name":"NYC Public Design Commission","url":"https://www.nyc.gov/site/designcommission/archive/city-hall/about-city-hall.page"},"keywords":["New York City Hall rotunda","City Hall 1812","Mangin and McComb","City Hall interior landmark","Governor's Room City Hall","City Hall Park Manhattan"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/cityhallrotunda","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=cityhallrotunda","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/cityhallrotunda.jpg"},{"id":"castleclinton","name":"Arrivals in the round","area":"CASTLE CLINTON / THE BATTERY","mood":"Harbor morning","color":"#be9775","description":"The Battery promenade, the harbor with the Statue on the horizon, gulls, a ferry passing, then the round brownstone fort: an open court under a flag, cannon at the embrasures, the ticket booth, the works set into the gun ports around the ring.","signatures":"The circular 1811 sandstone battery with its deep embrasures and arched gate, the open courtyard, the flagpole, the Battery lawn and benches, the seawall promenade, Liberty and the harbor beyond.","daylit":true,"index":128,"place":"Castle Clinton National Monument","fact":"Castle Clinton began as the Southwest Battery, built between 1808 and 1811 on rocks off the tip of Manhattan with 28 cannons. Renamed for DeWitt Clinton in 1817, it became the Castle Garden entertainment hall, where Jenny Lind made her American debut in 1850. From August 3, 1855 to April 18, 1890 it served as the nation's first immigrant landing depot, and more than 8 million people entered through it. It housed the New York Aquarium from 1896 to 1941 and reopened as a national monument in 1975.","year":"1855","learn":"A harbor fort that welcomed 8 million immigrants before Ellis Island.","source":{"name":"National Park Service","url":"https://www.nps.gov/cacl/learn/historyculture/index.htm"},"keywords":["Castle Clinton","Castle Garden immigration","the Battery Manhattan","Southwest Battery 1811","New York Aquarium Battery Park","Castle Clinton National Monument"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/castleclinton","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=castleclinton","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/castleclinton.jpg"},{"id":"greenacre","name":"The waterfall room","area":"GREENACRE PARK / EAST 51ST STREET","mood":"Lunch hour under the water","color":"#94b8a0","description":"East 51st Street, then the vest pocket park between two buildings: honey locusts, movable chairs, the raised west terrace under its trellis and acrylic domes, the runnel under the rough east wall, and the 25 foot waterfall filling the back, the works hung on the walls.","signatures":"The 1971 park by Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay, roughly sixty feet by one hundred twenty, a higher terrace along the west side under trellising, acrylic domes and heaters, honey locusts, a runnel along the ashlar east wall, and the 25 foot cascade across the back.","daylit":true,"index":129,"place":"Greenacre Park","fact":"Greenacre Park sits at 217 East 51st Street between Second and Third Avenues. Abby Rockefeller Mauze, inspired by Paley Park and the shortage of green space in Midtown, set up the Greenacre Foundation in 1968 to build it. The park officially opened on October 14, 1971. It was designed as an intimate room where the surrounding buildings act as walls and a canopy of leaves as the ceiling, with a waterfall at the back.","year":"1971","learn":"A Rockefeller built a waterfall room on East 51st Street in 1971.","source":{"name":"Greenacre Park","url":"https://www.greenacrepark.org/history"},"keywords":["Greenacre Park","217 East 51st Street","Abby Rockefeller Mauze","Midtown pocket park waterfall","Greenacre Foundation 1968","vest pocket park New York"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/greenacre","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=greenacre","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/greenacre.jpg"},{"id":"paley","name":"Seventeen honey locusts","area":"PALEY PARK / EAST 53RD STREET","mood":"Dappled noon","color":"#acc4a1","description":"Granite steps up from 53rd Street into the original vest pocket park: seventeen honey locusts on a grid, vertical lawns of ivy, Bertoia wire chairs and Saarinen tables, and the water wall drowning the traffic, a portrait in every tree bay.","signatures":"The 1967 park by Robert Zion of Zion and Breen, a tenth of an acre on the site of the Stork Club, seventeen honey locusts on a grid, English ivy on both side walls, a twenty foot water wall across the back, 20 Saarinen tables and 60 Bertoia chairs, a kiosk at the entrance.","daylit":true,"index":130,"place":"Paley Park","fact":"Paley Park opened in 1967 on East 53rd Street, the original vest pocket park. Robert Zion of Zion and Breen Associates designed it on the site of the former Stork Club. CBS chairman William Paley provided the site and dedicated the park to his father, Samuel Paley. It covers one tenth of an acre, with a 20 foot wall of water at the back and seventeen honey locust trees planted on a grid above movable wire chairs and marble tables.","year":"1967","learn":"The Stork Club became a tenth of an acre of falling water.","source":{"name":"The Cultural Landscape Foundation","url":"https://www.tclf.org/landscapes/paley-park"},"keywords":["Paley Park","East 53rd Street waterfall","vest pocket park","Robert Zion","Stork Club site","William Paley"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/paley","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=paley","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/paley.jpg"},{"id":"stmarksyard","name":"Poetry in the yard","area":"ST. MARK'S CHURCH IN-THE-BOWERY","mood":"East Village, a reading at eight","color":"#bdc5bb","description":"Second Avenue at Tenth Street: the fieldstone church of 1799 under its 1828 steeple, the cast iron portico, the lions, the flat gravestones of the old Stuyvesant farm, then the plain white sanctuary set with folding chairs for the Poetry Project.","signatures":"The fieldstone body of 1799, the 1828 steeple by Thompson and Town, the cast iron portico of 1856, Borglum's Aspiration and Inspiration, the lions of St. Mark, the flat vault markers, the Stuyvesant vault under the east wall and the Dupuis bust, the Edelman windows, the white sanctuary with folding chairs and a lectern.","daylit":true,"index":131,"place":"St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery","fact":"Peter Stuyvesant built a chapel on his bouwerij farm in 1660 and was buried beneath it. The present fieldstone church at 131 East 10th Street, designed by John McComb Jr., was consecrated on May 9, 1799, and its steeple was added in 1828. The Poetry Project was founded here in 1966 and Danspace Project has been housed here since 1974. A three alarm fire on July 12, 1978 destroyed nine of 23 stained glass windows and part of the roof, and rebuilding took five years.","year":"1966","learn":"Stuyvesant's farm chapel became the East Village home of poetry and dance.","source":{"name":"St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery","url":"https://stmarksbowery.org/history"},"keywords":["St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery","Poetry Project 1966","Peter Stuyvesant grave","131 East 10th Street","East Village church 1799","Danspace Project"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/stmarksyard","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=stmarksyard","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/stmarksyard.jpg"},{"id":"kingsfoyer","name":"Before the curtain","area":"KINGS THEATRE / FLATBUSH AVENUE","mood":"The grand foyer, doors at seven","color":"#c2a272","description":"Flatbush Avenue under the marquee and the vertical sign, through the bronze doors and the low ticket lobby into the foyer: gilt plaster, pink marble, a coffered ceiling with chandeliers, the red carpet to the grand stair, the auditorium curtain glimpsed through an arch.","signatures":"The 1929 Loew's Wonder Theatre by Rapp and Rapp, French Baroque after Versailles and the Paris Opera: the marquee and blade sign on Flatbush, the three storey foyer with gilt pilasters, pink marble columns, coffered ceilings, chandeliers, and the grand stair to the mezzanine.","daylit":false,"index":132,"place":"Kings Theatre","fact":"The Loew's Kings Theatre opened in Flatbush in 1929 as a movie and live performance house at 1027 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. It struggled as multiplexes drew audiences away and shut its doors in 1977. The building sat dark for decades. After a 95 million dollar restoration the 3,074 seat theater reopened in 2015 in its original glory and now hosts concerts and live performances.","year":"2015","learn":"Flatbush's 1929 movie palace sat dark for decades and reopened in 2015.","source":{"name":"Time Out New York","url":"https://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/kings-theatre"},"keywords":["Kings Theatre Brooklyn","Loew's Kings Theatre","1027 Flatbush Avenue","Kings Theatre restoration 2015","Flatbush movie palace","Loew's Wonder Theatre"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/kingsfoyer","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=kingsfoyer","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/kingsfoyer.jpg"},{"id":"valencia","name":"A sky inside Jamaica","area":"LOEW'S VALENCIA / JAMAICA, QUEENS","mood":"1929, the clouds are on","color":"#b8a089","description":"John Eberson's atmospheric theatre: the auditorium is a Spanish courtyard at night, tiled roofs and balconies along the walls, a proscenium arch and a red curtain at the end, and over it all a deep blue sky with stars and drifting clouds. The works hang on the courtyard walls.","signatures":"The 1929 atmospheric auditorium: Spanish and Moorish courtyard facades with balconies, tiled roofs and corner towers, the proscenium arch, the blue plaster sky with its star bulbs and drifting clouds, the Wonder organ, and outside on Jamaica Avenue the Churrigueresque front of yellow brick and glazed terra cotta with its ticket booth and marquee. A 1929 inspired exhibition, not the present congregation's interior.","daylit":false,"index":133,"place":"Loew's Valencia Theatre","fact":"The Loew's Valencia at 165-11 Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, was built in 1928 and opened in 1929 as the first of the five Loew's Wonder Theatres. Architect John Eberson, inventor of the atmospheric theater, gave it 3,554 seats and a brick and glazed terra cotta facade in the Spanish Baroque manner. It entertained Queens for half a century. Since 1977 it has housed the Tabernacle of Prayer for All People, and the city designated it a landmark on May 25, 1999.","year":"1929","learn":"The first Loew's Wonder Theatre now holds a church in Jamaica, Queens.","source":{"name":"NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, LP-2036","url":"https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2036.pdf"},"keywords":["Loew's Valencia Theatre","Tabernacle of Prayer for All People","165-11 Jamaica Avenue","John Eberson atmospheric theater","Loew's Wonder Theatres","Jamaica Queens movie palace"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/valencia","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=valencia","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/valencia.jpg"},{"id":"essexmarket","name":"The city at the counter","area":"ESSEX MARKET / ESSEX CROSSING","mood":"Saturday at noon","color":"#b8c7b8","description":"Essex Street at Delancey, then the glass hall under its folded white ceiling: vendor islands under swaying pendants, fish on ice, the butcher, the coffee bar and its chalkboard, an escalator up to the long shared table on the mezzanine, the works on every stall front.","signatures":"The 2019 hall at Essex Crossing: a tall glazed street edge with the tower above, a folded plate ceiling with light in the folds, terrazzo, vendor islands and pendants, a moving escalator to the mezzanine, the communal table, the Delancey Street subway stair on the corner.","daylit":true,"index":134,"place":"Essex Market","fact":"Mayor Fiorello La Guardia built indoor municipal markets to clear the pushcart peddlers who had crowded Lower East Side streets since the 1880s. The Essex Street Municipal Market opened on January 9, 1940 with four buildings and 475 vendors serving Jewish and Italian immigrant families. After a 1995 consolidation the market operated at 120 Essex Street. In May 2019 the vendors moved across the street into a larger, modern hall at 88 Essex Street, part of the Essex Crossing development.","year":"1940","learn":"La Guardia moved the pushcarts indoors in 1940 and the market never left.","source":{"name":"Essex Market, Our Story","url":"https://www.essexmarket.nyc/our-story"},"keywords":["Essex Market","Essex Street Market 1940","Essex Crossing","88 Essex Street","La Guardia pushcart markets","Lower East Side market history"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/essexmarket","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=essexmarket","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/essexmarket.jpg"},{"id":"armstronggarden","name":"The garden listens","area":"LOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE / CORONA","mood":"A Queens afternoon","color":"#bc9c79","description":"107th Street in Corona: the brick house with its stoop, then the garden behind the fence, the trellis, the koi pond, the brick barbecue, a trumpet on a plinth and a record turning on the patio, the neighbours passing, the 7 train on the elevated a few blocks off, the works hung on the fence, the trellis and the house wall.","signatures":"The two storey brick house Louis and Lucille bought in 1943 on a block of houses like it, the stoop, the side garden Lucille planted with its trellis, koi pond and brick barbecue, wind chimes, utility poles, the elevated 7 train on the horizon.","daylit":true,"index":135,"place":"Louis Armstrong House Museum","fact":"Louis and Lucille Armstrong moved into their home on 107th Street in Corona, Queens in 1943 and lived there for nearly 30 years, until Louis's death in 1971. The house is both a National Historic Landmark and a New York City landmark. Its archives opened to researchers in the 1990s and the house opened for guided tours in 2003. Across the street, the 14,000 square foot Louis Armstrong Center opened in 2023 with a 75 seat venue and a garden.","year":"1943","learn":"Satchmo lived in a modest Corona house from 1943 until he died.","source":{"name":"Louis Armstrong House Museum","url":"https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/about/"},"keywords":["Louis Armstrong House Museum","Louis Armstrong Corona Queens","34-56 107th Street","Louis Armstrong Center 2023","Lucille Armstrong","Corona Queens landmark"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/armstronggarden","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=armstronggarden","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/armstronggarden.jpg"},{"id":"hamiltongrange","name":"A house above the city","area":"HAMILTON GRANGE / ST. 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He lived there only two years before the 1804 duel with Aaron Burr ended his life. As the city grew around it, the house was moved twice, in 1889 and again in 2008, to keep it standing. It now sits in St. Nicholas Park at 414 West 141st Street and reopened to the public in 2011 as a National Park Service memorial.","year":"1802","learn":"Hamilton's country house was rolled twice to survive the city around it.","source":{"name":"National Park Service","url":"https://www.nps.gov/hagr/index.htm"},"keywords":["Hamilton Grange","Alexander Hamilton house Harlem","St. Nicholas Park","414 West 141st Street","Hamilton Grange move 2008","John McComb Jr."],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/hamiltongrange","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=hamiltongrange","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/hamiltongrange.jpg"},{"id":"fultonfish","name":"Four in the morning","area":"THE NEW FULTON FISH MARKET / HUNTS POINT","mood":"Cold store, before dawn","color":"#7fb2c8","description":"The hour the city eats by and never sees: a refrigerated hall the length of three blocks, ice going down in mountains, forklifts running the centre aisle with their beacons turning, gulls working the rafters, and the buyers walking the row in headlamps and parkas. The New Yorkers hang on the stall fronts, at the height of a chalked price.","signatures":"The 400,000 square foot cold hall at Hunts Point, the numbered bays and their roll up doors, stainless display tables banked with crushed ice, waxed boxes stacked to the ceiling, hanging scales, chalkboards, forklift beacons, the truck apron outside, and the gulls that came with the market from South Street.","daylit":false,"index":137,"place":"The New Fulton Fish Market","fact":"The Fulton Fish Market began in 1822 as one wing of the Fulton Market on the East River waterfront. On November 14, 2005 it left the South Street Seaport after 183 years for a climate controlled hall at Hunts Point in the Bronx, built for about 85 million dollars and covering roughly 400,000 square feet. It is the largest fish market in the United States and second in the world only to Tokyo, and it works through the night.","year":"2005","learn":"A 183 year old market moved to the Bronx and kept its hours.","source":{"name":"Fulton Fish Market, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_Fish_Market"},"keywords":["Fulton Fish Market","Hunts Point fish market","New Fulton Fish Market","South Street Seaport fish market","wholesale seafood New York"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/fultonfish","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=fultonfish","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/fultonfish.jpg"},{"id":"lunarnewyear","name":"The lion comes down Mott Street","area":"CHINATOWN / MOTT STREET","mood":"Confetti, drums, first day","color":"#d8342c","description":"The narrowest parade in New York: a lion at every doorway, a dragon the length of half a block, confetti coming down like weather and not stopping, drums off the brick, lanterns strung overhead, and the whole street shoulder to shoulder in red. The New Yorkers hang on the shutters and the gates, at eye level, where the crowd is.","signatures":"The Mott Street canyon of five storey tenements with fire escapes, bilingual vertical signs, roll down shutters, red lanterns strung across the roadway, lion dance teams working doorway to doorway, a dragon on poles, drums and cymbals, and confetti ankle deep by afternoon.","daylit":false,"index":138,"place":"Chinatown, Mott Street","fact":"Better Chinatown USA held the first Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade and Festival in 1996, and added the New Year Firecracker Ceremony in 1998 at Mott and Bayard Streets. The crowds grew so large that the ceremony moved, first to Chatham Square and then to Sara D. Roosevelt Park. The parade still forms on Mott Street at Hester and works east and north through the oldest streets of the neighbourhood.","year":"1996","learn":"The parade is younger than the neighbourhood that invented it.","source":{"name":"Better Chinatown USA","url":"https://betterchinatown.com/lny-parade/"},"keywords":["Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade","firecracker ceremony Chinatown","Mott Street parade","lion dance New York","Lunar New Year NYC"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/lunarnewyear","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=lunarnewyear","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/lunarnewyear.jpg"},{"id":"enginecompany","name":"First due","area":"ENGINE COMPANY 55 / 363 BROOME STREET","mood":"The bell, then the doors","color":"#a8231f","description":"A house that has been answering this corner since 1899: one bay, one rig, a brass pole through the ceiling, gear hanging ready in the order a person puts it on. Every twenty seconds the gong goes, the beacons start turning, and the door rolls up on Broome Street. The New Yorkers hang along the tiled bay walls, watching it happen.","signatures":"R. H. Robertson's 1899 firehouse: brick and limestone with the company banner carved over a monumental arched apparatus bay, a copper mansard roof, oval windows in garlands, Guastavino glazed tile inside, the brass pole, turnout gear on hooks, the housewatch desk and the gong.","daylit":true,"index":139,"place":"Engine Company 55, 363 Broome Street","fact":"Engine Company 55 was organized on June 4, 1887 and moved into this purpose built house in March 1899. R. H. Robertson designed it in 1898, his only commission for the Fire Department, in brick and Indiana limestone with the company banner carved over the arched apparatus bay, a copper mansard roof and glazed Guastavino tile inside that could be hosed down after a run.","year":"1899","learn":"A church architect built one firehouse, and it is still in service.","source":{"name":"Landmarks Preservation Commission, Fire Engine Company 55","url":"https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1987.pdf"},"keywords":["Engine Company 55","363 Broome Street firehouse","R. H. Robertson firehouse","FDNY landmark firehouse","Guastavino tile firehouse"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/enginecompany","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=enginecompany","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/enginecompany.jpg"},{"id":"eastriverfourth","name":"The Fourth over the East River","area":"BROOKLYN HEIGHTS PROMENADE","mood":"Nine forty, everybody quiet","color":"#f0c24a","description":"A third of a mile of cantilevered walkway over a running expressway, and once a year the best free seat in the city: barges on the black water, the skyline with its lights on, and eighty thousand shells going up in half an hour. The New Yorkers hang along the park wall and the railing, lit red, then green, then gold, then not at all.","signatures":"The Promenade on its cantilever over the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, the iron railing and the benches, the plane trees, the Brooklyn Bridge to the north, fireboats and barges on the river, the Lower Manhattan skyline across the water, and the crowd standing four deep at the rail.","daylit":false,"index":140,"place":"The Brooklyn Heights Promenade","fact":"Macy's first large fireworks show went up on July 1, 1958 for the store's hundredth anniversary, and became a Fourth of July tradition in 1976 for the Bicentennial. Recent shows fire on the order of 80,000 shells over about half an hour from barges in the East River and from the Brooklyn Bridge itself. The Promenade that watches it is a roof: a public walkway cantilevered over two stacked decks of expressway, opened in 1950 and 1951.","year":"1958","learn":"The best free seat in the city is the lid on an expressway.","source":{"name":"Macy's 4th of July Fireworks, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy%27s_4th_of_July_Fireworks"},"keywords":["Macy's fireworks East River","Brooklyn Heights Promenade","Fourth of July New York","fireworks Brooklyn Bridge","BQE cantilever promenade"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/eastriverfourth","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=eastriverfourth","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/eastriverfourth.jpg"},{"id":"paradisegarage","name":"Two in the morning","area":"THE PARADISE GARAGE / 84 KING STREET","mood":"Members only, no bar","color":"#b83aa8","description":"A parking garage on King Street with a ramp for a lobby, a sprung floor, a sound system built for the room rather than the room for the system, and no liquor licence because nobody needed one. The New Yorkers hang where the light sweeps past them, on the black walls around the floor, and the mirror ball puts the rest of the room on top of them.","signatures":"The 1924 garage at 84 King Street, the long entrance ramp, the sprung wooden dance floor, Richard Long's custom horns and bass bins, the DJ booth above the floor, a mirror ball, no bar and no alcohol, the fruit and juice by the wall, and the doors that stayed open into the morning.","daylit":false,"index":141,"place":"The Paradise Garage, 84 King Street","fact":"Michael Brody leased a disused parking garage at 84 King Street in 1977 and, after a year of building, opened the Paradise Garage properly on January 28, 1978. Larry Levan was the resident for the life of the club. Richard Long built the sound system to the shape of the room, over a sprung floor holding about fourteen hundred people. It was members only and served no alcohol, so there was no last call. It closed in the autumn of 1987 and the building came down in April 2018.","year":"1978","learn":"No bar, no last call, and the name of a whole genre.","source":{"name":"Paradise Garage, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Garage"},"keywords":["Paradise Garage","Larry Levan","84 King Street","garage house music","Richard Long sound system"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/paradisegarage","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=paradisegarage","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/paradisegarage.jpg"},{"id":"arthurashe","name":"The night session","area":"ARTHUR ASHE STADIUM / FLUSHING MEADOWS","mood":"Deuce, under the open roof","color":"#2f6fd6","description":"The largest tennis stadium in the world at nine at night in the first week of September: the roof open to the sky, twenty three thousand people in the bowl, a plane on its way down to LaGuardia, and two players trading ground strokes on the blue court while the wave goes round. The New Yorkers hang courtside on the wall at the foot of the lower bowl, where the sponsor boards would be, lit by the same lights as the match.","signatures":"The 1997 bowl by Rossetti with its 23,771 seats, the 2016 retractable roof and its octagonal truss ring, the electric blue court inside the lines and green outside, the net and the chair umpire, line judges and ball kids, the two big screens, the light ring under the roof, and the approach path to LaGuardia overhead.","daylit":false,"index":142,"place":"Arthur Ashe Stadium","fact":"Arthur Ashe Stadium opened on August 25, 1997 at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, Queens, designed by Rossetti at a cost of about 254 million dollars. With 23,771 seats it is the largest tennis stadium in the world. A retractable roof of two 800 ton fabric panels was completed in 2016 as part of a 550 million dollar renovation. It is named for Arthur Ashe, who won the first US Open in 1968, the first in which professionals could compete.","year":"1997","learn":"The biggest tennis stadium on earth is in Queens, and it got a roof in 2016.","source":{"name":"Arthur Ashe Stadium, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Ashe_Stadium"},"keywords":["Arthur Ashe Stadium","US Open night session","largest tennis stadium","Flushing Meadows tennis","USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/arthurashe","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=arthurashe","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/arthurashe.jpg"},{"id":"carousel","name":"Fifty seven horses","area":"THE CENTRAL PARK CAROUSEL / MID PARK AT 64TH","mood":"Three quarter time, all afternoon","color":"#d84a3a","description":"A 1908 carousel found in a Coney Island trolley terminal and set down in Central Park in 1951 under an octagon of brick: fifty seven hand carved horses, two chariots, a band organ playing waltzes, and a quarter of a million riders a year. The New Yorkers hang on the six brick walls around the turning platform and outside on the two that face the path, so the horses pass every one of them once a minute.","signatures":"The brick pavilion with its eight sides, arched entrances and pyramid roof, the turning platform with three rows of jumpers and standers, the poles, the sweeps, the rounding board of bulbs and mirrors, the centre drum with the A. Ruth & Sohn band organ, the ticket booth, and the park path and plane trees around it.","daylit":true,"index":143,"place":"The Central Park Carousel","fact":"The Central Park Carousel was made by Solomon Stein and Harry Goldstein in 1908 and carries 57 hand carved horses, 52 jumpers and 5 standers, and two chariots. It first ran in a trolley terminal in Coney Island until the 1940s and was moved to Central Park in 1951, the fourth carousel on the site since 1871, when the first was powered by a mule or horse under the platform. Its predecessors burned in 1924 and 1950. A 52 keyless A. Ruth & Sohn Model 33 band organ plays waltzes, marches and polkas, and about 250,000 people ride it every year.","year":"1908","learn":"Fifty seven horses carved in 1908, found in a Coney Island trolley barn and set down in the park in 1951.","source":{"name":"Central Park Carousel, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_Carousel"},"keywords":["Central Park Carousel","Friedsam Memorial Carousel","Stein and Goldstein carousel","Central Park rides","Coney Island trolley terminal carousel"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/carousel","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=carousel","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/carousel.jpg"},{"id":"sharks","name":"Ocean Wonders","area":"NEW YORK AQUARIUM / CONEY ISLAND","mood":"Blue, and something circling","color":"#1f7fc8","description":"The oldest aquarium in the country, on the boardwalk since 1957, and its biggest room since the hurricane: seven hundred and eighty four thousand gallons behind one long window, a wreck on the sand, sand tigers circling, rays flying over the glass tunnel, and a school of silver that turns as one. The New Yorkers hang on the dark wall opposite the window, lit by the water.","signatures":"The long acrylic window into Ocean Wonders: Sharks!, the walk through tunnel, the shipwreck and the reef, sand tiger sharks, cownose rays and a bait ball, light rays and caustics on the sand, bubbles from the aerators, and the dark hall with its benches facing the water.","daylit":false,"index":144,"place":"The New York Aquarium","fact":"The New York Aquarium opened in 1896 at Castle Garden in Battery Park and moved to the boardwalk at Coney Island on June 6, 1957; it is the oldest continually operating aquarium in the United States and is run by the Wildlife Conservation Society. Hurricane Sandy flooded it in October 2012, with staff on site saving about 80 percent of the animals. Ocean Wonders: Sharks!, a 784,000 gallon, 57,000 square foot exhibit, broke ground in January 2014 and opened on June 30, 2018, the first major exhibit to open after the storm. The aquarium keeps 266 species on 14 acres.","year":"2018","learn":"The oldest aquarium in the country started in a fort at the Battery and now keeps sharks on the boardwalk.","source":{"name":"New York Aquarium, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Aquarium"},"keywords":["New York Aquarium","Ocean Wonders Sharks","Coney Island aquarium","oldest aquarium in the United States","Wildlife Conservation Society aquarium"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/sharks","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=sharks","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/sharks.jpg"},{"id":"astoriapool","name":"The finest in the world","area":"ASTORIA PARK POOL / QUEENS","mood":"Ninety three degrees, everybody in","color":"#3ab6cc","description":"Three hundred and thirty feet of water between two bridges, opened in the summer of 1936 and called the finest in the world by the man who paid for it. Lap swimmers, cannonballs, lifeguards on their chairs, the diving tower that outlived its pool, and Hell Gate to the north. The New Yorkers hang under the colonnade of the bathhouse, out of the sun, facing the water.","signatures":"The WPA pool of 1936 at 330 by 165 feet, the brick and limestone bathhouse with its central block and colonnade, lane ropes and ladders, lifeguard chairs, the filled in diving pool and its 32 foot three tier concrete platform, the Hell Gate Bridge arch to the north and the RFK Bridge towers to the south, the East River and Manhattan beyond.","daylit":true,"index":145,"place":"Astoria Park Pool","fact":"Astoria Park Pool opened on July 2, 1936, the largest of the eleven pools the Works Progress Administration completed in New York City that summer; WPA administrator Harry Hopkins called it the finest in the world. The main pool is 330 by 165 feet and four feet deep, 54,450 square feet of water, and at its peak the pool area held 6,200 swimmers. It hosted the United States Olympic trials in 1936, 1952 and 1964. The diving pool, with its 32 foot three tier cantilevered platform, was drained in the 1980s and filled in between 2017 and 2019; the platform still stands. The complex was designated a city landmark in 2006.","year":"1936","learn":"The city's biggest pool opened in 1936 between two bridges and held the Olympic trials three times.","source":{"name":"Astoria Park, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astoria_Park"},"keywords":["Astoria Park Pool","WPA pools 1936","largest pool in New York City","Astoria Pool Olympic trials","Astoria Park diving platform"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/astoriapool","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=astoriapool","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/astoriapool.jpg"},{"id":"rockcenter","name":"The tree and the rink","area":"ROCKEFELLER PLAZA / THE RINK","mood":"December, seven in the evening","color":"#d8a84a","description":"The sunken rink at the foot of the Channel Gardens, Prometheus in gold over the fountain, forty flags going round the parapet, skaters below and a Norway spruce above them with fifty thousand lights on it. The New Yorkers hang along the shop fronts of the Channel Gardens, between the wire angels, and down on the rink level either side of the fountain.","signatures":"The Channel Gardens sloping down from Fifth Avenue between the British Empire Building and La Maison Francaise, the trumpeting wire angels, the sunken rink with its flags and skaters, Paul Manship's gilded Prometheus and the fountain, the Christmas tree with its star, and 30 Rockefeller Plaza rising behind it.","daylit":false,"index":146,"place":"Rockefeller Center, the tree and the rink","fact":"The first tree at Rockefeller Center was a 20 foot balsam fir put up on Christmas Eve 1931 by the men building the complex, decorated with strings of cranberries, garlands of paper and a few tin cans. The first official tree, 50 feet tall, was lit in 1933, and the skating rink opened in the sunken plaza below it in 1936. The tree is usually a Norway spruce of 69 to 100 feet carrying about 50,000 LED lights; the tallest, in 1999, was a 100 foot spruce from Killingworth, Connecticut. The star placed in 2018 has 70 spikes and three million crystals and weighs 900 pounds. The tree is lit on the Wednesday after Thanksgiving, and since 2007 each one has been milled into lumber for Habitat for Humanity.","year":"1931","learn":"The tree began with construction workers and cranberries in 1931; the rink below it opened in 1936.","source":{"name":"Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Center_Christmas_Tree"},"keywords":["Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree","Rockefeller Center rink","Rockefeller Center tree lighting","Prometheus Rockefeller Center","Channel Gardens angels"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/rockcenter","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=rockcenter","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/rockcenter.jpg"},{"id":"empirestate","name":"The eighty sixth floor","area":"EMPIRE STATE BUILDING / 34TH STREET","mood":"Golden hour, a thousand and fifty feet up","color":"#c9a54a","description":"The open air terrace that wraps the eighty sixth floor, a thousand and fifty feet over Fifth Avenue at golden hour: the steel fence curling in over the parapet, the coin binoculars, the mast climbing to the antenna behind you, and the whole island laid out below, Midtown and the Chrysler to the north, the Hudson on fire to the west, the East River and Queens to the east. The New Yorkers hang on the limestone of the enclosed observatory between its windows, and more hang a lift ride down, in the Art Deco lobby under the gold and aluminium ceiling.","signatures":"The 86th floor terrace with its limestone parapet and curved steel fence, the coin operated binoculars, the enclosed observatory, the mooring mast with its aluminium fins, the 102nd floor drum and the antenna, the Chrysler Building, One Vanderbilt and Grand Central below it, Hudson Yards, Madison Square Garden, Central Park and Billionaires' Row, One World Trade Center downtown, both rivers with their boats, and the lobby with its ceiling and the aluminium relief of the building.","daylit":false,"index":147,"place":"Empire State Building, 86th floor observatory","fact":"The Empire State Building was designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon. Construction started on March 17, 1930, the frame was finished on April 11, 1931, twelve days ahead of schedule and 410 days after work began, and the building opened on May 1, 1931. The plans put an observation deck on the 86th floor roof at 1,050 feet, higher than the Chrysler Building's 71st floor deck; the 158 foot steel mast above the 86th floor was meant to moor airships until the winds made that impossible. The 86th floor observatory has an enclosed gallery and an open air terrace, and at the west end of the Fifth Avenue lobby is an aluminum relief of the building as first built, with rays from the spire and the sun behind it.","year":"1931","learn":"The deck at 1,050 feet was planned to beat the Chrysler, and the mast above it was built for airships.","source":{"name":"Empire State Building, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building"},"keywords":["Empire State Building","86th floor observatory","observation deck","350 Fifth Avenue","mooring mast","Art Deco lobby","Empire State Building Run-Up"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/empirestate","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=empirestate","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/empirestate.jpg"},{"id":"stpatricks","name":"The nave on Fifth","area":"ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL / FIFTH AVENUE","mood":"Late morning, candles and colour","color":"#b8864a","description":"The Gothic Revival nave on Fifth Avenue at eleven in the morning: thirty two white columns, rib vaults a hundred feet up, sun coming through the south clerestory in coloured shafts, the bronze baldachin over the high altar, the rose window and the great organ over the open doors, and a few hundred candles going in the transepts. The New Yorkers hang along the side aisles where the Stations of the Cross would be, under the windows, and at the ends of the transepts.","signatures":"The nave by James Renwick Jr. with its clustered marble columns and pointed arcades, the triforium and clerestory, the rib vaults with their bosses, the stained glass lancets, the 26 foot rose window by Charles Connick over the Gallery Organ, the bronze baldachin on four piers over the grey white marble high altar, the altar rail, the pews, the hanging lanterns, racks of votive candles, and the bronze doors open to Fifth Avenue with Atlas and Rockefeller Center across the street.","daylit":false,"index":148,"place":"St. Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue","fact":"St. Patrick's Cathedral was designed by James Renwick Jr. in the Gothic Revival style. The cornerstone was laid on August 15, 1858, work stopped during the Civil War, and the cathedral was dedicated on May 25, 1879; the spires, 329.5 feet tall, were finished in 1888. It is 332 feet long and 174 feet wide at the transepts. Thirty two white marble columns, five feet across, divide the aisles and rise 35 feet to the arches. The rose window over the Fifth Avenue doors is 26 feet across and was designed by Charles Connick; below it is the Gallery Organ, dedicated in 1930, one of two organs by George Kilgen & Son with more than 9,000 pipes between them. The grey white marble high altar under a bronze baldachin was designed by Charles Maginnis after 1941. It became a National Historic Landmark on December 8, 1976.","year":"1879","learn":"Renwick's cathedral took twenty one years to open, and its rose window is 26 feet across.","source":{"name":"St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan), Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick%27s_Cathedral_(Manhattan)"},"keywords":["St. Patrick's Cathedral","Fifth Avenue","James Renwick Jr.","Gothic Revival","rose window","Gallery Organ","baldachin"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/stpatricks","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=stpatricks","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/stpatricks.jpg"},{"id":"dumbo","name":"Washington Street","area":"DUMBO / WASHINGTON STREET","mood":"Everybody stops for the same picture","color":"#b0533a","description":"The corner of Washington and Water in DUMBO, where the old warehouse street runs down to the East River and the Manhattan Bridge tower stands at the end of it with the Empire State Building caught between its legs. Trains rumble across overhead, Jane's Carousel turns in its glass box at the water, and somebody is always in the middle of the cobbles taking the picture. The New Yorkers hang on the brick under the old loading dock canopies, where a gallery in this neighbourhood would hang them.","signatures":"The Belgian block cobbles with the old Jay Street rails, red brick warehouse lofts with arched windows and steel canopies on both sides, the blue steel Manhattan Bridge tower and its trussed deck, B D N and Q trains crossing, the Empire State Building framed in the gap, Jane's Carousel in its Jean Nouvel pavilion, Brooklyn Bridge Park, the East River, the Brooklyn Bridge to the west and the photographers in the street.","daylit":true,"index":149,"place":"DUMBO, Washington Street and the Manhattan Bridge","fact":"The acronym DUMBO, Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, arose in 1978, coined by new residents who believed such an unattractive name would help deter developers. The view of the Manhattan Bridge looking north from the corner of Washington Street and Water Street has become an iconic image. The cardboard box was invented in the Robert Gair building on Washington Street, and the area was long known as Gairsville. The Jay Street Connecting Railroad ran here from around 1904 until 1957. The DUMBO Historic District was listed on the National Register on September 22, 2000, and designated the city's 90th historic district on December 18, 2007. The Manhattan Bridge, designed by Leon Moisseiff, opened on December 31, 1909, with a main span of 1,480 feet, and carries the B, D, N and Q trains. Jane's Carousel, built in 1922 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company for Idora Park in Youngstown, Ohio, was bought by Jane and David Walentas in 1984 and opened in Brooklyn Bridge Park on September 16, 2011, in a pavilion by Jean Nouvel.","year":"1978","learn":"The name was chosen to be ugly on purpose, and the street it named became the most photographed corner in Brooklyn.","source":{"name":"DUMBO, Brooklyn, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbo,_Brooklyn"},"keywords":["DUMBO","Washington Street","Manhattan Bridge","Jane's Carousel","Brooklyn Bridge Park","Robert Gair","Jay Street Connecting Railroad","Belgian block"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/dumbo","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=dumbo","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/dumbo.jpg"},{"id":"bowbridge","name":"The bridge over the Lake","area":"BOW BRIDGE / CENTRAL PARK","mood":"October, oars in the water","color":"#6f9a5a","description":"Bow Bridge on an October afternoon, seen from the east arm of the Lake the way everyone photographs it: the cast iron span in cream, its eight urns, the willows on the banks and the Ramble going gold behind, rowboats from the Loeb Boathouse sliding under the arch, and the twin towers of the San Remo standing over the trees on Central Park West. The New Yorkers hang on painters' easels along the banks and under the boathouse canopy, facing the paths.","signatures":"Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould's 1862 cast iron bridge with its shallow arch, interlocking circle railing and eight planting urns, the Lake and its schist shore, rowboats with rowers, mallards, weeping willows and autumn trees, the Ramble to the north and Cherry Hill to the south, the Loeb Boathouse and its dock, and the San Remo, the Dakota and the Central Park West skyline over the trees.","daylit":true,"index":150,"place":"Bow Bridge and the Lake, Central Park","fact":"Bow Bridge was designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould and completed in 1862; the ironwork was made by Janes, Kirtland and Company, the Bronx foundry that also built the dome of the United States Capitol. It is cast iron, 87 feet long with a single 60 foot span, with an interlocking circle banister and eight planting urns, and it is the only one of the park's seven ornamental iron bridges that does not cross a bridle path. It was restored in 1974. The Lake covers 20 acres and was the first feature of the park completed, opening as a skating ground in December 1857. The Loeb Boathouse on its eastern shore was completed in 1954 with money from Carl M. Loeb and rents rowboats. Over the trees stands the San Remo, by Emery Roth, completed in 1930 at 27 stories and 400 feet, its twin towers topped by temples patterned after the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates.","year":"1862","learn":"The first thing finished in Central Park was the water, and the iron bridge over it was cast by the foundry that made the Capitol dome.","source":{"name":"Bow Bridge (Central Park), Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_Bridge_(Central_Park)"},"keywords":["Bow Bridge","Central Park","The Lake","Loeb Boathouse","rowboats","The Ramble","San Remo","Calvert Vaux"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bowbridge","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=bowbridge","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/bowbridge.jpg"},{"id":"unassembly","name":"The gold wall","area":"UNITED NATIONS / GENERAL ASSEMBLY HALL","mood":"The General Debate, a speaker at the rostrum","color":"#d4a93a","description":"The largest room at the United Nations, on the East River at Turtle Bay: eighteen hundred seats in curving tiers, every member state with six of them, facing the green rostrum and the gold wall with the emblem of the world seen from above the North Pole. Two murals by Fernand Leger face each other across the hall, which this room answers in its own flat colours, and the interpreters work behind glass on both sides. The New Yorkers hang on the wood panels of the side aisles and the back wall, where the delegations walk in.","signatures":"The gold leaf wall and the UN emblem, the green serpentinite rostrum with the speaker's lectern below the President's desk, the shallow sky blue dome and its ring of lights, the curved tiers of delegate desks with beige and blue chairs, the interpreters' booths in two rows, the two voting boards, and the two Leger murals, orange and grey on the left, blue and yellow on the right.","daylit":false,"index":151,"place":"United Nations General Assembly Hall","fact":"The General Assembly Building was designed by the United Nations Headquarters Board of Design, which included Wallace Harrison, Oscar Niemeyer and Le Corbusier, and was dedicated on October 10, 1952. The hall is 165 feet long, 115 feet wide and 75 feet tall under a shallow dome, and seats 1,800. Behind the rostrum the UN emblem sits on a gold background; each delegation has six seats, and two murals by Fernand Leger, each 30 feet high, face each other across the hall.","year":"1952","learn":"Every nation gets six seats, and the front row is drawn by lot every year.","source":{"name":"United Nations General Assembly Building, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Building"},"keywords":["United Nations General Assembly Hall","UN General Assembly","Turtle Bay","UN emblem gold wall","Fernand Leger murals","First Avenue"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/unassembly","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=unassembly","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/unassembly.jpg"},{"id":"weitsmanyard","name":"The yard in Owego","area":"UPSTATE SHREDDING / OWEGO, NEW YORK","mood":"Summer noon, the shredder running","color":"#f0b41c","description":"Seventeen acres of sandy yard in the Tioga County Industrial Park, in a valley of wooded ridges three hours up from the city: the place a great deal of New York's scrap steel comes to be shredded and sent back out. A gift room for Adam Weitsman, who opened the yard in 1997 and collects MLow. The New Yorkers hang where a yard can carry them: on steel plates bolted to the canopy columns, on plate stood on end in the yard, on the scale house and on the flanks of the parked trailers.","signatures":"The long blue canopy and its banner, the mountain of crushed cars under it, yellow material handlers with orange peel grapples, the infeed conveyor climbing to the Mega Shredder and its steam, blue radial stackers pouring frag into dark cones, the Ferrous Downstream System, green Macks with tipping trailers, a hydraulic tipper, the scale house, rail gondolas, and the ridges of the Southern Tier all round.","daylit":true,"index":152,"place":"Upstate Shredding, Weitsman Recycling, Owego, New York","fact":"Adam Weitsman opened Upstate Shredding in 1997 on a 17 acre site in the Tioga County Industrial Park in Owego, New York. The company calls itself the East Coast's largest privately held scrap metal processor, runs a 10,000 HP Riverside Engineering Mega Shredder in Owego, and processes 1 million tons of ferrous and 250 million pounds of nonferrous scrap metal a year. It was named the 2016 Platts Global Scrap Company of the Year.","year":"1997","learn":"Seventeen acres in the Southern Tier where a million tons of steel a year goes back into the world.","source":{"name":"Upstate Shredding, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstate_Shredding"},"keywords":["Upstate Shredding","Weitsman Recycling","Owego scrap yard","Tioga County Industrial Park","Mega Shredder","Adam Weitsman"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/weitsmanyard","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=weitsmanyard","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/weitsmanyard.jpg"},{"id":"palmcourt","name":"An afternoon at the Plaza","area":"THE PLAZA / THE PALM COURT","mood":"Tea under the glass","color":"#c8b98a","description":"The Palm Court in the middle of the Plaza, where afternoon tea has been poured under a ceiling of stained glass since 1907. The palms stand in their planters along the trellis, the waiters work the aisle between the white cloths, the piano plays, and through the Fifth Avenue doors the Pulitzer Fountain splashes in Grand Army Plaza. The New Yorkers hang in the gilded bays between the pilasters, under the mirrors, where the room has always hung its finery.","signatures":"The stained glass laylight with its amber medallion and green garlands, tall palms in planters, cream trellis panels and arched mirrors, the four caryatids on the west wall, Caen stone pilasters over purple Breche Violette marble, the mosaic floor, tea tables with white cloths and cane chairs, waiters in black, a grand piano, and the Pulitzer Fountain and Fifth Avenue through the doors.","daylit":true,"index":153,"place":"The Palm Court at the Plaza","fact":"The Plaza opened on October 1, 1907, with 800 rooms, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh; its main entrance faces the Pulitzer Fountain in the southern part of Grand Army Plaza. The Palm Court's stained glass ceiling was removed in a renovation in the 1940s and restored in the mid 2000s, and four caryatids representing the seasons frame its wall mirrors, over walls of Caen stone and Breche Violette marble and mosaic floors. The exterior became a city landmark on December 9, 1969, and the interior on July 12, 2005.","year":"1907","learn":"The Plaza's stained glass ceiling was taken out in the 1940s and put back in the 2000s.","source":{"name":"The Plaza Hotel, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plaza_Hotel"},"keywords":["Palm Court","The Plaza","Plaza Hotel","afternoon tea at the Plaza","Palm Court stained glass","Grand Army Plaza","Pulitzer Fountain"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/palmcourt","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=palmcourt","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/palmcourt.jpg"},{"id":"chelseamarket","name":"The biscuit factory","area":"CHELSEA MARKET / NINTH AVENUE","mood":"Brick, pipes and lunch","color":"#9a4a32","description":"The long concourse of Chelsea Market, cut through the back lots of the old National Biscuit Company bakery where the Oreo was first made in 1912. Water pours from an old pipe into a basin by the Ninth Avenue door, the ducts and pipes run overhead under the iron beams, the stalls are busy and the clock keeps New York time, and at the far end the High Line crosses Tenth Avenue with people walking on it. The New Yorkers hang on the brick piers between the shopfronts.","signatures":"The long brick concourse from Ninth Avenue to Tenth, riveted iron beams and a timber deck overhead, exposed pipes and a galvanized duct, the waterfall pouring from an old iron pipe into its basin, pendant factory lamps, shopfronts with steel lintels and painted signs, the hanging double faced clock, the lunch crowd, and the High Line and Tenth Avenue through the far doors.","daylit":true,"index":154,"place":"Chelsea Market","fact":"Chelsea Market fills the block bounded by Ninth and Tenth Avenues and 15th and 16th Streets, the former National Biscuit Company factory, formed by a merger of bakeries in 1898, where the Oreo was first developed and produced early in 1912. Irwin Cohen redeveloped it in the 1990s with the architect Jeff Vandeberg, joining the old back lots into a ground floor concourse with entrances on Ninth and Tenth Avenues, finished in April 1997. The High Line passes through the Tenth Avenue side of the building, and in 2018 Alphabet bought the complex for more than 2.4 billion dollars.","year":"1898","learn":"The Oreo was first made in the building that is now Chelsea Market, in 1912.","source":{"name":"Chelsea Market, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Market"},"keywords":["Chelsea Market","Nabisco factory","National Biscuit Company","Oreo Way","Chelsea Market waterfall","High Line Chelsea Market","Ninth Avenue"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/chelseamarket","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=chelseamarket","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/chelseamarket.jpg"},{"id":"brooklyncentral","name":"The golden book","area":"BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY / GRAND ARMY PLAZA","mood":"Afternoon on the library steps","color":"#c9a24a","description":"The Central Library of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza, the limestone building shaped like an open book, seen from the forecourt with its tall bronze entrance screen and its fifteen gilded panels shining in the middle of the curve. People sit on the steps, pigeons work the forecourt, traffic runs round the plaza behind you toward the Arch and the Bailey Fountain. The New Yorkers hang on the granite base of the curved front along the terrace, and inside, on the blond oak of the lobby.","signatures":"The concave Indiana limestone front following the oval of the plaza, the gray granite base, the two tall pylons with their gilded reliefs, the bronze screen with fifteen gilded panels over the doors, BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY cut above the entrance, the terrace with its three stairways, lamps and planting beds, the long wings with tall slot windows running down Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway, the lobby in terrazzo and blond oak, and across the plaza the Bailey Fountain and the Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch.","daylit":true,"index":155,"place":"Central Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Grand Army Plaza","fact":"Raymond F. Almirall designed a Beaux-Arts library for the site in 1911; only the Flatbush Avenue wing was built before the design was scrapped, and Alfred Morton Githens and Francis Keally redesigned it in Art Deco in 1935. The building, shaped like an open book seen from the air, opened on February 1, 1941. Its 40 foot bronze entrance screen has fifteen gilded panels of literary characters by Thomas Hudson Jones and C. Paul Jennewein, framed by 50 foot columns with gilded bas-reliefs by Jennewein, set in a concave facade that follows the oval of Grand Army Plaza and faces the Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch. About 350,000 square feet on four storeys, over 1.7 million items. City landmark June 17, 1997; National Register January 11, 2002.","year":"1941","learn":"The library at Grand Army Plaza is shaped like an open book, and its gold door is a page of fifteen characters from books.","source":{"name":"Central Library (Brooklyn Public Library), Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Library_(Brooklyn_Public_Library)"},"keywords":["Brooklyn Public Library","Central Library","Grand Army Plaza","open book building","gilded entrance screen","Githens and Keally","Jennewein","Thomas Hudson Jones"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/brooklyncentral","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=brooklyncentral","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/brooklyncentral.jpg"},{"id":"templeemanuel","name":"Temple Emanu-El","area":"TEMPLE EMANU-EL / FIFTH AVENUE AT 65TH STREET","mood":"Late afternoon, a gold arch and one red light","color":"#b89a5a","description":"Just inside the bronze doors on Fifth Avenue, under the gallery, with the sanctuary opening ahead: one of the largest synagogue halls in the world, a painted coffered ceiling a hundred feet up, tall windows down both walls and, at the far end, the great arch in gold mosaic round the ark with the eternal light burning in front of it. The New Yorkers hang in the vestibule and in the museum galleries off it, never in the hall; Central Park is across the avenue behind you.","signatures":"The limestone front on Fifth Avenue with its great recessed arch and arched window over three bronze doors, the vestibule under the gallery, the sanctuary with its coffered ceiling and stained glass, the mosaic arch round the ark, the eternal light, the bimah and the organ pipes, the domed Beth-El Chapel with its Tiffany windows, the Bernard Museum of Judaica, and yellow cabs going down Fifth beside the Central Park wall.","daylit":false,"index":156,"place":"Temple Emanu-El, Fifth Avenue at 65th Street","fact":"Temple Emanu-El at 1 East 65th Street, on the northeast corner with Fifth Avenue, was built from 1928 to 1929 and consecrated in 1930 for the Reform congregation that began on April 6, 1845. It was designed by Robert D. Kohn, working with Charles Butler and Clarence S. Stein, on the former site of the Mrs. William B. Astor House, and replaced the congregation's 1868 Moorish Revival synagogue at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenue, demolished in 1927. Its load bearing masonry walls carry the steel beams of the roof; the hall seats 2,500, more than St. Patrick's Cathedral, making it one of the largest synagogues in the world. The mosaics are by Hildreth Meière, and the building's museum holds more than 650 pieces from the 14th century to the present.","year":"1930","learn":"One of the largest synagogues in the world seats 2,500 on Fifth Avenue, opposite Central Park.","source":{"name":"Temple Emanu-El of New York (1930), Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Emanu-El_of_New_York_(1930)"},"keywords":["Temple Emanu-El","Congregation Emanu-El of New York","1 East 65th Street","Fifth Avenue synagogue","Bernard Museum of Judaica","Hildreth Meière mosaics","Robert D. 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Through the doors are the lobby and the school corridor, where more of them hang, and the sanctuary with its galleries on columns, forty stained glass windows and the eternal light over the ark.","signatures":"The limestone front with its round arched windows, pilasters and balustraded roofline, the three doors, the brownstone stoops and street trees of East 85th, the Ramaz lower school next door and its corridor, the lobby, the sanctuary with the U shaped gallery on columns, two tiers of stained glass, a central bimah with a brass rail, the ark under a round window, and the eternal light.","daylit":true,"index":157,"place":"Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, East 85th Street","fact":"Kehilath Jeshurun, a Modern Orthodox synagogue at 126 East 85th Street, was founded in 1872 as Anshe Jeshurun and built its neoclassical, Romanesque limestone building in 1902. A fire in July 2011, during minor renovations, destroyed nearly half of the sanctuary's forty stained glass windows, which were recreated using historical and forensic analysis; the $21 million rebuild added a two storey, 8,000 square foot education and fitness wing, a central entry shared with the school and an expanded lobby. The Ramaz School, founded in 1937 with the congregation's backing and named from the initials of Rabbi Moses Zevulun Margolies, shares the block.","year":"1902","learn":"A 1902 limestone synagogue on a rowhouse street, sharing a front door with the school it founded.","source":{"name":"Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_Kehilath_Jeshurun"},"keywords":["Kehilath Jeshurun","KJ","CKJ","East 85th Street synagogue","Ramaz School","Anshe Jeshurun","2011 fire"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/kehilathjeshurun","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=kehilathjeshurun","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/kehilathjeshurun.jpg"},{"id":"jewishcenter","name":"The Jewish Center","area":"THE JEWISH CENTER / WEST 86TH STREET","mood":"Shul, school and swimming pool in one tall house","color":"#8a7a5c","description":"Inside the doors of the tall Neo-Classical house on West 86th Street that members call the first shul with a pool: New Yorkers on the lobby walls, a grand stair rising straight ahead to the sanctuary, whose eternal light you can see from the door, and a stair on the right going down to the pool, where the lanes are never empty. The social hall opens on the left.","signatures":"The tall front on West 86th Street with its limestone base, columns and three arched windows under brick storeys, the lobby, the grand stair to the sanctuary foyer, the sanctuary with its women's gallery, coffered ceiling and laylight, the ark and the eternal light, the social hall with its stage, and the swimming pool downstairs with swimmers in the lanes.","daylit":true,"index":158,"place":"The Jewish Center, West 86th Street","fact":"The Jewish Center, a Modern Orthodox synagogue at 131 West 86th Street on the Upper West Side, was founded in 1918 by Jews moving into a neighbourhood then just being built along the new IRT subway line. Its first rabbi was Mordecai Kaplan. The tall Neo-Classical building holds social halls, classrooms, auditoriums and offices besides the main sanctuary, and it was the first synagogue in America built as a cultural, social and recreational home as well as a spiritual one: its members call it the first shul with a pool.","year":"1918","learn":"The first shul with a pool: synagogue, school and community house in one tall building on West 86th.","source":{"name":"Jewish Center (Manhattan), Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Center_(Manhattan)"},"keywords":["The Jewish Center","131 West 86th Street","shul with a pool","Upper West Side synagogue","Mordecai Kaplan","synagogue center"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/jewishcenter","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=jewishcenter","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/jewishcenter.jpg"},{"id":"chabad770","name":"Seven seventy","area":"770 EASTERN PARKWAY / CROWN HEIGHTS","mood":"Afternoon on the Parkway, the hall below full","color":"#9a4a3a","description":"The red brick house on Eastern Parkway with its three gables, built in 1920 as a doctor's office and bought by Chabad Lubavitch in 1940, now copied in dozens of cities round the world. Across the service road the Parkway malls run under the plane trees with their benches, and down the stair the great study hall is full: students learning in pairs at long tables, the tiered stands along the wall, the lamp lit before the ark. The New Yorkers stand on boards along the sidewalk and hang in the entrance hall and on the stair, never in the hall itself.","signatures":"The three storey Gothic Revival front of 1920 by Edwin Kline in red brick with stone trim and three gables, the stoop and the pointed arch door, the low building next door over the synagogue, Eastern Parkway by Olmsted and Vaux with its service road, malls, benches and plane trees, the stair down to the study hall with its long tables and benches, the tiered stands, the bimah, the ark and the eternal light, and the shelves of books.","daylit":true,"index":159,"place":"770 Eastern Parkway","fact":"770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights was built in 1920 to a design by Edwin Kline in the Collegiate Gothic Revival style and was first a medical office. In 1940 Agudas Chasidei Chabad bought it for the Chabad Lubavitch movement as a home for Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn on his arrival in the United States, and through the 1940s it became the movement's centre: synagogue, yeshiva and offices. The main synagogue is underground, mostly beneath 784 and 788 Eastern Parkway; the first annex was added in 1960, with expansions in the late 1960s and mid 1970s. It serves as a place of daily prayer, a study hall and the hall for farbrengens, and the yeshiva has approximately 1,000 students. Over 55 buildings round the world copy it, mainly its three gables; the first was built in Kfar Chabad, Israel, in 1986.","year":"1920","learn":"A doctor's office of 1920 on the world's first parkway became the most copied house front in Jewish life.","source":{"name":"770 Eastern Parkway, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/770_Eastern_Parkway"},"keywords":["770 Eastern Parkway","770","Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters","Crown Heights","Eastern Parkway","Olmsted and Vaux"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/chabad770","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=chabad770","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/chabad770.jpg"},{"id":"ohel","name":"The Ohel","area":"THE OHEL / CAMBRIA HEIGHTS","mood":"A quiet afternoon, candles lit","color":"#6f6a5e","description":"The resting place of the sixth and seventh Lubavitcher Rebbes in Montefiore Cemetery, Queens, reached through a house on Francis Lewis Boulevard that has been a visitors center, open day and night, since 1995. Visitors write their notes at the tables, walk the covered path between the headstones, light candles on the shelves of the antechamber and stand at the stone enclosure open to the sky. The New Yorkers hang only in the house and along the covered walk; the enclosure is left as it is.","signatures":"The visitors center in a two storey house on Francis Lewis Boulevard with its library and writing tables, the glass doors at the back, the covered walk through Montefiore Cemetery, rows of granite headstones behind an iron fence, the antechamber with its shelves of candles, the stone enclosure with its open roof, and traffic on the boulevard.","daylit":true,"index":160,"place":"The Ohel, Montefiore Cemetery","fact":"The Ohel stands in Montefiore Cemetery in Cambria Heights, Queens, at 226-20 Francis Lewis Boulevard near 121st Avenue. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn was buried in the cemetery in 1950 and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson beside him in 1994. The graves are enclosed by four walls with an open roof, avoiding the problem of tumas meis for kohanim, and a low wall keeps them at least 320 millimetres away; visitors light candles on shelves in the antechamber. In 1995 Lubavitcher Hasidim bought a house on Francis Lewis Boulevard and made it a visitors center open twenty four hours a day. Notes, kvitlach, arrive by hand, by fax (more than 700 a day) and by e-mail (about 400 a day); they are printed, torn and placed on the graves. About 50,000 people come on Gimmel Tammuz. Montefiore Cemetery was founded in 1908 as the Springfield L. I. Cemetery Society and holds more than 150,000 burials.","year":"1995","learn":"A house on a Queens boulevard opens day and night onto a covered walk to a stone enclosure with no roof.","source":{"name":"Ohel (Chabad), Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohel_(Chabad)"},"keywords":["The Ohel","Ohel Chabad","Montefiore Cemetery","Cambria Heights","Francis Lewis Boulevard","kvitlach"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/ohel","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=ohel","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/ohel.jpg"},{"id":"safra","name":"Jerusalem stone on 63rd","area":"SAFRA SYNAGOGUE / EAST 63RD STREET","mood":"Friday afternoon, stone, wood and light","color":"#c9b89a","description":"The Edmond J. Safra Synagogue, a Beaux-Arts house of Jerusalem stone on a townhouse block off Fifth Avenue, home since 2003 to a Sephardic congregation. You stand in the stone lobby with the bronze doors open onto the round sanctuary: twelve stone piers, a ribbed wooden dome lit round its rim and open to the sky at its crown, the reader's platform in the middle and the bronze ark in its niche with the lamp burning before it. The New Yorkers hang in the lobby, the Heritage Library downstairs, the social hall and the roof garden, never in the sanctuary.","signatures":"The Jerusalem stone front with its arched bronze doors and tall arched window, the stone lobby, the round sanctuary on a ring of twelve piers, the ribbed wooden dome with its lit cove and oculus, the gallery between the piers, the round reader's platform with the curved benches round it, the cylindrical bronze ark in its stone niche with blank tablets, the lamp on its long chain, the wood panelled Heritage Library, the social hall, the roof garden over the dome, and the brownstones of East 63rd Street.","daylit":true,"index":161,"place":"Edmond J. Safra Synagogue, 11 East 63rd Street","fact":"The Edmond J. Safra Synagogue at 11 East 63rd Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues, is the home of Congregation Beit Yaakov, an Orthodox congregation of the Sephardi rite. It was designed by the architect Thierry Despont as a work of Beaux-Arts revival, with its facade and its interior both in Jerusalem stone, and bronze doors with a Tree of Life motif by the sculptor Mark Beard. The building was completed in December 2002 and officially inaugurated in October 2003. It stands in the Upper East Side Historic District, so its design needed the approval of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.","year":"2003","learn":"A new Beaux-Arts synagogue of Jerusalem stone, finished in 2002 on a townhouse block off Fifth.","source":{"name":"Edmond J. Safra Synagogue (Manhattan), Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_J._Safra_Synagogue_(Manhattan)"},"keywords":["Safra Synagogue","Edmond J. 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The New Yorkers hang on boards on the pavement, in the lobby and down the corridor to the parsonage house.","signatures":"The Neoclassical front with four Corinthian columns, entablature and pediment on a flight of steps, Central Park West with its traffic and the park wall and trees opposite, the lobby, the sanctuary with the reader's desk and its four brass candlesticks facing the ark, the benches along the walls facing each other, the galleries on marble columns, the Tiffany windows, the brass candle chandeliers, the eternal light, and the Small Synagogue in the Georgian style.","daylit":true,"index":162,"place":"Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Central Park West at 70th Street","fact":"Congregation Shearith Israel was established in 1654 in New Amsterdam by Jews who arrived from Dutch Brazil, and is the oldest Jewish congregation in the United States; it was the only Jewish congregation in New York City until 1825. It has worshipped in five buildings: on Mill Street in 1730 and again in 1818, at 60 Crosby Street in 1834, on 19th Street in 1860, and on West 70th Street at Central Park West since 1897. The present Neoclassical building was designed by Arnold Brunner, with interior design and stained glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany, and it was extensively refurbished in 1921.","year":"1654","learn":"The oldest Jewish congregation in the country, since 1654, in its fifth home on Central Park West since 1897.","source":{"name":"Congregation Shearith Israel, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_Shearith_Israel"},"keywords":["Shearith Israel","Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue","Central Park West","Arnold Brunner","Tiffany","Mill Street Synagogue","1654"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/shearith","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=shearith","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/shearith.jpg"},{"id":"parkeast","name":"Two towers on 67th","area":"PARK EAST SYNAGOGUE / EAST 67TH STREET","mood":"Afternoon, school letting out","color":"#a0603a","description":"Park East Synagogue, built in 1890 by Schneider and Herter: a Moorish Revival front of red brick and pale stone on East 67th Street, two unequal towers, striped arches over the doors and a rose window between them, with the Park East Day School next door letting out. Inside, galleries on slender columns run round a painted and gilded room lit through coloured glass. The New Yorkers hang on boards on the pavement, in the vestibule, and down the school corridor.","signatures":"The Moorish Revival front with its asymmetrical towers, the eastern one taller, the striped horseshoe arches over three doors, the rose window, the red brick banded with stone, the domes long gone from the tower tops; inside, the galleries on painted columns and horseshoe arches, the blue and gold ceiling, stained glass, the central reader's platform, pews facing the ark, the eternal light; the Park East Day School next door and East 67th Street.","daylit":true,"index":163,"place":"Park East Synagogue, 163 East 67th Street","fact":"Park East Synagogue at 163 East 67th Street was founded in 1890 by Rabbi Bernard Drachman and Jonas Weil to promote Orthodox Judaism as an alternative to Reform, and its building was completed the same year to designs by Schneider and Herter. The style is Moorish Revival with Byzantine and Romanesque Revival elements: asymmetrical twin towers, the eastern one taller, each once topped by a bulbous dome since removed, and a prominent rose window. It was designated a New York City landmark on January 8, 1980 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 18, 1983. In 2008 Pope Benedict XVI visited the synagogue, the only papal visit to a synagogue in the United States.","year":"1890","learn":"An 1890 Moorish Revival front with two unequal towers, a landmark since 1980.","source":{"name":"Park East Synagogue, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_East_Synagogue"},"keywords":["Park East Synagogue","163 East 67th Street","Schneider and Herter","Moorish Revival","Park East Day School"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/parkeast","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=parkeast","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/parkeast.jpg"},{"id":"gramercy","name":"The locked park","area":"GRAMERCY PARK","mood":"Behind the railings, a key away","color":"#3f5a3a","description":"The last private park in Manhattan, two acres of gravel paths, planting and old trees behind a locked iron fence, with Edwin Booth on his pedestal in the middle. The New Yorkers hang on the railings facing the street, under the hotel awning and on the fronts of the clubs on Gramercy Park South. Only the houses round the square hold keys, and somewhere on this block one is waiting to be found: find it and the gate opens.","signatures":"The locked iron fence with its spear points and gates, the gravel paths and planting, Edmond T. Quinn's statue of Edwin Booth, the National Arts Club in the Tilden mansion and The Players on Gramercy Park South, the Gramercy Park Hotel and its awning, 34 and 36 Gramercy Park East, the brownstones with iron porches on the west side, and the key.","daylit":true,"index":164,"place":"Gramercy Park","fact":"Samuel B. Ruggles created Gramercy Park in 1831, about two acres, enclosed by a fence in 1833. Since December 31, 1831 it has been held in common by the owners of the 39 surrounding structures, with two keys allocated to each original lot; in 2012 there were 383 numbered and coded keys, the Medeco locks are changed annually, and the Gramercy Park Hotel holds 12 keys. Edmond T. Quinn's statue of Edwin Booth was dedicated on November 13, 1918. The National Arts Club is at No. 15 Gramercy Park South in the Tilden mansion remodelled by Calvert Vaux, The Players at No. 16. The historic district was designated on September 20, 1966, and the park opens to the public on Christmas Eve.","year":"1831","learn":"Manhattan's locked park: two keys to a lot, and the locks change every year.","source":{"name":"Gramercy Park, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramercy_Park"},"keywords":["Gramercy Park","Gramercy Park key","Samuel Ruggles","Edwin Booth statue","National Arts Club","The Players","Gramercy Park Hotel","34 Gramercy Park East"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/gramercy","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=gramercy","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/gramercy.jpg"},{"id":"cityhallloop","name":"The loop under City Hall","area":"CITY HALL STATION / THE 1904 LOOP","mood":"A 6 train turning round under 1904","color":"#7a6a52","description":"The first station of the first subway, opened in 1904 and closed to passengers at the end of 1945, still the loop every 6 train uses to turn round under City Hall Park. You stand on the curved platform under Guastavino tile vaults with chandeliers hung from their centres and leaded glass skylights letting in a little of the park above, while a train of silver cars comes slowly out of one tunnel mouth and round into the other. The New Yorkers hang on the curved platform wall, in the mezzanine up the stair and in the passage toward the park.","signatures":"The curved platform on a balloon loop, the twelve Guastavino tile vaults with their green and tan ribs, the chandeliers, the three leaded glass skylights, the tiled station name tablets and the three bronze plaques on the trackside wall, the mezzanine with its oak ticket booth under its own vault, the stair up toward City Hall Park and the iron gate at the top, a 6 train of silver cars with lit windows riding the loop, a tour group on the platform, and a rat on the track bed.","daylit":false,"index":165,"place":"City Hall station, the IRT loop under City Hall Park","fact":"The City Hall station opened on October 27, 1904 with the first subway and its final day of service was December 31, 1945: the platform could not be lengthened for ten car trains and the Brooklyn Bridge station was a short walk away; in its last year it counted 255,000 entries. It has a single balloon loop track along a concave platform 240 feet long on a curve with a radius of 147.25 feet, which left two foot gaps between the train doors and the platform. The ceiling is twelve Guastavino vaults in the Romanesque Revival style, the main consulting architects were Heins and LaFarge, three of the vaults had leaded glass skylights opening to vault lights in City Hall Park, and twelve chandeliers with floral motifs and nickel finishes hung from the centres of the vaults. Three bronze plaques designed by Gutzon Borglum face the platform from the trackside wall. Passengers who stay on the 6 as it goes round the loop to head back uptown can still see the station; the city made it a landmark in 1979, it joined the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, and by the mid 2000s the Transit Museum was again giving tours to its members.","year":"1904","learn":"The first station of the first subway, closed since 1945, still the loop every 6 train rides to turn round.","source":{"name":"City Hall station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line), Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Hall_station_(IRT_Lexington_Avenue_Line)"},"keywords":["City Hall station","City Hall loop","IRT 1904","Guastavino","Heins and LaFarge","6 train loop","Gutzon Borglum plaques","Transit Museum tour"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/cityhallloop","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=cityhallloop","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/cityhallloop.jpg"},{"id":"goldvault","name":"Eighty feet under Liberty Street","area":"FEDERAL RESERVE GOLD VAULT / LIBERTY STREET","mood":"Bedrock, steel, and a door that turns","color":"#c9a648","description":"The Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Liberty Street, a Florentine palazzo of rusticated limestone and sandstone with wrought iron lanterns at its door, and the strangest basement in the city eighty feet below it, resting on the bedrock of Manhattan. You come in off the street through the banking hall, take the elevator down, and walk the corridor to a steel cylinder that turns to open the way into the cages of stacked bars. The New Yorkers hang in the hall, in the corridor and in the scale room, never on the cages.","signatures":"The rusticated stone front with its round arched windows and iron grilles, Yellin's iron lanterns at the entrance, the banking hall with its stone piers and iron screen, the elevator that takes you down when you stand in it, the concrete corridor, the ninety ton steel cylinder turning in its frame, the scale room with its great balance, the cages of gold bars behind bars and mesh, the hand cart rolled through by two figures, and Liberty Street traffic with a steam stack outside.","daylit":false,"index":166,"place":"Federal Reserve Bank of New York and its gold vault, 33 Liberty Street","fact":"York and Sawyer designed the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building, erected from 1919 to 1924 with an eastward extension in 1935: a front of limestone and sandstone over a steel frame in the manner of early Italian Renaissance palaces such as the Palazzo Strozzi and Palazzo Vecchio, fourteen storeys above ground and five basement levels, filling the block between Liberty, William and Nassau Streets and Maiden Lane, with ironwork by Samuel Yellin of Philadelphia weighing a collective 200 short tons; it joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The bank's own page on the vault says it rests on the bedrock of Manhattan 80 feet below street level and 50 feet below sea level, was built during the construction of the building in the early 1920s, and is entered through a 90 ton steel cylinder set in a 140 ton steel and concrete frame; bars go into one of 122 compartments, each weighs approximately 27 pounds, the scale weighs up to 640 pounds and down to one hundredth of an ounce, holdings peaked in 1973 at over 12,000 tons, and in 2024 the vault housed approximately 507,000 bars, about 6,331 metric tons.","year":"1924","learn":"A Florentine palazzo on Liberty Street with a vault on bedrock eighty feet down, entered through a steel cylinder that turns.","source":{"name":"The Gold Vault, Federal Reserve Bank of New York","url":"https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/goldvault.html"},"keywords":["Federal Reserve Bank of New York","gold vault","33 Liberty Street","York and Sawyer","Samuel Yellin","90 ton cylinder","122 compartments","bedrock"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/goldvault","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=goldvault","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/goldvault.jpg"},{"id":"unionsquare","name":"The Greenmarket and the Metronome","area":"UNION SQUARE / 14TH STREET","mood":"Market day, the whole city passing through","color":"#6a8a4a","description":"Union Square Park on a market day: white canopy stalls on the north and west plazas, the lawn behind its iron fence under the London planes, the 1932 pavilion at the north end, the equestrian Washington of 1856 at the south end, skaters on the south steps and the subway kiosks beside them. Across 14th Street the Metronome counts the real New York time on fifteen digits, the seconds since midnight on the left and the seconds to midnight on the right. The New Yorkers hang on the stalls, the fence, the pavilion and the boards by the steps.","signatures":"The fifteen orange digits keeping New York time over the brick wall and its hole, the plain bronze horseman on his granite pedestal, the wide south steps with skaters, the glass subway kiosks, the rows of white market canopies with produce and flowers, the fenced lawn, the columned pavilion, the four pyramid topped towers on the south east corner, and 14th Street traffic.","daylit":true,"index":167,"place":"Union Square Park, the Greenmarket and the Metronome","fact":"The park at Union Square was completed and opened in July 1839, named for the union of the two principal thoroughfares of the island that met there. Henry Kirke Brown's equestrian George Washington at the south end was unveiled in 1856, his Lincoln was completed in 1870, Bartholdi's Lafayette was dedicated in 1876 and the Gandhi statue was added in 1986. On September 5, 1882 the first Labor Day celebration paraded through the square. The 14th Street Union Square subway station opened in 1904. The contract for the bandstand at the north end was awarded in August 1931 and civic groups began landscaping the park for free in June 1932. The Union Square Greenmarket opened in 1976 with seven farmers who sold out by noon; set up by the Council on the Environment of New York City, now GrowNYC, it runs year round on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 8 am to 6 pm, serves more than 250,000 customers a week in peak season, and the average farm is 90 miles from the market. The Metronome on One Union Square South, by Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel, was installed from February 1999 and dedicated on October 26, 1999, one of the largest private commissions of public art in the city: fifteen LED digits, the hours, minutes, seconds and tenths since midnight on the left seven, the time remaining in the day on the right seven, hundredths in the centre, with a plume of steam from the hole at noon and midnight. On September 19, 2020 it became a climate clock. The square was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 9, 1997, and after September 11, 2001 it became a primary public gathering point for mourners.","year":"1839","learn":"A market of seven farmers in 1976 became 250,000 shoppers a week, under a clock that counts the seconds to midnight.","source":{"name":"Union Square, Manhattan; Union Square Greenmarket; Metronome (public artwork), Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Square,_Manhattan"},"keywords":["Union Square","Union Square Greenmarket","Metronome","Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel","Henry Kirke Brown Washington","Labor Day 1882","14th Street Union Square station","GrowNYC","One Union Square South"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/unionsquare","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=unionsquare","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/unionsquare.jpg"},{"id":"bryantpark","name":"The lawn behind the library","area":"BRYANT PARK / 42ND STREET","mood":"Lunch hour on the lawn, a film after dark","color":"#5a8a5a","description":"Bryant Park on the block behind the New York Public Library, with the stacks under the lawn. Green folding chairs by the hundred on the gravel promenades under the London planes, the granite fountain playing on the upper terrace at the Sixth Avenue end, Le Carrousel turning on the south side, the reading room and the kiosks, ping pong, and the library's long rear elevation over its terrace. After dark the film screen at the west end lights up and the lawn fills with people sitting to watch. The New Yorkers hang on the library's arcade, the kiosk flanks and boards on the fountain terrace.","signatures":"The green folding chairs everywhere, the sunk lawn between two allées of London planes, the pink granite fountain, Le Carrousel with its fourteen animals, the library's arched rear arcade and terrace, the green kiosks, the reading room under its umbrellas, the ping pong tables, the film screen at the west end, and the sloped face of the Grace Building over 42nd Street.","daylit":true,"index":168,"place":"Bryant Park, behind the New York Public Library","fact":"Bryant Park is 9.6 acres behind the library's main branch, which opened on May 23, 1911. The square was renamed in 1884 for William Cullen Bryant; the Croton Distributing Reservoir stood on the east of the site until it was demolished by 1900, and the New York Crystal Palace held the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations there in 1853 and burned down in 1858. Robert Moses's redesign began in February 1934 and the park reopened on September 15, 1934. It closed for renovation on July 11, 1988 and soft reopened on April 21, 1992, with 84 miles of library stacks built under the lawn to hold 3.2 million books, and 2,000 movable chairs; the Bryant Park Restoration Corporation had been founded in 1980 by Dan Biederman. The Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain, by Charles A. Platt, dedicated on May 21, 1912, is the first monument in New York City to honour a woman; it was installed on the park's east side in 1913, moved to the west side in 1936, and winterised with internal heating in 2009 so it can gather icicles. Le Carrousel, installed in 2002 and designed by Marvin Sylvor, carries 14 animal casts and plays French music. The Reading Room was revived in 2003 and the winter village's ice rink opened in 2005. The W. R. Grace Building stands to the north and the American Radiator Building to the south.","year":"1884","learn":"Two thousand chairs on a lawn that is the roof of 84 miles of library stacks, beside the city's first monument to a woman.","source":{"name":"Bryant Park; Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryant_Park"},"keywords":["Bryant Park","Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain","Le Carrousel","Bryant Park chairs","library stacks under the lawn","Bryant Park Restoration Corporation","Crystal Palace 1853","Croton Distributing Reservoir","Reading Room","Grace Building"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bryantpark","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=bryantpark","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/bryantpark.jpg"},{"id":"lighthouse","name":"The Little Red Lighthouse","area":"JEFFREY'S HOOK / FORT WASHINGTON PARK","mood":"Late afternoon under the great gray bridge","color":"#b83a2a","description":"Jeffrey's Hook Light, forty feet of red cast iron on a rock in the Hudson at the foot of Fort Washington Park, with the George Washington Bridge crossing the sky above it: the near tower of bare steel lattice rising out of the frame, two decks of traffic, the cables dropping to the far tower on the Palisades side. You stand on the greenway with the river on your left, the railroad behind the trees on your right, and the lighthouse door open. The New Yorkers hang on the seawall, in the picnic shelter, on the fence panels and inside the tower up its stair.","signatures":"The red conical tower with its white lantern and black roof on the rock at the water, the door on the landward side and the spiral stair inside, the George Washington Bridge tower of open steel lattice with its two crossed braces, the upper and lower decks with their traffic, the four main cables and the suspenders, the far tower small against the Palisades, the Hudson with a tour boat, a tug and barge and a group of kayaks, the greenway and its joggers, the stone seawall and the riprap, the railroad behind the chain link fence and the trees, and the gulls.","daylit":true,"index":169,"place":"The Little Red Lighthouse, Jeffrey's Hook, Fort Washington Park","fact":"Jeffrey's Hook Light stood first as the North Hook Beacon at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, until 1917, when it became obsolete; in 1921 it was reconstructed at its present spot on Jeffrey's Hook by the United States Lighthouse Board. It is 40 ft (12 m) tall, a red tower with a white lantern, and carried a 12 inch (300 mm) lens. The 1942 children's book The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge, written by Hildegarde Swift and illustrated by Lynd Ward, made it famous; when dismantling was proposed the public outcry came largely from children who were fans of the book, and the Coast Guard, which had decommissioned the light in 1948, signed its deed over to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation on July 23, 1951. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 29, 1979, designated a New York City landmark on May 14, 1991, and relit by the city in 2002. It stands in Fort Washington Park along the Hudson River, reached by the Hudson River Greenway. The George Washington Bridge above it opened to traffic on October 25, 1931, the day after its dedication, with a main span of 3,500 feet (1,100 m), a total length of 4,760 feet (1,450 m) and towers 604 feet (184 m) tall; Othmar Ammann was chief engineer and Cass Gilbert consulting architect. The towers were to be encased in concrete and granite in a Revival style, but the stone facades were postponed in 1929 and left off for cost. It carries 14 lanes, eight on the upper level and six on the lower, which opened on August 29, 1962; four 3 foot (0.91 m) main cables carry the deck on 592 suspender cables from 38 to 674 feet long, and it is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge, with over 101 million vehicles in 2025. The flag hung from it on special occasions measures 90 feet by 60 feet and weighs 450 pounds.","year":"1921","learn":"A forty foot iron tower moved from Sandy Hook in 1921, saved by children in 1951, under the busiest bridge in the world.","source":{"name":"Jeffrey's Hook Light, Wikipedia (bridge facts from George Washington Bridge, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Bridge)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%27s_Hook_Light"},"keywords":["Little Red Lighthouse","Jeffrey's Hook Light","Fort Washington Park","George Washington Bridge","Hudson River Greenway","Hildegarde Swift","Lynd Ward","Othmar Ammann","Cass Gilbert","Washington Heights"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/lighthouse","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=lighthouse","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/lighthouse.jpg"},{"id":"fourfreedoms","name":"A room and a garden","area":"FOUR FREEDOMS PARK / ROOSEVELT ISLAND","mood":"Granite, lindens, the river on both sides","color":"#c8c4b8","description":"Louis Kahn's memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt at the southern tip of Roosevelt Island: the wide granite stair, the lawn narrowing between two allées of little leaf lindens to the Room at the point, its granite blocks open to the East River, and the bronze head in its niche as a plain form. The United Nations and Midtown stand across the water to the west, Long Island City to the east, the Queensboro Bridge to the north, and the Smallpox Hospital ruin behind you. The Room holds no art. The New Yorkers hang on the stair walls, on granite panels behind the trees, and inside the ruin as an exhibition in the shell.","signatures":"The grand granite stair between its walls, the tapering lawn with 120 lindens in four rows, the gravel walks, the low parapets with the river on both sides, the Room of granite blocks with narrow gaps open to the water at the tip, the head of Roosevelt in the niche wall, the plain band where the words are carved, the Gothic Revival ruin of the Smallpox Hospital with its pointed windows and no roof, the United Nations slab and the Midtown towers across the west channel, Long Island City to the east, the Queensboro Bridge, the ferries, a barge and the gulls.","daylit":true,"index":170,"place":"Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, Roosevelt Island","fact":"Louis Kahn was asked to design the memorial in 1972; he had the thought that a memorial should be a room and a garden, and he was carrying the finished designs with him when he died in 1974 at Pennsylvania Station in New York. The island was named for Roosevelt in 1973. William J. vanden Heuvel, a former U.N. ambassador and a founder of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, launched the effort to build the four acre (1.6 ha) park and gathered more than $50 million in private and public funds. Construction began on March 29, 2010 and was completed in September 2012; the park was dedicated on October 17, 2012, opened to the public on October 24, 2012, and was designated a New York State park at the dedication. The memorial is a procession of open air spaces, with 120 little leaf lindens in allées leading up to the monument, ending in a 3,600 square foot (330 m2) plaza surrounded by 28 blocks of North Carolina granite, each weighing 36 tons; over 140,000 cubic feet (4,000 m3) of Mount Airy granite was used. The colossal head of Roosevelt is by Jo Davidson, who went to Washington in December 1933 to sculpt the President and finished the work in one or two visits; excerpts from the Four Freedoms speech are carved on the walls. North of the park stands the Smallpox Hospital, designed by James Renwick Jr. in the Gothic Revival style, opened in 1856 when this was Blackwell's Island, closed in 1875 to become a training centre for nurses attached to City Hospital, abandoned in the 1950s, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and designated a New York City landmark four years later, the city's only landmarked ruin, lit nightly since 1995 and given a $4.5 million stabilisation.","year":"2012","learn":"Kahn's room and garden at the tip of the island: designed in 1974, opened in 2012, twenty eight blocks of granite open to the river.","source":{"name":"Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, Wikipedia (construction and dedication dates and the Davidson head from Four Freedoms Park Conservancy, https://www.fdrfourfreedomspark.org/about/park/; the ruin from Smallpox Hospital, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox_Hospital)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt_Four_Freedoms_Park"},"keywords":["Four Freedoms Park","Louis Kahn","Roosevelt Island","the Room","little leaf lindens","Jo Davidson","Smallpox Hospital","Renwick ruin","Mount Airy granite","East River"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/fourfreedoms","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=fourfreedoms","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/fourfreedoms.jpg"},{"id":"sealions","name":"The sea lion pool","area":"CENTRAL PARK ZOO / 64TH STREET","mood":"Feeding time, and the clock about to play","color":"#4a7a8a","description":"The Central Park Zoo as Kevin Roche rebuilt it in 1988: the round sea lion pool in the middle of the garden with its rock island and its glass rim, the brick pergola on its piers all round, the Arsenal of 1851 on the east side, the penguin house in its cold blue light on the west, and the Delacorte Musical Clock on the arch to the Children's Zoo. The sea lions swim their loop and haul out on the rock, a keeper comes to the rail with a bucket at the real feeding hours and a crowd gathers, and on the hour and the half hour by the New York clock the bronze animals turn round the clock while two monkeys strike the bell. The New Yorkers hang on the piers of the pergola facing the pool, on the front of the Arsenal, beside the penguins and on the entrance walls.","signatures":"The round pool with its rock island and glass rim, four sea lions on their loop and one that comes to the glass when you do, the brick pergola on its piers, the Arsenal's brick front with its half octagonal towers, the penguin house glowing blue, the Delacorte Clock on its brick and limestone arch with the bear, the elephant, the goat, the hippo, the kangaroo and the penguin turning and the two monkeys with the bell, the keeper and the crowd at feeding time, the London planes, and the Fifth Avenue towers over the trees.","daylit":true,"index":171,"place":"Central Park Zoo, the sea lion pool and the Delacorte Clock","fact":"A menagerie stood on the site from 1864, making this the second publicly owned zoo in the United States after Philadelphia's of 1859; the zoo of 1934 opened on December 2, 1934. The zoo reopened on August 8, 1988 after a rebuild by Kevin Roche of Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo Associates that cost 35 million dollars against a first budget of 8.3 million, three naturalistic habitats on 6.5 acres run by the Wildlife Conservation Society. The central sea lion pool is ringed by glass fencing; in 2016 the zoo held 1,487 animals of 163 species. The Delacorte Clock, a gift of George T. Delacorte unveiled in 1965 on the brick and limestone gateway by Fernando Texidor and Edward Coe Embury, carries Andrea Spadini's bronze animals, a bear on the tambourine, an elephant on the accordion, a goat on the horn, a hippo on the violin, a kangaroo on the French horn, a penguin on the drums and two monkeys at the bell, and plays every thirty minutes from 8 in the morning to 6. The Arsenal on the east side, by Martin E. Thompson, was built between 1847 and 1851 as a storehouse for the New York State Militia's arms and is the second oldest structure in the park after Blockhouse No. 1 of 1814. On the zoo's own schedule the sea lions are fed at 11:30 and 3:30 and the penguins at 10:40 and 2:30.","year":"1988","learn":"The city's second oldest zoo, rebuilt in 1988 round a pool of sea lions, with a clock whose bronze animals play every half hour.","source":{"name":"Central Park Zoo, Wikipedia (with Delacorte Clock and Arsenal (Central Park), Wikipedia, and centralparkzoo.com for the feeding times)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_Zoo"},"keywords":["Central Park Zoo","sea lion pool","Delacorte Clock","Delacorte Musical Clock","Arsenal Central Park","Kevin Roche zoo","penguin house","Wildlife Conservation Society","sea lion feeding"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/sealions","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=sealions","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/sealions.jpg"},{"id":"delacorte","name":"Shakespeare in the Park","area":"THE DELACORTE THEATER / CENTRAL PARK","mood":"Curtain at eight, the castle lit behind the stage","color":"#2a3a5a","description":"The Delacorte Theater on a summer night, the free Shakespeare in the Park of the Public Theater. You stand at the top of the bowl with the house full below you, five players moving between their marks on the open stage, the lights sweeping and changing colour, Turtle Pond black behind the stage with fireflies over it and Belvedere Castle lit on Vista Rock above, a moon over the trees. Before eight the house lights are up and the stage waits; from eight the house goes dark and the play is on. The New Yorkers hang on the theatre's outer wall, in the lobby and on the boards along the ticket line, never on the stage.","signatures":"The semicircular bowl of seats full to the top, the thrust stage with its wooden set and stair, the lighting towers and their beams, Turtle Pond behind the stage, Belvedere Castle on Vista Rock with its tower and conical cap floodlit, the moon, the fireflies over the water, the laugh that goes through the house, the queue rail and the boards along it, and the wooden slat wall of the rebuilt theatre.","daylit":false,"index":172,"place":"The Delacorte Theater, Shakespeare in the Park, Central Park","fact":"Joseph Papp conceived Shakespeare in the Park in 1954; in 1959 the parks commissioner Robert Moses demanded that he charge for the performances to pay for grass erosion, Papp won in court, and a theatre was then built for him in the park. The Delacorte opened in June 1962 with The Merchant of Venice; George T. Delacorte Jr., president of Dell Publishing, gave the last 150,000 dollars to finish it and it was named for him and his wife Valerie. Every ticket is free and is distributed on the day of the performance, two to a person, by the box office, borough distribution and lotteries; about 80,000 people attend each summer and over five million have attended more than 150 free productions since 1962. The theatre closed for renovation in September 2023, an 85 million dollar rebuild, and reopened on July 15, 2025. Behind the stage lie Turtle Pond, on the site of the old receiving reservoir, and Belvedere Castle, designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould in 1867 and finished in 1869 on Vista Rock, a 130 foot schist outcrop, home to Central Park's official weather station since 1919.","year":"1962","learn":"Free Shakespeare under the stars since 1962, tickets given out the day of, with a castle lit on the rock behind the stage.","source":{"name":"Delacorte Theater, Wikipedia (with Shakespeare in the Park (New York City) and Belvedere Castle, Wikipedia)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delacorte_Theater"},"keywords":["Delacorte Theater","Shakespeare in the Park","Public Theater","Joseph Papp","free tickets Central Park","Belvedere Castle","Turtle Pond","Vista Rock","Delacorte renovation 2025"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/delacorte","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=delacorte","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/delacorte.jpg"},{"id":"cherryesplanade","name":"The last week of April","area":"BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN / FLATBUSH AVENUE","mood":"Petals on everything","color":"#e8a8b8","description":"Brooklyn Botanic Garden at the top of the cherry season: the Cherry Esplanade with its double rows of Kanzan cherries in full pink bloom either side of the long lawn, the Sakura Matsuri crowd picnicking under them, and beside it the Japanese Hill and Pond Garden with its vermilion torii standing in the water, the viewing deck, the shrine on the hill and the koi that come to the rail when you do. The New Yorkers hang on screens inside the Palm House at the head of the lawn, on the back wall of the viewing deck, and on boards between the benches.","signatures":"Two rows of tall Kanzan cherries each side of the broad lawn with the shorter rows and the scarlet oaks outside them, petals falling and lying pink on the grass, the picnic crowd, the glass and iron Palm House with its barrel roof at the north end, the Japanese Hill and Pond Garden: the pond, the vermilion torii in the water, the wooden viewing deck, the Shinto shrine on its hill, the waterfall, the stone lanterns, the little arched bridge, the koi and the turtles on their rock.","daylit":true,"index":173,"place":"Brooklyn Botanic Garden: the Cherry Esplanade and the Japanese Hill and Pond Garden","fact":"The site of Brooklyn Botanic Garden was designated in 1897 and the garden opened in May 1911 at 990 Washington Avenue; it occupies 52 acres and draws over 800,000 visitors a year. The Cherry Esplanade was created in 1941 when the garden's Women's Auxiliary donated four rows of cherry trees; it has two rows of tall cherries and several rows of shorter ones, 76 trees representing 21 varieties, and the garden as a whole has more than 200 cherry trees of 42 Asian species and cultivated varieties across the Cherry Walk and the Esplanade, with 30 trees planted on the Cherry Walk in 1921. The double flowering Kanzan cherries typically bloom at the end of April, and allees of scarlet oak, the Liberty Oaks, planted in remembrance of September 11, 2001, line the Esplanade's eastern and western edges. The garden has held an annual cherry blossom festival since 1982. The Japanese Hill and Pond Garden was created by Takeo Shiota and opened in June 1915, a $13,000 gift of Alfred Tredway White; its three acres hold three man made hills, a waterfall, an island and a curved pond of hundreds of koi, with a torii and a Shinto shrine. The shrine burned in January 1938 and a new one was dedicated in May 1960 after vandals burned its predecessor; the garden was restored in 2000 for about $3 million. McKim, Mead and White's Laboratory Administration Building and Palm House were dedicated in April 1917, and the Steinhardt Conservatory opened on May 19, 1988.","year":"1911","learn":"Four rows of cherries given in 1941, a Japanese garden that opened in 1915 and was the first you could see for free, and a shrine that burned twice.","source":{"name":"Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Wikipedia, and Cherry Esplanade, bbg.org","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Botanic_Garden"},"keywords":["Brooklyn Botanic Garden","Cherry Esplanade","Kanzan cherry","Sakura Matsuri","Japanese Hill and Pond Garden","Takeo Shiota","torii","Palm House","Steinhardt Conservatory","Liberty Oaks","Cherry Walk"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/cherryesplanade","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=cherryesplanade","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/cherryesplanade.jpg"},{"id":"promenade","name":"The shelf over the expressway","area":"BROOKLYN HEIGHTS PROMENADE / COLUMBIA HEIGHTS","mood":"Late afternoon, the harbour going gold","color":"#5a6a8a","description":"The Brooklyn Heights Promenade: a third of a mile of hexagonal block pavement and iron railing cantilevered over the two decks of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, with Brooklyn Bridge Park and the harbour below and all of Lower Manhattan straight across the water. Behind you the gardens and the backs of the Heights houses, beside you the benches, the dog walkers and the kids on scooters, and under your feet the traffic you can hear but only glimpse through the railing. The New Yorkers hang on the garden fences facing the walk, on the walls of the Montague Street entrance and in the pergola at the north end.","signatures":"The iron railing and the hex block pavement, the benches facing the view, the flower beds and the garden fences with the brownstone and brick backs of the Heights houses above them, the two roadway decks stepping out below the walk with the expressway traffic on them, Furman Street and the lawns and piers of Brooklyn Bridge Park, the harbour with its ferries, Governors Island and the Statue of Liberty far to the south, the Brooklyn Bridge to the north, and the whole of Lower Manhattan with One World Trade across the river.","daylit":true,"index":174,"place":"The Brooklyn Heights Promenade over the Brooklyn Queens Expressway","fact":"The Brooklyn Heights Promenade is a 1,826 foot platform and pedestrian walkway cantilevered over the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, Interstate 278, running from the west end of Remsen Street to the west end of Orange Street, with views of the Lower Manhattan skyline and New York Harbor. Its southern half opened to the public on October 7, 1950 and its northern half on December 7, 1951. The leaders of the Brooklyn Heights Association, Roy M. D. Richardson and Ferdinand W. Nitardy among them, lobbied for a route that moved the highway westward to run along the escarpment above the water, and the engineers of Andrews and Clark, the firm commissioned to build the highway, backed that route because it cost less; the two tiered section in Brooklyn Heights that Robert Moses designed had originally been planned to go straight through Hicks Street. It can be reached from Montague Street and Pierrepont Place and from the west ends of Pierrepont Street, Clark Street and Pineapple Street. The construction of Brooklyn Bridge Park gave the foreground of the view a more landscape like look. Since October 2021 the expressway under it has been reduced to two lanes in each direction between Atlantic Avenue and the Brooklyn Bridge; the city's Department of Transportation began a repair project on the section in 2017, and in August 2026 the city government announced a proposal to spend about $4 billion repairing the existing cantilever over ten years.","year":"1950","learn":"A third of a mile of walkway on the roof of a two deck highway, opened in two halves in 1950 and 1951, because the Heights would not let the road through Hicks Street.","source":{"name":"Brooklyn Heights Promenade and Brooklyn Queens Expressway, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Heights_Promenade"},"keywords":["Brooklyn Heights Promenade","Brooklyn Queens Expressway","BQE","triple cantilever","Interstate 278","Robert Moses","Brooklyn Heights Association","Montague Street","Brooklyn Bridge Park","Lower Manhattan skyline"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/promenade","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=promenade","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/promenade.jpg"},{"id":"astorplace","name":"The cube at Astor Place","area":"ASTOR PLACE / COOPER SQUARE","mood":"Push it and it turns","color":"#3a3a3c","description":"Astor Place, where the East Village meets NoHo: Tony Rosenthal's black steel cube balanced on one corner in the middle of the plaza, the cast iron subway kiosk beside it, Cooper Union's brownstone Foundation Building across Cooper Square and the slotted steel skin of 41 Cooper Square beyond, skaters going round, students crossing, buses on Fourth Avenue. Walk up to the cube and lean on it: it turns, and slowly comes to rest. The New Yorkers hang under the Foundation Building's arcade, on the plaza face of 41 Cooper Square, in the theatre's poster cases on Lafayette Street and on boards round the plaza.","signatures":"The Alamo (1967), fifteen feet of Cor-Ten steel on one corner, the 1986 replica IRT kiosk in cast iron and glass, the Foundation Building (1859) with its round arched arcade and five brownstone storeys, 41 Cooper Square (2009) with the slot cut up through its perforated skin, the black glass of 51 Astor Place, the colonnade and the theatre on Lafayette Street, the skaters, the students and the buses.","daylit":true,"index":175,"place":"Astor Place, the Alamo cube, the kiosk and Cooper Union","fact":"Tony Rosenthal's Alamo, a Cor-Ten steel cube 15 feet on a side weighing about 1,800 pounds, was installed in 1967 as one of 25 temporary works in the city's Sculpture and the Environment show, meant to stay six months; residents petitioned to keep it, and it rotates round a hidden pole in its centre. The name was chosen by the artist's wife because its mass reminded her of the Alamo Mission. It was removed for work in March 2005 and returned in November 2005, removed in October 2015 and returned on November 1, 2016, and removed in May 2023 and returned in August 2023. Astor Place station opened on October 27, 1904 as one of the original 28 IRT stations; its plaques carry beavers because John Jacob Astor's fortune came from the beaver pelt trade; the cast iron kiosk is a replica 13 feet wide, 22 feet long and 16 feet tall, made at the same factory as the originals and installed in the renovation completed in May 1986 at the urging of the architect Rolf Ohlhausen, who had photographed the originals as a Cooper Union student. Cooper Union's Foundation Building, by Fred A. Petersen, 1858 to 1859, Italianate brownstone, was the first building in New York with rolled iron I beams and the first in the world built with an elevator shaft; Abraham Lincoln spoke in its Great Hall on February 27, 1860 to about 1,500 people, and it became a National Historic Landmark on July 4, 1961. 41 Cooper Square, by Thom Mayne of Morphosis, built 2006 to September 2009, nine storeys and 175,000 square feet behind a perforated stainless steel curtain wall round a vertical piazza, was the first institutional building in New York to reach LEED Platinum. Astor Place was named for John Jacob Astor soon after his death in 1848; the Astor Place Riot of May 10, 1849 killed at least 18 people; the reconstruction begun in 2013 and finished in 2016 widened the plazas and made Fourth Avenue south of East 9th Street bus only.","year":"1967","learn":"A steel cube meant to stay six months has spun on its corner since 1967, in front of the hall where Lincoln spoke.","source":{"name":"Alamo (sculpture), Astor Place, Astor Place station, Cooper Union Foundation Building and 41 Cooper Square, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_(sculpture)"},"keywords":["Astor Place","Alamo cube","Astor Place cube","Tony Rosenthal","Cooper Union","Foundation Building","41 Cooper Square","Astor Place kiosk","Cooper Square","East Village","Astor Place Riot"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/astorplace","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=astorplace","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/astorplace.jpg"},{"id":"nightmarket","name":"The Queens Night Market","area":"QUEENS NIGHT MARKET / FLUSHING MEADOWS","mood":"Saturday night, a hundred tents, eighty countries","color":"#c85a2a","description":"The Queens Night Market on a Saturday night in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, on the lot beside the New York Hall of Science: a hundred white tents in three lanes under string lights and paper lanterns, grills smoking, thousands of people eating their way from one country to the next, a band on the stage at the far end, the Great Hall's wall of cobalt glass glowing behind it, the rockets of Rocket Park standing in the dark and the Unisphere lit far off across the park. Walk into the crowd at the stage and it cheers. The New Yorkers hang on the tents' end panels, on boards by the entrance, beside the stage and on the Great Hall's wall.","signatures":"The white pop up tents in their rows, the string lights swaying across the lanes, the country flags, the grill smoke, the lanterns, the stage with its band and its swinging lights, the Great Hall's undulating wall of dark blue glass, the Atlas and Titan rockets of Rocket Park, and the Unisphere lit in the distance.","daylit":false,"index":176,"place":"The Queens Night Market, Flushing Meadows Corona Park","fact":"The Queens Night Market launched in April 2015 with 40 vendors in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, with a fixed price cap on every dish that has been raised only once since. As of 2019 it had served food from more than 80 countries, and as of 2023 it averages around 20,000 visitors on a Saturday night. It runs on Saturday nights from April through October, with a break while the US Open is played in the park, and has hosted about 200 free live performances; it paused in 2020 and came back with ticketed entry in June 2021 and regular nights from July 2021. The New York Hall of Science beside it began as Wallace Harrison's 80 foot curving concrete Great Hall for the 1964 World's Fair; its basement exhibits opened on June 16, 1964, it opened as a museum on September 21, 1966, and the north wing by Polshek Partnership opened on November 24, 2004. Its Space Park showed three rockets 90 to 110 feet tall, taken down for restoration in August 2001. The Unisphere, designed by Gilmore D. Clarke and built by U.S. Steel's American Bridge division from March to August 1963 in Type 304L stainless steel, stands 140 feet tall, 120 feet across and weighs 700,000 pounds, tilted at 23.5 degrees, its three rings believed to trace Gagarin, Glenn and Telstar; it became a city landmark on May 16, 1995. The park itself, measured at 897 acres in 2013 though long believed to be 1,255, was the valley of ashes of The Great Gatsby, around 50 million cubic yards of ash over some 30 years, before Robert Moses made it the ground of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs.","year":"2015","learn":"Twenty thousand people a Saturday night eat their way through eighty countries on a parking lot beside a World's Fair rocket park.","source":{"name":"Queens Night Market, New York Hall of Science, Unisphere and Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Night_Market"},"keywords":["Queens Night Market","Flushing Meadows Corona Park","New York Hall of Science","Great Hall","Rocket Park","Unisphere","Corona","Flushing","street food","night market"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/nightmarket","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=nightmarket","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/nightmarket.jpg"},{"id":"dykerheights","name":"The lights of Dyker Heights","area":"DYKER HEIGHTS / 84TH STREET","mood":"December, snow, every bulb on the block","color":"#c8283a","description":"A block of Dyker Heights in the middle of December, after dark, with snow coming down: detached brick and stone houses on their lawns, every roofline, column, window and tree wrapped in thousands of lights, toy soldiers, nutcrackers, snowmen, angels and reindeer on the lawns, a display that turns, tour buses at the kerb and a crowd on the sidewalk with hot cups. The New Yorkers hang in lit gilt frames on the fences and lawn displays and on the garage doors, facing the sidewalk with everything else.","signatures":"The two rows of detached houses with their lawns and low iron fences, roof outlines and wrapped columns in white and coloured bulbs, bare trees spiralled in light, the toy soldiers at the gates, the nutcracker that turns, the reindeer that rock, the snowmen and the angels, the turning display, the tour bus that pulls in and lets its crowd out when you stand at the kerb, the snow on the lawns and in the air, and the bridge lights far off to the south.","daylit":false,"index":177,"place":"Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, the Christmas lights","fact":"Dyker Heights was laid out by Walter Loveridge Johnson from October 1895 and built between 1895 and 1902 as a speculative luxury housing development; since the 1940s it has had a majority Italian American population, and by 2020 its Asian population had passed its white population. Nobody agrees on which December the Christmas lights began: newspaper reports and the tours of the area suggest sometime in the 1980s. Early on the two most noted homes stood on 84th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues, directly across from one another. In 1985 Lou Singer began running tours (Singer's Brooklyn) through the most elaborately lit parts of Bensonhurst, Canarsie, Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights. Formally the lighting and decorations begin on the last Thursday of November, Thanksgiving, and stay up until the first days of January, with mid December the most visited.","year":"1980s","learn":"A block of detached houses that has dressed itself in lights every December since the 1980s, with the coaches coming since 1985.","source":{"name":"Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyker_Heights,_Brooklyn"},"keywords":["Dyker Heights","Dyker Heights Christmas lights","84th Street","11th Avenue","12th Avenue","Christmas lights tour","Singer's Brooklyn","Walter Loveridge Johnson","Brooklyn Christmas"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/dykerheights","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=dykerheights","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/dykerheights.jpg"},{"id":"huntspoint","name":"Three in the morning at Hunts Point","area":"HUNTS POINT PRODUCE MARKET / THE BRONX","mood":"Sodium light, cold air, forklifts","color":"#3a5a3a","description":"The Hunts Point Produce Market at three in the morning, the busiest hour of its day: a refrigerated warehouse a third of a mile long with numbered dock doors, trailers backed in with their reefers running, forklifts racing pallets along the dock under sodium light, buyers with hand trucks, a coffee cart, breath in the cold and the Bronx night over the yard. The New Yorkers hang on the dock wall between the doors, in the dispatcher's office, and on a pallet of framed works stacked on the dock as if they came in with the produce.","signatures":"The long dock under its steel canopy, the numbered roll up doors, the door that rolls up as you reach it and the cold room behind it, the trailers backed to the bumpers with their reefer units, the tractors with their marker lights, the trailer backing in from the yard, six forklifts on the dock with pallets and amber beacons, the stacked cases and open bins of oranges, the buyers with hand trucks, the coffee cart and its steam, the dispatcher's office with its clock on New York time, the far warehouse row and the high mast lights over the yard.","daylit":false,"index":178,"place":"Hunts Point Produce Market, the Bronx","fact":"Hunts Point is a peninsula at the confluence of the Bronx River and the East River, bounded by the Bruckner Expressway to the west and north. The Hunts Point Food Distribution Center covers 329 acres of it and holds over 800 businesses employing over 25,000 workers. The produce market opened in 1967 in four buildings each a third of a mile long with 475,000 square feet of warehouse space; it sells approximately 2.7 billion pounds of produce a year and posted 1.5 billion dollars in revenue in 1998. The meat market followed in 1974, and the Fulton Fish Market moved here from downtown Manhattan in 2005, into a 450,000 square foot building that cost 85 million dollars, after 180 years by the South Street piers. The market's own site says it spans over a million square feet at 772 Edgewater Road with more than thirty produce merchants, in a trade with a history going back more than two hundred years. The market is served by rail through the Oak Point Yard and receives around 2,700 rail cars a year. In January 2021 over 1,400 workers at the market went on strike for a wage increase.","year":"1967","learn":"The city's produce comes through a third of a mile of refrigerated dock in the Bronx, busiest in the small hours, since 1967.","source":{"name":"Hunts Point, Bronx, Wikipedia; Hunts Point Food Distribution Center, Wikipedia; Hunts Point Cooperative Market, Wikipedia; Hunts Point Produce Market","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunts_Point,_Bronx"},"keywords":["Hunts Point","Hunts Point Produce Market","Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market","Hunts Point Food Distribution Center","Hunts Point Cooperative Market","Fulton Fish Market","Oak Point Yard","772 Edgewater Road","Bronx produce","wholesale market"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/huntspoint","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=huntspoint","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/huntspoint.jpg"},{"id":"columbuspark","name":"Columbus Park at seven","area":"COLUMBUS PARK / CHINATOWN","mood":"Seven in the morning, everyone already here","color":"#b8322c","description":"Columbus Park at seven in the morning, on the ground that was Mulberry Bend: two tai chi groups moving as one on the plaza, crowds of elders three deep round the xiangqi tables under the planes, music under the pavilion of 1897 at the north end, pigeons underfoot, delivery bikes on Mulberry Street and the tenements with their fire escapes catching the first sun. Across Baxter Street to the west, the cleared lot where the Tombs stood until 2024 and the towers of the Criminal Courts Building. The New Yorkers hang on the pavilion's back wall, on the park's iron fence facing in, on the handball wall and on the courts' fence, and a census wall covers the limestone comfort station of 1934.","signatures":"The raised open air pavilion of 1897 with its wooden roof beams and its new elevator, the paved plaza, the xiangqi tables with concrete stools and their standing crowds, tai chi with red fans, the 1934 limestone comfort station, the turf field with three basketball and three volleyball courts, the playground, the iron picket fence, London planes, the tenements of Mulberry Street with fire escapes and plain coloured shop boards, the Criminal Courts Building, and the hoarding round the site of the Tombs on Baxter Street.","daylit":true,"index":179,"place":"Columbus Park, Chinatown, Manhattan","fact":"Columbus Park, bounded by Baxter (formerly Orange), Worth (formerly Anthony), Bayard and Mulberry Streets, stands on Mulberry Bend, the curve of Mulberry Street at the heart of the Five Points, which Jacob Riis called the foul core of New York's slums in How the Other Half Lives; his 1888 photograph Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street was taken in the Bend, whose alleys included Bandit's Roost, Bottle Alley and Ragpickers Row. Calvert Vaux, co designer of Central Park, planned the park in the 1880s; the tenements were demolished in 1897 and Mulberry Bend Park opened in the summer of 1897 with bench lined curved walkways and an open grassy area. It has also been called Five Points Park and Paradise Park, and in 1911, after a redesign by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it was renamed Columbus Park. The open air pavilion at the north end was built in 1897 in the administration of Mayor William L. Strong, was closed for about thirty years, and was restored in 2007. In 1934 a limestone recreation center, now a public restroom, was built; work that began in August 1934 added trees and expanded the playground, and on Columbus Day the reopening drew an estimated 15,000 people while the Bronx Homing Pigeon Club released 442 homing pigeons, one for each year since 1492. A statue of Columbus by Emma Stebbins, sculptor of the Angel of the Waters at Bethesda Fountain, stood in the park from 1934 until 1971. In 1970 the Chinese American Arts Council launched the Chinatown Outdoor Summer Festival here, which by 1980 ran from traditional Chinese opera to folk dance and modern pop. Basketball courts came in the 1980s, and a ball field renovation announced in February 2004 with $1.1 million from the estate of Joseph Temeczko, completed by December 2005, gave 60 percent of the field to synthetic turf and 40 percent to asphalt for three basketball and three volleyball courts. The park covers 3.23 acres. As of 2013 the neighbourhood meets here to play mahjong, perform traditional Chinese music and practise tai chi in the early mornings, and the tables draw xiangqi players and onlookers. Mott Street below Canal, Mulberry, Bayard, Pell, Doyers and Worth Streets were settled by Chinese immigrants from the 1870s; Ah Ken is credited as the first Chinese person to settle permanently, in the 1850s; the Chinese population was about 200 by 1870 and 2,000 by 1882, when the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed; Chinatown today holds an estimated 90,000 to 100,000 people, the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Across Baxter Street stood the Manhattan Detention Complex at 125 White Street, called the Tombs after the Egyptian Revival Halls of Justice of 1838 by John Haviland; the Art Deco Manhattan House of Detention of 1941 by Harvey Wiley Corbett and Charles B. Meyers became its south tower, reopened in 1983 after a 1974 closure ordered by Judge Morris E. Lasker, a north tower was completed in 1990, the complex was named the Bernard B. Kerik Complex in December 2001 and lost the name in 2006, and its demolition was completed in August 2024 for one of the four borough jails meant to replace Rikers Island, expected to be finished in 2032.","year":"1897","learn":"The worst block in the city became a park in 1897, and at seven in the morning it is the fullest park in Chinatown.","source":{"name":"Columbus Park history, NYC Parks (with Columbus Park (Manhattan), Mulberry Bend, Chinatown, Manhattan and Manhattan Detention Complex on Wikipedia, and Friends of Columbus Park, https://jngong.github.io/focp-ny-website/about-columbus-park.html)","url":"https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/columbus-park-m015/history"},"keywords":["Columbus Park","Mulberry Bend","Mulberry Bend Park","Five Points","Jacob Riis","Calvert Vaux","Chinatown","tai chi","xiangqi","Chinese chess","mahjong","Mulberry Street","Baxter Street","Bayard Street","Worth Street","the Tombs","Manhattan Detention Complex","Bandits' Roost"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/columbuspark","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=columbuspark","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/columbuspark.jpg"},{"id":"pennstation","name":"The hall New York lost","area":"PENNSYLVANIA STATION, 1910 / THE CENSUS HALL","mood":"Travertine, steel and glass, and the seam where it came down","color":"#c9a86a","description":"The Pennsylvania Station of 1910, the station New York pulled down from October 1963, raised again as the census hall of the New Yorkers. You come in off Seventh Avenue through the Doric colonnade and a row of brass turnstiles, down the arcade and the grand stair into the travertine waiting room under its coffered vault, where light falls through the lunettes on the side the real sun is on. Past the census desk the hall breaks: one side intact, the other half demolished under a swinging ball, and beyond it the steel and glass concourse at night, drawn in dots. Stand still before any work and it comes apart into colour; give your wallet or name at the desk and a light finds yours.","signatures":"The Seventh Avenue colonnade in pink granite with the clock and the Day and Night groups over the door, two granite eagles, brass turnstiles, the shopping arcade with its newsstand and shoeshine stand, the grand stair, the travertine waiting room with twelve giant columns, a coffered barrel vault, six lunettes and two thermal windows, velvet ropes and oak benches, the marble census desk with its open ledger, the 1963 seam with broken column drums, rubble, bare steel and a wrecking ball, and the dithered steel and glass concourse with freestanding gallery walls and a baggage wagon.","daylit":true,"index":180,"place":"Pennsylvania Station (1910), Seventh to Eighth Avenue, 31st to 33rd Streets, Manhattan","fact":"Designed by McKim, Mead and White and opened to all its trains on November 27, 1910, the station's main waiting room was inspired by the Roman baths of Caracalla, Diocletian and Titus, 314 feet 4 inches long, 108 feet 8 inches wide and 150 feet tall, with lower walls of travertine from the Campagna, the first major American building to use the stone. Demolition of the station house began on October 28, 1963 and was finished in 1966; much of it was dumped in the New Jersey Meadowlands.","year":"1910","learn":"The station New York pulled down: a Roman bath for a railroad, and the hall whose loss made the city protect its landmarks.","source":{"name":"Pennsylvania Station (1910 to 1963), Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(1910%E2%80%931963)"},"keywords":["Penn Station","McKim, Mead and White","travertine","demolition","1963","Adolph Weinman","eagles"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/pennstation","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=pennstation","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/pennstation.jpg"},{"id":"crystalpalace","name":"The glass house","area":"NEW YORK CRYSTAL PALACE, 1853 / RESERVOIR SQUARE","mood":"Iron, glass and coloured light, and the arm that is burning","color":"#7fb3d9","description":"The New York Crystal Palace of 1853, the iron and glass hall of the first world's fair in America, which stood where Bryant Park is and burned to the ground in 1858, raised again as a gallery. You come off Sixth Avenue into a Greek cross of glass under a stained glass dome that throws its colours across the floor wherever the real New York sun puts them. Red damask screens down the nave, an iron fountain, a beam engine with its flywheel turning, and in the north arm the evening it burned, the glass melting into signal. Step onto the open platform under the dome and it carries you up into the colour, the rope is cut, and the pawls hold. Stand still before any work and the dome finds it.","signatures":"Sixth Avenue with gas lamps and carriages, the 315 foot timber Latting Observatory, the battered granite wall of the Croton Distributing Reservoir with people on its promenade, a Greek cross of four glass barrel vaulted arms on cream and blue cast iron columns, upper galleries hung with red drapery, octagonal corner towers with flags, the 100 foot stained glass dome with its lantern, coloured light on the pine floor, the Otis safety platform on its toothed guides, red damask screens, mahogany vitrines, palms in iron urns, a veiled marble figure, the three tier iron fountain, a beam engine and flywheel, a Columbian press, a library globe, and the burning north arm with embers, smoke, falling glass and melting signal.","daylit":true,"index":181,"place":"The glass house","fact":"","year":"","learn":"","source":null,"keywords":[],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/crystalpalace","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=crystalpalace","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/crystalpalace.jpg"},{"id":"mlowintl","name":"The arrival","area":"MLOW INTERNATIONAL, TERMINAL B \"BLOSSOM\" / QUEENS","mood":"Blue glass, a gallery concourse, and a jet taking off for you","color":"#2962ff","description":"MLow's airport, landed in the census as the room for The Arrival. From the air Terminal B reads as the evil eye, an almond plaza with a blue glass dome for an iris, and its seven gate pods open like the blossom. You arrive under the dome, among check in islands and the departures board, walk the gallery concourse where the census hangs in the terminal's own frames, and come out in the blossom gate hub among the seven sculptures. Through the glass, MW317 rolls down the runway and climbs away. Stand on the blossom in the middle of the hub and it is cleared for you.","signatures":"The blue glass dome over the rotunda with its ink oculus, the eye inlaid in the rotunda floor, four island check in desks with MLOW backwalls, the departures board listing the collections, art wrapped columns, the gallery concourse with its skylight slot and blue band, MLOW SHOP and CLOUD 9 CAFE, the neck to the blossom gate hub, seven blossom sculptures on plinths, gate signs B1 to B7, the arrivals annex with two art wrapped carousels, MLOW AIR jets with evil eye tails at the jet bridges, runway 09/27, the control tower with its eye, the MLOW blimp, the helipad, taxi 317 at the drop off.","daylit":true,"index":182,"place":"The arrival","fact":"","year":"","learn":"","source":null,"keywords":[],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/mlowintl","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=mlowintl","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/mlowintl.jpg"},{"id":"honoraries","name":"The honoraries","area":"HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS / THE BRONX","mood":"Green marble, gold frames and every face MLow has honoured","color":"#b59655","description":"Stanford White's Hall of Fame for Great Americans, the 630 foot colonnade on the heights over the Harlem River, and the Gould Memorial Library it wraps, rebuilt as the house of every honorary New Yorker MLow has painted. Under the coffered dome and its Tiffany laylight, sixteen green Connemara marble columns ring a drum hung floor to ceiling with portraits in three tiers. A vaulted passage of census works leads west to the colonnade, where each bay holds two more over a bronze tablet with the names, and the river and the Palisades lie beyond the parapet. Stand on the bronze laurel in the middle of the rotunda and the dome calls a name.","signatures":"Sixteen freestanding green Connemara marble columns with gilt Corinthian capitals, the sixteen sided drum in oxblood damask with a salon hang in three tiers, two galleries with iron railings and glass floors, the coffered saucer dome with gilt rosettes, the round Tiffany laylight in its eye, reading tables with green glass lamps, the bronze laurel in the floor that calls the roll, the Guastavino vaulted passage, the curving colonnade of limestone columns with a granite parapet and herringbone tile vault, Tiffany style bronze tablets under every bay, brass picture lights, the laurel pedestal at the end of the walk, the Harlem River, Inwood Hill and the Palisades to the west.","daylit":true,"index":183,"place":"The honoraries","fact":"","year":"","learn":"","source":null,"keywords":[],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/honoraries","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=honoraries","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/honoraries.jpg"}]