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Sofia 665 Schindler Be4/6 articulated tram at Banishora Depot on 10 June 2017.
New in 1990 and recently ex Basel 665.
Sofia Kenin of the United States in action during her second-round match at the 2019 Internazionali BNL d'Italia WTA Premier 5 tennis tournament
Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
The Arc Deco Sofia Brothers Warehouse was designed by the firm of Jardine, Hill & Murdoch as one of two Kent Automatic Parking Garages. Built in 1929-30, the garage used a patented automatic parking system in which an electrical "parking machine" engaged cars by their rear axles and towed them from the elevator platform to parking spots. As the use of automobiles increased after the First World War, the creation of parking facilities became a necessity in urban areas and the design of garages a new field for architects.
However, in September of 1931, the Kent garage enterprise failed, and the company was reorganized without the Kent Brothers. The building was operated as a garage until 1943, when the Central Savings Bank (holder of the mortgage), sold it to the Sofia interests, who removed the garage apparatus blocked up the original vehicular entrance on Columbus Avenue, and converted the building to a storage warehouse. The architect of the alteration was George S. Kings ley.
The Sofia Brothers Warehouse occupies a prominent site on Columbus Avenue near the southern edge of the Upper West Side. - It was only towards the end of the 19th century (in the 1870s) that the development of New York City extended north of 59th Street into the then-rural Upper West Side. Though the rectangular street grid had been superimposed over the entire island as early as 1811, it wasn't until the construction of the Ninth Avenue El that the Upper West Side experienced large-scale urban expansion.
While older village centers existed at Harsenville near 72nd Street, and Bloomingdale at 86th Street, rowhouses for affluent residents were built near public improvements such as Riverside Park and Drive. Other houses and tenements were constructed near the elevated railway stops at 72nd , 81st and 93rd Streets.
Throughout much of the 19th century, the West Side, south of 60th Street, was the home of Manhattan's black population. By 1900, the black community had spread as far north as 64th Street, west of Broadway. The area between 60th and 64th Streets, consisting mostly of dilapidated tenement housing, small industrial buildings, and groups of stables, was known as Columbus Hill because of its proximity to Columbus Circle until it became the scene of bloody racial riots involving veterans of the Spanish-
American War and was renamed "San Juan Hill."
This this area served as a transitional zone to the more exclusive rowhouse blocks to the north. The continued presence of the Ninth Avenue El did not enhance the desirability of the San Juan Hill neighborhood as a place to live. An attempt was made to change the neighborhood's image by changing the names of Ninth and Tenth Avenues to Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues.
As the. 20th-century progressed, the neighborhood changed to light industrial uses. The 1936 tax map shows gas stations, garages, auto dealerships, and factory service centers lining the streets from West 59th to West 70th Streets, especially between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The Sofia Brothers Warehouse, then the Kent Parking Garage, erected adjacent to the Packard Motor Car Company warehouse and showrooms.
The area retained its fragmented character until the erection of Lincoln Center in the 1960's just to the north and related redevelopment of the Upper West Side during the past two decades.
The Kent Parking Garage; now the Sofia Brothers Warehouse, was designed in the increasingly popular Art Deco style which.... "through the late 20s and early 30s...was being applied to an ever greater range of building types. It seems likely that for this location the client sought an Art Deco design with its implications of modernity and progress to indicate the innovative nature of the new parking system housed within the building.
The Art Deco movement on the Upper West Side had been first manifested in such apartment buildings as No. 336 Central Park West at 94th Street (1928, Schwartz & Cross;, the Master Apartments on Riverside Drive at 103rd Street in (1928, Heinle, Corbett i Harrison and Sugarman & Berger) and the Eldorado on Central Park West at 90th Street (1929, Margon & Holder) .
The Kent- Parking Garage, dates from 1929-30. Other major Art" Deco buildings of 1929 are the Daily News Building on 42nd Street by Howells & Hood and the Salvation Army Building on 14th Street by Voorhes, Gemlin & Walker.
The firm "of Jardine, Hill & Murdock, which designed the Kent Automatic Parking Garage was the successor firm to D & J Jardine, later, Jardine, Kent & Jardine, and Jardine, Kent & Hill. The Jardine firm was especially active in the last quarter of the 19th century in the design of rowhouses, apartment buildings, and commercial buildings, including the cast-iron B. Altman & Co. store at Sixth Avenue and 19th Street.
The successor firm continued in the commercial tradition, designing a number of Manhattan office buildings including No. 50 East 42nd Street (1915), No. 465 Fifth Avenue (1917 No. 335 Broadway (1925), No. 341 Madison Avenue (1926), and No. 40 Worth Street (1927).
These buildings, which are faced with brick and terra cotta, are articulated by a variety of Renaissance-inspired detail. An unusual mixed-use structure of 1929-30 at 123 West 57th Street houses both the Calvary Baptist Church and the Salisbury Hotel. Here the firm chose to use Gothic detail to enhance the facade. For the Kent firm, Jardine, Hill & Murdock also designed a parking garage built in 1928 at 209 East 43rd Street, (still extant but refaced in 1961) which displayed modest Renaissance-inspired detail in keeping with the dignified character of Midtown Manhattan. The Kent Garage on Columbus Avenue of the following year is the only known design by the firm in the Art Deco style.
The impressive 24-story brick and terra-cotta Sofia Brothers warehouse building is located on the corner of Columbus Avenue and 61st Street and features setbacks on its main Columbus Avenue facade at the 15th, 21st, and 23rd stories. A major feature of the Columbus Avenue facade is the entrance through which cars were originally driven. This entrance has been given an elaborate two-story treatment of ornamental polychromatic terra cotta of chevrons and medallions which is based, like much Art Deco design, on Aztec motifs. The upper stories are simply articulated with orange brickwork, black horizontal brick bands delineating the stories, and slightly projecting vertical brick piers defining the central window bays.
The windows contain twelve-paned metal sash. Some have been replaced by one-over-one sash. The spandrel areas the windows from the 15th story up are unified by paired horizontal or vertical bands of black brick. The crenellated parapet areas of each setback, including the roof, are capped by cream and royal blue colored terra-cotta and cast stone ornament, echoing that of the main entrance.
The 61st Street facade is a sheer, 24-story wall nearly devoid of windows. Although the stepped-back profile of the tower was originally meant to be symmetrical, the step-back on the south elevation was never built. It does, however, appear in the original plans.
The original elevator tower which is centrally located on the wall and projects one bay from the body of the building is strikingly defined by linear, geometric ornament executed in black brick and extending almost the full length of the tower. This wall ornament is one of the chief distinguishing architectural features of the building and provides an instantly recognizable identification for the building to those approaching from the south.
The horizontal black bands of the main facade extend around the corn-to form part of the 61st Street wall. "U.S. Bonded, Free, Sofia Brothers, Inc. Fireproof Storage Warehouse" appears in painted block letters along these extend bands Through the use of such brick bands to articulate the floor levels as well as metal sash, the designers were following the precepts for "appropriate expression for garage design" articulated by the Architectural Record.
A series of one and two-story entrances, decorated with brick, terra-cotta, and cast stone in a similar "fashion to the main facade, project from the base of the side elevation forming low office wings.
The Sofia Brothers Warehouse, now one of the very few commercial buildings surviving in its neighborhood, is a notable, example of the Art Deco style. In the Lincoln Center area, which -has been extensively developed in recent years, it is a reminder of an earlier era, enhancing the area with its architectural quality and distinctive character.
- From the 1983 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
Sofia the First at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, USA 2018
Another perfectly lovely place on Earth is Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria. It's lively, green, very social, a city where they don't destroy their old buildings in order to construct new office high rises but the office buildings have to adapt and coexist with the old. They turn out smaller and more modest crammed between two appartment houses from the beginning of the last century.
It's an organic city, where things and places grow up as they come. The traffic is also organic. I cannot drive in Sofia but my husband enjoys the experience - it's all about negotations between the drivers (who drive very slowly) and the pedestrians. Nobody yells or honks and drivers usually smile at each other. The formal rules don't apply (well, maybe red and green light does but not much more else) but people seem to be able to move around.
The St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a Bulgarian Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Built in Neo-Byzantine style, it serves as the cathedral church of the Patriarch of Bulgaria and is one of the largest Eastern Orthodox cathedrals in the world, as well as one of Sofia's symbols and primary tourist attractions.
Sofia Kenin of the United States in action during the first round at the 2020 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships WTA Premier tennis tournament.
Sofia Kenin of the United States in action during her first-round match at the 2019 Mutua Madrid Open WTA Premier Mandatory tennis tournament
Not only is she "Sofia Diane", but this photo is also used to supported a scam in the name of Regina Agbo, a 24 year-old from Rwanda. Her father was Dr. Steve K Agbo, Managing Director of Filter and Associates of Kigali.
And, this picture is also used by Nancy Samuel Agurma, a 22 year-old Liberian.
Also Joy Koneh who also called herself Joy Neson.
And Linda Koneh, from the Ivory Coast
And 24 year-old Favour Bezebi
This pic and Sofia Diane 1 are both also used by Grace Koneh
Nancy Juliet Zaya, from Zimbabwe , born on 4th of May 1987. Undergraduate in the school of nursing in Zimbabwe . Fair in complexion, height 5.6ft, Father was Dr. Edson Zaya the MDC treasurer for Ward 9 in Shamva North in Zimbabwe; ok so he was "Treasurer" - that's why he's got $5.75m in the bank. Nancy also uses the picture for Sonia Koneh.
Also Linda James, 23, single, tall and fair in complexion; she says she "very good looking". from the Ivory Coast and her late father was Dr Appolos James.
Alice Dabah, the daughter of Dr Manfred Dabah, a former director of Diamond Extrusion Limited of Monrovia, Liberia; she had $3.4m in a bank - somewhere. She hasn't even told me her age
Joy Tanba, 23, from Liberia, the daughter of Dr Raphael Tanba, the former Deputy minister of National Security, with $4.7m in a "leading bank in Europe"
Joy Dickson, 24, from the Ivory Coast, and a first year law student at the University of Abidjan. Her father was Dr William Dickson, the Chairman Managing Director of Dickson and Sons Industrial Company Limited, and he had $5.7m in a The Royal Bank of Scotland
Sofia Kenin of the United States in action during her third-round match at the 2018 US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament
Sofia the First at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, USA 2016
Sofia Kenin of the United States in action during her third-round match at the 2019 Internazionali BNL d'Italia WTA Premier 5 tennis tournament
Sofia Kenin of the United States in action during her third-round match at the 2019 Internazionali BNL d'Italia WTA Premier 5 tennis tournament
Sofia Kenin of the United States in action during the first round at the 2020 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships WTA Premier tennis tournament.