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The film contrasts the daring work of McComber and his coworkers in the skies above New York City with life back home in Kahnawake. It also explains how the Mohawk people living across the Saint Lawrence River from Montreal first gained their reputation for high steel work in the late 19th century by working on a railway bridge that ran through ...
Construction of new oil rigs: 2005-12-06: 24 Kazakhstan: Baikonur Cosmodrome: Russian space launch facility in Tyuratam, Kazakhstan: 2005-12-13 25 United States: Inside Grand Central: Railroad terminal in New York City. 2005-12-08 [12] 26 France: World's Tallest Bridge (Millau Bridge) viaduct near Millau, France: 2005-12-20: 27 China: Mega Ship
The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets in Midtown, Manhattan, New York City.It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (381 m), and with its antenna included, it stands a total of 1,454 feet (443.2 m) tall.
New York: A Documentary Film is an eight-part, 17½ hour, American documentary film on the history of New York City. It was directed by Ric Burns and originally aired in the U.S. on PBS . The film was a production of Steeplechase Films in association with WGBH Boston , Thirteen/ WNET , and The New-York Historical Society .
The RCA Building in December 1933 during the construction of Rockefeller Center. The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch while sitting on a steel beam 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground on the sixty-ninth floor of the near-completed RCA Building (now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza) at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City, on September 20, 1932.
The new facility is located at 130-30 28th Avenue, was constructed at a cost of $950 million, and has three buildings with a combined 730,000 square feet of space. [2] It is not easily accessible by public transit; the closest New York City Subway station, Flushing–Main Street, is more than one mile away. [3]
The six-day seminar in October 2021 was conducted by a New Jersey-based law enforcement training company called Street Cop, a privately run firm that bills itself as one of the largest in the ...
The film included interviews with personalities such as The New York Times architectural critic Paul Goldberger and writer Arthur Miller plus film clips featuring Bugs Bunny (Bowery Bugs) and Frank Sinatra. It was narrated by historian David McCullough, who wrote the 1972 book the film was based on. [5] [6]