Chrysler Building

 

World Trade Center under construction

(foto: WTC the twin towers)

World Trade Center under construction inside in the North Tower.

New York Life Building

Frank Little Photography

Entrevista: Carlos Tomás Guerrero Romero

11-S. En memoria y recuerdo de las víctimas

 

Inauguración del World Trade Center (1973)

 

El gobernador del estado de Nueva York, Nelson Rockefeller (quien además fue el promotor de la obra), habla ante invitados y el público abarrotando el lobby de la Torre Norte (1 WTC) del World Trade Center, en la ceremonia de inauguración oficial del World Trade Center, la mañana del 4 de abril de 1973.

Foto: Bettmann/Getty Images.

Lower Manhattan (1973)

 

The construction workers who installed the 360-foot antenna on the World Trade Center's Tower Tower 1

Foto: NYC Urbanism

Foto: NYC Urbanism

Map of colonial New York City (1770)

Foto: NYC Urbanism

The map of New York City by British military officer Bernard Ratzer in 1770 offers a detailed view of Brooklyn and Manhattan in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War. The British colony had greatly expanded in the previous decades, growing from a small port city to a bustling metropolis. Two years after the map was printed Alexander #Hamilton would land in New York and three years later the first shots of the Revolutionary War would be fired in Lexington and Concord.

The Brooklyn Historical Society, which has one of the three original copies in existence detailed the map and its importance:

"It shows two views of a bustling and growing city set amid fields and forests. A large map provides a birds-eye view of lower Manhattan Island, eastern New Jersey, and—across the East River—the farms of “Brookland” (Brooklyn). At the bottom of the map, Bernard Ratzer included a view of busy New York harbor as seen from Governor’s Island. This panorama shows an incredible level of detail, including ships, buildings, and the coastline. It is so detailed that it even shows smoke rising from buildings in Manhattan. The Ratzer Map gives us many clues about New Yorkers of 240 years ago. We see the development of city infrastructure, including sometimes twisting, sometimes grid-like roads. Clusters of buildings indicate where most people lived and worked. The names of farms and large estates tell us who owned land. The map shows important natural features, such as swamps, ponds, rivers and streams. It also shows us ways that New Yorkers changed the natural landscape by planting pastures, orchards, and gardens."

Windows on the World

Iconic American Skyscrapers (Lego)

Statue of Liberty (Independence Day)

The Statue of Liberty is amongst the most recognizable symbols of the values that represent our American ideals. Liberty Island, home of the statue, was utilized by the Lenape people and their ancestors for at least the last 1500 years. Following European colonization, the island has been held privately and publicly, and was used for different purposes as the needs of the people who interacted with it changed. It has served as a military encampment and fort, it has been covered almost completely in housing for people to support those operations, and, for a brief period in the 1730s, it even operated as a quarantine station for the sick. Ahead of the Revolutionary War, it was burned to punish Tory sympathizers residing there. In the lead up to the War of 1812, construction began on an eleven-pointed star-shaped fort built to defend New York Harbor from a British naval threat that never came.

Fort Wood was completed in 1814 and served again as a quarantine station until the Civil War when it was briefly used as a prison. In 1877, Liberty Enlightening the World, or, as we know her, The Statue of Liberty, was presented to the United States as a gift from France. Fort Wood was selected to be the location where the statue would be erected, with the fort itself serving as her base. Until 1937, the statue and the military shared the island until it was transferred to U.S. Department of the Interior  control, and military operations ceased. Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty are amongst the greatest symbols of what it means to be an American, and evidence of thousands of years of uses, identities, and motivations are mixed into the soil Lady Liberty stands upon. Just as time and humanity have shaped what the landscape of the island has become at different points in history, time and humanity will continue to shape and reshape wider American landscapes, identities, and ideals. Justice, inclusivity, and opportunities for all are ideals we strive for on this Independence Day and those to come.

Building The World's Thinnest Skyscraper

Central Park

Nuevo mirador del Chrysler Building

Buenas noticias: igual que en el Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center y One World Trade Center, pronto habrá un mirador desde Chrysler Building, en su planta 61.

Times Square

New York City COVID

Santiago Calatrava's Oculus at the World Trade Center. Transportation Hub in New York

Photo by Nicolas Miller

World Trade Center

(foto: Peter Alessandria Phoyography)

1997 WORLD TRADE CENTER

(foto: Old Images of New York)

NYC Pandemic 4K

Previsión de evolución de la expansión de la pandemia del Covid-19 por Estados Unidos, en especial, análisis del estado de New York. #Coronavirus.

World Trade Center (1973)

NYC Urbanism

Vanderbilt Plaza

Courtesy SL Green

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WTC's Twin Towers, the Way We Want to Remember Them

Planos originales del World Trade Center

Lower Manhattan (1972)

30 Hudson Yards

. Localización: Nueva York (EEUU)
. Año: 2016 - 2019
. Arquitectura-Ingeniería: Kohn Pedersen Fox
. Altura: 386 m
. Plantas: 101
. Uso: Oficinas
. Superficie: 362.000 m2

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Frank Lloyd Wright

Seagram Building (1958)

Mies van der Rohe & Philip Johnson