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1095 Avenue of the Americas is a 630-foot-tall (190 m) skyscraper in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It was constructed from 1971 to 1973 to be the headquarters of New York Telephone Company and has 41 floors. [1] The building also served as the headquarters of NYNEX and Bell Atlantic. [2]
The avenue's official name was changed to Avenue of the Americas in 1945 by the City Council, at the behest of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, [25] who signed the bill into law on October 2, 1945. [26] The intent was to honor "Pan-American ideals and principles" [ 27 ] and the nations of Central and South America, and to encourage those countries to ...
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The earliest surviving map of the area now known as New York City is the Manatus Map, depicting what is now Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey in the early days of New Amsterdam. [7] The Dutch colony was mapped by cartographers working for the Dutch Republic. New Netherland had a position of surveyor general.
The Sixth Avenue Line was a public transit line in Manhattan, New York City, running mostly along Sixth Avenue from Lower Manhattan to Central Park. Originally a streetcar line and later a bus route , it has been absorbed into the M5 bus route, which replaced the Broadway Line , as its northbound direction.
David W. Dunlap of The New York Times said that the tower, "rising like an icy stalagmite, is a three-dimensional reminder that big banks now dominate New Yorkers' consciousness." [201] Justin Davidson of New York magazine called the Bank of America Tower "a bulky glass stele that executes a modest twist to lend itself an air of grace". [202]
DETROIT (Reuters) -U.S. automakers Ford Motor and General Motors will donate $1 million each, along with vehicles, to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's January inauguration, company ...
New York City Subway: at 34th Street–Herald Square PATH : JSQ-33 , JSQ-33 (via HOB) , HOB-33 at 33rd Street Herald Square is a major commercial intersection in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City , formed by the intersection of Broadway , Sixth Avenue (officially Avenue of the Americas), and 34th Street .