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731 Lexington Avenue is a 1,345,489 sq ft (125,000.0 m 2) mixed-use glass skyscraper on Lexington Avenue, on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, New York City. [4] Opened in 2004, it houses the headquarters of Bloomberg L.P. and as a result, is sometimes referred to informally as Bloomberg Tower.
Fascia (/ ˈ f eɪ ʃ ə /) is an architectural term for a vertical frieze or band under a roof edge, or which forms the outer surface of a cornice, visible to an observer. [ 1 ] Typically consisting of a wooden board, unplasticized PVC (uPVC), or non-corrosive sheet metal, many of the non-domestic fascias made of stone form an ornately carved ...
The square is the site of a number of civic buildings including the classic facades and colonnaded entrances of the 1933-built United States Courthouse, fronted by the sculpture Triumph of the Human Spirit by artist Lorenzo Pace; the New York County Courthouse; the Church of St. Andrew; the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse – known before 2003 as the Foley Square Courthouse ...
The Trump International Hotel and Tower is at 1 Central Park West, along the northern side of Columbus Circle, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. [1] [2] It occupies a trapezoidal plot of land bounded by Broadway to the west, 61st Street to the north, and Central Park West to the east.
The Peninsula New York is in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.It is on the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue to the east and 55th Street to the north. [2] [3] The land lot is rectangular and covers 12,552 sq ft (1,166.1 m 2), with a frontage of 100 ft (30 m) on Fifth Avenue and a depth of 125 ft (38 m) along 55th Street. [3]
NY Post. A star is born: Owl descends chimney and perches atop family Christmas tree. Lighter Side. Associated Press. Santa Claus joins sharks for a holiday swim at a Rio de Janeiro aquarium.
Bargeboard, 1908 illustration. A bargeboard or rake fascia is a board fastened to each projecting gable of a roof to give it strength and protection, and to conceal the otherwise exposed end grain of the horizontal timbers or purlins of the roof.
Whitehall Street is one of New York City's oldest streets, having been built by c. 1626, shortly after the Dutch West India Company established New Amsterdam. [6] During the Dutch colonial era, part of the street was known as Markvelt or Marckvelt, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] though the name seems to have only applied to the northern portion. [ 9 ]