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May 21, 2024 · A photographic tour inside the New York Palace Hotel, a Gilded Age mansion for a rail tycoon turned into a 55 story hotel often seen in TV shows and films.
May 10, 2018 · Located on East 79th Street at the corner of Fifth Avenue and across from Central Park, sits one of New York City’s last turn-of-the-century, French-Gothic styled-structures.
- Bronx Post Office
- Cardinal Hayes High School
- “I Fights Mit Sigel”
- Thomas Garden
- 888 Grand Concourse
- Bronx County Building
- The Iron Horse
Also scaffolded for renovation was the Bronx Post Office, NE corner of East 149th, another city landmark built from 1935-1937. Its highlights consists of seven tall arched windows, and two relief sculptures on the Concourse side; shown is The Letter by Henry Kreis. Inside, there are also 13 murals by Lithuanian-American artist Ben Shahnand wife Ber...
One more Grand Concourse school is at the SE corner of East 151st, Cardinal Hayes High School, by architects Eggers and Higgins, 1941, initiated as a memorial by Francis Cardinal Spellman for his immediate predecessor. The highlight is the rotunda-like, sweeping curved front entrance. The architects had a hand in the Jefferson Memorial in Washingto...
Across the Concourse from Hayes is Franz Sigel Park, named for a German immigrant Civil War general, a teacher and journalist who arrived in the States in 1852 and entered the military at the outset of the Civil War, fighting in the Battle of Pea Ridge and the Second Battle of Bull Run. The 16-acre park runs from the Metro North railroad cut north ...
The Thomas Garden Apartmentswere an early Grand Concourse development (1927-28) on the NE corner of East 156th. The 5-story walkup buildings surround a Japanese-style central court, with lanterns, watercourses and bridges. The complex is named for its architect, Andrew J. Thomas and was funded by John D. Rockefeller. It was designed as a modern ten...
The four corners of the Grand Concourseand East 161st all offer important architectural treasures and park spaces. This is where the Concourse becomes “the Concourse,” accepting traffic from East 161st and becoming a 10-lane behemoth, screaming all the way north to Mosholu Parkway and Van Cortlandt Park, a development Risse did not envision. At the...
Solid, stolid, weighty, implacable.That’s the impression the passerby gets from Joseph Friedlander and Max Hausle’s 1931 Bronx County Building, the seat of borough business. The building is enlivened by friezesdepicting classical scenes with toga’ed men discussing Important Things, half-clad women, and bovines, as well as gold colored spandrel pane...
The center mall of East 161st west of the Concourse is named for “Larrupin’ Lou” Gehrig, who played 1st base for the Yankees from 1925-1938 and part of the ’39 season, when he was struck down by ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a muscle disease that paralyzes and kills. The affliction was called Lou Gehrig’s disease, but the name has fallen out ...
A fine art architectural photo of the contemporary facades of the IAC Building and 100 11th Avenue by architects Frank Gehry and Jean Nouvel in the High Line area of Manhattan, New York City. Large-scale framed prints of this photo are available up to 80 inches in height.
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