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Cathedrals, Churches & Synagogues :

Cathedrals, Churches & Synagogues

ifotog

Updated: Mar 14, 2008 4:11pm PST

New Additions :

New Additions

Steve

Updated: Mar 09, 2008 9:07pm PST

New York : Trip to New York

New York

Zac

Trip to New York

Updated: Mar 09, 2008 6:57pm PST

New York :

New York

lookingglassphotography

Updated: Mar 07, 2008 6:57am PST

Long Island and NYC : I grew up on LI and worked in NYC for 4 years before moving to CA. Still love going back east for Xmas to see family and be there the only week New Yorkers are civil to each other...an odd sense of peace is always evident in the city at that time.

Long Island and NYC

Calavera

I grew up on LI and worked in NYC for 4 years before moving to CA. St ...

Updated: Feb 20, 2008 1:57pm PST

Chinatown :

Chinatown

headhole

Updated: Feb 10, 2008 2:49pm PST

NYC : New York City is comprised of five boroughs, an unusual form of government used to administer the five constituent counties that make up the city. Throughout the boroughs there are hundreds of distinct neighborhoods, many with a definable history and character to call their own. If the boroughs were each independent cities, four of the boroughs (Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, and the Bronx) would be among the ten most populous cities in the United States. The five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, Staten Island; Brooklyn (pop. 2,511,408) is the city's most populous borough and was an independent city until 1898. Brooklyn is known for its cultural, social and ethnic diversity, an independent art scene, distinct neighborhoods and a unique architectural heritage. It is also the only borough outside of Manhattan with a distinct downtown area. The borough features a long beachfront and Coney Island, established in the 1870s as one of the earliest amusement grounds in the country. Manhattan (pop. 1,593,200) is the most densely populated borough and home to most of the city's skyscrapers, as well as Central Park. The borough is the financial center of the city and contains the headquarters of many major corporations, the United Nations, as well as a number of important universities, and many cultural attractions, including numerous museums, the Broadway theatre district, Greenwich Village, and Madison Square Garden. Manhattan is loosely divided into Lower, Midtown, and Uptown regions. Uptown Manhattan is divided by Central Park into the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side, and above the park is Harlem. The building form most closely associated with New York City is the skyscraper that saw New York buildings shift from the low-scale European tradition to the vertical rise of business districts. New York City has about 4493 skyscrapers, more than any other city in the world. Surrounded mostly by water, the city's residential density and high real estate values in commercial districts saw the city amass the largest collection of individual, free-standing office and residential towers in the world. New York has architecturally significant buildings in a wide range of styles. These include the Woolworth Building (1913), an early gothic revival skyscraper built with massively scaled gothic detailing able to be read from street level several hundred feet below. The 1916 Zoning Resolution required setback in new buildings, and restricted towers to a percentage of the lot size, to allow sunlight to reach the streets below. The Art Deco design of the Chrysler Building (1930), with its tapered top and steel spire, reflected the zoning requirements. The building is considered by many historians and architects to be New York's finest building, with its distinctive ornamentation such as replicas at the corners of the 61st floor of the 1928 Chrysler eagle hood ornaments and V-shaped lighting inserts capped by a steel spire at the tower's crown. A highly influential example of the international style in the United States is the Seagram Building (1957), distinctive for its facade using visible bronze-toned I-beams to evoke the building's structure. The Condé Nast Building (2000) is an important example of green design in American skyscrapers. The character of New York's large residential districts is often defined by the elegant brownstone rowhouses, townhouses, and shabby tenements that were built during a period of rapid expansion from 1870 to 1930. Stone and brick became the city's building materials of choice after the construction of wood-frame houses was limited in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1835. Unlike Paris, which for centuries was built from its own limestone bedrock, New York has always drawn its building stone from a far-flung network of quarries and its stone buildings have a variety of textures and hues. A distinctive feature of many of the city's buildings is the presence of wooden roof-mounted water towers. In the 1800s, the city required their installation on buildings higher than six stories to prevent the need for excessively high water pressures at lower elevations, which could burst municipal water pipes. Garden apartments became popular during the 1920s in outlying areas, including Jackson Heights in Queens, which became more accessible with expansion of the subway.

NYC

wanderwoman

New York City is comprised of five boroughs, an unusual form of govern ...

Updated: Feb 08, 2008 12:26pm PST

New York! New York! : In and around NYC.

New York! New York!

martynj

In and around NYC.

Updated: Feb 08, 2008 5:04am PST

Analog New York :

Analog New York

ifotog

Updated: Jan 30, 2008 8:00pm PST

New York : New York

New York

GemImages

New York

Updated: Jan 28, 2008 7:55pm PST

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