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Little is known about its origin, and the project remained unknown until 1956, when a report by Joan Matamala i Flotats was published, called "When the New World called Gaudí". [ 1 ] The drawings for the Attraction Hotel were proposed as a basis for the rebuilding of Ground Zero in Manhattan. [ 2 ]
The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) is the department of the government of New York City that manages the city's public school system. The City School District of the City of New York (more commonly known as New York City Public Schools ) is the largest school system in the United States (and among the largest in the world), with ...
Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City.The cemetery lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, and is generally bounded by 20th Street to the northeast, Fifth Avenue to the northwest, 36th and 37th Streets to the southwest, Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, and McDonald Avenue to the east.
[1] After five years of work and schooling, Gaudi qualified as an architect in 1878. As Elies Rogent signed Gaudí's degree he declared, "Qui sap si hem donat el diploma a un boig o a un geni. El temps ens ho dirà." ("Who knows if we have given this diploma to a nut or to a genius. Time will tell.") Gaudi immediately began to plan and design.
Guastavino tile vaulting at the Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant. In 1881 Guastavino came to New York City from Valencia, [2] with his youngest son, nine-year-old Rafael Jr. [3] In Spain he had been an accomplished architect and was a contemporary of Antoni Gaudí. [2]
Gaudí was born on 25 June 1852 in Riudoms or Reus [10] to coppersmith Francesc Gaudí i Serra (1813–1906) [11] and Antònia Cornet i Bertran (1819–1876). He was the youngest of five children, and far outlived the other two who survived to adulthood: Rosa (1844–1879) and Francesc (1851–1876).
Robert O. Lowery (1916–2001), first African-American New York City Fire Commissioner (1966–1973) George Malloy (1920–2008), pianist, accompanied Camilla Williams singing " The Star-Spangled Banner ", preceding Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his " I Have a Dream " speech, during the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
The Bayard Rustin Educational Complex, also known as the Humanities Educational Complex, is a "vertical campus" of the New York City Department of Education which contains a number of small public schools. Most of them are high schools — grades 9 through 12 – along with one combined middle and high school – grades 6 through 12.