Washington Square Park NYC: History and other details

Saturday, 28 April 2012

Here in this article you will find complete information about Washington Square Park which is one of the best-known place in New York.

Washingtor Square Park is included among best 1,900's made public parks across the world. It is spreaded across an area of 9.75 acres. It is very beautiful and scenic park which has now became a landmark in the Manhattan which is neighborhood of Greenwich Village. Currently this charming park is controlled and executed by New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. It is one of the best suited area for tourist and locals. It is very famous for its fountain area which is probabily the most popular spots for both residents and tourists in the whole city. This park is surrounded by historic and big buildings which one time was the homes and studios for artists. Now most of the buildings belongs to New York University.

This park is sitated at fonts of Fifth Avenue and is bordered by various blocks of Washington Square which leads to different areas.

Most of the area in the park is covered with beautiful flowers, however some area of this park is also used for plantings. Along with it, this park also have dedicated area for children and they love to spend their time by visiting this park.
So visit Washington Square Park to experience ultimate beauty of nature and to get relief from day to day busy scheduled life.

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The Dakota Building NYC: History and other facts

Friday, 27 April 2012

Here in this article you will find information about The Dakota building which is among centre of attraction of New York City and is situated in Manhattan,
New York. It is a historic building and was created in year 1880 by Henry J. Hardenber. It was architected in Renaissanc architecture style. The Dakota was added to NRHP on April 26, 1972 and was designated as NHL in December 1976.

Construction york of The Dakota was started on October 25, 1880 and was completed on October 27, 1884. It is very famous and historic building and is situated along northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

The Dakota building is known as the location of the murder of John Lennon who was a musician. Its design is a treat to watch and is well known architectural design in whole New York.

According to ancient stories, it got its name as Dakota Building because during its establishment, the Upper West Side of Manhattan was sparsely inhabited and at that time that part was considered as remote as the Dakota Territory and as a result it got its name as Dakota Building. There are several other stories too. It got famous and its appropriate image in year 1976 when it was declared as National Historic Landmark.

So whenever you will visit New York City then don't miss the chance to visit The Dakota Building and please share your visiting experience if you have/had already visited this building.

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Flatiron Building New York details

Thursday, 26 April 2012

Here in this article you will find information about Flatiron (Fuller) Building which is world famous building and is situated in New York State in United State.

Flatiron building is exactly situated on 175 Fifth Avenue New York City. It is a historic building and was completed on 1902. It consists of 22 floors with top floor height of 285 ft. It was architected by D.H. Burnham & Co. Daniel Burnham Frederick Dinkelbe. It was added to NRHP in November 1979.

Flatiron building is among top attractions of Manhattan situated in New York City. When it was completed then it was one of the tallest buildings in the city and was famous as the only skyscraper north of 14th Street.

One very interesting thing about this building is that it is situated on a triangular island-block which gives it a very unique look. Name of this building i.e. Flatiron was derived from its relation to a cast-iron clothes iron. This building is very famous and its surrounding area is known as Flatiron District after its signature building. This building is so famous that it now has became an icon of New York City. Flatiron building got its real fame in 1966 when it was designated as a New York City landmark. By seeing importance and popularity of this building, it was included in National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and in 1989 it was designated as National Historic Landmark.

So visit this historic and unique building for enjoying lot of fun items.

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Wall Street NYC- one of world's principal financial centre

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Here in this article you will find brief information about Wall Street which is an important landmark for New York City and is commonly refers to as the financial district of New York City.

This important spot in New York City consists of eight-block-long street which starts from Broadway to South Street and is situated on the East River in Lower Manhattan region.

With time, Wall Street became famous for financial sector and became a metonym for the financial markets of the United States. Infect Wall Street completely describes the New York-based financial interests.

Wall Street as financial point of view
Wall Street is world famous for its financial sector and currently is the home of New York Stock Exchange which holds the record of world's largest stock exchange in terms of market capitalization of its listed companies. Along with New York Stock Exchange, it plays important role for many other major exchanges. Many famous exchanges including- the New York Board of Trade, NASDAQ, the former American Stock Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange have/had their headquarters here. In short Wall Street situated in New York City is among prime and probabily world's best financial center.
You must visit Wall Street during your visit to New York City as it is surrounded by nice modern beauty.

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Rockefeller NYC: History and other facts

Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Rockefeller Center is among top tourist spots in New York and here in this article you will find complete information about Rockefeller Center including its history and other details.

Rockefeller is covers an area of 22 acres and is combination of 19 commercial buildings. It is situated along 48th to 51st street in New York City. This beautiful building is manufactured at the center of Midtown Manhattan. It got its main fame in 1987 when it was declared as National Historic Landmark.

Rockefeller has great history and in starting stage, John D. Rockefeller planned to build an opera house on this site but later he changed his mind because of changing patterns of market and build this great building thereafter. He started developing this site from 1930. According to him, during that stage he was left with only 2 options and he was lucky that he choose the right one. He said that it was tough decision to built something and finance it alone but later it proved to be the best one for him. In 1930, this project cost him about $250,000,000 which is very huge amount and he spent this much money for just construction of some new buildings. This building is among largest private building project ever and was built in Arc Deco style. Its construction started on May 17 1930 and got completed in 1939. Mr. john R. Todd was the chief builder and Mr. Raymond Hood was the principal architect for this amazing project.
So whenever you will visit New York or New York City then don’t miss the chance to visit Rockefeller.

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Grand Central Terminal NYC: History and other facts

Monday, 23 April 2012

Grand Central Terminal is among world's top railway stations. Here in this article you will find brief details about Grand Central Terminal including its history and some other facts.

Grand Central Terminal was built in year 1903 by Reed and St Warren and was built in Beaux-Arts architect style. It got NRHP Reference#: 75001206 83001726 and was added to NRHP on January 17. It is situated in New York City and is spreaded along 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Please note that, Grand Central Terminal is world's biggest train station by number of platforms. Along with platforms, it too have 67 tracks. All of them are divided in two levels, upper level and lower level. One interesting thing to note is that, this railway station have more than 100 tracks along platforms. After opening of Long Island Rail Road's new station in 2016, this station will have total of 75 tracks and 48 platforms. Whole of the platform is spreaded across an area of 48 acres. Till 1991, this terminal was used by Amtrak but later in 1991 they moved their trains Pennsylvania Station. This station is officially know as "Grand Central Terminal" since 1913, but till now lot of people have continued to call it as "Grand Central Station." It got its name as "Grand Central Station" from a post office which is situated very near to this terminal. According to Travel + Leisure magazine, Grand Central Terminal is world's number six most visited tourist attraction and about 21,600,000 visitors visits Grand Central Terminal annually.

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Fifth Avenue NYC: History and other facts

Sunday, 22 April 2012

Fifth Avenue is among top tourist places in New York. Here in this article you will find information about Fifth Avenue including its history and some other facts.

Fifth Avenue is known for shopping services and is one of the popular shopping destination in world. It is a mark of attraction in Manhattan in New York City which is situated in New York state of United States. One special section of Fifth Avenue (between 49th Street and 60th Street) is full with world's quality shops and because of serving one of the best shopping experience, Fifth Avenue is among world's most expensive shopping streets. We can't say that Fifth Avenue is world's expensive shopping street because its position changes according to currency status but it will always punch its name in world's expensive shopping streets list. During mid-1990s, the shopping region between 49th and 57th streets was supposed to be world's most expensive retail spaces depending on cost per square foot. One milestone get added to Fifth Avenue in 2008 when Forbes magazine (very popular magazine across world) ranked Fifth Avenue as being the most expensive street in the world. Fifth Avenue geographically starts from Washington Square Park and extends towards eastern side of Central Park.

Fifth Avenue is of great importance in Manhattan as it plays the role of dividing line for house numbering in Manhattan. So whenever you visit New York City then don't forget to buy something from Fifth Avenue. You may share your experiences as comments below.

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