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New York City ultimately lost its bid to be host city to the 2012 Olympics to London. The clock showed the wrong figures for over a year in 2010–2011 until, in June 2011, the dial-up connection it had previously used to obtain an atomic time reading was updated.
The world's largest bronze sculpture of modern times stood between the Twin Towers on the Austin J. Tobin Plaza of the World Trade Center in New York City from 1972 until the September 11 attacks. The work, weighing more than 20 tons, was the only remaining work of art to be recovered largely intact from the ruins of the collapsed Twin Towers.
On December 10, 1997, the Internet's first widely celebrated Interactive Menorah was the premiere greeting for the New York Times 'Cyberseason's Greetings' section of their website. This digital Menorah allowed users to celebrate the holiday from anywhere, lighting candles with a mouse click.
NEW YORK - Graffiti, once an underground movement in the '70s and '80s, has now moved above ground. In fact, "Above Ground" is the name of the new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York ...
Clock detail. There is a 13-foot-wide (4.0 m) clock on top of the south facade. It was installed in 1914 by the Self Winding Clock Company.The clock face has decorative stained glass framed in bronze, with cast-iron clock hands, the latter weighing 340 lbs. [9] [10] The center of the clock features a circular panel with a sunburst design. [11]
Reviewers love the scent and quality of the candles and the fact that you can prepay for six months of a year for easy gifting. $35 at Brooklyn Candle Studio BarkBox
Tribute in Light began as a temporary commemoration of the attacks in early 2002, but it became an annual event, currently produced on September 11 by the Municipal Art Society of New York. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Tribute in Light was conceived by artists John Bennett, Gustavo Bonevardi, Richard Nash Gould, Julian LaVerdiere, and Paul Myoda, and ...
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