Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Privately owned public spaces (POPS) in New York City were introduced in the 1961 Zoning Resolution. The city offers zoning concessions to commercial and residential developers in exchange for a variety of spaces accessible and usable for the public. There are over 590 POPS at over 380 buildings in New York City and are found principally in Manhattan. Spaces range from extended sidewalks to ...
6½ Avenue is a north-south pedestrian passageway [1] [2] in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, running from West 51st to West 57th Streets between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. [ 3 ] The pedestrian-only avenue is a one-quarter mile (400 m) corridor of privately owned public spaces , such as open-access lobbies and canopied space, [ 4 ] which are ...
The Candler Building is on 220 West 42nd Street, between Seventh Avenue and Eighth Avenue near the southern end of Times Square, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The land lot is irregularly shaped and covers 10,109 square feet (939.2 m 2 ), extending 200 feet (61 m) between its two frontages on 41st and 42nd ...
The Loft was the location for the first underground dance party (called "Love Saves the Day") organized by David Mancuso, on February 14, 1970, in New York City.Since then, the term "The Loft" has come to represent Mancuso's own version of a non-commercial party where no alcohol, food, nor beverages are sold.
The Cleveland Street station (formerly the Cleveland Avenue station) is a skip-stop station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn. It is served by the J train at all times. The Z train skips this station when it operates.
The loft conversions were more profitable to the landlords than industrial use. [1] By 1977, the New York City Department of City Planning found that 91.5 percent of the conversions were illegal [2] and 44.9 percent of those lofts were occupied by heads of households who were artists. [3]
Due to the tree lighting, road closures will take effect at 11 a.m. on East 49th Street and East 50th Street, and East 48th and East 51st starting at 1 p.m. Show comments Advertisement
New York has played a prominent role in the development of the skyscraper. Since 1890, ten of those built in the city have held the title of world's tallest. [29] [G] New York City went through two very early high-rise construction booms, the first of which spanned the 1890s through the 1910s, and the second from the mid-1920s to the early ...