Illumination & Landmarks in New York

New York の有名なイルミネーションスポットとして、Rockefeller の Christmas Tree、Rockefeller Skate Rink、RCA Rockefeller Building 1930-39 / 19ビル、プロメテウスの黄金像、Lunch atop a Skyscraper にインスパイアされた Sergio Furnari の作品が記録されています。

The archive includes the Metropolitan Museum angel tree, the American Museum of Natural History origami tree, NYC Library, The Cathedral Church of St Jhon, South Street Seaport Pier 17, Apple Store 5Ave, Wall Street, NY Stock Exchange, FRB, Trinity Church, Fearless Girl, Charging Bull, and One World Trade Center.

Holiday entries include Christmas Illumination in Dyker Heights Brooklyn, Bryant Park Holiday Shop at 6Ave & 42st from 11/15–1/8, Bryant Park Ice Skate, It’s Always Christmas & Gift Fair at 133 Mulberry St, Lionel Store, Columbus Circle Holiday Shop 11/30–12/24, South Street Seaport Holiday Market 11/21–12/31, Saint Barts Holiday Gift Shops 11/15–12/24, and Union Square Holiday Faire / Broadway Bites 11/18–12/24.

Grand Central Terminal: Built 2/1/1913 (1871), Beaux-Arts landmark, renovation 1996–98 $250 million, 44 platforms and 67 tracks, Subway / Metro-North / Long Island Rail Road, 700 trains and 700,000 visitors per day. The clock glass above the front building is Tiffany stained glass, and the information booth’s four-faced clock is noted as worth over 10億円.

The original page records Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, NYS Flag, NYC Flag, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Trump World Tower, Trump Tower, Chrysler Building, Fleet Week, and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum at Pier 86 / 12Ave & 46st.

Verrazano–Narrows Bridge connects Staten Island and Brooklyn across The Narrows. It opened its upper six lanes on 11/21/1964 after five years and $325 million, with a main span of 1298m. It was the world’s longest suspension bridge until the Humber Bridge in 1981 and remains the longest suspension bridge in the United States. It is named after Giovanni da Verrazzano and is famous as the New York City Marathon starting point.

Brooklyn Bridge is described as America’s oldest suspension bridge and the first using steel wire: 1834m, Gothic style, opened 5/24/1883 after 14 years by John Augustus Roebling, Washington Augustus Roebling and Emily Warren Roebling. 150,000 people crossed on the first day. It was the world’s longest suspension bridge until Williamsburg Bridge in 1903; elevated rail ran until 1944 and streetcars until 1950.

• Manhattan Bridge — 1909 Open, 2089m, by Leon Solomon Moisseiff.
• Williamsburg Bridge — Open 1903, 2227m, by Leffert L. Buck.
• Queensboro Bridge — Open 1909, 1135m, by Gustav Lindenthal.
• Triborough / Robert F. Kennedy Bridge — 1936 Open, 850m.
• George Washington Bridge — 10/1/1931 Open, 1450m, by Othmar Ammann, Allston Dana, Cass Gilbert.
• Waterfall Brooklyn Bridge and Down Town New York photo notes.

Additional entries include Woolworth Building (opened April 24 / 1913, 792ft / 241m, 57 floors, 233 Broadway), Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower (1909, 700ft / 213m, 50 floors, 1 Madison Ave), Flatiron Building (Landmark 1902, 5Ave & 23st, 285ft / 87m, Renaissance style), Park Row Building, New York City Hall, San Remo, Goldman Sachs, New York by Frank Gehry, 56 Leonard, VIA 57 WEST and Cornell Tech campuses on Roosevelt Island.

Dr. Hideyo Noguchi: 1876–1928. The archive notes that his grave was restored by a JMSA donation and a ceremony was held on 11/15/2009. Noguchi was born in Fukushima in 1876, came to America in 1900 for medical research, joined the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, received honorary professorships from Yale University and Tokyo Imperial University, married Mary Dargis in 1911, and later worked around the world, especially in South and Central Africa. He died of yellow fever in Ghana on 5/21/1928 at age 51, and on 6/13 his remains were brought to New York by order of Rockefeller II and buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.

5Pointz Aerosol Art Center: 1892 built as a water meters factory. Graffitied building from the 1990s while the interior was occupied by about 200 artists’ studios. Address: 45-46 Davis St, Long Island City, NY 11101. Destroyed 2015.

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