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The Grand Central Palace hosted auto, boat, flower and trade shows. [16] The Palace was the main exhibition center for New York City during the first half of the 20th century. [16] By 1927, it hosted two million guests annually. [54] Office tenants in the Palace included the Selective Service and the Internal Revenue Service. [16]
The screenwriter Marian Spitzer wrote of opening day: "The theatre itself, living up to advance publicity, was spacious, handsome and lavishly decorated in crimson and gold. But nothing happened that afternoon to suggest the birth of a great theatrical tradition." [80] Rather, the public mostly considered its $2 admission fees to be expensive. [81]
The 1954 unveiling of a stained-glass depiction of Peter Stuyvesant in Butler Library at Columbia University, a gift of the Netherlands Antilles.It commemorated the 300th anniversary of the founding of New Amsterdam, though it was actually dedicated on its 329th anniversary according to the date on the Seal of New York City, or on the 301st anniversary of the city receiving municipal rights.
The Triple Palace, also known as the William H. Vanderbilt House, was an elaborate mansion at 640 Fifth Avenue between 51st Street and 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The urban mansion, completed in 1882 to designs by John B. Snook and Charles B. Atwood , was owned by members of the Vanderbilt family .
For 29 years they were located on the sixth floor of Grand Central Terminal in New York City. At their 1923 opening, the Galleries covered 14,000 square feet (1,300 m 2) and offered nine exhibition areas and a reception room, [4] described as "the largest sales gallery of art in the world."
The Main Concourse is the primary concourse of Grand Central Terminal, a railway station in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The space is located at the center of the terminal's station building . The distinctive architecture and design of the Main Concourse helped earn several landmark designations for the station, including as a National ...
A Republican hasn’t carried New York since Ronald Reagan defeated Democrat Walter Mondale in 1984 and polling shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading Trump by double digits.
At the time the Grand Hotel was built, the area of Broadway between Madison Square and Herald Square was the premier entertainment district in the city, teeming with theatres, restaurants and hotels. The sleazier establishments on the side streets soon gave the district a new name, the " Tenderloin ".