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Forty story sliver building at the eastern edge of Hell’s Kitchen on Eighth Avenue between 47th and 48th with a 23-foot-8-inch-wide street front, the condominium tower, at 785 Eighth Avenue, will rise 566 feet high and cantilever over an adjacent building to provide additional floor space.
Tall and Thin Back in Fashion – NY Times Real Estate
Its footprint is a very odd shape: Ismael Leyva Towers Over Hell’s Kitchen
Looking uptown.
A display of old subway wall decorations in the Union Square Subway Station near the stairway to the downtown number 6 train.
I didn’t see a plaque or anything, but it looks like they cut the whole thing out when doing a renovation. I see a layer of brick, concrete and maybe a bit of Manhattan bedrock, or is that more concrete?
14th Street-Union Square Complex
Mary Miss Framing Union Square, 1998
Glass, enameled steel, and aluminum frames highlighting historic and architectural elements throughout station complex
Mary Miss worked with architect Lee Harris Pomeroy to use the rehabilitation of Union Square station as an opportunity to uncover hidden structural elements, cables, and conduits – some still functional and others replaced by new improvements. Old decorative work reappeared during construction, such as mosaics, pilasters, name plaques, and six terra cotta eagles from the 1904 station, once presumed lost.
I found the red framing annoying trying to get good shots of the pillars without the red steel intruding, but I guess bright red does alert travel-trance eyes to the art.
Even though I can see this from one of my apartment windows, I first saw it on The Gothamist site. What I immediately wondered was how they attached it to the sidewalk. The answer is, very poorly, with a couple of bolts into the concrete. I could easily have pulled it over.
It’s like something the Skewville bros would do, but my guess is that it is someone else.
From artist Phil Kline: Every year since 1992 I’ve presented
Unsilent Night, an outdoor ambient music piece for an infinite number
of boomboxes. It’s like a Christmas caroling party except that we
don’t sing, but rather carry the music, each of us playing a separate
track that is a voice in the piece. In effect, we become a city-block-
long sound system. In New York, the event begins at Washington Square
Park and we walk to Tompkins Square Park.
Join us and bring a boombox, or anything that will blast a cassette,
CD, or Mp3. (Cassettes sound the coolest, but we realize cassette
players are getting scarce now.) The more tracks we play, the bigger
and more amazing the sound is. In recent years, Unsilent Nights in
New York and San Francisco have attracted crowds of over a thousand
people, with hundreds of boomboxes. It’s spectacular. If you’d like
to participate, please e-mail the contact listed for your city for
instructions. If you’d like to participate but don’t have a boombox
or a music player with speakers, you can just show up and join the
parade. Everyone is an important part of the procession. Help us make
a big (and joyful) noise. This is always a free event and all ages
are welcome.
Unsilent Night has spread around the world. Phil Kline is a unique
artist whose work employs music in many mediums and contexts, ranging
from experimental electronics, performance art and sound
installations to songs, choral, theater, and chamber music.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is rushing through plans to remove decades-old media ownership protections. And he’s trying to do it without public scrutiny.
The Cooper Square Hotel
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