Lewis Black
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Lewis Black ranting about mafia cops and shirking accountability for Abu Ghraib on the Daily Show. 5MB Quicktime video - onegoodmove.org |
Skyline
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| Pyramid topped Zeckendorf Towers 14th Street and Union Square East (4th Ave) on the right and the Con Edison clock tower at 14th Street and Irving Place. I’m attempting to identify all the skyline building visible from downtown. When you are at their base, where you might find their name, you often cannot see their distinctive pinacle. |
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| Here’s the Con Ed clock tower from across 14th Street. You can’t even see that decorative roof. |
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The columned base of the Con Edison Building. “From 1854 to 1926 was the Academy of Music… President-elect Lincoln saw Verdi’s Masked Ball here in 1861… After fashion moved uptown to the Metropolitan Opera House, the Academy presented vaudeville and later silent movies.” – NY Songlines If this is the facade of the original theater it must have been preserved while the tower was built above it, sometime in the early part of the 20th Century when elevators and steel frame construction made skyscrapers possible. If anyone has any information on this please let me know. Email address at bottom of this page. |
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The Con Ed Tower from Third Avenue and 12th Street. |
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Ottendorfer Library
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Designed by the architect William Schickel and built in 1883-84, the Ottendorfer Library was the first building in Manhattan to be specifically erected as a free public lending library. The building combines elements from several late Victorian architectural styles and is important for it’s early use of molded terra cotta. The interior remains almost unchanged since 1884. – From the landmark plaque.
Freie Bibliothek u. Lesehalle (Free Library and Reading Room). “The Branch was a gift of Oswald Ottendorfer, owner of the New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung. At the time, the neighborhood was called Kleindeutschland (Little Germany) and had a population of over 150,000 people of German descent. Ottendorfer wished to provide this community with books to cultivate their minds and assist assimilation into American culture. Half of the 8,000 original books were in German with the other half in English.” – nypl.org Second Avenue near St Marks Place. |
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