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Classic sight of how New York would have looked 100 yrs, back. Ships of all sizes along lower Manhattan, with the Brooklyn bridge spanning the east river. Air quality at the time would have been obscuring the view of the bridge.
Wavertree was buil in Southampton, England in 1885 and was one of the last large sailing ships built of wrought iron. She was built for the Liverpool company R.W. Leyland & Company, and is named after the Wavertree district of that city.
Classic sight of how New York would have looked 100 yrs, back. Ships of all sizes along lower Manhattan, with the Brooklyn bridge spanning the east river. Air quality at the time would have been obscuring the view of the bridge.
East river view looking north. Brooklyn bridge, Manhattan bridge, and in the back ground Williamsburg bridge. Viewed in order of completion.
Manhattan was crammed below Canal st. upper Manhattan sparsely populated by farms and estates of the rich of the time. Brooklyn bridge was truly the second expansion of the United states, first bridge spanned out of Manhattan. Prior to it's completion in 1883 Brooklyn was accessible by ferry, This was the first accessible road out of Manhattan. Once completed the mass migration to Brooklyn began.
464 Greenwich Street was built in 1892 by builder Hugh Getty for Samuel Crooks, a wholesale coffee and tea merchant. The building was employed as a roasting plant by a variety of coffee companies including the Turkish & Arabian Coffee Company, whose signage remains on the facade.
Now a 29 million loft...
Built in 1854 as ‘Howard Engine Company No. 34,” known as “Red Rover,” this engine company first organized in 1807 as a volunteer fire-fighting company. It eventually was absorbed by the FDNY and became Engine No. 24. In 1975 during city’s financial crisis it was decommissioned, and lay empty.
Today a private residence, wonder if the brass fire pole still lingers
Early 1930-1950's advertising maritime engine services, when ships ruled the sea's, Classic visual of change of times and technological progress or regress of man.
T.A Coffee Trader, a remnant of the old days of NYC, and tall ships of trade. Company long gone since early 40's. Tribeca, NYC
Built in 1862 by builder Hugh Getty for Samuel Crooks, a wholesale coffee and tea merchant. The building was employed as a roasting plant by a variety of coffee companies including the Turkish & Arabian Coffee Company, whose signage remains on the facade.
El cor financer nord-america (i pertant d'el mon, com a minim de moment) es troba al extrem sud de Manhattan, entorn de Wall Street, la borsa i el Banc de la Reserva Federal. Evidentment millor no saber que costa aquí el metre quadrat!!
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Arround Wall St., the NYSE and the Federal Reserve Bank all the terrains are built the highter the better.
Així anem amb la crisis!
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So, there's a world crisis ongoing, you know! And here's one of the decision points.
La borsa de Nova York (o New York Stock Exchange), amb la famosa façana...Be, sapigueu que aquesta façana no dona a Wall Strett, sino a Broad St.; El que si hi ha a Wall St. és la porta de la borsa.
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New York Stock Exchange, with the famous column ridden front to Wall S... Wait! The main entrance is IN Wall Street, but this columns (and flag) aren't there but in Broad St., just arround the corner!
These kinds of brick commercial buildings were constructed by the thousands during Brooklyn's development peak in the 1920s. Here's an image of a survivor 50 years later.
Vista de Trinity Church al final de Wall Street, Nova York.
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Trinity Church at the end of Wall Street, New York.
A Stone St., al Lower Manhattan pots arrivar a intuir com era el Nova York del s. XVIII, ja que tot un tram conserva cases prou antigues i baixetes. Envoltades, això si, d'inmensos gratacels.
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In Stone St., Lower Manhattan, you can have ALMOST the feeling of 18th Century New York (but most of the buildings are from 19th-early 20th Century). Almost because you must try to forgot the all arround huge skyscrapers.
This is the "magic hour" photographers look for. It's a misnomer, as the lighting changes so quickly, you literally have seconds to capture it. I suggest using "magic moment" instead.
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Wall Street. Compta més el concepte que el nom. De fet, es diu així perque la muralla de Nova York (si, tenia muralles) al segle XVII pasaba per aquí. Molt despres varen venir els banquers i especuladors.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street
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Today it counts more the concept that the place itself. Tell that to the dutch who built a wall to protect New Amsterdam right here!
In 1885 Keens Chophouse opened independently under the ownership of Albert Keen, by then a noted figure in the Herald Square Theatre District. Keens soon became the lively and accepted rendezvous of the famous. Actors in full stage make-up hurried through the rear door to “fortify” themselves between acts at the neighboring Garrick Theatre. By the time Keens celebrated its 20th anniversary, you could glance into the Pipe Room and see the jovial congregations of producers, playwrights, publishers and newspaper men who frequented Keens.
One car width concrete arch bridge over Gurnee Avenue on CSX Railroad. Location: Rockland County, New York. Status: Open to traffic one car at a time. To be replaced this year. History: Built 1904. Design: Arch. Total length: 31.8 ft.
MJH gear company uses no computers. My company shares a building, and MJH gets all of their orders via email sent to us, printed out, and handed to them. Their machines operate with patience— gears that a laser could cut in 20 seconds take two minutes here. Hand measurement and precise, cerebral calibration are key to production.
"This used to be the old IBM logo—" the owner, John, points to a tiny placard that says “THINK" in caps.
"I always get people coming from [your company] opening my door on the second floor, going, ‘is this the exit?’ How many signs do I gotta put up?"
We laughed.
"Now there’s three— one on the other door, and two on the wall that all say ‘EXIT.’ But people don’t read. People don’t think."
From a booming four-story factory to a two-floor specialty shop that caters only to the needs of a bygone era, MJH gear company remains one of those rare diamonds left of Old New York in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC.
MJH gear company uses no computers. My company shares a building, and MJH gets all of their orders via email sent to us, printed out, and handed to them. Their machines operate with patience— gears that a laser could cut in 20 seconds take two minutes here. Hand measurement and precise, cerebral calibration are key to production.
"This used to be the old IBM logo—" the owner, John, points to a tiny placard that says “THINK" in caps.
"I always get people coming from [your company] opening my door on the second floor, going, ‘is this the exit?’ How many signs do I gotta put up?"
We laughed.
"Now there’s three— one on the other door, and two on the wall that all say ‘EXIT.’ But people don’t read. People don’t think."
From a booming four-story factory to a two-floor specialty shop that caters only to the needs of a bygone era, MJH gear company remains one of those rare diamonds left of Old New York in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC.
MJH gear company uses no computers. My company shares a building, and MJH gets all of their orders via email sent to us, printed out, and handed to them. Their machines operate with patience— gears that a laser could cut in 20 seconds take two minutes here. Hand measurement and precise, cerebral calibration are key to production.
"This used to be the old IBM logo—" the owner, John, points to a tiny placard that says “THINK" in caps.
"I always get people coming from [your company] opening my door on the second floor, going, ‘is this the exit?’ How many signs do I gotta put up?"
We laughed.
"Now there’s three— one on the other door, and two on the wall that all say ‘EXIT.’ But people don’t read. People don’t think."
From a booming four-story factory to a two-floor specialty shop that caters only to the needs of a bygone era, MJH gear company remains one of those rare diamonds left of Old New York in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC.