Prospect Park (Brooklyn) The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux after they completed Manhattan's Central Park.
Central Park. Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan in New York City.
The park was initially opened in 1857, on 778 acres (315 ha) of city-owned land (it is 843 acres today). In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan. Sony Building (New York) In December 2012, bidding started on the building[4] and in January 2013 Sony announced plans to sell the building to the Chetrit Group for $1.1 billion -- $685 million more than it had paid for it.
Sony would lease back its offices there through at least 2016.[5][6] History[edit] AT&T Building[edit] In October 1978, AT&T was granted permission to add 81,928 square feet (7,611.4 m2), the equivalent of some four floors of space on its proposed building, in exchange for agreeing to provide open public space and a three-story communications museum. The firm was granted an additional 43,000 square feet (4,000 m2), about two floor's worth, as a bonus for creating a 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m2) covered arcade along Madison Avenue that would include seating and retail kiosks.[7] Main entrance In 1984, the company indicated that it would not build the museum that it had originally committed to build in exchange for bonus zoning. Western or "behind" side. FAO Schwarz. FAO Schwarz, founded in 1862, is the oldest toy store in the United States.[1] The company is known for its unique high-end toys, life-sized stuffed animals, dolls, and games.[2] The FAO Schwarz flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York City is a popular tourist destination, and has gained iconic status for its floor piano, cameos in major motion pictures, and real-life toy soldiers.[1] The FAO Schwarz brand is currently the property of the descendants of the founder through the FAO Schwarz Family Foundation,[3] but is now exclusively operated by Toys "R" Us Inc.[4] History[edit] Early History (by topic)[edit] FAO Schwarz was founded in 1862 under the name “Toy Bazaar” by German immigrant Frederick August Otto Schwarz, in Baltimore, where he and his brothers retailed toys from a fancy-goods store.
Additional locations of “Toy Bazaar” followed in Philadelphia and Boston. In 1889, Schwarz added his initials to newspaper advertisements, branding the store at that time as simply "F.A.O. D. Flatiron Building. The building anchors the south (downtown) end of Madison Square and the north (uptown) end of the Ladies' Mile Historic District.
The neighborhood around it is called the Flatiron District after its signature building, which has become an icon of New York City.[4] The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1966,[5] was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979,[6] and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.[7][8] History of the site[edit] The site on which the Flatiron Building would stand was bought in 1857 by Amos Eno, who would shortly build the Fifth Avenue Hotel on a site diagonally across from it. Eno tore down the four-story St. New York Stock Exchange. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), sometimes known as the "Big Board",[4] is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$16.613 trillion as of May 2013.[1] Average daily trading value was approximately US$169 billion in 2013.
The NYSE is operated by NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX), which was formed by the NYSE's 2007 merger with the fully electronic stock exchange Euronext. In December 2012, it was announced that the company was being sold to Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), a futures exchange headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, for $8 billion, a figure that is significantly less than the $11 billion bid for the company tendered in 2011.[8] NYSE and Euronext now operate as divisions to IntercontinentalExchange. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. History and facilities[edit] A consortium of civic leaders and others led by (and under the initiative of) John D. Rockefeller III built Lincoln Center as part of the "Lincoln Square Renewal Project" during Robert Moses's program of urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s.[2] Respected architects were contacted to design the major buildings on the site, and over the next thirty years the previously blighted area around Lincoln Center became a new cultural hub.[3] While the center may have been named because it was located in the Lincoln Square neighborhood, it is unclear whether the area was named as a tribute to U.S.
President Abraham Lincoln. South Street Seaport. History[edit] By the late-1950s, the old Ward Line docks (Pier 15, 16, and part of 17) were mostly vacant.
South Street Seaport Museum was founded in 1967 by Peter and Norma Stanford. When originally opened as a museum, the focus of the Seaport Museum conservation was to be an educational historic site, with shops mostly operating as reproductions of working environments found during the Seaport's heyday, 1820 to 1860. Designated by Congress in 1998 as one of several museums, which together make up "America's National Maritime Museum", South Street Seaport Museum sits in a 12 square-block historic district that is the site of the original port of New York City.[2] The Museum has over 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) of exhibition space and educational facilities.
Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City.
The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad. Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. New York City.