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HL23 – 515 West 23rd Street – Condo – Chelsea – by Neil Denari

The High Line has done as much for New York City horizontally as the Empire State Building has vertically. Arriving when millenniums meet, it may be the most important piece of income-generating, entertainment-oriented urban design since the boardwalk. Attracting over 40,000 visitors per weekend, it generates an estimated $2 billion in private investment. No public space has brought more people together in New York for positive reasons since the 1964 World’s Fair. Continue reading

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Weird New York sculptures

If you live in New York or if you want go in New york like a tourist ,you must see this really crazy and wired sculptures of this city. Continue reading

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The Standard- Friends in high places

The latest creation from André Balazs is a New York branch of his modish Standard hotels. Rising from one of the city’s most sought-after sites, in the heart of the Meatpacking District, two glass-curtain slabs literally jump the tracks of the High Line, the old freight railroad that’s been transformed into a park on stilts. The design spans—and expands on—a century of modern architecture. Continue reading

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A Groundbreaking 36 Years in the Making

On March 17, 1974, the architect Louis I. Kahn died of a heart attack as he was walking through Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan. He was 73. In his briefcase were the final drawings, which he had just completed, for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial to be built on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island.
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Work commences on 9/11 memorial

Construction has begun in New York on a memorial and museum to commemorate the victims of the 9/11 attacks. The structure at the site of the destroyed World Trade Centre will feature two reflecting pools surrounded by trees. Continue reading

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