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It ran from City Hall north to 145th Street. The architects Heins and LaFarge designed the original stations with ceramic tile and mosaic name plaques. 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Since then the museum has invited one artist each season to make a work for the roof.","year":"1987","learn":"The Met's roof has hosted one artist's commission each season since 1987.","source":{"name":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art","url":"https://www.metmuseum.org"},"keywords":["Met roof garden","Cantor Roof Garden","Metropolitan Museum of Art","Met rooftop commission","Met museum Central Park view","Met museum history"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/met","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=met","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/met.jpg"},{"id":"brooklyn","name":"Across the river","area":"BROOKLYN WATERFRONT","mood":"Blue hour","color":"#91bacf","description":"A granite promenade under the bridge, weathered steel screens on the river side, Manhattan lit across the water.","signatures":"Gothic pointed arches in the towers, sagging main cables with vertical suspenders and diagonal stays, the deck truss.","daylit":true,"index":4,"place":"Brooklyn Bridge Park","fact":"Brooklyn Bridge Park covers 85 acres of former shipping piers along the East River in Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates designed it. The first section, Pier 1, opened in 2010, and Jane's Carousel opened in its glass pavilion the next year. Granite from the old Roosevelt Island bridge went into the park's steps and seating.","year":"2010","learn":"The park under the bridge was working shipping piers until 2010.","source":{"name":"Brooklyn Bridge Park","url":"https://www.brooklynbridgepark.org"},"keywords":["Brooklyn Bridge Park","Dumbo waterfront","Jane's Carousel","Pier 1 Brooklyn","Brooklyn Heights Promenade","Empire Fulton Ferry"],"article":"brooklyn-bridge-1883","articles":["brooklyn-bridge-1883"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/brooklyn","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=brooklyn","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/brooklyn.jpg"},{"id":"times","name":"Electric crossroads","area":"TIMES SQUARE","mood":"Midnight","color":"#e477bc","description":"A canyon of lit billboards showing nothing but New Yorkers, the red steps and the ball at the end.","signatures":"Stacked wraparound screens, the red TKTS staircase, One Times Square with its mast and ball.","daylit":false,"index":5,"place":"Times Square","fact":"The crossroads at Broadway and Seventh Avenue was called Longacre Square until 1904, when The New York Times moved into its tower there and the city renamed it. The first New Year's Eve ball dropped from that tower on December 31, 1907. The red glass steps above the TKTS booth opened in 2008.","year":"1904","learn":"It was Longacre Square until a newspaper moved in and the city renamed it in 1904.","source":{"name":"Times Square Alliance","url":"https://www.timessquarenyc.org"},"keywords":["Times Square","Times Square history","New Year's Eve ball drop","TKTS red steps","Longacre Square","Times Square billboards"],"article":"blackout-1977","articles":["blackout-1977","times-square-ball-drop"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/times","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=times","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/times.jpg"},{"id":"ferry","name":"The harbor crossing","area":"STATEN ISLAND FERRY","mood":"Sunset crossing","color":"#f8af72","description":"Orange decks, white rails, the cabin walls hung with New Yorkers, Liberty off the port side.","signatures":"The orange hull and white superstructure, side promenade decks, wheelhouse and funnel, Liberty and the skyline off the water.","daylit":true,"index":6,"place":"The Staten Island Ferry","fact":"Ferries have crossed between Staten Island and Manhattan since the early 1800s. The City of New York took over the service in 1905. The fare was dropped in 1997, and the ride has been free since. The boats carry cars no longer, only people, on a 25 minute crossing past the Statue of Liberty.","year":"1905","learn":"The city has run the boats since 1905, and the ride has been free since 1997.","source":{"name":"NYC Department of Transportation","url":"https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/ferrybus/staten-island-ferry.shtml"},"keywords":["Staten Island Ferry","free ferry New York","Staten Island Ferry schedule","Whitehall Terminal","St. George Terminal","ferry Statue of Liberty view"],"article":"liberty-and-ellis-island","articles":["liberty-and-ellis-island","staten-island-ferry"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/ferry","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=ferry","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/ferry.jpg"},{"id":"botanical","name":"The living city","area":"NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN","mood":"Morning light","color":"#a4c7a1","description":"A glass conservatory nave under a great dome, palms and lily water, the census set among the planting.","signatures":"The glazed nave and central dome with lantern, white iron ribs, tropical planting and a still pool.","daylit":true,"index":7,"place":"The New York Botanical Garden, Enid A. 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That station was demolished in 1963, and its loss helped start the city's landmarks law. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill designed the new hall under a skylight held by the old mail sorting trusses.","year":"2021","learn":"The trusses over the hall once held up a mail sorting room.","source":{"name":"Moynihan Train Hall","url":"https://moynihantrainhall.nyc"},"keywords":["Moynihan Train Hall","Penn Station","Farley Post Office","original Penn Station demolition","Moynihan Train Hall clock","Amtrak New York"],"article":"the-subway-1904","articles":["the-subway-1904","grand-central-1913"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/penn","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=penn","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/penn.jpg"},{"id":"grand","name":"Under the stars","area":"GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL","mood":"Timeless","color":"#b6c5ad","description":"The concourse under a celestial vault, light falling through the great arched windows, the brass clock at the centre.","signatures":"The green celestial ceiling with gold constellations, the arched east and west windows, the opal faced clock on the information booth, marble everywhere.","daylit":false,"index":9,"place":"Grand Central Terminal","fact":"Grand Central Terminal opened on February 2, 1913. 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The last train ran in 1980. Joshua David and Robert Hammond founded Friends of the High Line in 1999 to save it. The first section of the park opened in 2009, designed by James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio and Renfro, and the planting designer Piet Oudolf.","year":"2009","learn":"Freight trains ran here until 1980. 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Emma Stebbins's fountain, Angel of the Waters, was dedicated in 1873 to mark the Croton Aqueduct that brought clean water to the city.","year":"1873","learn":"The tile ceiling is the only Minton tile ceiling in the world.","source":{"name":"Central Park Conservancy","url":"https://www.centralparknyc.org"},"keywords":["Bethesda Terrace","Bethesda Fountain","Angel of the Waters","Minton tile ceiling Central Park","Bethesda Arcade","Emma Stebbins"],"article":"central-park-greensward","articles":["central-park-greensward"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bethesda","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=bethesda","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/bethesda.jpg"},{"id":"oculus","name":"White ribs, infinite city","area":"THE OCULUS","mood":"Pure daylight","color":"#c6e4ef","description":"Tapered white ribs closing over a long skylight, marble underfoot, the census standing on white fins in the light.","signatures":"Paired tapering steel ribs meeting at a central skylight spine, a white marble hall, mezzanine galleries behind glass.","daylit":true,"index":13,"place":"The Oculus, World Trade Center Transportation Hub","fact":"The World Trade Center Transportation Hub opened in March 2016. 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James Brown, Billie Holiday, and Aretha Franklin all played the stage, and the theater became a National Historic Landmark.","year":"1934","learn":"Ella Fitzgerald won Amateur Night here in 1934 at age 17.","source":{"name":"Apollo Theater","url":"https://www.apollotheater.org"},"keywords":["Apollo Theater","Apollo Theater Harlem","Amateur Night at the Apollo","Apollo Theater history","Ella Fitzgerald Apollo","125th Street Harlem"],"article":"harlem-renaissance-apollo","articles":["harlem-renaissance-apollo"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/apollo","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=apollo","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/apollo.jpg"},{"id":"unisphere","name":"The boroughs in orbit","area":"FLUSHING MEADOWS","mood":"Worlds within worlds","color":"#a5cfdf","description":"The steel globe over its fountain basin, orbit rings, radial panels of New Yorkers around the promenade.","signatures":"The open steel lattice globe with continents in relief, three orbit rings, the circular fountain basin, the pavilion towers beyond.","daylit":true,"index":17,"place":"The Unisphere, Flushing Meadows Corona Park","fact":"The Unisphere was the symbol of the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens. 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The plaza in front of it was turned over to pedestrians in 2008.","year":"1902","learn":"At its point the building is about six feet wide.","source":{"name":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","url":"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Flatiron-Building"},"keywords":["Flatiron Building","Flatiron District","Daniel Burnham Flatiron","Flatiron plaza","Fuller Building 1902","Madison Square Park"],"article":"race-to-the-sky-1930","articles":["race-to-the-sky-1930"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/flatiron","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=flatiron","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/flatiron.jpg"},{"id":"bleachers","name":"Bottom of the ninth","area":"THE BRONX BALLPARK","mood":"Night game","color":"#9fb4d6","description":"A ballpark bowl under the lights, the census hung along the outfield wall, the scoreboard running the lineup.","signatures":"The white steel frieze around the upper deck, the limestone gate arches, the diamond and warning track, the outfield wall, the light towers, the bleachers.","daylit":false,"index":24,"place":"Yankee Stadium, the Bronx","fact":"This room stands for Yankee Stadium. The original opened on April 18, 1923, on 161st Street, and Babe Ruth hit its first home run that day. It was the first ballpark in the country to be called a stadium. The team moved across the street to the new Yankee Stadium in 2009, and the old site is now Heritage Field, a public park.","year":"1923","learn":"Babe Ruth hit the first home run here on opening day, 1923.","source":{"name":"New York Yankees","url":"https://www.mlb.com/yankees/ballpark"},"keywords":["Yankee Stadium","Yankee Stadium history","original Yankee Stadium 1923","Bronx bleachers","Monument Park","Yankee Stadium tour"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bleachers","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=bleachers","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/bleachers.jpg"},{"id":"deli","name":"Take a number","area":"THE APPETIZING COUNTER","mood":"Sunday morning","color":"#e9c46a","description":"A Lower East Side corner store: neon over the awning, a tin ceiling, glass cases lit from inside, the census in every case and up on the photo wall.","signatures":"The long glass and marble counter, hanging salamis on a rail, a pressed tin ceiling, the numbered ticket dispenser, the corner neon and awning, the photo wall.","daylit":true,"index":25,"place":"The appetizing store: Russ and Daughters and Barney Greengrass","fact":"This room stands for the appetizing store, a New York trade in smoked fish, cured salmon, herring, and cream cheese, the foods eaten with bagels. 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Kosher law made them two shops.","source":{"name":"Russ and Daughters","url":"https://www.russanddaughters.com"},"keywords":["appetizing store","Russ and Daughters","Barney Greengrass","Lower East Side lox","New York smoked fish","bagel and lox history"],"article":"the-bodega","articles":["the-bodega"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/deli","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=deli","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/deli.jpg"},{"id":"washington","name":"Under the arch","area":"WASHINGTON SQUARE","mood":"Saturday afternoon","color":"#b9c8a4","description":"The marble arch, the fountain plaza, chess tables under the trees, the works set on steel easels around the water.","signatures":"The white marble arch with its relief panels and the avenue framed through it, the round fountain basin with a jet, the chess tables in the southwest corner, the red brick row houses on the north side.","daylit":true,"index":26,"place":"Washington Square Park","fact":"The land was a potter's field from 1797 until 1825, and thousands are still buried under the lawn. It became a parade ground and then a park. Stanford White designed the marble arch, dedicated in 1895 to replace a wooden one built for the centennial of Washington's inauguration. In 1958 neighbors led by Shirley Hayes and Jane Jacobs won the fight to close the park to cars.","year":"1895","learn":"The lawn covers a potter's field. The arch came later, in 1895.","source":{"name":"NYC Parks, Washington Square Park","url":"https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/washington-square-park"},"keywords":["Washington Square Park","Washington Square Arch","Greenwich Village park","Washington Square fountain","chess tables Washington Square","Stanford White arch"],"article":"triangle-fire-1911","articles":["triangle-fire-1911","stonewall-1969","jane-jacobs-and-robert-moses"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/washington","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=washington","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/washington.jpg"},{"id":"boathouse","name":"The Lullwater","area":"PROSPECT PARK BOATHOUSE","mood":"Late summer","color":"#a9c9b0","description":"A white terracotta boathouse on the lake, its loggia hung with the census, rowboats drifting under the bridge.","signatures":"The Beaux Arts loggia of five arches with a balustraded roof, the terrace over the water, the arched Lullwater bridge, rowboats and swans, the tree line closing the lake.","daylit":true,"index":27,"place":"Prospect Park Boathouse","fact":"The Boathouse on the Lullwater opened in 1905, designed by Helmle, Huberty and Hudswell in white terracotta, after the Library of Sannazaro in Venice. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux laid out Prospect Park itself in 1867 and called it their best work. The Boathouse was saved from demolition in the 1960s and since 2002 has housed the Audubon Center.","year":"1905","learn":"Olmsted and Vaux called Prospect Park their best work, better than Central Park.","source":{"name":"Prospect Park Alliance","url":"https://www.prospectpark.org"},"keywords":["Prospect Park Boathouse","Lullwater Prospect Park","Prospect Park Audubon Center","Olmsted Vaux Prospect Park","Prospect Park Lake","Boathouse wedding Brooklyn"],"article":"central-park-greensward","articles":["central-park-greensward"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/boathouse","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=boathouse","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/boathouse.jpg"},{"id":"halloffame","name":"The colonnade","area":"HALL OF FAME FOR GREAT AMERICANS","mood":"Bronze afternoon","color":"#c9b08a","description":"A semicircular colonnade on a Bronx bluff, the census where the bronze busts stand, a domed library at its heart.","signatures":"The open air Corinthian colonnade curving around the library, bust pedestals between the columns, the terraced site over the Harlem River, the green copper dome and portico.","daylit":true,"index":28,"place":"The Hall of Fame for Great Americans","fact":"The Hall of Fame for Great Americans is a 630 foot stone colonnade on a bluff above the Harlem River in the Bronx. Stanford White designed it, and it opened in 1901 on the University Heights campus of New York University, wrapped around his Gould Memorial Library. It holds 98 bronze busts of Americans chosen by vote. The campus became Bronx Community College in 1973.","year":"1901","learn":"The first hall of fame in the country is a colonnade of 98 bronze heads in the Bronx.","source":{"name":"Bronx Community College","url":"https://www.bcc.cuny.edu"},"keywords":["Hall of Fame for Great Americans","Bronx Community College Hall of Fame","Gould Memorial Library","Stanford White Bronx","University Heights campus","bronze busts Hall of Fame"],"article":"jane-jacobs-and-robert-moses","articles":["jane-jacobs-and-robert-moses"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/halloffame","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=halloffame","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/halloffame.jpg"},{"id":"twa","name":"Departures, 1962","area":"TWA FLIGHT CENTER","mood":"Jet age","color":"#e07a7a","description":"The swooping concrete terminal at the airport, a sunken red lounge, the flight tubes, a plane on the apron.","signatures":"The winged concrete shell and its four vaults, the sunken conversation pit in red, the split flap board, the curved tube corridors, the airliner at the gate.","daylit":true,"index":29,"place":"The TWA Flight Center, JFK Airport","fact":"Eero Saarinen designed the TWA Flight Center at Idlewild Airport, now JFK. It opened in 1962, a year after his death, with a concrete roof shaped like wings and red carpeted tubes leading to the gates. Trans World Airlines used it until the airline ended in 2001. It reopened in 2019 as the lobby of the TWA Hotel, with a 1958 Lockheed Constellation parked outside as a bar.","year":"1962","learn":"Saarinen's terminal opened in 1962, a year after he died.","source":{"name":"TWA Hotel","url":"https://www.twahotel.com"},"keywords":["TWA Flight Center","TWA Hotel JFK","Eero Saarinen terminal","TWA terminal 1962","Connie cocktail lounge","JFK Terminal 5 history"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/twa","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=twa","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/twa.jpg"},{"id":"snug","name":"The sailors' rest","area":"SNUG HARBOR","mood":"Staten Island stillness","color":"#c9c3a4","description":"Five Greek temples in a row on a Staten Island lawn, a hall of the census inside the main one, a walled scholar's garden behind.","signatures":"The row of Greek Revival temple fronts with Ionic porticos, the long front lawn, the Music Hall, the Chinese Scholar's Garden with its pond, pavilion and moon gate.","daylit":true,"index":30,"place":"Sailors' Snug Harbor","fact":"Sailors' Snug Harbor opened in 1833 on the north shore of Staten Island as a home for aged and worn out seamen, funded by the will of Robert Richard Randall. Its row of five Greek Revival temples faces the harbor; Minard Lafever designed the central building. They were among the first buildings protected under the city's landmarks law in 1965. The site is now a cultural center with the New York Chinese Scholar's Garden, which opened in 1999.","year":"1833","learn":"A home for old sailors, opened 1833, with five Greek temples facing the harbor.","source":{"name":"Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden","url":"https://snug-harbor.org"},"keywords":["Snug Harbor","Sailors' Snug Harbor Staten Island","Chinese Scholar's Garden Staten Island","Snug Harbor Cultural Center","Staten Island Museum Snug Harbor","Greek Revival Staten Island"],"article":"staten-island-ferry","articles":["staten-island-ferry"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/snug","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=snug","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/snug.jpg"},{"id":"wollman","name":"Ice under the towers","area":"WOLLMAN RINK","mood":"December night","color":"#bcd7ea","description":"The rink in the southeast corner of the park, the works hung on the boards, skaters as light, snow falling on the skyline.","signatures":"The oval rink below the outcrops, the Midtown towers rising over bare trees, the boards, the rental house and terrace, snow on every ledge.","daylit":true,"index":31,"place":"Wollman Rink, Central Park","fact":"Wollman Rink opened in 1950 in the southeast corner of Central Park, paid for by a gift from Kate Wollman in memory of her family. It replaced skating on the Pond, which had drawn crowds since the park opened. The rink sits below the towers of Central Park South and has appeared in many films.","year":"1950","learn":"New Yorkers skated on the Pond here for ninety years before the rink opened in 1950.","source":{"name":"Central Park Conservancy","url":"https://www.centralparknyc.org"},"keywords":["Wollman Rink","Central Park ice skating","Wollman Rink tickets","Central Park skating rink","Wollman Rink history","Central Park South skyline"],"article":"central-park-greensward","articles":["central-park-greensward"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/wollman","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=wollman","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/wollman.jpg"},{"id":"doyers","name":"The bend","area":"DOYERS STREET","mood":"Lantern hour","color":"#e05a4a","description":"The crooked lane in Chinatown under strings of lanterns, a dim sum hall up one flight, the census on every wall.","signatures":"The sharp bend of the lane, tenements with fire escapes, red lanterns strung overhead, the painted mural on the bend, the upstairs banquet hall with round tables and a lazy susan.","daylit":true,"index":32,"place":"Doyers Street, Chinatown","fact":"Doyers Street is a 200 foot lane in Chinatown with a sharp bend in the middle. It takes its name from Hendrik Doyer, who ran a distillery there in the 1700s. In the early 1900s the bend was known as the Bloody Angle for its tong wars. Nom Wah Tea Parlor opened on the street in 1920 and is the oldest dim sum restaurant in the city.","year":"1920","learn":"The bend was called the Bloody Angle. Nom Wah has served dim sum on it since 1920.","source":{"name":"Museum of Chinese in America","url":"https://www.mocanyc.org"},"keywords":["Doyers Street","Chinatown Doyers Street","Nom Wah Tea Parlor","Bloody Angle Chinatown","Chinatown history New York","Doyers Street mural"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/doyers","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=doyers","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/doyers.jpg"},{"id":"strivers","name":"The parlour floor","area":"STRIVERS' ROW","mood":"Sunday in Harlem","color":"#c98a6a","description":"A block of Harlem row houses, and inside one of them the parlour floor: pocket doors, a piano, the census in gilt on the walls.","signatures":"The unbroken row of brownstones and buff brick with high stoops, the tree lined block, the parlour with its bay window, marble mantel, pocket doors and pressed tin ceiling.","daylit":true,"index":33,"place":"Strivers' Row, the St. Nicholas Historic District, Harlem","fact":"The developer David H. King Jr. built these four rows of houses on West 138th and 139th Streets from 1891 to 1893. Three firms designed them: James Brown Lord, Bruce Price with Clarence Luce, and McKim, Mead and White. They were built for white buyers and stood half empty until they were sold to Black New Yorkers around 1919. The doctors, musicians and lawyers who moved in gave the block its name. It became the St. Nicholas Historic District in 1967.","year":"1891","learn":"Built in 1891 for buyers who never came. Harlem's strivers filled it after 1919.","source":{"name":"NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission","url":"https://www.nyc.gov/site/lpc/index.page"},"keywords":["Strivers' Row","St. Nicholas Historic District","Harlem row houses","King Model Houses","West 138th Street Harlem","Harlem brownstones history"],"article":"harlem-renaissance-apollo","articles":["harlem-renaissance-apollo"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/strivers","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=strivers","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/strivers.jpg"},{"id":"rock","name":"Seventy floors up","area":"TOP OF THE ROCK","mood":"Blue hour","color":"#8fb3d9","description":"The observation decks of a limestone tower, glass panels at the edge, the whole island laid out around the works.","signatures":"The stepped limestone crown of the slab, three terraced decks, safety glass panels between stone piers, the park to the north and the spire to the south, the city as the wall.","daylit":true,"index":34,"place":"Top of the Rock, 30 Rockefeller Plaza","fact":"30 Rockefeller Plaza, first the RCA Building, was completed in 1933 as the centerpiece of Rockefeller Center. Raymond Hood led the design. Its observation deck on the 70th floor opened the same year, styled after the deck of an ocean liner. It closed in 1986 and reopened in 2005. The deck faces Central Park to the north and the Empire State Building to the south.","year":"1933","learn":"The deck was styled after an ocean liner in 1933, then closed for nineteen years.","source":{"name":"Top of the Rock","url":"https://www.topoftherocknyc.com"},"keywords":["Top of the Rock","30 Rockefeller Plaza","Rockefeller Center observation deck","Top of the Rock tickets","RCA Building 1933","Top of the Rock sunset"],"article":"race-to-the-sky-1930","articles":["race-to-the-sky-1930"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/rock","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=rock","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/rock.jpg"},{"id":"frick","name":"The garden court","area":"THE FRICK","mood":"Gilded quiet","color":"#d9cfb0","description":"A Fifth Avenue mansion, the skylit garden court with its fountain and ionic columns, the census where the old masters hang.","signatures":"The limestone mansion behind its lawn and iron fence on Fifth Avenue, the glass roofed garden court with paired ionic columns and a central fountain, the paneled galleries opening off it.","daylit":true,"index":35,"place":"The Frick Collection","fact":"Henry Clay Frick built his mansion on Fifth Avenue at 70th Street in 1913 and 1914, designed by Carrere and Hastings. His will left the house and its paintings to the public. John Russell Pope turned it into a museum, and the Garden Court with its fountain was built over the old carriage court. The Frick Collection opened in 1935 and reopened in 2025 after a renovation that opened the family's upstairs rooms.","year":"1935","learn":"The Garden Court was the carriage court until the house became a museum in 1935.","source":{"name":"The Frick Collection","url":"https://www.frick.org"},"keywords":["Frick Collection","Frick museum","Frick Garden Court","Frick mansion Fifth Avenue","Henry Clay Frick house","Frick Vermeer"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/frick","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=frick","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/frick.jpg"},{"id":"seaport","name":"The tall ship","area":"SOUTH STREET SEAPORT","mood":"Morning fog lifting","color":"#9fb8c4","description":"Cobblestones, the brick counting houses, a square rigger at the pier, the census hung in the rigging and along the row.","signatures":"The Schermerhorn Row brick warehouses, Belgian block paving, the iron and timber pier, a three masted ship with yards and rigging, the bridge over the rooftops.","daylit":true,"index":36,"place":"South Street Seaport","fact":"South Street was the city's main port in the age of sail. Schermerhorn Row, the brick counting houses on Fulton Street, was built in 1811 and 1812. The Fulton Fish Market traded here from 1822 until it moved to the Bronx in 2005. The South Street Seaport Museum was founded in 1967 and keeps the 1885 ship Wavertree at Pier 16.","year":"1811","learn":"The fish market ran on this cobbled street for 183 years.","source":{"name":"South Street Seaport Museum","url":"https://www.southstreetseaportmuseum.org"},"keywords":["South Street Seaport","Seaport Museum","Schermerhorn Row","Wavertree ship","Fulton Fish Market","Pier 17"],"article":"brooklyn-bridge-1883","articles":["brooklyn-bridge-1883","before-the-city-lenape-new-amsterdam"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/seaport","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=seaport","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/seaport.jpg"},{"id":"vessel","name":"The climb","area":"HUDSON YARDS","mood":"Copper noon","color":"#c98a5a","description":"A vase of interlocking staircases in copper steel, climbed one landing at a time, the works on every parapet, the towers all around.","signatures":"The widening honeycomb of landings and flights, the copper coloured cladding, the plaza and its glass towers, the river and the rail yards below.","daylit":true,"index":37,"place":"Vessel, Hudson Yards","fact":"Vessel opened in March 2019 as the centerpiece of Hudson Yards, built over the West Side rail yards. Thomas Heatherwick designed it: 154 flights of stairs, 2,500 steps and 80 landings in a copper colored steel frame 150 feet tall. It closed in 2021 after a series of deaths and reopened in 2024 with mesh barriers.","year":"2019","learn":"154 flights of stairs that lead nowhere, opened over the rail yards in 2019.","source":{"name":"Hudson Yards","url":"https://www.hudsonyardsnewyork.com"},"keywords":["Vessel Hudson Yards","Hudson Yards","Heatherwick Vessel","Vessel tickets","Vessel reopening","Hudson Yards staircase"],"article":"high-line-rewilded-city","articles":["high-line-rewilded-city"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/vessel","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=vessel","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/vessel.jpg"},{"id":"littleisland","name":"The tulips","area":"LITTLE ISLAND","mood":"Golden hour on the river","color":"#a8c4a0","description":"A park held over the Hudson on concrete tulips, rolling lawns and an amphitheatre facing the water, the works set into the slopes.","signatures":"The field of pot shaped concrete piles of varying height, the undulating planted topography, the amphitheatre bowl toward the river, the bridges from the esplanade.","daylit":true,"index":38,"place":"Little Island","fact":"Little Island opened in May 2021 on the Hudson River at 13th Street, on the site of the old Pier 54, where survivors of the Titanic came ashore. Heatherwick Studio designed the park and MNLA the landscape, on 132 concrete tulips rising from the water. Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg paid for it. The amphitheater seats 687 and faces the river.","year":"2021","learn":"Titanic survivors landed at this pier. Now it holds a park on 132 concrete tulips.","source":{"name":"Little Island","url":"https://littleisland.org"},"keywords":["Little Island NYC","Little Island park","Pier 55","Little Island amphitheater","Hudson River Park","Little Island tulips"],"article":"high-line-rewilded-city","articles":["high-line-rewilded-city"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/littleisland","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=littleisland","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/littleisland.jpg"},{"id":"cathedral","name":"The unfinished nave","area":"ST. 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At 601 feet long it is one of the largest churches in the world, and it is still unfinished.","year":"1892","learn":"Begun in 1892, still unfinished, and one of the largest churches on earth.","source":{"name":"The Cathedral of St. John the Divine","url":"https://www.stjohndivine.org"},"keywords":["St. John the Divine","Cathedral of St. John the Divine","Morningside Heights cathedral","largest cathedral New York","Blessing of the Animals","St. John the Divine rose window"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/cathedral","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=cathedral","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/cathedral.jpg"},{"id":"queensboro","name":"The elevated","area":"QUEENSBORO PLAZA","mood":"Rush hour","color":"#a0a8d8","description":"An elevated platform over the plaza, trains rolling through on two levels, Manhattan across the river, the census on the platform walls.","signatures":"The double deck steel viaduct, curving tracks and platform canopies, the bridge and the skyline to the west, the glass towers of Long Island City, the traffic under the el.","daylit":true,"index":40,"place":"Queensboro Plaza","fact":"Queensboro Plaza is a two level elevated station in Long Island City at the Queens end of the Queensboro Bridge. 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Now three lines meet here.","source":{"name":"Metropolitan Transportation Authority","url":"https://new.mta.info"},"keywords":["Queensboro Plaza station","Queensboro Bridge","Long Island City subway","7 train Queensboro Plaza","Dual Contracts subway","Queensboro Bridge history"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/queensboro","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=queensboro","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/queensboro.jpg"},{"id":"bushwick","name":"The roof","area":"A BUSHWICK ROOFTOP","mood":"The party at dusk","color":"#e8a04a","description":"A tar roof above the murals, water towers and string lights, the neighbouring walls painted the size of buildings with the census.","signatures":"The tar paper roof with bulkhead and water towers, the painted party walls of the surrounding lofts, string lights on posts, the el and the skyline at dusk, a projector on a bedsheet.","daylit":true,"index":41,"place":"A Bushwick rooftop, above the Bushwick Collective","fact":"This room stands for the rooftops of Bushwick, Brooklyn. The Dutch chartered the town as Boswijck in 1661, and in the 1800s it became the city's brewery district. Since 2011 Joseph Ficalora has invited artists to paint the walls around Troutman Street and St. Nicholas Avenue as the Bushwick Collective, an open air mural gallery that changes every year.","year":"2011","learn":"The walls below have been repainted every year since 2011.","source":{"name":"Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History","url":"https://www.bklynlibrary.org/center-for-brooklyn-history"},"keywords":["Bushwick Collective","Bushwick murals","Bushwick street art","Bushwick rooftop","Bushwick Brooklyn history","Troutman Street murals"],"article":"blackout-1977","articles":["blackout-1977","the-bodega"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bushwick","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=bushwick","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/bushwick.jpg"},{"id":"cyclone","name":"The ride","area":"THE CYCLONE","mood":"Boardwalk summer","color":"#f2e6c8","description":"The wooden coaster at Coney Island, the station, the lift hill, the first drop, and the works along the queue and the boardwalk. 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It is on the National Register of Historic Places and still runs each summer.","year":"1927","learn":"A wooden coaster from 1927 with an 85 foot first drop, and still running.","source":{"name":"Luna Park in Coney Island","url":"https://lunaparknyc.com"},"keywords":["Coney Island Cyclone","Cyclone roller coaster","wooden roller coaster Coney Island","Cyclone 1927","Luna Park Coney Island","Cyclone first drop"],"article":"coney-island","articles":["coney-island"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/cyclone","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=cyclone","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/cyclone.jpg"},{"id":"brooklynbridge","name":"Between the cables","area":"THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE","mood":"Golden hour crossing","color":"#c9b08a","description":"The plank promenade above the traffic, the gothic towers, the web of cables, Manhattan ahead and the harbor below, the works hung on the tower piers and the lamp banners.","signatures":"The two granite towers with pointed double arches, four main cables and the diagonal stay web, the raised timber walkway between the roadways, the iron lamps, the river far below.","daylit":true,"index":43,"place":"The Brooklyn Bridge","fact":"The Brooklyn Bridge opened on May 24, 1883. John A. Roebling designed it and died of an injury at the site before work began. His son Washington Roebling took over, and when caisson disease left him bedridden, his wife Emily Roebling carried his instructions to the site for a decade. Its 1,595 foot main span was the longest in the world, and it was the first suspension bridge hung on steel wire.","year":"1883","learn":"Emily Roebling ran the site for a decade while her husband watched from a window.","source":{"name":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","url":"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Brooklyn-Bridge"},"keywords":["Brooklyn Bridge","Brooklyn Bridge walk","Brooklyn Bridge history","Roebling Brooklyn Bridge","Emily Roebling","Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian path"],"article":"brooklyn-bridge-1883","articles":["brooklyn-bridge-1883"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/brooklynbridge","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=brooklynbridge","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/brooklynbridge.jpg"},{"id":"panorama","name":"The city on a table","area":"THE QUEENS MUSEUM","mood":"Model dusk cycle","color":"#8ab0c8","description":"The Panorama of the city, every borough in miniature under a hall, its lights cycling from day to dusk, a glass walkway around it, the works on the walls above.","signatures":"The 1964 scale model of all five boroughs with its rivers and bridges, the darkened hall with a raised ramped walkway circling the model, the day to night lighting cycle, the Unisphere outside the glass.","daylit":true,"index":44,"place":"The Panorama of the City of New York, Queens Museum","fact":"The Panorama was built for the 1964 World's Fair at the order of Robert Moses. 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Edward Durell Stone was its architect and Donald Deskey designed the interiors. Its proscenium arches rise like a sunrise over a stage 144 feet wide, and the house seats about 6,000. The Rockettes have danced here since it opened. The city made it a landmark in 1978 after plans to close it.","year":"1932","learn":"The arches over the stage are a sunrise, and they have been since 1932.","source":{"name":"Radio City Music Hall","url":"https://www.msg.com/radio-city-music-hall"},"keywords":["Radio City Music Hall","Radio City Christmas Spectacular","Rockettes","Radio City Music Hall tour","Art Deco theater New York","Radio City marquee"],"article":"times-square-ball-drop","articles":["times-square-ball-drop"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/radiocity","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=radiocity","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/radiocity.jpg"},{"id":"woolworth","name":"The cathedral of commerce","area":"THE WOOLWORTH BUILDING","mood":"Gothic gold","color":"#d4c48a","description":"Broadway under the terracotta tower, then the cruciform lobby: gold mosaic vaults, marble, the gothic grilles, the works in the arcade bays.","signatures":"The 792 foot terracotta gothic tower with its green copper crown, the cross shaped lobby with a barrel vault of Byzantine glass mosaic, veined marble walls, bronze gothic tracery, the mezzanine murals.","daylit":true,"index":49,"place":"The Woolworth Building","fact":"The Woolworth Building opened in 1913 on Broadway across from City Hall Park. Cass Gilbert designed it in terracotta Gothic, 792 feet tall, the tallest building in the world until 1930. Frank Woolworth paid for it in cash. President Wilson lit its lights from the White House on opening night, and a preacher named it the Cathedral of Commerce. 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President Eisenhower broke ground in 1959. Philharmonic Hall opened in 1962, and the Metropolitan Opera House opened in 1966, designed by Wallace K. Harrison with two murals by Marc Chagall in its lobby. Its chandeliers rise to the ceiling before each performance.","year":"1962","learn":"The chandeliers rise into the ceiling before every performance.","source":{"name":"Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts","url":"https://www.lincolncenter.org"},"keywords":["Lincoln Center","Metropolitan Opera House","Lincoln Center plaza fountain","Chagall murals Met Opera","David Geffen Hall","Lincoln Center history San Juan Hill"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/lincolncenter","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=lincolncenter","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/lincolncenter.jpg"},{"id":"belvedere","name":"The castle on the rock","area":"BELVEDERE CASTLE","mood":"October afternoon","color":"#9ab088","description":"Vista Rock, the little castle and its terraces over Turtle Pond and the Great Lawn, the towers of the west side beyond, the works on the ramparts.","signatures":"The granite and schist folly with its tower, the two terraces at different heights, the pond below with turtles and the Delacorte stage, the Great Lawn and the twin towered skyline of Central Park West.","daylit":true,"index":52,"place":"Belvedere Castle, Central Park","fact":"Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould designed Belvedere Castle as a folly on Vista Rock, the second highest point in Central Park, completed in 1872. It was built to be looked at from the Mall and had no use but the view. The National Weather Service has taken the city's official weather readings here since 1919. The Conservancy restored it in 1983 and again in 2019.","year":"1872","learn":"The castle had no purpose but the view. 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Its stone arches were built after the Roman model. A steel arch replaced the river spans in 1928 to clear shipping. The Highbridge Water Tower rose on the Manhattan side in 1872. Closed to walkers in 1970, the bridge reopened in 2015.","year":"1848","learn":"The city's oldest bridge carried water, not people, and it opened in 1848.","source":{"name":"NYC Parks, Highbridge Park","url":"https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/highbridge-park"},"keywords":["High Bridge","High Bridge Harlem River","oldest bridge in New York City","Croton Aqueduct","Highbridge Water Tower","High Bridge walk"],"article":"jane-jacobs-and-robert-moses","articles":["jane-jacobs-and-robert-moses"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/highbridge","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=highbridge","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/highbridge.jpg"},{"id":"arthuravenue","name":"The market hall","area":"ARTHUR AVENUE","mood":"Saturday morning","color":"#c89a5a","description":"The Belmont street of bakeries and butchers, then the covered retail market: stalls under one roof, hanging provolone and salami, the works over the counters.","signatures":"The 1940 market hall with its skylit steel roof, the long aisles of stalls, cheeses and sausages hung from rails, crates of produce, cigar rollers by the door, the avenue of awnings outside.","daylit":true,"index":54,"place":"Arthur Avenue Retail Market, Belmont","fact":"Arthur Avenue in the Belmont section of the Bronx has been the center of an Italian community since the early 1900s. 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Theodore Roosevelt's family summered there, Mark Twain rented it from 1901 to 1903, and Arturo Toscanini lived there in the 1940s. The financier George W. Perkins assembled the estate and its gardens. His family gave it to the city in 1960, and it opened as a public garden in 1965.","year":"1965","learn":"Mark Twain rented this house. Toscanini lived here. 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Hurricane Sandy destroyed the wooden boardwalk in October 2012, and the city rebuilt it in concrete, finishing in 2017. 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Richard Upjohn designed the Gothic Revival main gate at 25th Street in the 1860s, and a colony of monk parakeets now nests in its spires. Battle Hill, the highest point in Brooklyn, saw fighting in the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776, and the cemetery became a National Historic Landmark in 2006.","year":"1838","learn":"Wild parrots nest in the gate of a cemetery founded in 1838.","source":{"name":"Green-Wood Cemetery","url":"https://www.green-wood.com"},"keywords":["Green-Wood Cemetery","Green-Wood gate parrots","Battle Hill Brooklyn","Green-Wood Cemetery tours","who is buried in Green-Wood","Green-Wood Brooklyn"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/greenwood","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=greenwood","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/greenwood.jpg"},{"id":"domino","name":"The refinery","area":"DOMINO PARK","mood":"Industrial gold","color":"#d88a4a","description":"The brick shell of the sugar refinery on the Williamsburg waterfront, a glass building grown inside it, the syrup tanks and gantry cranes in the park, the bridge and the skyline over the river.","signatures":"The 1880s brick refinery with its round arched windows and the great smokestack, the modern glass vault rising within the shell, the elevated walkway over the park, the salvaged syrup tanks and cranes, the Williamsburg Bridge.","daylit":true,"index":59,"place":"Domino Park and the Domino Sugar Refinery","fact":"The Havemeyer family's sugar refinery on the Williamsburg waterfront was rebuilt in brick after a fire in 1882, and at its peak it refined more sugar than any plant in the world. The refinery closed in 2004 and the city landmarked the building in 2007. Domino Park, designed by James Corner Field Operations, opened on the site in 2018 with the old syrup tanks and gantry cranes kept as relics.","year":"2018","learn":"A sugar refinery that once led the world, kept as a park on the Williamsburg shore.","source":{"name":"Domino Park","url":"https://www.dominopark.com"},"keywords":["Domino Park","Domino Sugar Factory","Domino Sugar Refinery Williamsburg","Domino Park Brooklyn","Williamsburg waterfront park","Domino refinery landmark"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/domino","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=domino","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/domino.jpg"},{"id":"boatgraveyard","name":"The ships in the marsh","area":"THE ARTHUR KILL","mood":"Fog on the kill","color":"#7a8a80","description":"Staten Island's western shore: rusting hulls of tugs and ferries settled in the marsh grass, a kayak route through them, herons on the wrecks, the works on the wheelhouses.","signatures":"Dozens of scuttled tugboats, barges and a ferry sunk to their decks in the tidal marsh, rust and peeling paint, cordgrass and mud at low tide, the New Jersey refineries and cranes across the water, fog.","daylit":true,"index":60,"place":"The Arthur Kill boat graveyard, Rossville, Staten Island","fact":"The Arthur Kill is the tidal strait between Staten Island and New Jersey. 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It later served in Vietnam and recovered Mercury and Gemini space capsules. The ship opened as a museum at Pier 86 on the Hudson in 1982, and the Space Shuttle Enterprise joined it on the flight deck in 2012.","year":"1943","learn":"A carrier that took kamikaze hits in 1944 and now holds a space shuttle.","source":{"name":"Intrepid Museum","url":"https://www.intrepidmuseum.org"},"keywords":["Intrepid Museum","USS Intrepid","Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum","Space Shuttle Enterprise New York","Pier 86 aircraft carrier","Intrepid flight deck"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/intrepid","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=intrepid","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/intrepid.jpg"},{"id":"studio8h","name":"Live from New York","area":"STUDIO 8H","mood":"Eleven thirty Saturday","color":"#e8b040","description":"The lobby of the tower on the plaza, the elevator up, then the studio: the home base stage, the band stand, the cameras, the bleachers, the cue cards, the works on every set wall.","signatures":"The art deco lobby with its dark marble and gold leaf ceiling, the studio floor with its brick home base arch and the musical guest stage, the boom cameras and the applause sign, the steep audience bleachers, the cue card easel.","daylit":false,"index":62,"place":"Studio 8H, 30 Rockefeller Plaza","fact":"Studio 8H was built in 1933 as the largest radio studio in the world, and Arturo Toscanini conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra there from 1937 to 1954. Saturday Night Live first aired from the studio on October 11, 1975, created by Lorne Michaels, with George Carlin as the first host. The show has broadcast live from the same room ever since.","year":"1975","learn":"Toscanini's radio studio became the home of Saturday Night Live in 1975.","source":{"name":"NBC, Saturday Night Live","url":"https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live"},"keywords":["Studio 8H","Saturday Night Live studio","SNL 30 Rock","30 Rockefeller Plaza","NBC Studios tour","Lorne Michaels SNL"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/studio8h","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=studio8h","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/studio8h.jpg"},{"id":"carnegie","name":"The horseshoe","area":"CARNEGIE HALL","mood":"Concert black","color":"#c8a070","description":"Fifty seventh Street, the Italianate brick front, then the hall: five curved tiers in cream and gold around the stage, the works in the boxes, practice, practice, practice.","signatures":"The brown brick and terracotta facade with its arched windows, the cream and gold horseshoe auditorium with five levels curving to the stage, the red seats, the plain proscenium and the organ grille, the dressing room corridor.","daylit":false,"index":63,"place":"Carnegie Hall","fact":"Carnegie Hall opened in May 1891, paid for by Andrew Carnegie and designed by William Burnet Tuthill, with Tchaikovsky conducting on opening night. Isaac Stern led the campaign that saved it from demolition in 1960, and the city bought the building. It became a National Historic Landmark in 1962, and its main hall now carries Stern's name.","year":"1891","learn":"Tchaikovsky conducted on opening night in 1891.","source":{"name":"Carnegie Hall","url":"https://www.carnegiehall.org"},"keywords":["Carnegie Hall","Carnegie Hall history","Isaac Stern Auditorium","Carnegie Hall tours","Carnegie Hall 57th Street","how do you get to Carnegie Hall"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/carnegie","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=carnegie","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/carnegie.jpg"},{"id":"vanguard","name":"The wedge downstairs","area":"THE VILLAGE VANGUARD","mood":"Second set","color":"#c83a3a","description":"The red awning on Seventh Avenue South, the narrow stair down, the triangular room: fourteen feet of stage, the piano, the drums, the photographs, the works between them.","signatures":"The red canopy and the steep staircase, the wedge shaped basement with the stage in the point, the red walls hung with photographs of the players, the tiny round tables and bentwood chairs, the kitchen door that never opens.","daylit":false,"index":64,"place":"The Village Vanguard","fact":"Max Gordon opened the Village Vanguard in a basement at 178 Seventh Avenue South in 1935, first for poetry and folk music, then for jazz alone from the late 1950s. Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane and Bill Evans all recorded live albums there. Lorraine Gordon ran the club after Max died in 1989, and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra has played Monday nights since 1966.","year":"1935","learn":"A basement wedge that has held jazz since 1935.","source":{"name":"The Village Vanguard","url":"https://villagevanguard.com"},"keywords":["Village Vanguard","Village Vanguard jazz club","Village Vanguard schedule","Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard","oldest jazz club New York","Vanguard Jazz Orchestra"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/vanguard","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=vanguard","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/vanguard.jpg"},{"id":"rucker","name":"The court","area":"RUCKER PARK","mood":"Summer night game","color":"#f08a2a","description":"One hundred fifty fifth and Frederick Douglass: the fenced court under the lights, the bleachers packed, a game moving, the river and the Bronx beyond, the works on the fence.","signatures":"The full court inside a chain link fence, the aluminium bleachers along both sidelines, the light towers, the Polo Grounds Towers behind, the Harlem River and the Macombs Dam Bridge, a crowd three deep at the fence.","daylit":false,"index":65,"place":"Holcombe Rucker Park","fact":"Holcombe Rucker, a Parks Department worker, started a summer basketball tournament in Harlem in 1950 to keep young players in school. The park at 155th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard was later named for him. Julius Erving, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant have all played on the court.","year":"1950","learn":"A Parks worker's 1950 tournament made a Harlem court famous.","source":{"name":"NYC Parks","url":"https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/holcombe-rucker-park"},"keywords":["Rucker Park","Rucker Park Harlem","Holcombe Rucker Park","Rucker Park tournament","streetball Rucker","Entertainer's Basketball Classic"],"article":"birth-of-hip-hop-1973","articles":["birth-of-hip-hop-1973"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/rucker","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=rucker","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/rucker.jpg"},{"id":"sedgwick","name":"The rec room","area":"1520 SEDGWICK AVENUE","mood":"August 1973","color":"#e0c030","description":"The tower over the Cross Bronx, the block party on the plaza, then the rec room downstairs: two turntables and a mixer, the speakers, the break, the works on the cinderblock.","signatures":"The brown brick tower at the top of the hill, the highway trench below, the lobby and the community room with its drop ceiling and cinderblock, two turntables on a folding table, a wall of speakers, a crowd in a circle around the floor.","daylit":false,"index":66,"place":"1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the Bronx","fact":"On August 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc played a back to school party for his sister Cindy Campbell in the rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. He isolated and repeated the breaks in records so dancers could keep going, a technique that became the foundation of hip hop. The building beside the Cross Bronx Expressway is widely recognized as the birthplace of the culture.","year":"1973","learn":"A 1973 rec room party in the Bronx started hip hop.","source":{"name":"Britannica, hip-hop","url":"https://www.britannica.com/art/hip-hop"},"keywords":["1520 Sedgwick Avenue","birthplace of hip hop","DJ Kool Herc","Kool Herc party 1973","Sedgwick Avenue Bronx","hip hop history Bronx"],"article":"birth-of-hip-hop-1973","articles":["birth-of-hip-hop-1973"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/sedgwick","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=sedgwick","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/sedgwick.jpg"},{"id":"balloons","name":"The night before the parade","area":"CENTRAL PARK WEST","mood":"Inflation night","color":"#f0a0c0","description":"The blocks beside the museum the night before Thanksgiving: giant balloons under their nets, the crews, the crowd shuffling past under the streetlights, the works on the barricade walls.","signatures":"The Beaux Arts museum front, the side streets closed off, enormous character balloons lying on their sides under cargo nets and sandbags, helium trucks, police barricades, families in coats, bare trees in the park.","daylit":false,"index":67,"place":"Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon inflation, Central Park West","fact":"The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade began in 1924, and the first giant balloons appeared in 1927. The night before the parade, crews inflate the balloons on the streets around the American Museum of Natural History, and the public walks past them under nets. This room interprets that inflation night, not the parade itself.","year":"1924","learn":"The night before Thanksgiving, the balloons lie under nets beside the museum.","source":{"name":"Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade","url":"https://www.macys.com/s/parade/"},"keywords":["Macy's balloon inflation","Thanksgiving balloon inflation NYC","Macy's parade balloons night before","Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade","Central Park West balloons","balloon inflation 77th Street"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/balloons","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=balloons","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/balloons.jpg"},{"id":"stonewall","name":"Christopher Street","area":"SHERIDAN SQUARE","mood":"The last Sunday in June","color":"#e83a8a","description":"The little brick bar with its arched windows, the park across the street with the white figures, the banners on every building, the march coming down Christopher with its floats.","signatures":"The two storey brick front with arched windows and the neon in the window, the triangular park with its benches and the four white sculptures, rainbow flags on the fire escapes, floats and marchers filling the narrow street, confetti in the air.","daylit":true,"index":68,"place":"The Stonewall Inn and Christopher Park","fact":"Police raided the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street on June 28, 1969, and patrons fought back over several nights. The first pride march followed one year later. Christopher Park across the street holds George Segal's Gay Liberation sculpture, and in 2016 the site became Stonewall National Monument, the first national monument to LGBTQ history.","year":"1969","learn":"The 1969 uprising here became the first national monument to LGBTQ history.","source":{"name":"National Park Service, Stonewall National Monument","url":"https://www.nps.gov/ston/"},"keywords":["Stonewall Inn","Stonewall National Monument","Stonewall riots 1969","Christopher Park","Christopher Street Pride","Sheridan Square"],"article":"stonewall-1969","articles":["stonewall-1969"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/stonewall","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=stonewall","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/stonewall.jpg"},{"id":"sangennaro","name":"The feast on Mulberry","area":"THE FEAST OF SAN GENNARO","mood":"Eleven nights in September","color":"#e8503a","description":"Mulberry Street under the arches of lights, the zeppole stands, the sausage smoke, the saint carried down the block, the works between the strings of bulbs.","signatures":"Arches of red white and green lights spanning the street block after block, food stands with striped awnings and steam, the tenements with fire escapes, the statue of the saint on his litter pinned with ribbons, the cannoli.","daylit":false,"index":69,"place":"The Feast of San Gennaro, Mulberry Street","fact":"Immigrants from Naples first held the Feast of San Gennaro on Mulberry Street in 1926 to honor their patron saint, whose feast day falls on September 19. The festival runs eleven days each September along Mulberry Street in Little Italy. A statue of the saint is carried in procession through the street.","year":"1926","learn":"Neapolitan immigrants started the Mulberry Street feast in 1926.","source":{"name":"Feast of San Gennaro","url":"https://www.sangennaronyc.org"},"keywords":["Feast of San Gennaro","San Gennaro festival","Mulberry Street festival","Little Italy feast","San Gennaro dates","San Gennaro NYC"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/sangennaro","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=sangennaro","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/sangennaro.jpg"},{"id":"chelseahotel","name":"The lobby of the hotel","area":"THE CHELSEA HOTEL","mood":"Room rate paid in paintings","color":"#b8483a","description":"Twenty third Street under the iron balconies, the lobby hung floor to ceiling with the art residents left instead of rent, the stair spiralling up twelve floors, the works in every frame.","signatures":"The red brick front with black iron balconies stacked twelve storeys high, the neon vertical sign, the lobby with its fireplace and salon hang, the famous open stair with iron balusters climbing through the building, the corridors of numbered doors.","daylit":true,"index":70,"place":"The Hotel Chelsea","fact":"The Hotel Chelsea at 222 West 23rd Street opened in 1884 as one of the city's first cooperative apartment buildings, designed by Philip Hubert, and became a hotel in 1905. Mark Twain, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith lived there, and Andy Warhol filmed Chelsea Girls in its rooms. The city landmarked it in 1966, and it reopened as a hotel in 2022 after a long renovation.","year":"1884","learn":"Residents paid in paintings, and the lobby still shows them.","source":{"name":"Hotel Chelsea","url":"https://www.hotelchelsea.com"},"keywords":["Hotel Chelsea","Chelsea Hotel history","Chelsea Hotel residents","Chelsea Hotel 23rd Street","Chelsea Hotel Patti Smith","Chelsea Hotel lobby art"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/chelseahotel","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=chelseahotel","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/chelseahotel.jpg"},{"id":"strand","name":"Eighteen miles of books","area":"THE STRAND","mood":"Rainy Tuesday","color":"#c83a3a","description":"Broadway and Twelfth in the rain, the dollar carts under the awning, then the aisles: tables of new arrivals, the tall stacks, the rare book room upstairs, the works on the end caps.","signatures":"The red awning and the sidewalk carts of one dollar books, the ground floor of long tables and tall wooden stacks under fluorescent light, the tote bags, the staff picks wall, the rolling ladders, the rare book room with its leather and glass.","daylit":true,"index":71,"place":"The Strand Book Store","fact":"Benjamin Bass opened the Strand in 1927 on Fourth Avenue's Book Row, where dozens of bookshops once stood. The store moved to 828 Broadway at 12th Street in 1957 and claims eighteen miles of books. The city landmarked the building in 2019, and the store is still run by the Bass family.","year":"1927","learn":"The last survivor of Fourth Avenue's Book Row, open since 1927.","source":{"name":"Strand Book Store","url":"https://www.strandbooks.com"},"keywords":["Strand Bookstore","Strand Book Store NYC","18 miles of books","Strand Broadway 12th Street","Book Row New York","Strand rare book room"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/strand","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=strand","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/strand.jpg"},{"id":"dakota","name":"The courtyard and the mosaic","area":"THE DAKOTA","mood":"December dusk","color":"#c8b090","description":"Seventy second and Central Park West: the gabled fortress of an apartment house, the carriage arch into its courtyard, and across the street the round mosaic in the park with its one word, the works on the courtyard walls.","signatures":"The sandstone and brick block with its gables, dormers and iron railings, the deep arched carriage entrance with the sentry box, the square inner courtyard with two fountains, the teardrop park across the avenue with the black and white mosaic ringed with flowers.","daylit":true,"index":72,"place":"The Dakota and Strawberry Fields","fact":"The Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street was completed in 1884 for Edward Clark of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh. John Lennon lived there and was shot at its gate on December 8, 1980. Strawberry Fields, the memorial across the street in Central Park with its Imagine mosaic, was dedicated in 1985.","year":"1884","learn":"An 1884 apartment fortress and the mosaic across the street.","source":{"name":"Central Park Conservancy","url":"https://www.centralparknyc.org"},"keywords":["The Dakota","Dakota apartment building","Strawberry Fields Central Park","Imagine mosaic","John Lennon Dakota","Dakota 72nd Street"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/dakota","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=dakota","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/dakota.jpg"},{"id":"garden","name":"The world's most famous arena","area":"MADISON SQUARE GARDEN","mood":"Fourth quarter, two minutes","color":"#f0842a","description":"Above the train hall, the round drum of the arena: the bowl in blue and orange, the cable ceiling, the scoreboard cube, a game on the floor, the works around the concourse.","signatures":"The circular drum on Seventh Avenue, the bowl of orange and blue seats climbing to the suspended cable roof, the four sided scoreboard over centre court, the hardwood with its lines, the bridges hanging under the ceiling.","daylit":false,"index":73,"place":"Madison Square Garden","fact":"The current Madison Square Garden, the fourth to carry the name, opened in 1968 above Penn Station on the site of the demolished original Pennsylvania Station, designed by Charles Luckman. It is home to the Knicks and the Rangers. Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought there in March 1971, and Willis Reed limped onto its floor for game seven of the 1970 NBA Finals.","year":"1968","learn":"Built over Penn Station in 1968, it has hosted the Knicks ever since.","source":{"name":"Madison Square Garden","url":"https://www.msg.com"},"keywords":["Madison Square Garden","MSG arena","Knicks Madison Square Garden","Madison Square Garden history","Ali Frazier 1971 Garden","Penn Station Madison Square Garden"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/garden","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=garden","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/garden.jpg"},{"id":"dendur","name":"The temple by the window","area":"THE TEMPLE OF DENDUR","mood":"Snow light through glass","color":"#d8c8a0","description":"The great sloped glass wall on the park, the pool standing in for the Nile, the sandstone gate and temple on their platform, the works along the granite walls of the wing.","signatures":"The Sackler wing with its tilted wall of glass and the park beyond, the reflecting pool with its edge of black granite, the temple and its pylon gateway raised on a stone platform, the sloped granite walls of the hall, the sunlight sliding across the floor.","daylit":true,"index":74,"place":"The Temple of Dendur, The Met","fact":"The Temple of Dendur was built in Nubia around 15 BC under the Roman emperor Augustus and dedicated to Isis and two deified local brothers. Egypt gave it to the United States in 1965 in thanks for help saving monuments from the waters of the Aswan High Dam. The Met's Sackler Wing, designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, opened around it in 1978.","year":"15 BC","learn":"A Roman era Egyptian temple given to the United States in 1965.","source":{"name":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art","url":"https://www.metmuseum.org"},"keywords":["Temple of Dendur","Temple of Dendur Met","Sackler Wing Met","Egyptian temple in the Met","Dendur Aswan gift","Met Egyptian art"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/dendur","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=dendur","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/dendur.jpg"},{"id":"moma","name":"The garden on 54th","area":"THE SCULPTURE GARDEN","mood":"First warm Friday","color":"#8ab0a8","description":"The marble court between the towers: two long pools, the birches and the weeping beech, the bronze figures on their plinths, the glass galleries looking in, the works on the garden walls.","signatures":"The sunken marble court with two rectangular pools crossed by narrow bridges, groves of birches and a weeping beech, bronzes on low plinths, the grey granite wall to the street, the glass curtain walls of the galleries above.","daylit":true,"index":75,"place":"The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, MoMA","fact":"MoMA's first sculpture garden opened in 1939. Philip Johnson redesigned it in 1953 and named it for Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, one of the museum's three founders. Its marble court, pools and trees hold works by Picasso, Rodin, Matisse and Maillol.","year":"1953","learn":"Philip Johnson's 1953 court named for a MoMA founder.","source":{"name":"The Museum of Modern Art","url":"https://www.moma.org"},"keywords":["MoMA sculpture garden","Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden","Philip Johnson sculpture garden","MoMA garden free","MoMA 54th Street garden","MoMA outdoor sculpture"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/moma","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=moma","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/moma.jpg"},{"id":"whitney","name":"The terraces over the High Line","area":"THE WHITNEY","mood":"Blue afternoon on the river","color":"#a8c0d0","description":"Gansevoort Street where the High Line ends: the stepped museum, its outdoor stairs and terraces climbing the east face, the largest column free gallery inside, the river and the works on both.","signatures":"The asymmetric stack of steel and glass with cantilevered terraces stepping down toward the High Line, the outside steel stairs between them, the vast open gallery with its sawtooth skylights, the Hudson and the piers to the west, the cobbled meatpacking streets.","daylit":true,"index":76,"place":"The Whitney Museum of American Art","fact":"Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the Whitney in 1930 after the Met declined her collection, and it opened on West 8th Street in 1931. The museum moved to Marcel Breuer's building on Madison Avenue in 1966 and to Renzo Piano's building at 99 Gansevoort Street in 2015. The Whitney Biennial, its survey of American art, dates to 1932.","year":"2015","learn":"Founded by a sculptor in 1930, moved to the end of the High Line in 2015.","source":{"name":"Whitney Museum of American Art","url":"https://whitney.org"},"keywords":["Whitney Museum","Whitney Museum of American Art","Whitney Biennial","Renzo Piano Whitney","Whitney High Line","Whitney Gansevoort Street"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/whitney","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=whitney","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/whitney.jpg"},{"id":"ellis","name":"The registry room","area":"ELLIS ISLAND","mood":"Arrival morning","color":"#c8a888","description":"The ferry slip and the red brick palace with its four towers, then the great hall: the tiled vault, the flags, the long benches, the stair of separation, the works where the inspectors stood.","signatures":"The French Renaissance main building in red brick and limestone with copper domed towers, the registry room with its Guastavino tile vault and three great arched windows, the iron railings, the American flags, the benches in rows.","daylit":true,"index":77,"place":"Ellis Island","fact":"Ellis Island opened as the federal immigration station on January 1, 1892, and Annie Moore of Ireland was the first to pass through. After a fire, the current main building by Boring and Tilton opened in 1900, and the Guastavino tile vault of the Registry Room went in during 1918. About twelve million immigrants passed through before the station closed in 1954, and the museum opened in 1990.","year":"1892 to 1954","learn":"Twelve million people came through this hall between 1892 and 1954.","source":{"name":"National Park Service, Ellis Island","url":"https://www.nps.gov/elis/"},"keywords":["Ellis Island","Ellis Island museum","Ellis Island Registry Room","Ellis Island Great Hall","Ellis Island passenger search","Ellis Island ferry"],"article":"liberty-and-ellis-island","articles":["liberty-and-ellis-island"],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/ellis","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=ellis","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/ellis.jpg"},{"id":"marathon","name":"Mile one","area":"THE VERRAZZANO","mood":"First Sunday in November","color":"#3a8ad8","description":"The upper deck of the bridge at the start: fifty thousand runners pouring over the crest toward Brooklyn, the harbor on both sides, the towers, the fireboat below, the works on the tower legs.","signatures":"The two steel towers rising from the Narrows, the upper roadway packed curb to curb with runners in colour, the cables sweeping down, the fireboat spraying, Fort Wadsworth at the Staten Island end, Bay Ridge ahead, helicopters.","daylit":true,"index":78,"place":"The New York City Marathon at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge","fact":"The first New York City Marathon in 1970 ran loops of Central Park with 127 starters, organized by Fred Lebow and New York Road Runners. The race went through all five boroughs in 1976 and now starts at Fort Wadsworth on Staten Island. Runners cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, opened in 1964 and designed by Othmar Ammann, then the longest suspension span in the world.","year":"1970","learn":"Fifty thousand runners cross the bridge in the first mile.","source":{"name":"New York Road Runners","url":"https://www.nyrr.org"},"keywords":["New York City Marathon","NYC Marathon route","Verrazzano Bridge marathon start","TCS New York City Marathon","New York Road Runners","NYC Marathon history"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/marathon","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=marathon","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/marathon.jpg"},{"id":"halloween","name":"Sixth Avenue after dark","area":"THE VILLAGE HALLOWEEN PARADE","mood":"October 31, eight p.m.","color":"#f08a2a","description":"The avenue closed from Spring to 16th: giant puppets swaying over the crowd, skeletons on poles, drummers, a million people in costume, the works lit on the building fronts.","signatures":"Enormous rod puppets carried above the marchers, skeleton banners, drum corps, floats with lit skulls, spectators ten deep behind barricades, the avenue lit orange from end to end, the Jefferson Market clock tower.","daylit":false,"index":79,"place":"The Village Halloween Parade","fact":"Puppeteer Ralph Lee began the Village Halloween Parade in 1973 as a walk through Greenwich Village for his children and neighbors. Jeanne Fleming has directed it since 1981. 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The Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at Grand Army Plaza, designed by John H. Duncan, was dedicated in 1892. 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Its current Dia Chelsea, joined former warehouses across the street at 535 to 541 West 22nd, reopened in 2021 after a renovation by Architecture Research Office.","year":"1987","learn":"Dia came to West 22nd Street in 1987, before the galleries followed.","source":{"name":"Dia Art Foundation","url":"https://www.diaart.org"},"keywords":["Dia Chelsea","Dia Art Foundation","Dia West 22nd Street","Dia Chelsea exhibitions","Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea","Chelsea art foundation"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/diachelsea","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=diachelsea","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/diachelsea.jpg"},{"id":"chelseablock","name":"Thursday openings on 24th","area":"WEST 24TH STREET","mood":"Six to eight, plastic cups","color":"#f4f4f0","description":"The block of white cubes between Tenth and Eleventh: garage doors rolled up, the crowds spilling onto the sidewalk with their wine, three galleries open in a row, the works inside each.","signatures":"The low former garages turned galleries with roll up fronts, white cube interiors under fluorescent grids, the desks with the price lists, the crowd on the sidewalk at an opening, the High Line at the corner and the river at the end of the street.","daylit":false,"index":104,"place":"The Chelsea gallery district, West 24th Street","fact":"This room interprets the gallery blocks of West Chelsea between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, a district that grew after Dia opened on West 22nd Street in 1987 and SoHo rents pushed dealers north in the 1990s. 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He died in 1988, and the museum stays as he arranged it.","year":"1985","learn":"A sculptor built his own museum around a garden in 1985.","source":{"name":"The Noguchi Museum","url":"https://www.noguchi.org"},"keywords":["Noguchi Museum","Isamu Noguchi Museum Queens","Noguchi garden","Noguchi Museum Long Island City","Akari lamps Noguchi","Noguchi sculpture garden"],"article":null,"articles":[],"url":"https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/noguchi","enter":"https://n3wyorkers.com/museum#room=noguchi","image":"https://n3wyorkers.com/assets/museum/rooms/noguchi.jpg"},{"id":"socrates","name":"Sculpture on the river","area":"SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK","mood":"Wind off Hallets Cove","color":"#7aa07a","description":"The reclaimed lot on the East River: big sculpture on the lawn, the cove and the island across the water, kayaks pulled up, the works standing in the open air.","signatures":"The open waterfront lawn with monumental outdoor sculpture, the wooden studio shed and gate of found steel, the rocky shore and kayak launch, Roosevelt Island and the Manhattan skyline across the river.","daylit":true,"index":108,"place":"Socrates Sculpture Park","fact":"Sculptor Mark di Suvero led a group of artists and neighbors who turned an abandoned landfill on the East River in Long Island City into Socrates Sculpture Park in 1986. 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