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The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets in Midtown, Manhattan, New York City.It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (381 m), and with its antenna included, it stands a total of 1,454 feet (443.2 m) tall.
The Central Park West Historic District is a linear historic district including the stretch of Central Park West from 61st to 97th Streets. [1] When the Upper West Side–Central Park West Historic District was designated in 1990 as a local historic district its boundaries closely mirrored those of the 1982 Central Park West Historic District, except the local historic district encompasses ...
The McKittrick Hotel (also known as The McKittrick) was a performing arts venue themed as a 1930s hotel in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.It was located at 530 West 27th Street and was best known as the setting of the immersive theater production Sleep No More. [1]
The RCA Building in December 1933 during the construction of Rockefeller Center. The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch while sitting on a steel beam 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground on the sixty-ninth floor of the near-completed RCA Building (now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza) at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City, on September 20, 1932.
The skyscraper, which has shaped Manhattan's distinctive skyline, has been closely associated with New York City's identity since the end of the 19th century.From 1890 to 1973, the title of world's tallest building resided continually in Manhattan (with a gap between 1894 and 1908, when the title was held by Philadelphia City Hall), with eight different buildings holding the title. [15]
The tradition lets New Yorkers and visitors feel like they’ve traveled to the 1930s with a ride onboard the R1/9 train cars. The old-school train cars will hit the rails every Sunday from 10 a.m ...
Twenty-three years since the 9/11 attacks, take a look at how the Financial District, the World Trade Center site, and Manhattan's skyline have changed. Photos show the dramatic changes to ...
New York, long a great American city with many immigrants, became a culturally international city with the brain drain of intellectual, musical, and artistic European refugees that started in the late 1930s. The 1939 New York World's Fair, marking the 150th anniversary of George Washington's inauguration in Federal Hall, was a high point of ...