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Last year, Rolls-Royce loaned me a Ghost for a test drive. The four-door sedan, which has long been a star in the manufacturer’s luxury lineup, was painted iridescent white and had a bright red ...
Chapel to Duke of York's Headquarters, 2013. The building was completed in 1801 to the designs of John Sanders, who also designed the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. [1] It was originally called the Royal Military Asylum and was a school for the children of soldiers' widows. [2] In 1892 it was renamed the Duke of York's Royal Military School.
30 Hudson Yards (also known during construction as the North Tower [6]) is a supertall skyscraper on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.Located near Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, and the Penn Station area, the building is part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, a plan to redevelop the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's West Side Yard.
[4] [7] The Chelsea Houses were aided by the state for $8.3 million. [6] In 2012, NYCHA converted a parking lot in the development into a 168 unit building for low-to-middle-income households. [8] Development firms Related Companies and Essence Development proposed rebuilding the Elliott-Chelsea Houses and the nearby Fulton Houses in early 2023 ...
Chelsea Piers is a series of piers in Chelsea, on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. Located to the west of the West Side Highway ( Eleventh Avenue ) and Hudson River Park and to the east of the Hudson River , they were originally a passenger ship terminal in the early 1900s that was used by RMS Lusitania and was the destination of ...
Nine Elms Lane was named around the year 1645, from a row of elm trees bordering the road, though a path probably existed between York House and Vauxhall from the 1200s. In 1838, at the time of construction of the London and Southampton Railway , the area was described as "a low swampy district occasionally overflowed by the River Thames [whose ...
New York City's piers and wharves were the most valuable assets of the New York City government in the 1860s, [2] worth almost $15.8 million without any repairs in 1867. [3] Nevertheless, by that time they had been in such a poor state of repair as to drive steamboat companies to other nearby cities such as Hoboken and Jersey City . [ 4 ]
Ownership of Chelsea Bridge was transferred to the MBW in 1877 at a cost of £75,000 (about £8.39 million in 2024), [24] and on 24 May 1879 Chelsea Bridge, Battersea Bridge and Albert Bridge were declared toll free by the Prince of Wales in a brief ceremony, after which a parade of Chelsea Pensioners marched across the bridge to Battersea Park.