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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 ]
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 Roosevelt Hotel is a former hotel and a shelter for asylum seekers at 45 East 45th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.Named in honor of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, the hotel was developed by the New York Central Railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and opened in 1924.
The Villard Houses are a set of former residences at 451–457 Madison Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States.Designed by the architect Joseph Morrill Wells of McKim, Mead & White in the Renaissance Revival style, the residences were erected in 1884 for railroad magnate Henry Villard.
View eastward of Chambers Street toward Manhattan Municipal Building.. Chambers Street is a two-way street in the New York City borough of Manhattan.It runs from River Terrace, Battery Park City in the west, past PS 234 (the Independence School), The Borough of Manhattan Community College, and Stuyvesant High School, to the Manhattan Municipal Building at 1 Centre Street in the east.
Life magazine characterized the hotel in 1964 as "New York's most illustrious third-rate hotel"; [265] the same year, The New York Times described the Chelsea Hotel as having "long represented the cultural mood that is now spreading through the West 20s". [373] Another journalist called the hotel in 1965 an "Ellis Island of the avant-garde". [75]
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4th Street is a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City.It starts at Avenue D as East 4th Street and continues to Broadway, where it becomes West 4th Street.It continues west until the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), where West 4th Street turns north and confusingly intersects with West 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th Streets in Greenwich Village.