tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66028613995885641402024-03-14T04:56:06.613-04:00My Walking PicturesA blog about things I see during my walks around the city, among others.Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-32189845663405573542016-04-20T01:14:00.000-04:002016-04-21T12:48:50.176-04:00South Bronx Walk<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last September, I went on a walk along the South Bronx in New York City with the <a href="https://www.shorewalkers.org/" target="_blank">Shorewalkers</a> group. It was a 21-mile walk which started with a walk across the Triborough Bridge to Randall's Island, and ended at <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">F</span>erry Point Park and the Whitestone Bridge in the Bronx.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our group met at the corner of Lexington and 125th Street<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> in Manhattan</span> before we made our way towards the Triborough Bridge. From the bridge's pedestrian walkway, I could see three of the bridges that span the southern end of the Harlem River -- Willis Avenue Bridge, Third Avenue Bridge and Park Avenue Bridge. I could also see the iconic History Channel sign, sadly it is </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">not renewing its contract to advertise at that location and the sign has been <a href="http://www.amny.com/news/history-channel-sign-in-bronx-will-be-taken-down-1.11318517" target="_blank">dismantled</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We walked for a bit at the northern end of Randall's Island<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">,</span> across the East River we could see Riker's Island, and further was our final destination, the Whitestone Bridge. The blue and white box-type structure at the right of the photo is the <a href="http://gothamist.com/2012/09/20/did_you_know_about_this_floating_pr.php" target="_blank">Vernon C. Bail Floating Prison</a></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The prison boat was constructed in New Orleans to the tune of $161
million and brought to New York shortly after. The price was a steal at
the time, and the boat cost much less than building yet another landmass
jail. The vessel is named after warden Vernon C. Bain who died in a car
accident a few months before the prison opened.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In addition to the holding cells, the prison also contains a law
library and a recreational room. It was even used for a short amount of
time as a juvenile center, scaring young kids straight inside its dark
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We then made our way back to the Triborough Bridge towards its span leading to the Bronx. Along the way we passed by the bridge approach of the Hell Gate Bridge which runs parallel to the East River section of the Triborough Bridge. Those arches sure look pretty! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A glimpse of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx_Kill" target="_blank">Bronx Kill</a> from the pedestrian walkway of the Triborough. It is a narrow strait delineating the southernmost extent of the Bronx and separating it from Randall's Island. Originally, the Bronx Kill was a sizeable waterway but it was later filled in to expand the parkland on <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the i</span>sland</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looking back at the pedestrian walkway of the Triborough, along the section leading to the Bronx.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And as we neared the Bronx, I saw this sign.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After getting off the Triborough, we made our way towards Bruckner Boulevard. Along the way, we passed by some street art, mostly artworks of the <a href="http://www.tagpublicartsproject.org/about-us.html" target="_blank">Tag Public Arts Project</a>. Here's one done by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/5ALl1XlA2O/?taken-by=sexer1" target="_blank">Sexer1</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then we were walking along the Bruckner Boulevard in the Port Morris section of the South Bronx. The symmetry of the beams supporting the Bruckner Expressway above the boulevard was calling for a shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then we were making our way to the waterfront and had a closer look at the off-limits <a href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/north-brother-island" target="_blank">North Brother Island</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">North Brother Island was uninhabited until 1885, when the city purchased the island in
order to build Riverside Hospital, a hospital for people suffering from
contagious diseases such as typhus, tuberculosis, yellow fever, and
smallpox. The island's most famous resident was "Typhoid Mary" Mallon,
who was incarcerated there for over twenty years until she died in 1938.
The hospital closed shortly afterward.</span></i><br />
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</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 1905, over one thousand people lost their lives when the General
Slocum steamship caught fire near the island. Many of the staff assisted
in the rescue of some of the 321 survivors. It was the worst loss of
life in New York's history until the September 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks.</span></i><br />
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</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The hospital was reopened after the Second World War, first to house
war veterans and later as a treatment for heroin addicts. In 1963, it
closed its doors for good and has been left to decay ever since. The
island is officially off-limits to the public, as it is a bird sanctuary
for one of the area's largest nesting colonies of Black-Crowned Night
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We then passed by a <a href="http://jetro.com/" target="_blank">Jetro Cash & Carry</a>. This particular branch is home to the largest <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/hunts-point-home-largest-solar-panel-installation-nyc-article-1.1700460" target="_blank">solar panel installation</a> in New York City. The building’s 4,760 solar panels are expected to generate 1.8 million kilowatt hours of clean energy per year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Going into the Hunts Point neighborhood, we took a little break and enjo<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">y<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ed the views from <a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/barretto-point-park" target="_blank">Barretto Point Park</a>. It has great views of the Manhattan skyline <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">as well as the Hell Gate Br<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">id<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ge and North Brother Island.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Most of the land area in Hunts Point is dominated by industry. Passed by this store selling steel pipes. The different shapes and colors look so fascinating!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hunts Point is the location of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunts_Point_Cooperative_Market" title="Hunts Point Cooperative Market">Hunts Point Cooperative Market</a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">,</span> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> the largest food distribution center of its kind in the world.<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It houses t</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>he New <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_Fish_Market" target="_blank">Fulton Fish Market</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, s</span>econd in size worldwide only to Tokyo's Tsukiji wholesale seafood market.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Since 1822 the Fulton Fish Market has been operating on South Street in
Manhattan. On November 14, 2005, after 180 years of operation in
Downtown Manhattan, the Fulton Fish Market moved into the new state of
the art facility in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. The
400,000-square-foot facility with modern refrigeration, increased
loading space, and executive offices; a custom-made building the size
of the Empire state building in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx,
to be named the New Fulton Fish Market Cooperative.<br />
New York City built the $86 million state-of-the-art New Fulton
Fish Market to retain the region’s valuable wholesale seafood
industry. The Fulton Fish Market handles about one-third of the New
York’s total seafood demand. The New Fulton Fish Market, a wholesale
seafood marketplace in one of the most modern indoor facility of it
kind. The new market opened for business On November 14, 2005. The
seafood wholesalers at the New Fulton Fish Market, many owned by the
same family for several generations, find that the enhanced climate
controlled market and the new, modern facility gives them the
competitive advantage in freshness.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We then checked out <a href="http://www.archdaily.com/236895/a-lesson-in-dedicated-collaboration-hunts-point-landing-on-the-south-bronx-greenway-mathews-nielsen-landscape-architects/" target="_blank">Hunts Point Landing</a>,a waterfront amenity that will provide the neighborhood with natural
habitats for animals and native plants and safe waterfront access with
sustainable solutions for water treatment. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is one of the first additions to the planned
<a href="http://untappedcities.com/2014/09/04/6-under-the-radar-nyc-waterfront-parks-hunts-point-landing-four-freedoms-park-frank-m-charles-park-transmitter-park-alice-austen-house/" target="_blank">South Bronx Greenway</a>
that will inject some much needed open space into a neighborhood home
to some of the city’s less glamorous uses. Eventually Hunts Point
landing will link up with a series of other parks in the area via bike
and walking paths.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The 1.5-acre Hunts Point Landing offers a fishing pier, kayak launch, and tidal pools. While we were there, a fisherman proudly showed me his catch!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We walked further along skirting the Hunts Point Market, the whole complex was enclosed in this concrete fence which was painted in different pastel colors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Along the way we came across some street art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Finally we reached the Hunts Point Riverside Park, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">outside the park is this artistic wall separating, yet joining, the nonprofit <a href="http://www.rockingtheboat.org/about/" target="_blank">Rocking the Boat</a>, and the park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hunts Point Riverside Park is the first new riverside park to be built in the area in over sixty
years, and is the first of a planned series of parks to be linked by a
bike route to create the <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=South_Bronx_Greenway&action=edit&redlink=1" title="South Bronx Greenway (page does not exist)">South Bronx Greenway.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps the most unsung patch of heaven in New York City is a tiny
sliver of riverfront parkland tucked between a metal-recycling yard and a
giant wholesale produce market, on the far side of a six-lane highway
and a pair of active freight train tracks. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/arts/design/bronx-river-now-flows-by-parks.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Hunts Point Riverside Park</a>, a
1.4-acre speck in the South Bronx, opened a few years ago on what had
been a filthy, weedy street end.</span></i> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Coming out from the park, along Edgewater <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Road</span> are murals adorning the fence of the scrap yards in the area.</span><br />
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The
murals are the second batch to enliven Hunts Point’s industrial
streets. They are part of a larger project devised by Carey Clark, the
director of arts education at The Point, called “Village of Murals.” The
idea is to brighten the route from residential Hunts Point to the South
Bronx Greenway and Barretto Point Park. - See more at:
http://brie.hunter.cuny.edu/hpe/2010/10/14/new-murals-will-light-the-way-through-hunts-point/#sthash.grHhYQOP.dpuf</div>
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The
murals are the second batch to enliven Hunts Point’s industrial
streets. They are part of a larger project devised by Carey Clark, the
director of arts education at The Point, called “Village of Murals.” The
idea is to brighten the route from residential Hunts Point to the South
Bronx Greenway and Barretto Point Park. - See more at:
http://brie.hunter.cuny.edu/hpe/2010/10/14/new-murals-will-light-the-way-through-hunts-point/#sthash.grHhYQOP.dpuf</div>
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The
murals are the second batch to enliven Hunts Point’s industrial
streets. They are part of a larger project devised by Carey Clark, the
director of arts education at The Point, called “Village of Murals.” The
idea is to brighten the route from residential Hunts Point to the South
Bronx Greenway and Barretto Point Park. - See more at:
http://brie.hunter.cuny.edu/hpe/2010/10/14/new-murals-will-light-the-way-through-hunts-point/#sthash.grHhYQOP.dpuf</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The murals are the second batch to enliven Hunts Point’s industrial streets. They are part of a larger project devised by Carey Clark, the director of arts education at The Point, called “<a href="http://thepoint.org/villageofmurals.php" target="_blank">Village of Murals</a>.” The idea is to brighten the route from residential Hunts Point to the South Bronx Greenway and Barretto Point Park.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of the industrial plants we passed by along Edgewater Road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We then crossed the Bronx River via Bruckner Boulevard and have this view of people enjoying a canoe ride on the river.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Crossing the river also lead us to the next park, Soundview Park. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Called the “Gateway to the Bronx River,” Soundview Park is situated where the Bronx River opens into the East River. When the City of New York acquired the original 93 acres of land for this park in 1937, the entire area was composed of marshland. <br /><br />For a good chunk of its history, Soundview Park was a partially developed park built on a landfill. The southern third was once open water, while the remaining 2/3 of the park was tidal marsh, complete with three streams. Landfill operations began in the 1920s and lasted forty years. The landfill increased the height of the shoreline up to 30 feet above the marsh elevation, decreasing public access to the water. Happily, the park is now revered for its sports fields, fishing, and gorgeous views across Hunts Point to Manhattan.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At a cert<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ain<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> point in Soundview Park, you could see <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the <a href="https://flic.kr/p/zAmGVZ" target="_blank">control tower</a> of the La Guardia airport.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the southern end of Soundview Park is Harding Park.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the early 1920s Thomas Higgs, who owned about 100 acres (0.40 km<sup>2</sup>) of beachfront property, began leasing tents to visitors and the area became a summer bungalow colony named for President Harding.
After World War II these became permanent year-round residences due to a
housing shortage, eventually sheltering over 250 families.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Harding Park survived the attempt of Robert Moses
to tear down what he called the "Soundview Slums" but became City
property in 1979. Three years later, in 1982, Harding Park Homeowners
Association, the first cooperatively owned low and moderate-income
community in the city was formed.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The neighborhood has awesome views of Manhattan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We rounded out that peninsula <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">where the East River meets the Westchester C<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">reek. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Going further inland leads us to Pug<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sley Creek and the wetlands and marshes of Pugsley Creek Park.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After going round the long creek, we reached Castle Hill Park on the other side of the creek.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Castle Hill Park lies at the tip of Castle Hill Neck, a peninsula named
by English settlers for a fortified Indian village located on a hill
overlooking the East River. This village, inhabited by Siwanoy Indians,
was known as Snakapins and was first discovered by the explorer Adriaen
Block during his expedition to North America in the early 1600s.
Located between Westchester Creek to the east and Pugsley Creek to west,
Castle Hill Neck was first settled in 1685 by John Cromwell, a cousin
of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell.</span></i> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Across Westchester Creek from Castle Hill Park is Ferry Point Park, our final destination. But we have to skirt the creek and cross the Cross Bronx Expressway before we can reach it. This was my view looking up the expressway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And nea<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ring Ferry<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Point Park, I had this view.</span></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">If you’re looking for
spectacular views, take a stroll in this expansive Bronx park. With one
and a half miles of prime waterfront, Ferry Point Park offers
unparalleled views of the East River and Long Island Sound, the
Manhattan skyline, and of the Whitestone and Throgs Neck Bridges. If a
great outlook isn’t enough, how about some sports? Ferry Point Park
offers visitors playing fields for soccer and football, basketball
courts, and will soon offer access to a recently completed, world-class
public golf course.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ferry Point Park is a huge park, nearly half the size of Central Park. Beside its playing fields lies the bridge approach to the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge. We ended our walk at the tip of the park with this view underneath the bridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Bronx–Whitestone Bridge (colloquially referred to as the Whitestone Bridge or simply the Whitestone) is a suspension bridge in New York City that crosses the East River and connects the boroughs of Queens on Long Island, and the Bronx on the United States mainland via Interstate 678. The bridge was designed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othmar_Ammann" title="Othmar Ammann">Othmar Ammann</a> and opened to traffic with four lanes on April 29, 1939.</span></i> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's a map of where we walked that day, the circles are the parks we visited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That was a great walk, we visited so many parks and I got to see what the South Bronx look like. A very interesting and informative walk for me. I hope you've learned something, too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the rest of my photos, here's the album on Flickr: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/albums/72157659415813108/with/22048574139/" target="_blank">South Bronx Walk</a></span><br />
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Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-81768788091861246352016-02-12T23:56:00.000-05:002016-02-16T00:52:38.602-05:00Adventures in the Blizzard<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2016_United_States_blizzard" target="_blank">blizzard Jonas</a> struck New York City at late evening of January 22, 2016 and continued to dump snow the whole day of the following day. Since it was a Saturday, I went to the city to do my usual weekend walk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I got off at Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan. Prometheus, <a href="http://www.rockefellercenter.com/blog/2014/04/09/rock-history2/" target="_blank">the most photogra</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rockefellercenter.com/blog/2014/04/09/rock-history2/" target="_blank">phed </a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rockefellercenter.com/blog/2014/04/09/rock-history2/" target="_blank">piece </a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rockefellercenter.com/blog/2014/04/09/rock-history2/" target="_blank">of art in New </a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rockefellercenter.com/blog/2014/04/09/rock-history2/" target="_blank">York City</a>,</span></span></span> </span>was still clutching the fire <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span>while battling the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">falling snow<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> at</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> the sk<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ating rink. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I passed by the Channel Gardens, <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">it<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> was literally a <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Winter W<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">onderland! Very apt for its <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">first showcase for 2016 <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">wh<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ich</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> has an 8-foot tall <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">disco ball snowman as <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the center<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">piece.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also at the Rocke<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">feller Cent<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">er complex is the statue of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_%28statue%29" target="_blank">Atlas</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, the largest sculpture at the center. He was carrying the world <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">on his <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">shoulders a<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">mid the falling snow.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Across Atlas is St. Patrick's Cathe<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">dral<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, it's </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">newly-restored<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> facade gleams through the falling snow.</span></span> </span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After walking a few bl<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ocks along Fifth Avenue, I arrived at the Grand Army P<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">laza across the Apple fl<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">agship store. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I could see the crew with th<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">eir shovels but they <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we</span>re no match for all the snow th<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the blizzard <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">wa</span>s dumping.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">e of my favorite <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">places in the park is the ob<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">servation rock by the Pond. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I decided to climb <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and check the view when I arrived <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in the park </span>since the snow <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">wa</span>s freshly fallen and <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">wasn't</span> slick <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">as <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nobody has trampled over it ye<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">t. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My climb was rewarded with this view.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So where do the ducks go in the winter?<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">y were right there by the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/bethesda-fountain.html" target="_blank">G</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/bethesda-fountain.html" target="_blank">a</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/bethesda-fountain.html" target="_blank">pstow Bridge</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> huddling on the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">u</span>n<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">frozen</span> waters of the Pond.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looking back at this little <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">path by The Pond<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, i<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">n al<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">l its snowy glory.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The snowfla<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">kes sting <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so much so I took shelter at the In<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">scope Ar<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ch. It was like a <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">snowglobe world,<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> looking out from th<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">e arch.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The C<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">entral Park Dairy House looked like <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a fairy-tale house in <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the winter with all the snow from the blizzard.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just a few yards from the Dairy House is Playmates <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Arch<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, it<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s design echoes that of the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Central Park carousel which was already closed for the winter season.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carousel ri<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">des weren't in the minds of the people in the park that day, but <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">win<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ter sports like sledding and<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> for the more advent<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">urous<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, snowboarding.<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">snow-filled steps of the Bethesda Terrace was the perf<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ect place for it!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just as <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">T<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he Mall <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">wa<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s a perfect place<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> to take a walk<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> in t<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he winter <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in the middle of a blizzard!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the end of <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Mall and the Bethesda Terrace is the <a href="http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/bethesda-fountain.html" target="_blank">Bethesda Fountain</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and the Angel of <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the Waters. Whet<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">her in the blizzard or on a <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">bright sunny day, the area is <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">everyone's favori<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">te.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I sto<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">pped by everyone's favorite bridge, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the beautiful <a href="http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/bow-bridge.html" target="_blank">Bow Bridge</a>. It<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> looked so magical with all the swirling snow.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I ex<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ited the park a</span></span>fter the visit to the bridge. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Much as I wanted to walk some more, I <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was monitoring <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the news as the<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> subway system might be suspended if the blizzard worsens and I <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">wanted to be home by then. On my way out<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I saw two off<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">icers of <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the N<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">YC Parks Enforce<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ment <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Patrol</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/nyregion/18horses.html?hp&ex=1145419200&en=d46bdfd78798f568&ei=5094&partner=homepage&_r=0" target="_blank">M</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/nyregion/18horses.html?hp&ex=1145419200&en=d46bdfd78798f568&ei=5094&partner=homepage&_r=0" target="_blank">ounted Unit</a> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">who patrols the city parks on horseback.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I dropped by 4<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2nd Street befo<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">re I headed for home. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was Times Square during the blizzard.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My final destination before I went home was the <a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/bryant-park/monuments/944" target="_blank">Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain</a> in Bryant Park. During extreme cold weather, the water in the fountain freezes, as it did during the blizzard Jonas.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">26.8 inches of snow fell on Central Park during the blizzard, making it the second-highest all-time record in a 24 hour period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Despite the cold and the stinging snowflakes, it was great to be out and walking in the city and the park. Snow really makes the city look like a winter wonderland, even if it would be back to reality the following day with all the shoveling to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the rest of my Blizzard Jonas pics, here are the albums on Flickr:</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/albums/72157663270688569" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Blizzard Jonas: NYC Streets </span></a><br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/albums/72157661490926403" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Central Park: January 2016</span></a>Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-1744455750961299012015-10-16T00:03:00.001-04:002015-10-16T00:10:36.834-04:00Gilbert Trail Tour<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I first took the Gilbert Trail tour last October, and I like it so much I was on another tour last spring, which was in celebration of New York City's Landmarks Preservation Law’s 50th
anniversary. The tour included exclusive tours of three iconic buildings in lower Manhattan designed by the renowned architect <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Gilbert" target="_blank">Cass Gilbert</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The first building on the tour was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton_U.S._Custom_House" target="_blank">Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House</a> in Bowling Green.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House is a building in New York City
built 1902–07 by the federal government to house the duty collection
operations for the port of New York. It is located near the southern tip
of Manhattan, roughly on the same spot as Fort Amsterdam, the original center of the settlement of New Amsterdam. Its address is 1 Bowling Green. The building is now the home of the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, as well as the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, and since 2012, it is also the home to the National Archives at New York City.</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is the facade of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House I took last summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our tour concentrated on the rooms and features inside the <a href="http://www.gsa.gov/portal/ext/html/site/hb/category/25431/actionParameter/exploreByBuilding/buildingId/644" target="_blank">building</a>. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The interior of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House is an exquisite
example of Beaux Arts planning combining clarity, symmetry, and
ceremonial spaces. The building presents a square plan with a central
rotunda and surrounding corridors. The ceremonial, two-story Great Hall
on the piano nobile is ornately detailed with marble finishes in a
variety of textures and colors quarried in the United States,
Switzerland, and Italy. At both ends of the Great Hall are curved
staircases finished with decorative plaster, bronze railings, and marble
treads and risers.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This magnificent rotunda greets the visitor upon entering the US Custom House. Clerks used to tabulate the
customs duty in the Port of New York from this elliptical area,
and the receipts were the primary source of revenue to operate
the federal government before the income tax law was established in
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here's a closer look at one of the paintings in the <a href="http://www.worldshipny.com/Murals.shtml" target="_blank">rotunda ceiling</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In 1936 during the Great Depression, the Work Progress Administration
and the Treasury Relief Art Project commissioned Reginald Marsh to
design and paint eight large murals depicting ocean liners at various
stages of arriving in the Port of New York. There was some controversy
about what liners should be depicted, and in the end, they were United
States Lines‘ S.S. Manhattan and S.S. Washington, then the largest passenger liners under the America flag; Cunard‘s flagship R.M.S. Queen Mary; and the French Line‘s flagship S.S. Normandie.
In between the murals are eight smaller panels of depicting explorers.
Marsh and his assistants, working fourteen-hour days, completed the
murals on December 27, 1937. The project cost the federal government
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The immense arch of the custom house's magnificent elliptical rotunda
was built according to the principles of Spanish-immigrant engineer
Rafael Guastavino. The ingenious design allowed the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The nautical theme extended throughout the building. This fish detail was on the door of the Cashier's Office.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The main part of the tour was the access to the off-limits Collectors Suite.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Shells, marine creatures, and sea signs abound throughout the interior,
as befits a tribute to New York's preeminence as a seaport. Monumental
arches and columns highlight the symmetry of the great hall. Off this
spectacular lobby is the ornate Collectors Reception Room, its walls
oak-paneled by the Tiffany Studios. </span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Those oak-panel walls are one of the first things you see once you get inside the room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And you can't help but look in awe when you look up at the ceiling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Inside the Collectors Suite is a <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/16996642385/in/album-72157653169041070/" target="_blank">fireplace</a> with a beautiful mantel, and several large paintings of ships.</span><br />
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paneled in oak from floor to ceiling by Tiffany Studios, the office is
divided by an elaborately carved Renaissance-inspired screen which is
pierced by a doorway marked by a segmentally-arched hood.</span></span></i> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The ceiling of the hallway leading to the rotunda and offices are also painted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's great to view them from the second floor area, it gives you a different point-of-view.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At each end of this long hallway are curved staircases finished with
decorative plaster, bronze railings, and marble treads and risers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The tour didn't touch on the building's exterior, where the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">most significant decorative features are Daniel
Chester French's monumental sculptures representing
international commerce. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Four female figures of limestone sit on large
entrance pedestals and represent America, Asia, Europe, and Africa.
Above the columns on the main facade are twelve marble statues,
representing seafaring nations. Above the windows are sculpted heads
depicting the "eight races" of mankind. </span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My photos of those sculptures from a previous visit to the Custom House are in <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/albums/72157635227594763/page2" target="_blank">this album</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The second building in the Gilbert Trail Tour is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworth_Building" target="_blank">Woolworth Building</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Woolworth Building was designed in the neo-Gothic style by the architect Cass Gilbert, whom Frank Woolworth commissioned in 1910 to design a 20-story office building as the F. W. Woolworth Company's new corporate headquarters. At its opening, the Woolworth Building was 60 stories tall and had over 5,000 windows. The construction cost was <span style="white-space: nowrap;">US$13.5 million</span>.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At both sides near the entrance of the Woolworth are stairs with some figures above the doorway. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At each staircase leading up to the mezzanines, a figure crouches in the
upper corner. They also appear elsewhere throughout the lobby. The
likenesses feature the faces of key people involved in the construction
of the skyscraper, their portraits very realistic while their bodies are
grotesques. Each holds something that symbolizes their role: Gilbert
holding a model of the building; Woolworth with coins; builder Louis
Horowitz on the phone to symbolize his use of communication technology
in making sure the construction of the building ran smoothly. </span></i></blockquote>
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of shops and the Irving National Exchange Bank, the lobby stands two
stories high. The north and south wings include open mezzanines.
Byzantine-inspired glass floral mosaics of blue, green, gold and red
decorate the barrel-vaulted ceilings. Carved marble quarried from the
Greek Island of Skyros shapes the walls. Gothic patterns traced in
bronze embellish doorways. </span></span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Because of its grandeur, both inside and out, the Woolworth Building came to be known as the "Cathedral of Commerce." </span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We passed by some beautiful elevator doors.</span><br />
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for some of the 24 elevators in the lobby, which were designed to
accommodate up to seven people at a time. State-of-the-art high-speed
elevator service shuttled passengers to their destinations. Elevators
also once took passengers to the observation gallery on the fifty-fourth
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And reached the grand staircase at the west end of the lobby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is the view from the top of the stairs looking out to the lobby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And looking up from those stairs, we have this view of the ceiling, I think it's decorated glass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The edges of the ceiling also has figures of people spaced at intervals. Here's a closer look at one of them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We then went to a small open space at the back of the stairs which also has a pretty ceiling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then we went down another set of stairs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the basement are more elevators. These set of elevators was diagonally across a covered up portion of the basement which previously lead to the City Hall stop of the New York City subway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We were also able to access the vault but the way in was narrow and tight and I wasn't able to get a decent picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The third and last building during the Gilbert Trail Tour was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall_United_States_Courthouse" target="_blank">Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse</a>. Unfortunately, photos weren't allowed during our stay there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We were granted access to the library and two of the courtrooms. The lobbies and courtrooms were beautiful. I especially love the flower chandeliers that adorn the lobby but since I have no photos of it, I suggest you get on the next Gilbert Trail Tour to see it for yourself, or check on this <a href="http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/photos/slideshow.html#1" target="_blank">slideshow</a> and you'll see what I mean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After the tour, I took this shot of the courthouse at blue hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thanks to the Cass Gilbert Society for facilitating the tours, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm glad I got the chance to tour these wonderful buildings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the rest of my photos taken during the tours, here are the albums on Flickr:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/albums/72157653169041070" target="_blank">Gilbert Trail Tour, 10.24.14 </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span> Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-41417572261266241062015-07-27T23:35:00.000-04:002015-07-28T00:37:48.148-04:00Sunset to Sunrise in New York City<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A couple of weeks ago, I went on a midnight meet sponsored by the instagram hub <a href="https://instagram.com/nycprimeshot/?hl=en" target="_blank">NYCprimeshot</a>. The meet was at midnight so before that, my friends and I went to <a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/astoria-park" target="_blank">Astoria Park</a> to shoot some sunset scenes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We took the N train and got off at the Astoria Boulevard stop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">From there it was a few blocks walk to the park, specifically to the river edge. On this stretch of the East River, two bridges connect Astoria and Randall's Island across the river -- the RFK Triborough Bridge and Hell Gate Bridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was nearly sunset time when we arrived at the Shore Boulevard, the stretch of street in Astoria parallel to the river, and I can see the sun peeking in between the columns of one of the towers of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triborough_Bridge" target="_blank">RFK Triborough Bridge</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Triborough Bridge, known officially as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge since 2008, and sometimes referred to as the RFK Triborough Bridge, is a complex of three separate bridges in New York City, carrying Interstate 278 and New York State Route 900G. Spanning the Harlem River, the Bronx Kill, and the Hell Gate (a strait of the East River), the bridges connect the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, and the Bronx via Randalls and Wards Islands, which are joined by landfill.</span></span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The Hell Gate Bridge (originally the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gate_Bridge#cite_note-1"><span></span></a></sup> or The East River Arch Bridge<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gate_Bridge#cite_note-2"><span></span></a></sup>) is a 1,017-foot<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Gate_Bridge#cite_note-3"><span></span></a></sup> steel through arch railroad bridge in New York City. The bridge crosses the Hell Gate, a strait of the East River, between Astoria in Queens and Randalls and Wards Islands in Manhattan.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>This bridge was the inspiration for the design of Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia, which is about 60 percent larger.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The bridge would be the last New York City bridge to collapse if humans disappeared, taking at least a millennium to do so, according to the February 2005 issue of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discover_%28magazine%29" title="Discover (magazine)">Discover</a></i> magazine. Most other bridges would fall in about 300 years. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The lights of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Bridge" target="_blank">Manhattan Bridge</a> were reflected on the water as a ship with purple lights sail past.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension.
The main span is 1,470 ft (448 m) long, with the suspension cables
being 3,224 ft (983 m) long. The bridge's total length is 6,855 ft
(2,089 m). This is one of four toll-free bridges spanning the East
River; the other three are the Queensboro, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg Bridges.</span></span></i><br />
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The bridge opened to traffic on December 31, 1909. It was designed by Leon Moisseiff,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-structurae_1-8"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Bridge#cite_note-structurae-1"><span></span></a></sup> and is noted for its innovative design. As the first suspension bridge to employ Josef Melan's deflection theory for the stiffening of its deck, it is considered to be the forerunner of modern suspension bridges and this design served as the model for many of the long-span suspension bridges built in the first half of the twentieth century. The Manhattan Bridge was also the first suspension bridge to utilize a Warren truss in its design.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On the other side of that view is Brooklyn Bridge and <a href="http://janescarousel.com/" target="_blank">Jane's Carousel</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Built in 1922 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, the carousel was
lovingly restored and donated to the park by Jane and David Walentas. It opened to the public on September 16, 2011.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Soon, the group were at Tom Fruin's <a href="http://tomfruin.com/kolonihavehus.html" target="_blank">Kolonihavehus</a>, a garden house in colorful salvaged plexiglas and steel. I first came upon the structure last fall when it was installed during Dumbo Arts Fest. You can see some of my pics during that time which were featured by <a href="http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/10/tom-fruins-stained-glass-house-installed-at-brooklyn-bridge-park/" target="_blank">Colossal</a>. </span></div>
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It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet, and was the first
steel-wire suspension bridge constructed. It was originally referred to
as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and as the East River Bridge, but it was later dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name coming from an earlier January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle,
and formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since its
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">While we were waiting for the sunrise, the creator of the NYCPrimeshot hub, <a href="https://instagram.com/nyctme/" target="_blank">Sammy</a>, was jokingly posing for the group, raising his cap in salute to the city.</span></div>
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feel sleepy at all despite being awake for nearly 24 hours. The adventure started with two bridges and a sunset, and ended with also two bridges but with the sunrise. Walking in this vibrant city, it's so easy to see how wonderfully man-made structures blend with nature. I consider myself lucky that I am able to enjoy New York City and all that it offers, but to be able to see a new day dawn and feel the warmth of the
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Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-85212037196613588762015-06-30T00:09:00.000-04:002015-07-01T12:45:56.577-04:00The Bridges and Arches of Central Park - Part 2<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a continuation of my <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-bridges-and-arches-of-central-park.html" target="_blank">previous blog</a> where my friend <a href="http://www.aebex.com/home.html" target="_blank">Angel</a> and I walked through fifteen of the thirty bridges and arches in Central Park. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This article will be about the next fifteen bridges and arches. I will continue to link them with their specific pages from </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Bridges of Central Park</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as the book contains detailed descriptions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last bridge we covered in Part 1 of this blog was the Ramble Bridge, and while we were in the area, we saw one of the rustic bridges which has </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a view of the Lake. A lot of people were crowding on the bridge and when I tried to see why, this was what I saw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We didn't try to find the other rustic bridge as it was deep inside the Ramble near the Azalea Pond. What we did was skirt the Ramble's edge along the Lake until we came to the most famous bridge in the park, the graceful <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges19.html" target="_blank">Bow Bridge</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The above photo was taken a month before, on a beautiful spring day. A week after I took that photo, the bridge was <a href="http://gothamist.com/2015/04/25/bow_bridge_is_closing_for_the_summe.php" target="_blank">closed for restoration work</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the day of our walk, the southern end of the bridge was covered with tarp which the gondolier deftly avoided as he proceeded to steer his passengers along the lake. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a small piece of land which juts out in the Ramble that has a great view of both the Bow Bridge and the <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges18.html" target="_blank">Terrace Bridge</a> across the Lake.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>From an upper terrace, grand stairways on either side descend to an esplanade or "water terrace" below. At its center is the famous Bethesda Fountain. Above the fountain's several basins and iridescent cascade, above its clustered cherubs, stands the Angel of the Waters. Taken together the Bethesda is the city's greatest fountain.</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The bridge, so far as it serves to carry the carriage road and walk over the entrance from the Mall to the Lake, has a height of 16 feet, a span of 29 feet, and a breadth of roadway of 45 feet. The roadway is supported on wrought iron girders 24 inches in depth, ranged 6 feet 11 1/4 inches apart, and connected with brick arches. The girders rest upon a portion of the main sidewalls of the Terrace structure.</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I have to mention its famous ceiling. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is the only place in the world where Minton tiles are used for a ceiling.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>The large ceiling was the chief visual element. It was covered with brilliant encaustic tiles made by the Minton Company of Stoke-on-Trent, England. Jacob Wrey Mould who worked with Vaux on the decoration was obviously inspired by Moorish work.</i></span><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Minton tile was once also considered for the floor here, much as it is found today on many floors in the United States Capitol. What is here today are panels of red tile bordered with strips of bluish granite, the whole installed in 1910.</i></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's a photo taken at blue hour last winter. See how pretty the ceiling is!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After walking through the Ramble, we realized we had to go back south so we can cross off Trefoil Arch and Willowdell Arch</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> from the list. But first things first! We had a lunch break at the Conservatory Water with this view.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could stay here all day and watch the kids try to steer the model boats. Ahh, the simple joys of childhood!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We then proceeded south to the <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges20.html" target="_blank">Trefoil Arch</a>, the only arch whose ends have distinctively </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">different shapes</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i> The tunnel inside is lined with common brick under wood sheathing. Cast iron was used for the east railing. Trefoil was completed in 1862 on the designs of Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould.</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Trefoil is under the East Drive on the path leading from Conservatory Pond to the Lake and Boathouse, in line with 73rd and 74th Streets. Its span is 15 feet 10 inches between abutments, with the highest point 11 feet 9 inches above the path. The underpass is 66 feet and the railing 110 feet long. </i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then we set off to find <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto" target="_blank">Balto</a>. The dog's statue is near the <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges17.html" target="_blank">Willowdell Arch</a>.</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Willowdell's archway is only 49 feet long, measuring 14 feet 10 inches across and 9 feet 10 inches high. Weathering inside the archway from wind-whipped rain has eroded mortar and created some efflorescence. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Outside the eastern portal is a statue dedicated to the dog Balto. It was given to the city to commemorate the efforts of Alaskan sled dogs who transported diphtheria serum across Alaska. </span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Glade Arch, we followed the path past Cedar Hill and crossed the 79th Street Transverse and made our way towards <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges22.html" target="_blank">Greywacke Arch</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Gray sandstone and North River greywacke from the Hudson Valley alternate with brownstone from the banks of the Passaic in New Jersey. The surface of the greywacke is tooled, that of the brownstone bush hammered. The earthy gray and brown colors form a contrasting, decorative pattern that accents the horseshoe contours of the arch and the brownstone-incised molding above. The pointed ornamental sculpture is featured on both elevations. The iron railing is in an abstract pattern. The underpass vault is in red brick with white brick inserts. Abutments are fully covered. The span is 11 feet 3 inches high at its apex, and 18 feet 3 inches between abutments, while the passage underneath is 56 feet long.</i></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Fifth Avenue, the arch is the gateway to the Great Lawn and there is always a lot of foot traffic, like the day of our walk so I wasn't able to take a good shot. Here's a photo from a previous walk, the alternating sandstone and greywacke look so pretty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The arch's underpass is one of my faves, look at that unique design!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a few steps away from Greywacke Arch is <a href="http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/obelisk.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/" target="_blank">The Obelisk</a>, <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">the oldest man-made object in Central Park, and the oldest outdoor monument in New York City. We stopped by briefly to take a rest from the heat when something in one of the trees caught my eye .. a robin's nest!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then we're off again walking north towards The Reservoir. Around The Reservoir are three of the park's remaining cast-iron bridges, but we were only able to go to the Southeast Reservoir Bridge.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Reached easily from the Fifth Avenue and 85th Street entrance to the park, Southeast Reservoir Bridge is one of three cast-iron spans over the bridle path in the vicinity of the Reservoir.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Much trafficked, it links the Reservoir footpath, a crossing at the drive, and paths coming from two popular park entrances.</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The 33-foot long span has a height clearance of 10 feet 3 inches, a moderate size for a cast-iron arch. The span was erected at one-fifth the cost of a stone span, one explanation for the popularity of cast iron in the last century.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was a grey and cloudy day, I think it made The Reservoir look prettier. Agree?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From The Reservoir, we passed through the North Meadow until we reached <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges27.html" target="_blank">Springbanks Arch</a>, one of the gateways to The Ravine in the North Woods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a little bit further from that end of the arch is one of the rustic bridges in the North Woods. I love it here, it's so peaceful, you'd never know you're in the middle of the city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Across this rustic bridge is <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges28.html" target="_blank">Glen Span Arch</a>, the gateway between The Pool and The Ravine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The arch is built of large-sized, light-gray gneiss, roughly dressed and laid in ashlar. Boulders are piled randomly around the boulder abutments placed at the time of original construction. Ornamental detail includes a belt course at the spring line, some pentagonally shaped voussoirs and upright members on each side of the east-arch elevation.</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The span width is 16 feet with a height of 18 feet 6 inches. The underpassage is some 50 feet alongside the brook. The sidewalls on top are 65 feet long.</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Within the underpass are wide archways to either side. The one to the south by the path is shallow, the north one deep. Purely decorative, these grottos are vestigial remains of a popular device of the Picturesque style.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those ladies in colorful gowns are from <a href="http://creativetime.org/projects/drifting-in-daylight/artists/lauri-stallings-glo/" target="_blank">And All Directions I Come to You</a> presented by Lauri Stallings + Glo. It is part of <a href="http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/drifting-in-daylight.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/" target="_blank">Drifting in Daylight</a>, a <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">free exhibition </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">at the north end of the park</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> of eight site-specific artworks that promises to engage all of your senses. The exhibition ended on June 20, 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">A lot of people were watching the performance so it was hard to take a good shot of the entire Glen Span Arch. Here's a shot from last winter, see how pretty the arch is in the snow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the other end of The Loch is I</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> think one of the park's best kept secrets, one of its waterfalls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Facing this waterfall is the third gateway to The Ravine, the <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges29.html" target="_blank">Huddlestone Arch</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Of all the archways in Central Park, Huddlestone is the most picturesque. To sit at Huddlestone's southern portal on a spring day in the Ravine is not to be in New York, but in a country setting where forsythia abounds and the sound of a gently flowing brook soothes the spirit.</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The bridge is striking for the immense size of its boulders. One lodged in the base is reputed to weigh close to one hundred tons. </i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Vaux's instructions to the men building Huddlestone were to choose boulders lying around the park that were most reminiscent of untamed nature. Unlike many bridges further south in the park with precisely cut stone in ordered patterns or with delicate ironwork, the boulders of Huddlestone Bridge look as if they were brought together by some natural phenomenon that just happened to leave a 22-foot wide, 10-foot high arch. </i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to the <a href="http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/huddlestone-arch.html" target="_blank">park website</a>, the arch was <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">constructed without the use of mortar or other binding material, and o</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">nly gravity and pressure keep the massive boulders in place. Wow!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">The above photo was taken from the north end of the arch looking south to the Ravine. Here's one taken on a misty and foggy winter day, this time from the south end of the arch. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">The north end of the Huddlestone led to the Harlem Meer. It looked so pretty the day of our walk.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">By this time we have walked the entire length of the park, from south to north. From the Meer, we turned westward which would lead us to the northernmost arch of the park, <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges30.html" target="_blank">Mountcliff Arch</a>.</span></span><br />
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Eaglevale Bridge, it is built of gneiss in rockface ashlar. Material and
handling are suitably rugged for this end of the park, which has its
steepest slope along with a nearby cliff. It is a big bridge, being 102
feet long and 48 feet high, with a Tuscan arch some 16 feet high and 21
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as the Claremont Riding Academy at 175 West 89th Street is the only
survivor of the many stables once found around the park, it seems
appropriate to adopt the Academy's name, which was originally that of a
country house that once stood north of Grant's Tomb.</span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The bridge has an arch approximately 8 feet high, 9 feet 4 inches
wide, and 58 feet long, the length explained by its being beneath the
access road. The stone is Manhattan schist in rockface ashlar. The
parapet walls, also of schist, are about forty feet long. The bridge has
unusual elevations in that, horizontally, they take the shape of an
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">When we first started to plan out our walk, Angel and I were thinking we'll try walking to half of the park's arches and bridges. Well, it was a very productive day! We were able to visit 27 arches and bridges in about eight hours of walking.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">We missed just three: Winterdale Arch, and the two other bridges around the Reservoir bridle path, the Southwest Reservoir Bridge, and my favorite, the Gothic Bridge. I'll share below photos of these bridges that I've taken during previous walks in the park.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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so named because it was part of what was known as the Winter Drive. On
both sides in this stretch were planted evergreens for winter color. The
imposing breadth of its arched opening is enough to host both the
bridle path and a pedestrian path separated by an ordinary pipe rail
fence running under the dark hollow.</span></span></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The wide, elliptical arch has a span of 45 feet 6 inches,
the largest span of all the stone and brick bridges, and a height of
only 12 feet 3 inches. The arch is faced with smooth Maine granite and
set in regular ashlar sandstone moldings that follow its contours.
Buttresses to either side of the arch curve down to low supporting walls
with posts treated as stylized urns. The interior vault and walls are
lined with Philadelphia pressed brick interspersed with Milwaukee white
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges24.html" target="_blank">Southwest Reservoir Bridge</a> is just several meters north of Winterdale Arch. There are only few instances when the area below the bridge is void of vehicles as it is close to the <a href="http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/police-precinct.html" target="_blank">Central Park Police Precinct</a> and police vehicles are always parked by the bridge. Luckily, I have a shot of the bridge without any vehicles parked below so you all can see how intricate the details are.</span></div>
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the 38-foot, 2-inch-wide and 10-foot, 9-inch-high arch and a 72-foot
span with openwork ornament. The floral scrolls of the cast-iron
spandrels and railing reflect an innovative motif of interlacing leaves
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was long known simply by number. Yet, it seemed somehow deserving of a
name and has lately received one, appropriately, "Gothic Bridge."</span></span></i></blockquote>
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modified into windblown curves conforming to the oval contours of the
arch. Floral crockets adorn the inside of the curves. Graceful and
distinctive, the archway is 37 feet 5 inches at its widest point and
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wide and has a 93-foot railing. It was manufactured by the J. B. &
W. W. Cornell Ironworks. The abutments are of Manhattan schist from the
park.</span>The third of the cast-iron bridges around the Reservoir, like the
other two, permits visitors to avoid crossing the bridle path.
Equestrian traffic today hardly mandates the presence of the bridge, but
it remains as a fanciful addition to the landscape, for the visitor's
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Central Park is one beautiful place, and its bridges and arches make it more charming and easy to make memories in. I consider myself lucky that I am able to enjoy the park and walk there as often as I want to. Hope you all could get the chance to see and walk across its bridges and arches!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Check out more photos of the park's bridges and arches in my Flickr album: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/17240626211/in/album-72157635092228190/" target="_blank">Central Park Bridges</a></span></div>
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Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-86165689105819998322015-05-27T00:43:00.000-04:002015-08-20T13:22:46.866-04:00The Bridges and Arches of Central Park - Part 1<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During my weekly walks in Central Park, I always come across some of the park's bridges and arches. There was even one time when I went around the park to look for their exact location, as some are kind of hidden in plain sight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Calvert </span>Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted won a design competition to improve and expand Central Park with a plan they titled the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park" target="_blank">Greensward Plan</a>". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Greensward Plan called for some 36 bridges, all designed by Vaux, ranging from rugged spans of Manhattan schist or granite, to lacy Neo-Gothic cast iron; no two are alike.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The existence of most of those bridges resulted from the introduction of a bridle path. The book <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges.html" target="_blank">Bridges of Central Park</a> explains: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>When President Washington resided in the city, the nation's capital in 1789 and 1790, he was accustomed to a daily ride until, for reasons of health, he took to a carriage. This meant that, to the drive and footpath, was added a third right-of-way, the bridle path. The two planners had, from the start, mandated a separation of traffic, easy enough to do with two kinds of right-of-way; now a third was to make for more crossings. In the days before the traffic light a bridge was the only answer.<br />Originally, there were plans for seven bridges, two tunnels, a masonry bridge, and a footbridge within the park and over the transverse roads. Several of these were given up, and wood gave way to masonry. Then nineteen bridges were added, including the Arcade beneath the drive at the Terrace on the Lake. By 1872 there were thirty-four in the park. In addition, two were yet to be built, and at a later date three other bridges were added, one over the bridle path at the West 77th Street entrance, a second at West 90th Street, and a third at Frederick Douglass Circle.<br />What is astonishing is how successfully the bridges were made inconspicuous if not concealed. The one striking exception is, of course, Bow Bridge over the Lake. For the others the park visitor, unless he or she is an aficionado, has to pause and think where they are to be found. We tend to neglect them because of the traffic lights. Even more, we remain so taken by the park's overall quality of landscape, the lakes and streams, glades, woodlands, sweep of lawn, that the bridges appear only a minor adjunct, when they are works of art in themselves and in their setting. </i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The park fell into disrepair when cars became common-place and the Central Park Commission was dissolved. In 1934, Robert Moses was tasked with the cleaning up of the park. Playgrounds and ball fields were created, and in the process, some of the arches had to be destroyed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Currently, there are thirty bridges and arches in Central Park, five of which are cast-iron bridges. This number does not include the rustic bridges which can be found in the Ramble and the North Woods section of the park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last week, a friend wanted to check out the arches so we made a plan to go to and document as many as we can. I will link their specific pages from the book, as it contains detailed description of the bridges.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We agreed to meet at <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges16.html" target="_blank">Denesmouth Arch</a>, which is near the Central Park zoo, and supports the 65th Street transverse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Denesmouth is constructed of pale-olive New Brunswick sandstone, blackened by years of exposure. The arch is visually strengthened by the voussoirs, alternately long and short, fanning outward, spanning 37 feet 3 inches, with its top 14 feet above the path. </i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The balustrade of Denesmouth Arch has four large posts, which originally carried ornate bronze lampposts, elegant and monumental in character. Three of these lampposts were stolen several years ago, and the fourth is now in storage, as a model if future replacements are installed on the bridge.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After Denesmouth, we passed by the <a href="https://flic.kr/p/oRBmFW" target="_blank">Delacorte Clock</a> and the Central Park zoo and made our way to the next arch, Inscope Arch. Little did we know that the expansion of the zoo destroyed one of the park's cast-iron bridges, the <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges34.html" target="_blank">Outset Arch</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Outset was a cast-iron bridge spanning the bridle path at roughly the southwest corner of the present Zoo. Originally, the bridle path came east around the north end of the Pond, then went under </span><a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges15.html" style="background-color: white;">Green Gap Arch</a><span style="background-color: white;"> to turn south and exit at 60th Street. Due to the ever-growing popularity of the park, there resulted a second wave of bridge construction, after the Civil War, chiefly in the south end. Outset was started in 1873 and finished in 1875. Like the still-standing </span><a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges02.html" style="background-color: white;">Pine Bank Arch</a><span style="background-color: white;">, and the vanished </span><a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges32.html" style="background-color: white;">Spur Rock Arch</a><span style="background-color: white;">, Outset had an elaborate arch, railings and posts as we know from fourteen surviving drawings. The cast-iron tracery and other ornament, very much part of the Civil War era, distinguished it. </span></span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the 1870's, the park paths were used by pedestrians, horseback riders and carriages, and there was always a traffic problem. </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Frederick Law</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Olmsted recommended three new bridges: the original Gapstow Bridge, Outset Arch over the bridle path, and</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges14.html" target="_blank">Inscope Arch</a>,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> the only original one of the three that still remains.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good thing Inscope Arch wasn't destroyed, I love this little hidden arch! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the entrance of the zoo looking south, we veered right and went down a few steps to access it, as the arch is not easily seen from the path.</span><br />
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The other side of Inscope Arch opens up to The Pond, which gives visitors a great view of midtown Manhattan. When we were there, the trees were already full of leaves and you could hardly see the buildings. <a href="https://flic.kr/p/rMFrHw" target="_blank">In winter, it's another story</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inscope Arch is near <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges15.html" target="_blank">Green Gap Arch</a>, which was a <span style="background-color: white;">walkway under the drive that comes from the Zoo and goes west. Originally it was part of the bridle path under the arch, permitting entry and exit at the Scholar's Gate, Fifth Avenue and 60th Street. Currently, it is closed-off and used as a storage area. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>With an underpass 81 feet long, it has a shallow segmental span, 25 feet wide and 13 feet 3 inches high. The facing of Alberta sandstone, from the quarry in New Brunswick, is set in ashlar that continues the outlines of the voussoirs. Posts of the parapet continue downward as supporting piers of the abutments which have, in part, been concealed by the soil of the planted slopes. For the stonework of this archway, Jacob Wrey Mould, assisting Calvert Vaux, made drawings of the details that were then sent to the contracting stoneyards to be cut and shaped to specification. These drawings are in the Municipal Archives.</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most of the times there are park vehicles parked by the Green Gap Arch, as it was when we were there. The above photo is one I took last autumn. That bench is a favorite of the puppet <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/10132427763/in/album-72157635897971396/" target="_blank">Big Bird</a>, I have seen him there many, many times.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Near Green Gap Arch is Cat Rock, which has awesome views of midtown Manhattan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking at the lower left corner, I could see one of the arches, Driprock Arch, but we had other bridges and arches to check out first. Coming down from Cat Rock, we were at the northeastern end of The Pond where <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges13.html" target="_blank">Gapstow Bridge</a> lies.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Originally, Gapstow was a wooden bridge supported by the unique feature of a large segmental arch of wood on the north and south sides, both arches springing from ledges on the stone abutments. Along the wood walkway of the bridge the railings were of cast iron. </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Gapstow was a unique design using wood and cast-iron trimming, drawn for this commanding site over the Pond, in the picturesque landscape of the Park. It was to last a little more than a score of years. Conjecture has it that wear and tear were simply too much.</span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The current stone replacement, designed by Howard & Caudwell in 1896, is built of unadorned Manhattan schist. It spans 44 feet of water at its base with a 12-foot high arch, and it has imposing 76-foot long sidewalls extending the full length of the bridge.</span></span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Gapstow Bridge is the first bridge or arch you see in the park when you enter it from the southeast side. I've written about the Gapstow in different seasons on a <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/01/seasons-of-gapstow-bridge-at-central.html" target="_blank">previous blog</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's the other side of the bridge looking north.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then we proceeded to that arch we saw from Cat Rock, <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges11.html" target="_blank">Driprock Arch</a>. Here's my friend Angel in front of the arch, check out his <a href="http://www.aebex.com/home.html" target="_blank">site</a>!</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An elliptical archway framed in sandstone, Driprock spans 24 feet, reaching a height of 11 feet. The underpass runs for 65 feet while the balustrade extends 79 feet 8 inches.<br />Driprock suffered considerable deterioration through the years due to weathering. It is one of the few archways where red brick is used for revetment, combined with sandstone trim at the arch and the balustrade. Octagonal insets with rosettes add touches of color and texture.<br />Above the arch and red-brick spandrels rests the cornice and the balustrade with its open stonework of Gothic detail in New Brunswick sandstone. A number of the sandstone balustrade pieces have been replaced by cast stone, an expedient remedy considering the plague of the balustrades along the park drives: careening cars.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That red brick looks so pretty!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next on the list was the <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges12.html" target="_blank">Playmates Arch</a>, which </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">derived its name from its proximity to a number of major park attractions devoted to children: the Dairy, which once served fresh milk and other refreshments, the Kinderberg, a huge rustic shelter replaced in the 1930s by the Chess and Checkers House, and the nearby Carousel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Near the southern end of the park and Seventh Avenue lies <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges10.html" target="_blank">Dipway Arch</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The book Bridges of Central Park mentions that a short distance from Dipway Arch was <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges32.html" target="_blank">Spur Rock Arch</a>, which was demolished because it got in the way of the expansion of the Heckscher Playground. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After Dipway Arch, we walked northwest towards </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges02.html" target="_blank">Pine Bank Arch</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, one of the park's five remaining cast-iron bridges.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pine Bank Arch is located just east of the West Drive in line with 62nd Street, it carries a 16-foot-wide pedestrian walkway 11 feet above the bridle path.<br />It was restored in 1984 with the Parks Department's plan for rehabilitation of park structures. Long called Pine Bank Arch, this pedestrian crossover is more accurately a bridge. The 80-foot-long walkway is situated between two long, sloping natural rock outcroppings and has two shaped concrete on the remaining structure. The deck of concrete was replaced with the wood we see today.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Isn't that lovely? This is the bridge viewed from below where it nestles amidst the pine trees, rocks, and other verdant plants in the park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a few 200 feet away from Pine Bank Arch is <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges01.html" target="_blank">Greyshot Arch</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most of Greyshot Arch was constructed in 1860. The arch was in use by 1862, and the 100-foot-long sandstone balustrade was set in place a year later. Part of the balustrade is carved with stylized fleur-de-lis. Buttresses flank the archway, rising from curved supports to posts that have round tops in imitation of a modified boss with a diamond point. Modified bosses hold down the supports.<br />Greyshot Arch is faced with ornamental Westchester County variegated gneiss, a whitish-gray stone with veins of dark orange. It provides a contrast to the muted, earthy New Brunswick sandstone molding of the elliptical arch and balustrading above.<br />The vaulted archway is lined with Philadelphia red brick and has a 30-foot, 6-inch-wide and 10-foot, 1-inch-high opening. Greyshot has a passage 80 feet long</span></i>.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That 80 feet of red brick looks gorgeous, don't you think so?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a few meters north is <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges03.html" target="_blank">Dalehead Arch</a> which carries the West Drive over the bridle path with a span 80 feet long. It is 11 feet high and 24 feet deep.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Begun in 1860, like so many of the bridges and archways in this area of the Park first prepared for public use, Dalehead was completed by the year 1862.<br />The elevations are built of sandstone blocks of random size. The smooth, elliptical arch is hemmed with a brownstone ring molding. Buttresses at the sides of the arch swing out as revetments against the soil embankments that unite the archway with the landscape. Carving enriches the spandrels of the revetments and their terminals. Above, the 77-foot balustrades along the Drive are of sandstone, ornamentally carved with quatrefoil cutouts. </span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inside the arch, the brownstone ring molding complements the bricks and enhances the design of the arch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges04.html" target="_blank">Riftstone Arch</a> is an unobtrusive archway near Central Park West and 72nd Street, just inside the park entrance and directly across the street from the famous Dakota apartments.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By the use of little or no mortar and of megalithic blocks of Manhattan schist, the rustic note is conveyed. Vaux's aim was to have some "natural" bridges in his picturesque landscape. Those of brick and mortar would, in a number of instances, have appeared "unnatural."<br />The segmental arch is low and wide, measuring 30 feet across and 11 feet 10 inches in height. Abutments are concealed in the surrounding landscape by large boulders and surrounding trees and shrubs.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We walked further north until we reached the park's only double arch, the <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges05.html" target="_blank">Eaglevale Arch</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Eaglevale Bridge carries an access road to the West Drive from Central Park West over the bridle path and what was a narrow arm of the Lake going from Balcony Bridge to the Ladies' Pond directly to the south. The Ladies' Pond, considered a nuisance, was filled in around 1936 and its site given over for the playground that is there today. The one-time presence of the Ladies' Pond explains the need for a second arch in addition to the one over the bridle path. That there was once a branch of the Lake here is the reason why the nearby lawn and the bridle path are under water after a storm.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The handsome structure has revetment in blocks of gneiss in rockface random ashlar although the stones are not as big nor as "rustic" as those of Riftstone Arch four hundred yards to the south. Between the two spans, on either side, are balconies resting on buttresses. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Eaglevale Bridge is 150 feet long and 36 feet wide. The west arch is 13 feet 6 inches high over the bridle path and 31 feet wide. The east arch is 18 feet high over the filled-in arm of the lake and 33 feet 6 inches wide.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We made a slight turn from the Eaglevale Arch to go further inside the park and saw this rustic bridge. There was a small plaque on one side that says <a href="https://flic.kr/p/orXGbi" target="_blank">Triplets Bridge</a>.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Supporting the West Drive, this structure spans a narrow strait between the Lake and what was the Ladies Pond, the western arm of the Lake close to Central Park West. Reserved exclusively for ladies iceskating in the 1870s, it was filled in during the 1930s.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The bridge's arch is constructed of Manhattan schist excavated in the park, and mountain greywacke, a light-bluish sandstone set in random ashlar. The elevation shows an elliptical arch outline with a sandstone molding and coping. This arch measures 27 feet across and 11 feet 6 inches high, a little more than enough to allow passage underneath while standing up in a rowboat. The underpass is 65 feet long. There are no balconies on the bridge's west side, a rare example of a bridge with different sides, the only other in the park being <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges20.html">Trefoil Arch</a>.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Across the Balcony Bridge lies The Ramble, and from there you'll have a great view of the arch of the bridge straddling The Lake.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Parts of the sandstone railing with open quatrefoil pattern have been replaced by indifferent cast stone rather than cut stone. Viewed from the Ramble, the light-colored stone Balcony Bridge stands out from the lakeshore and is often dramatically reflected in the surface of the water. Its elliptical arch is further emphasized by the jutting prominence of the balcony supports. </span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The above description further states that Clarence Cook in Description of the New York Central Park (1869) believed this to be one of the handsomest bridges.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you agree?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a few feet away lies <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges07.html" target="_blank">Bank Rock Bridge</a>, it was <span style="line-height: 20px;">originally built of white oak, hence its early name, Oak Bridge.</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">The Bridges of Central Park was published in 1990, long before the bridge was recreated in 2009 by </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">the Central Park Conservancy using historic photographs and original drawings. I will attach below a description about the bridge from the <a href="http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/oak-bridge.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/" target="_blank">park website</a>.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Designed by Calvert Vaux, Oak Bridge is one of the larger and more elegant of the Park's wooden bridges, it featured panels of decorative cast iron set in the railings. Created as one of the major entrance to the Ramble, it's become one of the most popular Park destinations for bird watchers and offers one of the best views of the Park and the famous New York City skyline.</span><span style="line-height: 20px;">The bridge suffered repeated rounds of deterioration and restoration through the years. It was replaced in 1935 and restored over the ensuing years from an entirely utilitarian perspective. The Conservancy completed its re-creation and restoration using historic photographs, archival records, and Vaux's original drawings. Almost entirely built anew, the bridge project marked the Conservancy's most complex reconstruction of an original Park structure. The new bridge is built of steel clad with ornamental castings, and its decking and railings made of wood. The stone abutments and piers that act as supports for the bridge are the only remaining elements of the historic bridge.</span></span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were too many people on the bridge to take a decent shot when we were there so here's a previous shot of the bridge taken from Hernshead across The Lake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I did take a shot that day of the gorgeous view of the city from Bank Rock Bridge. Did I say gorgeous?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bank Rock Bridge connects the West Drive to The Ramble, and nestled inside among the trees and winding paths is the <a href="http://www.echonyc.com/~parks/books/bridges08.html" target="_blank">Ramble Arch</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Among the uneven hillocks and trees shading the sun is this narrow structure placed in a cleft between two high rock outcrops. Its arched opening measures only 5 feet across, rising to a height of 13 feet 6 inches. Ramble Arch has a passage 9 feet long and 32-foot sidewalls along the top. Except for the base course, the voussoirs and blocks are boulders found in the park, flattened at their sides and "Laid to appear like dry wall, but interior in cement." The rockface ashlar, which gives it an especially picturesque quality, varies in low relief to being almost flat. In contrast, the parapet walls on top are in pronounced rockface.<br />Large boulders specially moved here heighten the dramatic setting. It is impossible to pass underneath Ramble Arch without feeling that you are in one of those very special, faraway places in Central Park.</span></i> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Ramble Arch is the fifteenth bridge/arch we visited, which is half of the total arches and bridges in the park. I will write about the other fifteen bridges on my next blog. Hope you all enjoyed walking with Angel and me as we visited the beautiful bridges and arches of Central Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I haven't yet uploaded the pics I took that day but I do have a separate album on Flickr for the bridges and arches of Central Park: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157635092228190" target="_blank">Central Park Bridges</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next fifteen bridges and arches are on <a href="http://www.giginyc.net/2015/06/the-bridges-and-arches-of-central-park.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a> of this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A day spent walking with a friend in the park that I love, it's just my kind of day. Thank you all for walking with us!</span></div>
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Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-72237767561639622462015-04-09T00:38:00.003-04:002015-06-26T14:52:43.369-04:00Ellis Island Hard Hat Tour<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Last month I went on the <a href="http://www.statueoflibertytickets.com/Hard-Hat-Tour-of-Ellis-Island/" target="_blank">Hard Hat Tour</a> of the abandoned hospital complex in Ellis Island, which has been closed and abandoned for 60 years. Most of these buildings have slowly fallen into disrepair. The tour is offered by <a href="http://www.saveellisisland.org/about-us/who-we-are/" target="_blank">Save Ellis Island</a>, the organization formed to<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"> raise the necessary funds and oversee the rehabilitation, preservation and adaptive re-use of the unrestored buildings located primarily on the south side of Ellis Island</span>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Save Ellis Island’s mission is to preserve the historic hospital buildings on Ellis Island. Our goal is to encourage an understanding of immigration in a globalized world, a story that has always been a part of American history. Our vision is to engage the public in historic preservation by showcasing the rehabilitation and preservation of an American icon – Ellis Island.</i><i></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Save Ellis Island, in partnership with the National Park Service, will rehabilitate and re-dedicate these buildings for public education and enjoyment – a place for civic discussion of issues that define our humanity, the constant movement of peoples around the globe and the impact of this travel on mutual respect, cultural tolerance and global health and well being.</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Island_Immigrant_Hospital" target="_blank">Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital</a> is the United States’ first
public health hospital. It opened in 1902 and served as a detention facility for new immigrants
who were deemed unfit to enter the United States after their arrival. Immigrants would either be released from the hospital to go on to a new
life in America or sent back to their home countries. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The hospital complex consisted of 29 buildings spread
over 2 islands in New York Harbor. The islands were man-made, using
excavated dirt and concrete from the New York City subway system.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Twelve million immigrants were processed through the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Island" title="Ellis Island">Ellis Island Immigration Center</a>
during its years of operation. Every immigrant had to go through a
thirty-second health inspection upon arrival, although the inspections
were often directed more at the immigrants who arrived from second or
third class. Tens of thousands of immigrants, or one out of every five,
received a chalk mark on their clothing, signaling a health deficiency.
These immigrants were often sent on to the Ellis Island Immigrant
Hospital to be detained until they recovered or were deemed too sick to
enter the United States, in which case they would be sent back to their
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The curved corridor above leads to the laundry room, the first stop of the tour. Much of the original equipment used</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">were still in place,
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and was eventually expanded to three times that size. Additionally, there were four operating rooms and a morgue. An
autopsy amphitheater in the hospital, which contained an eight-cadaver
refrigerator, became a well-known teaching hall, drawing medical
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As part of the tour opening, an art exhibit, "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/arts/design/jr-brings-ellis-islands-abandoned-hospital-to-life.html" target="_blank">Unframed –Ellis Island</a>,"
by renowned artist <a href="http://www.jr-art.net/" target="_blank">JR</a> is on display throughout the hospital
complex. The exhibit features life size historic photographs of Ellis
Island immigrants installed on 22 interior walls. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JR's work is not limited to walls, you can also see them on the floor, cabinets and sinks inside the hospital complex.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our tour guide in front of another of JR's work in one of the rooms at the hospital complex.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the furniture and fixtures are long gone, the paint cracked and peeling, the windows boarded up, and dust on the floor, but there is beauty in abandoned places.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All of these rooms are interconnected by hallways and covered corridors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some parts of the hospital, especially the ones closest to the water have been battered by the elements. The island was very much affected during Hurricane Sandy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Looking out from one of the buildings to another building at the complex. New York City just had another snowstorm a few days before my tour date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At a certain point along one of the hallways, Lady Liberty peeks out in between two hospital buildings. Ahh hope! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The hospital complex also houses nurses and doctors quarters. This room was once the living quarters of one of the hospital doctors and his family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The tour did not cover the upper floors of the buildings. This particular area is still part of the doctor's quarters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then it's back to where we started. The white stuff on the photo below was where water level reached during hurricane Sandy. There's a lot of work involved in these structures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The grounds of Ellis Island has a great view of Lady Liberty. Caught this pair when I went out of the main building of the Immigration Center. Caption the photo!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On the other side you could see the lower Manhattan skyline. Of course the view was completely different during the time the hospital was in operation, but really, nothing beats this view. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The main building of the Immigration Center houses the <a href="http://www.bringinghistoryhome.org/assets/bringinghistoryhome/2nd-grade/unit-2/EllisIsland_14.htm" target="_blank">Registry Room</a>. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jostling three abreast, the
immigrants made their way up the steep flight of stairs and into the great
hall of the Registry Room. Although many did not know it, the inspection
process had already begun. Scanning the moving line for signs of illness,
Public Health Service doctors looked to see if anyone wheezed, coughed,
shuffled, or limped as they climbed the steep ascent. Children were asked
their name to make sure they weren't deaf or dumb, and those that looked over
two-years-old were taken from their mothers' arms and made to walk. As the
line moved forward, doctors had only a few seconds to examine each immigrant,
checking for sixty symptoms, from anemia to varicose veins, which might
indicate a wide variety of diseases, disabilities, and physical conditions.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That was interesting, click on the link for more info on the immigration process in Ellis Island. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The main building of the Ellis Island Immigration Center was designed in French Renaissance Revival
style and built of red brick with limestone trim. Architects Edward Lippincott Tilton and William Alciphron Boring received a gold medal at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_%281900%29" title="Exposition Universelle (1900)">1900 Paris Exposition</a> for the building's design and constructed the building at a cost of $1.5 million</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When it opened on
December 17, 1900, officials estimated 5,000 immigrants per day would be
processed. However, the facilities proved to be able to barely handle
the flood of immigrants that arrived in the years just before World War
I. Writer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Adamic" title="Louis Adamic">Louis Adamic</a> came to America from Slovenia
in southeastern Europe in 1913 and described the night he and many
other immigrants slept on bunk beds in a huge hall. Lacking a warm
blanket, the young man "shivered, sleepless, all night, listening to
snores" and dreams "in perhaps a dozen different languages".</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After the immigration station closed in November 1954, the buildings fell into disrepair and were all but abandoned. Attempts at redeveloping the site were unsuccessful until its landmark status was established, Ellis Island was proclaimed a part of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty_National_Monument" title="Statue of Liberty National Monument">Statue of Liberty National Monument</a> in October 1965.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The restoration and adaptive use of the Beaux-Arts
Main Building had a construction budget of $150 million, the money was raised by a campaign
organized by a political fundraiser. The building reopened on September 10, 1990.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So much history in these buildings, I'm so glad I joined the Hard Hat Tour. It's not much but its my little contribution to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_Ellis_Island" target="_blank">save Ellis Island</a>.<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Ellis Island was once known as an “<a href="http://www.savingplaces.org/treasures/ellis-island#.VSXtp5NY6M3" target="_blank">Island of Hope</a>” for immigrants who
launched new lives in America, but has also been called the “Island of
Tears” by newcomers who were turned back to their homelands or separated
from their families at the processing center. The historic hospitals,
quarantine wards, and support buildings on the south side of the island
retain their integrity and haunting beauty. Preservation experts and
historians feel strongly that they must be protected and opened to the
public.</i></span> </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here's a <a href="http://www.schundler.net/Ellis%20Island%20Map%20Color.pdf" target="_blank">map</a> of the island so you'll have an idea where the tour took us: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If any of you could get the chance, I would definitely recommend the tour. Not only could you see the hospital structures now opened to the public after 60 years, you could also learn about the life of immigrant patients, see JR's site-specific works, and at the same time contribute a little bit to the preservation and restoration of the Ellis Island hospital complex.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's the <a href="http://www.statueoflibertytickets.com/Hard-Hat-Tour-of-Ellis-Island/">link</a> to buy tickets for the Hard Hat Tour.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Check out the rest of my photos of the tour on Flickr: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157653525704858" target="_blank">Ellis Island Hard Hat Tour</a></span>Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-67005451239874778722015-03-04T23:51:00.000-05:002015-05-15T11:56:54.780-04:00NYBG Orchid Show: Chandeliers<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Last Sunday I went to the <a href="http://www.nybg.org/" target="_blank">New York Botanical Garden</a> in the Bronx for its annual <a href="http://www.nybg.org/exhibitions/2015/orchid-show/" target="_blank">Orchid Show</a>, which is usually held every March to third week of April. I've been going for several years now, my way of celebrating my Mom's beautiful spirit. We lost her one beautiful March day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was already starting to snow when I arrived at the garden. The orchid show is housed in the <a href="http://www.nybg.org/gardens/conservatory/" target="_blank">Enid Haupt Conservatory</a>, it looked so pretty in the snow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Conservatory also houses tropical plants and desert plants, and plants from the rainforests, among others. You have to go through all these displays before the main attraction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This year's Orchid Show has the theme "Chandeliers". The centerpiece of the show is a spectacular three-tiered flower chandelier that overflowed with the blooms. It was a hit with all visitors and I enjoyed seeing everyone's reactions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Standing under the center of the giant flower chandelier, I had this incredible view. I could stand here forever!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was a joy to see most of my favorite orchids. There's cymbidium in many different colors. I like this one, looks like an unusual color for an orchid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I love the moth orchids, some of them come in solid colors, some with stripes, others with spots, all beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mom's favorite has always been the anthurium. It is red and shaped like a heart, and seeing one always reminds me of her great love for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The weather outside was frightful but it was so delightful inside the Conservatory. The pretty dancing ladies made me forget the non-stop snow blowing outside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I hope seeing these pretty flowers have somehow chased your winter blues away. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you New York Botanical Garden, I had a wonderful time and enjoyed the Orchid Show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, we just need these flowers to call out to Mother Nature to let Spring come early this year. Everyone agree?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the rest of my photos on the Orchid Show, click on the link to my Flickr album: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157652400992715" target="_blank">NYBG 2015 Orchid Show</a></span>Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-52607364647058780122015-02-27T01:45:00.000-05:002015-02-27T01:46:40.144-05:00Reflections on the East River<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Last Sunday I was at Roosevelt Island as I wanted to go to the Four Freedoms Park at sunset time. As I was walking towards the park, I realized that the East River was so calm, it perfectly reflected everything around it, even the Roosevelt Island tram high above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I arrived at the park at nearly closing time which was 30 minutes before the day's sunset. I didn't take a lot of photos in the park as most of its snowed-in area was cordoned off. This was sundown at the park, taken just before closing time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As was twilight. It was so peaceful to see the fiery colors, it warmed that cold winter day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At blue hour, I was at the other side of the island facing Queens. Long Island City was shimmering across the East River.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge was glittering like a jewel that night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here's a couple of photos I stitched so you could have a panoramic view of midtown Manhattan reflected on the East River. But don't think all is calm, this has been a long winter, freezing parts of the Hudson and East Rivers. When you look at the picture, you can see the ice floes floating near the edge of the river.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I haven't uploaded my photos on Flickr yet. I'll update this blog with the link to the rest of my photos once I upload them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So sorry to have been away for a
couple of months. I've been going out and walking every weekend, I just
didn't have the time to sit down and write a long blog. What I will do
from now is post a few pictures of wherever I walked the past weekend,
and when I get the chance, I'll write a longer blog with lots of
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hope you enjoyed seeing the reflections on the East River through my eyes. Thank you for all your patience and support! </span><span class="emoji">❤</span>Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-79167175898843004682014-09-30T19:46:00.000-04:002014-09-30T19:57:45.005-04:00September 11 at the 9/11 Memorial<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This year is the first year that the <a href="http://www.911memorial.org/" target="_blank">National September 11 Memorial</a> was open to the public on the day of the anniversary of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks" target="_blank">attacks</a>. For the past 12 years, only the families of the victims and the first responders were allowed in the site on September 11. This year also marks the year that the public can freely go to the memorial with reservations no longer required.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wanted to experience being in the memorial during the anniversary date so after office hours on September 11, I went to lower Manhattan. I dropped by Hudson River Park first, there were pink clouds near One World Trade Center as the sun started to set. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As I was making my way to the memorial, I saw the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribute_in_Light" target="_blank">Tribute in Light</a> start to shine. This art installation consists of 88 searchlights placed next to the site of the World Trade Center to create two vertical columns of light in remembrance of the attacks, and has been repeated every September 11 of each year since 2002.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I took the circuitous route, walking towards where the Tribute in Light was before going inside the memorial. The searchlights were installed on the roof of an MTA property near the World Trade Center site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The dot on this photo below is a helicopter, one of the many flying near the lights that night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On my way back towards the memorial, I saw a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/11/mr-brainwash-911-street-a_n_5797842.html" target="_blank">new mural</a> by Mr. Brainwash right across the World Trade Center site, a tribute to the victims of 9/11, featuring the messages "We Love New York" and "Forever." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The mural was so huge it wouldn't fit it in my camera screen. Here are a couple of shots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Street artist <a href="http://nowyorkcity.com/2012/08/28/honschar-nyc-chalk-street-artist/" target="_blank">Honschar</a> whose medium is chalk also penned a 9/11 tribute on the sidewalk near Mr. Brainwash's mural. If you're interested to see or read the whole poem, check my Flickr album for some <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157647137260128/" target="_blank">zoomed-in shots</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Adjacent to the above poem was this simple but meaningful tribute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And of course, there's Virgil's quote, same quote is on display as an art installation inside the National 9/11 Museum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then I made my way to the 9/11 memorial. At the entrance was this sign:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The panels surrounding the pools with the names of the victims of the attacks were filled with flowers, flags, badges, and sometimes pictures of the victims.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Right across the North Pool is the National September 11 Museum. The tridents inside the museum were illuminated and shine across the memorial pool that night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On a visit to the memorial a few days before the September 11 anniversary, I snapped a photo of the museum with the American flag reflected on one of the tridents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">From the memorial pools, you can see the Tribute in Light at the distance. This was from the South Pool ..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And from the North Pool .. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some even have flowers in patriotic colors of red, white and blue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Four World Trade Center rises at the back of the Memorial Museum and it was great to see the two together with the Tribute in Light that night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was a beautiful evening and the memorial was overflowing with people who wanted to remember the day and #Honor911.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Just a few days before when I was there for a night visit, the memorial was peaceful as there weren't too many people there at nearly closing time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To see the Tribute in Light from the memorial was one memorable experience, and it was moving to see the offerings and tributes honoring the memory of the day and the victims. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Over at the FDNY Memorial Wall right across the 9/11 memorial were more tributes to the 343 firefighters who died as heroes that day. I love these paper lanterns with pictures of the victims and some with drawings from kids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you stand near one of the edges of the memorial, you can see One World Trade Center reflected on Four World Trade Center, and remember the Twin Towers again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And a quote by Edith Wharton comes to mind ..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span data-reactid=".5.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.2:1"><span data-reactid=".5.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.0.0.1.2:1.0">There are two ways of spreading the light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. </span></span></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">May we all spread the light and #neverforget to #honor911.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">More photos on my Flickr albums:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For pictures on that day - <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157647137260128/" target="_blank">September 11, 2014</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Night visits to the memorial - <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157647404105945/" target="_blank">Night Visits: National September 11 Memorial, 2014</a></span>Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-25936005587709995072014-08-31T23:03:00.000-04:002016-04-27T15:57:40.720-04:00Jacob Riis Park<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After walking in <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2014/07/dead-horse-bay.html" target="_blank">Dead Horse Bay</a>, <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2014/07/floyd-bennett-field-to-fort-tilden-via.html" target="_blank">Floyd Bennett Field and Fort Tilden</a>, which I wrote about in my previous blogs, our group made our way towards Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From Fort Tilden, we walked along Beach 169th Street to reach the Jacob Riis Park Promenade. The Jacob Riis Park, like Dead Horse Bay and Floyd Bennett Field, is part of the Jamaica Bay Unit of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_National_Recreation_Area" title="Gateway National Recreation Area">Gateway National Recreation Area</a> managed by the National Park Service. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are some data about the park from the <a href="http://www.nyharborparks.org/visit/jari.html" target="_blank">New York Harbor Parks</a>: </span><br />
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journalist and photographer who documented the plight of the poor and
working class in the city's tenements. Today, the park's ocean beach and
landscaped walkways, boardwalks and courtyards still provide city
dwellers, many of them new immigrants, an opportunity to spread out and
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Constructed on the site of one of the first US naval air stations, the
park was designed in 1936 by innovative Park Commissioner Robert Moses,
who had also created Jones Beach on Long Island in 1929. Moses
envisioned Riis Park as a Jones Beach for poor immigrants, a destination
accessible by public transportation and closer to the city. Jacob Riis
Park was transferred to the control of the National Park Service in
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The beach looked beautiful and the water was inviting to see that hot summer day when we walked along the promenade. It was good to see a lot of families enjoying the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We passed this abandoned shack along the promenade. It seems like a kiosk that used to sell beach items. I think it was damaged during hurricane Sandy and was never repaired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the east end of the promenade is this beautiful standing clock. The Wise Clock, or sometimes known as the <a href="http://www.clocks.org/new_york_state/riis_park.html" target="_blank">Riis Park Memorial Clock,</a> was installed on the
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the clock is unknown, it was probably built in the 1890s as a special-made item by the
Wise Jewelry Store in Brooklyn, although some sources claim that the clock was
manufactured by the Howard Clock Company of Boston. The clock stood in front of the Wise
Jewelry Store at Flatbush Avenue and Nevins Street for approximately years. It was then
moved with the firm to a new location at Fulton Street near Hoyt where it remained for
nine years. From there it was moved to 288 Livingston for about five years before being
removed to the park. The clock was donated to the Department of Parks by William A. Wise
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's a closer look of the face of the clock. See those little dragons?</span><br />
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from the pedestal top and above it was wood. The clock itself was twelve feet high in
height and the overall height of the standard about 20 feet. There were four faces on the
clock, each face being four feet in diameter and each dial 30 inches in diameter. The
clock had elaborate detailed scroll work throughout the pedestal. </span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Near the clock is an art deco structure, the park's bathhouse which was built in 1932 and is listed on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a>. The bathhouse provides a place to get out of the sun and learn about the park's history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But as you can see from the above photo, the entrance is boarded up.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Once easily accessible public transportation was established from the
city to the shore, the beach was finally crowned with a magnificent Art
Deco bath house, which added a level of opulence to the site that many
of the local visitors had not experienced. With two octagonal red brick
towers and sweeping curved changing rooms more akin in style to Berlin's
vanished Templehof airport, it was a lavishly tiled and glittering gift
to the city's less well off. </span></i></blockquote>
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</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But time and neglect soon caught up with the bath house, and in the
1990's ownership was transferred to the federal Gateway National
Recreation organization who planned on completely renovating the site.
But after $20 million in restoration, funding dried up and the bath
house was left abandoned. The windows were boarded up and the bath house
started to be covered by sand dunes and weeds. In addition to the
ravages of time, Hurricanes Irene and Sandy devastated the area.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's a sad thing to see happen to what was once a beautiful structure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A little further to the bathhouse is another abandoned structure with a smokestack which I learned was the Neponsit Health Center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.rockawave.com/news/2014-03-07/Front_Page/Neponsit_Money_Pit.html" target="_blank">closure of the property</a> seems to have its share of controversy.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The current sad state of the property can be traced back to September
7th, 1998 when a strong Labor Day storm rolled through Rockaway. The
storm, allegedly, caused structural damage to the <span class="pt_location_term">Neponsit</span>
Health Care Center. At the time, Mayor Giuliani’s administration said
that the buildings were in “imminent danger of collapse.” Close to three
hundred residents were forced to evacuate the buildings a few days
later, without being given prior notice. Many of the residents, who had
Alzheimer’s and dementia, were bused to other hospital wards and nursing
homes across the city in a move that was traumatizing to some. Two
residents died while being relocated to acute care facilities and
another resident couldn’t be found for several weeks.</span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With the sudden closing, there were rumors that Giuliani wanted to
sell the land to a political ally and friend, to turn the facility into
an oceanfront hotel. The plan was tripped up because the deed to the
land requires it to be used as a health care facility or a park. With
the residents removed and the hotel plans thwarted, the City made plans
to clear the property and turn it into park land. A Legal Aid attorney,
however, got a court-ordered injunction in October 1999 which prevented
the city from tearing down the buildings.</span></i></blockquote>
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</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In early 2000, Merritt & Harris, Inc., was hired by the City Council to conduct an independent structural survey of the <span class="pt_location_term">Neponsit</span>
home. Merritt & Harris determined that the buildings were never in
imminent danger of collapse and determined that they were in “fair to
good structural condition.”</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Where else can you see people sunbathing under the shadow of an abandoned building? I guess, only in Queens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Neponsit area also has a beachfront.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Its residents have been busy preparing for the next superstorm. The area near the houses are now fortified with sand bags.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the residents to get to the beach, there are access areas in a small gap between the fences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I guess the residents have learned to live with it and enjoy each day as it comes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From the Neponsit area, we walked more than 30 blocks to get to the A train shuttle to take us to Broad Channel to our next destination, the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. The stained glass artwork at the train station depicted beach life, how cool!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While on the train, I was also able to snap a quick photo of Michael Miller's stained glass work at Beach 90th St- Holland titled <a href="http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Artwork:_Surf_Station_90_%28Michael_Miller%29" target="_blank"><i>Surf Station 90</i></a><i>. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The S train shuttle took us to Broad Channel, the last part of our walk for the day. This was my first time to visit the Rockaways and I'm glad I was able to. Jacob Riis Park is a beautiful place, I hope the National Park Service will develop the area<i>,</i> restore the bathhouse and provide more amenities. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And I hope I can go back in the area again, soon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For the rest of my photos, here's the album on Flickr: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157645684136771/" target="_blank">Jacob Riis Park/Rockaways</a><i><br /></i></span></span></div>
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Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-30487832051452739652014-07-31T22:41:00.000-04:002014-08-01T14:50:20.316-04:00Floyd Bennett Field to Fort Tilden via Marine Parkway Bridge<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After our trek in Dead Horse Bay which I wrote about in a <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2014/07/dead-horse-bay.html" target="_blank">previous blog</a>, we continued our walk towards <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Bennett_Field" target="_blank">Floyd Bennett Field</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Floyd Bennett Field was New York City's first municipal airport, later a naval air station,
and is now a park. While no longer used as an operational commercial,
military or general aviation airfield, a section is still used as a
helicopter base by the New York Police Department (NYPD). Located in southeast Brooklyn, the field was created by connecting Barren Island and a number of smaller marsh islands to the mainland by filling the channels between them with sand pumped from the bottom of Jamaica Bay. The airport was named after famed aviator and Medal of Honor recipient <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Bennett" title="Floyd Bennett">Floyd Bennett</a>, a Brooklyn resident at the time of his death. It was dedicated on June 26, 1930, and officially opened on May 23, 1931.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here's an aerial view of Floyd Bennett Field from Wikipedia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the above photo, you can see Dead Horse Bay on the right and since we walked to Floyd Bennett Field by following the shoreline, we were able to visit only the southern part of the former airport. <a href="http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/aviation/flo.htm" target="_blank">This link</a> has a great article about the history of the former airport.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Since it is</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> no longer used as an operational commercial, military or general aviation airfield, Floyd Bennett Field has a lot of abandoned buildings, like this one complete with plants growing out of its roof.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There was one point where we could go no further as we've reached the boundary for the New York City Police Department (NYPD) space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Floyd Bennett Field Archery Range had a lot of young archers honing their skills when we passed by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Up close, that water tower looked like an all-white soccer ball .. cool! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sometimes, a field of wildflowers and some abandoned structures make a nice photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As part of the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/gate/index.htm" target="_blank">Gateway National Recreation Area</a>, Floyd Bennett Field has a lot of activities offered. One of this is a <span class="entity _586o" data-fulltext="Floyd Bennett Raceway Rc Club" data-group="all" data-icon="null" data-select="group" data-si="true" data-text="Floyd Bennett Raceway Rc Club" data-type="ent:page" data-uid="138656179554244">remote control raceway, the </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="entity _586o" data-fulltext="Floyd Bennett Raceway Rc Club" data-group="all" data-icon="null" data-select="group" data-si="true" data-text="Floyd Bennett Raceway Rc Club" data-type="ent:page" data-uid="138656179554244"><span class="entity _586o" data-fulltext="Floyd Bennett Raceway Rc Club" data-group="all" data-icon="null" data-select="group" data-si="true" data-text="Floyd Bennett Raceway Rc Club" data-type="ent:page" data-uid="138656179554244">Floyd Bennett Raceway RC Club</span><span data-si="true">. W</span>e stopped for a while and enjoyed watching the cars zipped by so fast.</span></span><br />
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<span class="entity _586o" data-fulltext="Floyd Bennett Raceway Rc Club" data-group="all" data-icon="null" data-select="group" data-si="true" data-text="Floyd Bennett Raceway Rc Club" data-type="ent:page" data-uid="138656179554244"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On our way out of the former airport, we saw this directional signs. It seems we missed going to the Historic Aircraft Hangar area. It was a bummer but we needed to walk on if we wanted to reach Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge before it closes. Hopefully, I can go back and see the historic aircraft the next time I'm in Floyd Bennett Field.</span></span><br />
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Greenway and to Flatbush Avenue. The operation of this bridge includes
the maintenance of the Marine Parkway from the toll plaza to Jacob Riis Park. Though a city-owned and operated bridge, it connects two parts of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_National_Recreation_Area" title="Gateway National Recreation Area">Gateway National Recreation Area</a>, a unit of the National Park System: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Bennett_Field" title="Floyd Bennett Field">Floyd Bennett Field</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Riis_Park" title="Jacob Riis Park">Jacob Riis Park</a>. The bridge is designated as New York State Route 901B, an unsigned reference route.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We've finally reached the end of the bridge and I saw some stickers on one of the fence-like structures. It seems street artist <a href="http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/local/2013/12/08/graffiti-art-pioneer-cost-returns-to-his-roots/" target="_blank">Cost</a> was also at the Rockaways at one time.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Fort Tilden was established about the time of American involvement in World War I in 1917. It is named after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_J._Tilden" title="Samuel J. Tilden">Samuel J. Tilden</a>, one-term governor of New York State and Democratic Presidential candidate in 1876. The fort first served as a coastal artillery installation and ended its service as a Nike Hercules and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_Ajax" target="_blank">Nike Ajax missile</a> site. Fort Tilden remained an Army installation until 1974 when it was decommissioned and turned over to the National Park Service, and made part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_National_Recreation_Area" title="Gateway National Recreation Area">Gateway National Recreation Area</a></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This used to be the military chapel in Fort Tilden. Currently it is part of the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/gate/parknews/rockaway-arts-festival-to-celebrate-the-reopening-of-fort-tilden-and-recognize-ongoing-recovery-of-the-rockaways.htm" target="_blank">Rockaway!</a>, an art installation hosted by the National Park Service, which partners
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chapel - which was damaged by Sandy and is now being restored - will
showcase one of the highlights from the MoMA collection: The Forty Piece
Motet by Janet Cardiff, a spatialized adaptation of a
sacred 16th century motet created by recording each member of a choir
individually and giving each voice its own speaker.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I will write about our trek to Jacob Riis Park and the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in my next blog. It was a pleasure to walk around Floyd Bennett Field and Fort Tilden and cross the Marine Parkway Bridge. These places are so rich in history, I hope the government agencies will preserve them.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> I hope to be back one of these days, there is so much I haven't seen and covered. For now, I hope you enjoyed seeing these places through my eyes and photos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the rest of my photos, here's the album on Flickr: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157645280548047/" target="_blank">Floyd Bennett Field/Marine Parkway Bridge/Fort Tilden</a></span></div>
Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-54990771602592003262014-07-28T08:10:00.000-04:002014-08-01T14:54:55.765-04:00Dead Horse Bay<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Last month I joined a meet-up for a trek around the Jamaica Bay area. The first part of our walk was in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Horse_Bay" target="_blank">Dead Horse Bay</a>, a small body of water in Brooklyn managed by the National Park Service as part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_National_Recreation_Area" title="Gateway National Recreation Area">Gateway National Recreation Area</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">How did Dead Horse Bay got its name? The land sits at the western edge of a marshland once dotted by
more than two dozen horse-rendering plants, fish oil factories and
garbage incinerators. From the 1850's until the 1930's, the carcasses of
dead horses and other animals from New York City streets</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
were used to manufacture such items as glue and fertilizer. Once parts
of the horses were removed, boiled and chopped up, they were simply
dumped into the water</span>. As the
automobile grew in popularity, t</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">he number of horse carcasses in Dead Horse Bay dwindled but</span> then city began dumping its garbage in the area. This landfill was capped after
the refuse of the 1920's and 1930's filled the marsh. In the 1950's,
the cap burst, spewing the artifacts of a different era onto the beach.
Now glass bottles, shoe leather, plastic toys, old bones and handguns
lie along the shoreline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We took the Q35 bus from Flatbush, got off at the Gateway Sports stop, and from there walked about a mile to the nearly hidden entrance of the trail. Trees and plants abound but the pathway is clear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But let not the view fool you! The beach is littered with thousands of broken bottle pieces, some plastic containers and even abandoned boats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That bridge above is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Parkway-Gil_Hodges_Memorial_Bridge" target="_blank">Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge</a> that connects Marine Park, Flatbush Avenue and Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn with the Rockaway peninsula in Queens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Walking along the shore I nearly stumbled on something you'd hardly ever see in the city -- a horseshoe crab! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There was also a part in the area where some sea grass grow, I was a little surprised to see it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Further to this grassy part is an area full of rocks ..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The place may have been a garbage dump before but looking up from that rocky area, the sky that morning was kind of showing off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was checking out some articles about Dead Horse Bay and they have lots of pictures of the bottles along the shore. When we were there, I only saw a few and mostly just broken pieces along the shore. I was thinking most of these items were dragged back to the sea during superstorm Sandy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In addition, it was already high tide when we got there and most of the bottles were covered by the water. When the waves come you could almost hear a tinkling sound as the bottles move with the current.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is a tree in Dead Horse Bay where some people hang bottles. Sometimes there are a lot of bottles hanging but on the day of our visit, there were only a few moving like windchimes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We finally left the place close to noontime as we still had to cover a lot of places. Along the way back we passed by remnants of a pier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And this looked like the ruins of a boat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At one point my attention was caught by some sea gulls, it must be feeding time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Further on is another ship ruin, the pieces have stuck on what looked like hardened tar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We then continued to proceed to the next part of our walk, Floyd Bennett Field. The former airport is located across Dead Horse Bay, with Flatbush Avenue dissecting the area which ultimately leads to the Marine Parkway Bridge. We passed underneath the bridge to go to Floyd Bennett Field.<br /><br />The area by the Marine Parkway Bridge has been known to be a great fishing spot. This angler must have been feeling hot that summer day. Well, whatever it takes just to land the big one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Did you enjoy our trip to Dead Horse Bay? Floyd Bennett Field was our second stop and we ended the day in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. I hope to share with you all these adventures in my next blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here's one last pic, a panorama taken from Dead Horse Bay. Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For more pics taken at Dead Horse Bay, here's my album on Flickr - <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157645260692488/" target="_blank">Dead Horse Bay, 06.28.14</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-75157641263398022752014-06-30T23:03:00.000-04:002015-03-18T18:43:39.384-04:00The Great Saunter 2014 - East Side<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In my <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-great-saunter-2014-west-side.html">previous blog</a>, I wrote about joining the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Saunter">Great Saunter</a> which started on the west side of Manhattan. By 1 pm, we were resting our weary feet and having a little break for lunch in Inwood Hill Park, the park contains the largest remaining forest land on Manhattan Island. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After the break, we resumed our walk, this time along the east side of Manhattan. At 207th Street, I came upon some street artists hard at work. At the right by the pillar are images by Spanish street artist <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/279351802238478/"><span class="st">Bàl</span>u Naiz</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We continued walking east until we reached the Harlem River Drive, which looked so pretty with all the blooming spring flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then we passed by the <a href="http://www.ramsa.com/en/projects-search/academic/peter-jay-sharp-boathouse.html">Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse</a> where Harlem River Drive curves into the edge of the Harlem River.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Located on the Harlem River immediately south of Sherman Creek, the
Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse reestablishes the historic presence of
recreational boating facilities on Manhattan’s northern waterfront.</span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">To avoid harming the fragile intertidal environment, the boathouse is
designed as a floating structure, as were the earlier boathouses located
on the site. The facility is accessed from the promenade atop the
nearby embankment through a gated entrance and down a series of ramped
fixed piers leading to floating docks.</span></i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had previously went inside the Boathouse during last year's Harlem River Festival. If you'd like to see some pictures, here's the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157634057937149/">album on Flickr</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">From the Boathouse the three big bridges over the Harlem River are clearly seen - the Washington Bridge, the Alexander Hamilton Bridge, and the oldest surviving bridge in New York City, the High Bridge, which </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">was designed with a pedestrian walkway but was not used for vehicular traffic. </span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It has been closed to pedestrian traffic since the 1960s,
but the Parks Department is currently <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/10/23/the_high_bridge_reclaims_its_history_with_61m_restoration.php">restoring</a> it and
aiming for completion in Winter 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By then, we have been walking for about seven hours, and seeing the cherry trees in full bloom have somehow eased some of the tiredness I felt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Soon , we could see the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bridge_%28New_York_City%29#High_Bridge_Water_Tower">High Bridge Water Tower</a> which was built in 1872 </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">to provide fresh water to northern Manhattan
residents, who were at a higher elevation than the aqueduct. After water
crossed the High Bridge, it was pumped into a reservoir next to the
tower (now the site of Highbridge Pool), and then into a water tank in
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have some close-up pics of the tower and the bridge (from what you could see of it) taken on a previous walk along the High Bridge Trail, here's the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157632546343121/">album on Flickr</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">From the Harlem River Greenway, we went up the Harlem River Driveway and passed by Coogan's Bluff, a large cliff extending northward from 155th Street in
Manhattan and once was the site of the fabled Polo Grounds, the home of the
New York Giants (baseball), and the first home of the New York Mets. I can see the <a href="http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130205&content_id=41404846&vkey=ne">John T. Brush stairway</a> from where I was walking, the <a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/highbridgepark/monuments/184">renovation</a> of the stairway is expected to be complete by Winter 2014.</span><br />
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stairway went from Edgecombe Avenue, between 157th and 158th Streets,
down to the ticket booths behind home plate. The stairs also gave people
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the end of the Harlem River Driveway where it connects with 155th Street is the <a href="http://michaelminn.net/newyork/parks/hooper_fountain/" target="_blank">Hooper Fountain</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We then continued walking along Edgecombe Avenue, across the Jackie Robinson Park. The street yielded one treasure, one of Manhattan's remaining free standing houses, the <span class="editable meta-field photo-title " id="yui_3_16_0_rc_1_1_1404184280426_3476"><a href="http://www.broadwayhousing.org/2002/09/harlems-benziger-house-given-preservation-award/" target="_blank">Nicholas C. and Agnes Benziger House</a>. Constructed in 1891, the property was acquired by the city in 1989 to provide permanent</span> housing for homeless adults.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the Harlem River Park near the Third Avenue Bridge, there are lots of murals on the walls. This is one of them, <i><a href="http://culturenow.org/tours&tour_id=00022&tour_stop_id=00349" target="_blank">Untold Stories / Storytellah's Mural</a>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Across the Harlem River, one of <a href="http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-7399/qa-with-peter-tunney-legendary-artist-discusses-sobriety-inspiration-advice.html" target="_blank">Peter Tunney's Grattitude</a> billboards rises high in the South Bronx for everyone to see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We went up another pedestrian bridge and when we were back along 128th Street, I nearly missed Keith Haring's <a href="http://animalnewyork.com/2014/keith-haring-painting-crack-wack-mural/" target="_blank">Crack is Wack</a> mural, standing on the playground with the same name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the end of the pedestrian bridge, I got a great view of the Harlem River span of the RFK Triborough Bridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Walking further, I could see the Randall's Island Pedestrian Bridge, it straddles the part where the Harlem River meets the East River.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Walking along the Bobby Wagner Walk I had this view. The walk was built in 1939 as part of the construction of the FDR Drive and is the oldest portion of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ten hours after we first started walking, we have reached Carl Schurz Park in the Upper East Side. Across the park is the northernmost part of Roosevelt Island, where its lighthouse stands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The northern part of the East River Greenway has great views of Roosevelt Island and the Queensboro Bridge. Near the Manhattan side of the bridge is Alice Aycock's <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/nyregion/12fyi.html" target="_blank">East River Roundabout</a>, its current location was designated as the future site of Andrew Haswell Green
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After the bridge, we had to get off the greenway again as there is still no access to the waterfront because of the United Nations complex. No flags were flying that Saturday and the Secretariat Building looks great after its <a href="http://enr.construction.com/people/awards/2014/0127-Adlerstein-Leader-of-the-United-Nations-Rebuilding-Successfully-Steers-The-World8217s-Most-Complicat.asp" target="_blank">renovation</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Across Tudor City is the long abandoned and unused <a href="http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140214/murray-hill/waterside-pier-be-demolished-replaced-by-2015-city-says" target="_blank">Waterside Pier</a>. City officials have announced earlier this year that it will be replaced with a new pier </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">that contains public park space.</span><br />
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strewn with garbage, will begin later this year. The new 800-foot-long
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Near PS 281, I passed by this glazed tile mural Δε Σοφíα (Towards Wisdom) </span><span class="editable meta-field photo-title " id="yui_3_16_0_rc_1_1_1404189784246_1745"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">by <a href="http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/Jesse_Bransford" target="_blank">Jesse Bransford</a> which is part of <a href="http://www.nycsca.org/Resources/Resources/Brochures/Documents/PAPS2013_2014.pdf" target="_blank">Public Art for Public Schools</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Across the East River, the new high rises of Long Island City were hugging the waterfront in Queens. The iconic <a href="http://www.elegran.com/edge/2013/07/a-refreshing-decision-preserving-the-pepsi-sign-in-long-island-city" target="_blank">Pepsi sign</a> is still there, you can see it on the lower left side on the photo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We've finally reached the homestrech, walking along the East River Park. Across the Williamsburg Bridge, the warehouse of the former Domino Sugar Company was still standing. It is <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/25/with_key_deal_domino_development_nears_finally_approval.php#more" target="_blank">scheduled to be demolished</a> later this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By the time we arrived at the Two Bridges, the neighborhood between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, it was already blue hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We rounded off the southern tip of Manhattan and as we passed by <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/07/16/back_from_the_future_shops_east_river_worksinprogress.php" target="_blank">Pier 15</a>, there seemed to be a celebration going inside that night. No stopping for us though, we're nearly at the end of the Great Saunter!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Fourteen hours after starting, I finally reached the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunces_Tavern" target="_blank">Fraunces Tavern</a> where it all began.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That was one great but very tiring walk. Would I do it again the next time? I'm not really sure, but it was a very interesting and educational walk for me, and I'm so glad I got to join in the Great Saunter and walk the 32 miles along Manhattan's perimeter. Here's my proof!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hope you all enjoyed walking along with my Great Saunter. For the rest of my photos, here's the album on Flickr - <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157644980830426/" target="_blank">The Great Saunter, 05.03.14</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-88093852713222770912014-06-19T18:56:00.000-04:002015-04-09T19:35:42.312-04:00The Great Saunter 2014 - West Side<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Last May 3 I joined the <a href="https://www.shorewalkers.org/" target="_blank">Shorewalkers</a> group for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Saunter" target="_blank">The Great Saunter</a>, a day long hike that explores Manhattan’s 32-mile shoreline, visiting more than 20 parks and promenades of Manhattan Island.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We walked along the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Waterfront_Greenway" target="_blank">Manhattan Waterfront Greenway</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshoreway" title="Foreshoreway">foreshoreway</a>
for walking or cycling around the island of Manhattan. It is separated
from motor traffic, and many sections also separate pedestrians from
cyclists. There are three principal parts - the East, Harlem and Hudson
River Greenways. This post features walking along the Hudson River
Greenway, which covers the west side of the greenway.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Great Saunter started with a registration at the Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan but I was late as there were a lot of changes to my train schedule due to the train derailment the day before. I got off at the City Hall Station and had this great view of the new and the old New York on a beautiful spring day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I hurried to <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-walk-in-battery-park-city.html" target="_blank">Battery Park City</a> so I could join the group and passed by Tom Otterness' <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157630722303316/" target="_blank">The Real World</a> at the Nelson Rockefeller Park. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I joined the group as they turned north on the pedestrian path of the Hudson River Park. New Jersey was shining across the river that morning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Near the Meatpacking District we passed by the <a href="http://whitney.org/About/NewBuilding" target="_blank">New Whitney Museum</a> which is still under construction. It is slated to open in spring of 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the 2014 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Biennial" target="_blank">Whitney Biennial</a>, it's only offsite piece was <a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial/TonyTasset" target="_blank">The Artists Monument</a> by Tony Tasset, which can be found just a little further from the museum's future home.</span><br />
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are etched with the names of 392,486 modern and contemporary artists,
ranging from Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol to emerging artists with a
single exhibition to their credit. By building this pointedly horizontal
monument in public space, with the artists’ names listed alphabetically
and the colors arranged randomly, Tasset symbolically flattens the
hierarchies that exist between lauded and unknown artists and instead
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We also passed by a ghost bike, a project of the <a href="http://ghostbikes.org/new-york-city" target="_blank">New York City Street Memorial Project</a>. Last April 6 was the <a href="http://gothamist.com/2014/04/07/photos_memorial_ride_honors_cyclist.php#photo-1" target="_blank">9th Annual Memorial Ride</a> to honor the memories of those who died on the city's streets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I stopped near Pier 83 for a late registration for the walk. Pier 83 is home to <a href="http://circleline42.com/new-york-cruises/home.aspx" target="_blank">Circle Line</a> offering sight-seeing cruises and charters. I also featured Pier 83 in a previous post featuring my <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/09/walking-on-west-side-highway-34th-to.html" target="_blank">walk along the West Side Highway</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">According to the park <a href="http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/vision-and-progress/planning-and-construction/clinton" target="_blank">website</a> an expansion of its northern end is currently underway which will help create an improved physical and visual connection with Riverside Park South on the Upper West Side. That is something to look forward to! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Across the West Side Highway is the future</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://societeperrier.com/us/new-york/graffiti-artist-belins-latest-work-painting-space-ibizas-new-nyc-club/" target="_blank">Space New York</a> —megaclub Space Ibiza‘s first U.S. outpost, the current structure features a huge mural by </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Spanish graffiti-artist <a href="http://belin.es/graffiti/" target="_blank">Belin</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our walk also caught <a href="http://untappedcities.com/2014/05/06/7-pieces-of-art-to-spot-in-nycs-riverside-park-south-before-theyre-gone/" target="_blank">the tail end</a> of<span itemprop="articleBody description"> this year’s <a href="http://theartstudentsleague.org/ArtistOpportunities/ModeltoMonument/M2MYearThree.aspx" target="_blank">Model 2 Monument</a> public art exhibit at the park, which was on view only until May 15. The exhibit is t</span><span itemprop="articleBody description">he third in a five-part partnership between the Art Students League and the New York Parks Department. Here's one of them <a href="http://annakuchelrabinowitz.com/preservation-high-and-dry" target="_blank">Preservation: High and Dry</a> by Anna Kuchel Rabinowitz.</span></span></span><span itemprop="articleBody description"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The crabapple trees lining the Riverwalk path along <a href="http://riversideparknyc.org/overview/" target="_blank">Riverside Park</a> were blooming, and I could see the George Washington Bridge in the distance.</span> </div>
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1909 the Committee of Japanese Residents of New York presented 2,000
cherry trees as a gift to the City. Some surviving trees of the original
planting of 700, part of the same batch of trees planted in Washington,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have written about walking in spring along the Cherry Walk in <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2012/03/cherry-walk-in-spring.html" target="_blank">two</a> <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/04/cherry-walk-in-2013.html" target="_blank">previous</a> blog posts, it's always a lovely experience being surrounded by the pink and white blossoms as you walk along the greenway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As we exited Cherry Walk, the pathway led to the <a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/westharlempiers/" target="_blank">West Harlem Piers Park</a>. The public art installations in the park </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">are by New York artist <a href="http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/#/artists/nari-ward/" target="_"blank"">Nari Ward</a>, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">the stainless steel mosaic sculptures reference the eyelet guide found on fishing poles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Still going forward north, we walked along the street level of <a href="http://nysparks.com/parks/93/details.aspx" target="_blank">Riverbank State Park</a>. I remember when I was here last year, at the upper level of the park, looking for the <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/06/sing-for-hope-on-sunday.html" target="_blank">Sing For Hope piano</a>. The upper level of the park has great views of the New Jersey Palisades and the George Washington Bridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">North of the Riverbank State Park is Fort Washington Park which has a <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/new-life-fort-washington-park-article-1.1560907" target="_blank">newly renovated</a> playground. The park has one of the best views of the George Washington Bridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Under the George Washington Bridge is the Little Red Lighthouse. It is open only five times a year, every second Saturday of June to October. Here is a <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2012/06/little-red-lighthouse.html" target="_blank">previous post</a> about my visit to the lighthouse two years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As we followed the greenway from back to where it runs parallel to the Henry Hudson Parkway, I could see the retaining wall of Castle Village. It looked like it was recently tagged, although it boggles the mind where these street artists perched just so they can create their brand of art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We also passed by the <a href="http://www.uptowncollective.com/2013/04/23/who-lives-there-a-face-in-the-crowd-ny-times/" target="_blank">Pumpkin House</a>, it got its name from the shape of its lighted windows and the orange glow
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A few yards later, we reached the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/26/realestate/streetscapes-inspiration-point-shelter-restoration-for-all-but-ruined-hudson.htmll" target="_blank">Inspiration Point Shelter</a>, looking pretty in white. I first saw it a couple of years ago after some research on the Fort Tryon arches. It has great views, too, of the palisades and the George Washington Bridge. For more photos of the shelter, check out my <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2012/07/inspiration-point-shelter.html" target="_blank">previous post</a> about my walk to the structure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A little further across the Inspiration Point Shelter, the <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2012/06/walk-in-fort-tryon.html" target="_blank">arches of Fort Tryon Park</a> stand out. If ever you're in the area, I am definitely recommending a visit to the park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">From the greenway, I could see the park at street level but there is so much more to see at the upper level. The gardens are beautiful, and aside from the arches, the park also houses <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2014/02/treasures-of-cloisters.html" target="_blank">The Cloisters</a>, the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We're now on the last leg of our walk along the Hudson River Greenway, I could see the road stretch out all the way to <a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/inwoodhillpark" target="_blank">Inwood Hill Park</a> where we had a break for lunch and a little rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This was the scene I saw as we entered Inwood Hill Park, a great spring day should include kite flying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was busy looking at the pretty leaves of the trees and</span> looking forward to resting my tired feet so I forgot to look for and take a picture of Shorakkopoch Rock in the park. Good thing I <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-parks-of-northern-manhattan.html" target="_blank">wrote about it</a> in a previous post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Took this pic just before we reached our rest area in the park. Inwood Hill Park, like the other parks we passed earlier that day, was blooming in spring colors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After lunch and rest, we resumed our walk this time along the east side of Manhattan. That walk is covered on <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-great-saunter-2014-east-side.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a> of this blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Did you enjoy walking along the Hudson River Greenway with me?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the rest of my photos during the Great Saunter, here's the album on Flickr - <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157644980830426/" target="_blank">The Great Saunter, 05.03.14</a> </span><br />
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Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-60328202956104967372014-05-15T22:43:00.000-04:002014-05-19T16:08:42.576-04:00Big Egg Hunt Adventures - Part 3<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In my <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2014/04/big-egg-hunt-adventures-part-2.html" target="_blank">previous blog</a>, I mentioned about going to MacLaren but the store was closed when I arrived. On Day 12 which was a Saturday, I came back to crack the four eggs inside the store. You saw the message of Egg 133 in my previous blog. Inside the store, the other side of that egg has another beautiful message.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I then hopped on the Staten Island Ferry to crack the eggs at the <a href="http://www.visitstatenisland.com/just-off-the-ferry/st-george-ferry-terminal/" target="_blank">St George Ferry Terminal</a> in Staten Island. The ferry has an awesome front seat view of Lady Liberty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There were three eggs located just outside the terminal, near the waiting area for taxis. The view behind Egg 48 by <a href="http://rplater.carbonmade.com/about" target="_blank">Rob Plater</a> was very familiar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After cracking the eggs, I took the next ferry back to Manhattan and noticed a small lighthouse in the New York Harbor. I googled it and learned about Kate Walker and the <a href="http://forgotten-ny.com/2011/09/mind-the-light-kate/" target="_blank">Robbins Reef Lighthouse</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As the ferry prepared to dock in Manhattan, the passengers got an awesome view of the lower Manhattan skyline. It was a sunny and cloudless day, the blue sky was a lovely backdrop to the buildings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After the ferry ride, I made my way to the South Street Seaport as it was just a short walk going there. There were a couple of eggs at the seaport which I wasn't able to crack the previous time, as they were inside a building. I finally saw Egg 61 by <a href="http://www.trystanbates.com/the_big_egg_hunt.html" target="_blank">Trystan Bates</a> and had fun trying out the different patterns. It was a kaleidoscope!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had a family affair to go to that afternoon and ended my egg hunt for the day at Brooklyn Bridge Park, which had five eggs on display. Here's Egg 137 by <a href="http://www.chrissy.ch/" target="_blank">Chrissy Angliker</a> with the Manhattan Bridge at the back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And I was in awe of the beautiful bead work by bead artist <a href="http://janhuling.com/" target="_blank">Jan Huling</a> on <a href="https://flic.kr/p/neuxup" target="_blank">Egg 165</a>, which was displayed right by Jane's Carousel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I started my Sunday going around the lower east side </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">to crack some eggs there</span>. Egg 41 by <a href="http://irenemamiye.com/" target="_blank">Irene Mamiye</a> was near the Manhattan side entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Walking along Orchard Street, I passed by <a href="http://www.boweryboogie.com/2013/07/zito-and-nino-de-las-pinturas-paint-gallery-bar-gate-mural/" target="_blank">this mural</a> by Zito and </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">El Niño de las Pinturas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Along Rivington Street inside <a href="http://www.economycandy.com/" target="_blank">Economy Candy</a> was Egg 71 by graffiti artist <a href="http://indie184.com/news/" target="_blank">Indie 184</a>. The egg looked like it belonged inside the candy store.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Right across the store is Rivington Hotel which housed two eggs. Looking out from the hotel's glass wall was Egg 171 by British artist <a href="http://www.pureevilclothing.com/indexgallery.html" target="_blank">Pure Evil</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Walking around the lower east side, you can't escape seeing <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1997/07/27/nyregion/fyi-304999.html" target="_blank">Lenin's statue</a> on the roof of the Red Square, but don't rely on the clock to give you the correct time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I then proceeded to Central Park for my usual weekend walk. Along the way, I dropped by the <a href="http://www.folkartmuseum.org/" target="_blank">American Folk Art Museum</a> to crack Egg 67 by <a href="http://lucyfradkin.com/home.html" target="_blank">Lucy Fradkin</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was another sunny day and a lot of people were enjoying it at the park. It was a great day to just sit on the grass and watch the row boats pass by. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Near the Great Lawn, the East Drive was a riot of pink and white. Spring has sprung in Central Park!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Day 14 was another weekday and I started my egg hunt after office hours. I was walking around the West Village and saw this cute motorbike. I want one, too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Along Bleecker Street peeking from a store's show window, I can clearly see <a href="http://www.emmaclegg.co.uk/" target="_blank">Emma Clegg</a>'s beautiful workmanship on Egg 4. It's made of ceramic roses!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the corner of West 10th Street and 6th Avenue is the Jefferson Market Library. It looks as pretty at night as in daytime, when I wrote about it in a <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/12/ohny-weekend-jefferson-market-library.html" target="_blank">previous blog</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I passed the library on my way to the Chelsea Market which housed two eggs, one of which was a delightful cupcake egg, Egg 115 by <a href="http://lle-dom.com/AM_Sculptures.html" target="_blank">Abby Modell</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Day 15 of the egg hunt found me back in lower Manhattan, trying to crack some eggs which I didn't see before. I was looking for</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Egg 263 by <a href="http://bsacny.com/artists/91-The-Franklyn-Project/works/" target="_blank">The Franklyn Project</a> for Bleecker Street Arts Club</span> when I passed this wall and noticed all these hanging papers advertising the locations of eggs. So that's why all the other egg hunters found the eggs so easily, help was available!</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And I found the Franklyn Project egg, it was at the back of this temporary wall. Another egg in the area, inside a tattoo parlor, was Egg 89 by graffiti artist <a href="http://cope2art.com/" target="_blank">Cope2</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Inside another tattoo parlor, at the Wooster Street Social Club, was this beautifully painted Egg 211 by tattoo artist <a href="http://lukewessman.com/" target="_blank">Luke Wessman</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In Soho is another branch of Laduree and inside were two eggs, one of which was Egg 213 by Portuguese artist <a href="http://www.joanavasconcelos.com/index.aspx" target="_blank">Joana Vasconcelos</a>. If not for the Big Egg Hunt data attached to its stand, I never would have guessed this as one of the eggs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My last stop that night were the two eggs inside the Paramount Hotel in Times Square. Egg 283 aptly named Tick-Tock by Martha West with Kathryn Neugold was another one of those eggs which didn't look like an egg. It was an hourglass!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">April 17 was the last day of the egg hunt but I made my last day of hunting eggs on Day 16. I figured Day 17 would be the day when the eggs will be prepared for their eventual transfer to and display at the Rockefeller Center. So on my last day of egg hunting, I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The MET had three eggs displayed at its <a href="https://twitter.com/metmuseum/status/451041326252171266/photo/1" target="_blank">Great Hall</a>. I love the details on Egg 19 by Chris Carnabuci titled Fertility. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I then walk several blocks away to crack Egg 11, the last egg in my basket. It was a <a href="http://www.thedailymeal.com/jacques-torres-auctions-world-s-most-expensive-chocolate-egg/8414" target="_blank">chocolate egg masterpiece</a> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="st">molded by artist <a href="http://www.carterjonessculpture.com/love-gets-chocolated.htm" target="_blank">Carter Jones</a> using <a href="https://www.mrchocolate.com/" target="_blank">Jacques Torres</a> famous milk chocolate</span>. The finished product was a smooth, milk chocolate-hued egg, decorated with the iconic New York skyline and yellow stars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That was a fun-filled two-week adventure around New York City, and I got to explore the city in a different way. Thank you to the organizers of the Big Egg Hunt for bringing it to New York. I hope they will come back next year and raise more funds for the charities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can check out 200 of the eggs that I cracked in my Flickr album <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157644150526463/">The Big Egg Hunt NY</a> or if you want to see the 232 eggs in my basket, they're all in <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/110464285055591474374/albums/6003212130960596497">Google+</a></span>.<br />
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Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-17533571177574349402014-04-30T22:56:00.000-04:002014-05-08T07:59:05.004-04:00Big Egg Hunt Adventures - Part 2<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a continuation of my Big Egg Hunt adventures. <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2014/04/big-egg-hunt-adventures-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a> covered Days 1 to 5 of the egg hunt, so I'll start this blog with Day 6, which was a Sunday. <br /><br />Good thing I kept up with the Big Egg Hunt on social media so I knew where to look for Egg 9 or the Waldo egg. Egg 9 by <a href="http://waldo.wikia.com/wiki/Martin_Handford">Martin Handford</a> is the one egg hidden in plain sight in a different place each day. That Sunday he was at the Time Warner Center, in the area were the miniature eggs were displayed. Great to see you, Waldo!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As it was a Sunday, some of the places with eggs were closed, like the Gagosian gallery which housed three eggs. I just had to content myself with a picture taken from the door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the show window of </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.laduree.com/en_int/" target="_blank">Ladurée</a>, which housed <a href="http://www.arpagian.com/" target="_blank">Isabelle Arpagian</a>'s Egg 85, was also closed when I passed by. Luckily, the nice staff opened the window cover so I can take a shot of the Empress II nestled among the baked goodies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went back to Madison Avenue on Day 7 as there were still some eggs I haven't cracked. This was Egg 107, if you look closely, you'll see the material used in the design is connected to its hiding place. The egg was displayed in the show window of Beretta and it is adorned with bullets! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also passed by this sculpture and its accompanying plaque partly read that this sculpture was cast in bronze from the original plaster sculpture by Frederic- Auguste Bartholdi and was enlarged 16 times by the artist to create the Statue of Liberty in the New York Harbor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then it's on to the colorful Egg 92 which blended very well with the candies inside Dylan's Candy Bar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rain that night made the Golden Lincoln Cent Egg shine all the more. <a href="http://www.psyop.tv/psyop/" target="_blank">Jane Morgan</a>'s Egg 6 utilized the newly minted Lincoln cent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few blocks away, the Helmsley Building was reflecting a similar copper hue in the rain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At week 2 of the egg hunt, there were still some eggs not cracked. These were mostly the 24 eggs </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">made by public school students
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On Day 8, I went to the NYRP community garden in Queens to crack Egg 219. I was the ninth person to crack the egg and that earned me a place in the egg's Egg Cracker Honor Roll. Cool! Egg 219 looked cool, too. I love strawberries!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I went to Manhattan afterwards as there were still some eggs in hidden in </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">midtown that I haven't cracked yet. Inside a building on Third Avenue near 47th Street were three eggs, one of them was Egg 104, one of my faves. Made by <a href="http://www.bdfonline.net/" target="_blank">Brooklyn Design and Fabrication</a>, the egg looked like a dresser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I then made my way to Fifth Avenue to take a picture of Egg 271 by <a href="http://www.jeffkoons.com/site/index.html" target="_blank">Jeff Koons</a>. When I was in Rockefeller Center the first day of the hunt, they were still setting up this egg. The egg <a href="http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2014/04/11/jeff-koons-egg-breaks-paddle8-record/" target="_blank">broke records</a> as the most expensive work sold on Paddle 8, it has attracted <a href="http://www.artlyst.com/articles/jeff-koons-easter-egg-hits-250k-in-faberge-charity-auction" target="_blank">over $420,000</a> in online bids for the auction.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A little further on 43rd Street was Egg 78. It was inside its case just along the sidewalk and I missed it the first time I passed by. I walked by and didn't notice the egg until I crossed the street and saw it. Literally hidden in plain sight!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then on 41st Street was Egg 280 by spray paint artist <a href="http://www.chorboogie.com/" target="_blank">Chor Boogie</a>. The design echoed the artist's <a href="https://flic.kr/p/mrMuYV" target="_blank">work at the building</a> very near where the egg was hidden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That artwork by Chor Boogie is part of <a href="http://artbattles.com/" target="_blank">Art Battles</a> which can also be seen at 5 Bryant Park. When I passed by that night, <a href="http://donrimx.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Don Rimx</a> was working on another wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The following day I tried to finish cracking the eggs in midtown Manhattan. First stop was the Empire State Building which housed two egg, one of which is Egg 23, a replica of a real Faberge egg, the <a href="http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/eGallery/object.asp?object=9022&row=0&detail=about" target="_blank">mosaic egg</a> which is one of four Faberge eggs among the Royal Collection of Britain's Queen Elizabeth ll.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then it's on to several locations near the area, one of which is the Ace Hotel where I saw Egg 7 by <a href="http://www.shantellmartin.com/" target="_blank">Shantell Martin</a>. The egg came with a backdrop of the same design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was just a short walking distance to Madison Square Park where there were a lot of eggs around the plaza area near the park. The park is in the Flatiron District and Egg 274 by <a href="http://www.britto.com/" target="_blank">Romero Britto</a> was right in front of the iconic building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I stayed in the park until night fell. The Met Life Tower looked great in the early evening light. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was also able to visit Ivan Navarro's “<a href="http://www.madisonsquarepark.org/things-to-do/calendar/mad-sq-art-ivan-navarro" target="_blank">This Land is Your Land</a>”, the art installation in Madison Square Park featuring three 8-foot-tall water towers filled with neon lights and mirrors that
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Remember I mentioned in my <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2014/04/big-egg-hunt-adventures-part-1.html" target="_blank">previous blog</a> about meeting the artist of Egg 36? I knew that egg was in the Madison Square Park area so I looked for it. Taking Flight by <a href="http://www.echodesign.com/blog/2014/03/20/find-echo-designs-winged-migration-faberge-egg-in-the-big-egg-hunt-ny-starting-april-1/" target="_blank">Echo Design</a> <span class="userContent" style="font-size: 17px;">was inspired by the iconic butterfly print scarf of their 90th anniversary collection.</span> Too bad it was already dark when I took the pic, but still the butterflies stood out. Beautiful!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I then walked east towards Baruch College, there were three eggs in the plaza outside the library. One of them was Egg 57 or the iStorm. It looked like thousand of eyes were staring back at me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My last stop that night was at the <a href="http://www.riverparknyc.com/" target="_blank">Riverpark</a>, a garden plaza overlooking FDR Drive. Egg 171 sure had one of the best views of the East River.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was in lower Manhattan on Day 10. Egg 123 by <a href="http://www.themarthablog.com/2014/04/the-faberge-big-egg-hunt-nyc.html" target="_blank">Martha Stewart</a> was inside a golden cage displayed inside a shop that was already closed when I passed by. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Egg 247, Jackie Tsai's porcelain skull egg was displayed at the Todd Merrill Studio gallery, which was also closed when I passed by. <a href="http://www.jackytsai.com/blog/this-is-how-we-made-this-incredible-giant-porcelain-egg/" target="_blank">This link</a> shows the intricate process how this beautiful egg was made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Along Elizabeth Street were several eggs. British street artist <a href="http://www.dface.co.uk/" target="_blank">D*Face</a> made Egg 184 which was inside the <a href="http://elizabethstreetgarden.org/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Street Garden</a>, too bad it was already dark when I took the pic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Day 11 was a Friday and that day my egg map crashed. I couldn't access the map which made it very hard to look for the eggs. What I did was went to the MacLaren shop in Soho as I knew there were four eggs inside the shop. Unfortunately the shop was already closed when I arrived so I took a photo of just one of the eggs facing the shop window.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Since it was hard to hunt for the eggs without the egg map, I went home early. On my way home I passed by the landmarked <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_Building" target="_blank">Puck Building</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The building sports two gilded statues by sculptor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Baerer" title="Henry Baerer">Henry Baerer</a> of Shakespeare's character <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_%28Shakespeare%29" title="Puck (Shakespeare)">Puck</a>, from A Midsummer's Night Dream, one on the northeast corner at Houston and Mulberry, and one over the main entrance on Lafayette.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This recaps the second part of my adventures in egg hunting. I'll try to finish the last part in the next few days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can check out 200 of the eggs that I cracked in my Flickr album <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157644150526463/">The Big Egg Hunt NY</a> or if you want to see the 232 eggs in my basket, they're all in <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/110464285055591474374/albums/6003212130960596497">Google+</a></span>.Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-84224645045095461102014-04-25T15:48:00.000-04:002014-05-08T07:58:02.353-04:00Big Egg Hunt Adventures - Part 1<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I should have been uploading my pics and updating this blog, instead, I've done nothing the first two weeks of April but go around the city </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">during my free time </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and hunt for eggs. The </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://thebigegghunt.org/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Faberg</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">é </span>Big Egg Hunt</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, which started in London two years ago, <a href="http://gotham-magazine.com/style/articles/new-yorks-great-faberge-egg-hunt" target="_blank">has come to New York</a> this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.faberge.com/news/47-storyoffaberg.aspx" target="_blank">Fabergé</a> brand name dates back to the mid-1800s and</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> has been synonymous with <a href="http://www.borro.com/uk/borro-blog/faberge-most-expensive-easter-eggs" target="_blank">lavish Easter eggs</a> it created for the Russian Imperial family between 1885 and 1916. Now, more than a century later, it has sponsored an egg hunt, a fund raising effort </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">which raises money by auctioning off the eggs. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Once they are auctioned off, proceeds will go to benefit<span style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.691999435424805px;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.elephantfamily.org/" style="background-color: white; color: rgb(238, 72, 51) ! important; line-height: 21.692px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Elephant Family</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; line-height: 21.692px;">, which protects Asian elephants & their habitats</span>,</span> <span style="font-size: small;">and <a href="http://www.studioinaschool.org/" style="background-color: white; color: rgb(238, 72, 51) ! important; line-height: 21.692px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Studio in a School</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1b1b1b; line-height: 21.692px;">, </span>a program
that brings visual arts to under-served New York City kids.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More than 250 eggs, about 2-1/2 foot high, were hidden around the five boroughs of New York City. Each egg is designed by a different artist, some famous ones like Jeff Koons, Ralph Lauren, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Diane von Fürstenberg, Carolina Herrera, and a lot more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The New York egg hunt has a modern twist, participants in the hunt could download a mobile phone app to help in the hunt. The app comes with an interactive egg map that shows people they're within a 20-foot range of one of the sculptures. Once 10 people have check in at one egg, its location will be disclosed on the map, along with information about the artist, and participants could even bid on the egg directly through the app. Checking in at each egg will also enter people in a sweepstakes to win prizes from Faberge through the duration of the hunt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">April 1, the start of the egg hunt, was a work day for me but I kept track of the eggs cracked through twitter. By noon, there were already a lot of eggs cracked since most were hidden in plain sight. I've read there were three eggs under the Bliss St. station in Sunnyside, Queens, so after work I dropped by the area. Those were the first three eggs I saw, Egg 138 by </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.soonaetark.com/index.html">Soonae Tark</a> was the first egg in my basket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Directly opposite was Egg 270 by Sara Genn. Her Dad wrote <a href="http://clicks.robertgenn.com/eggstraordinary.php">this article</a> as to how she decorated the egg. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I then proceeded to Manhattan to crack as many eggs as I can. Got off at Grand Central Terminal and put two eggs in my basket. This pretty Egg 276 by ceramicist <a href="http://mollyhatch.com/">Molly Hatch</a> was near the stairs going to the dining area of the terminal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then I walked west towards the Grace Building which displayed four eggs in its plaza. Among those in the group was Egg24, <a href="http://rachelgoldsmith.com/">Rachel Goldsmith</a>'s Ova Obsessive. If you look closely you'll see how intricate the design is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was just a couple of blocks to </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Rockefeller Center which was my next stop. There were more than a dozen eggs displayed around the Center's Channel Gardens. I love Egg 185, <a href="http://www.nickmatic.net/">Nick Matic</a>'s homage to NYC.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the center of the Channel Gardens was Egg 119, the Royal Egg or Humpty Dumpty. This was commissioned by Mark Shand, the brother of the Duchess of Cornwall, who also headed one of the auction beneficiaries, the Elephant Family. Sadly, Mr. Shand died the other day in New York City, he fell and hit his head outside a hotel after the successful auction of the eggs. Rest in peace Mr. Shand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Royal Egg was designed by The Prince's Drawing School, and signed by THR The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nearby was Egg 63 which </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.jasonpolan.com/art/art.html">Jason Polan</a> illustrated for Warby Parker. <a href="https://blog.warbyparker.com/faberge-big-egg-hunt-jason-polan/">This is a nice read</a> about the egg.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We teamed up with artist Jason Polan to create the ultimate piece of egg art—<a href="http://www.warbyparker.com/egg">The Island of Manhattan: Map and Egg Edition (AKA The Best Spots to Sit and Read a Book in Manhattan)</a>. It’s a comprehensive guide to reading and eating egg sandwiches in the city.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Art moving and storage company <a href="http://www.cadogantate.com/" target="_blank">Cadogan Tate</a> was in charge with moving and eventually shipping the eggs to their owners after the auction. Egg 282 reflected the care and packaging being done for the eggs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My next stop was Trump International over at Central Park West so I decided to pass through the park to get there. I'm happy I did, the Pond looked gorgeous at twilight!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were three eggs at Trump International, one was Egg 88 by graphic designer Minyan Huang. Appropriately named Nest Egg, the egg has an origami design made of dollar bills. No wonder it was enclosed in its glass case!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a couple of blocks away, the Time Warner Center is home to about a dozen eggs. Outside the center, <a href="http://www.faigahmed.com/">Faig Ahmed</a>'s Egg 222 is one unique egg.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inside, the eggs which flanked the elevators going down, were two of the most popular and uniquely designed eggs. One was Egg 37 by brick artist <a href="http://brickartist.com/">Nathan Sawaya</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And who doesn't love a huggable egg-bunny? Egg 181 is by artist <a href="http://www.ambikaboutique.com/about-ambika">Ambika Conroy</a> who wanted to show a humane, slower and loving way to produce angora products.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Standing 3.5" tall, the mini-eggs are </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hand-painted and made of a smooth and solid polyresin. They're </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">perfect for a gift or souvenir of the hunt and at $45, are selling like hotcakes! Hey, I see Waldo!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Day 3 of my egg hunting adventures took me to the Financial District. Five eggs were on display at One New York Plaza. At one end is Egg 110 or the Liberty Egg from <a href="http://www.3-d-eye.co.uk/">3D Eye</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the other end of the display area is Egg 118 or what looks to me like a flying egg, held only in place by its Union Jack cape. The <a href="http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/virgin-atlantic">Virgin Atlantic Flying Lady</a> is by Mark Jump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During a <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/05/battery-park-to-brooklyn-bridge-park.html">walk last year</a>, I came across <a href="http://midtownlunch.com/downtown-nyc/2012/07/24/elevated-acre-is-the-best-lunch-spot-you-never-knew-existed/#more-31190">The Elevated Acre</a>, a pocket park on top of a garage overlooking the East River. It was a perfect place to hide Egg 54 by <a href="http://www.edmcgowin.com/index.html">Ed McGowin</a>. The info on the egg states it was hidden by Julia Roberts, she sure knew how to hide it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I walked further along South Street to go to South Street Seaport which housed six eggs. I love Egg 2, <a href="http://prosign.tumblr.com/post/81796673272/emery-and-whitworth-have-produced-this-kustom">Twilight's Last Gleaming</a> by Emery & Whitworth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the time I reached the World Trade Center site, darkness has already set in. Egg 253 by <a href="http://www.davidsallestudio.net/">David Salle</a> was one of the eggs </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">near Seven World Trade Center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Outside the Winter Garden in the nearby Brookfield Place, five more eggs were displayed. <a href="http://antoniomurado.com/">Antonio Murado</a>'s Leela or Egg 267 looked pretty overlooking the lights of New Jersey across the river.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking up from where the eggs were displayed, One World Trade Center and the buildings in Battery Park City were lighting up the skyline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I got the chance to take a photo of the Winter Garden atrium at Brookfield Place at night. I can clearly see the palm trees!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The following day I was at Saks Fifth Avenue which housed nine eggs. There was even one designed in-house by <a href="http://andrewwintoncreative.com/172441/work">Andrew Winton</a>, I could see several of the store logo peeking out of Egg 210.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I love the details of Healing Blossoms or Egg 207 by <a href="http://www.ranhwang.com/">Ran Hwang</a>. What looked like cherry blossoms adorning the egg were actually buttons in different sizes pinned to the egg. Very creative!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Across Saks is Rockefeller Center and I decided to visit the eggs there again as I wasn't able to crack some of them during my previous visit. It was raining that night and it was very much spring at the Channel Gardens with the tulip buds starting to open.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ralph Lauren's cowboy egg, Egg 203, seems to be the <a href="http://www.luxurydaily.com/ralph-lauren-egg-proves-most-popular-in-faberge-hunt/" target="_blank">most popular egg</a> as it was the one most cracked. It sure was one good looking cowboy-egg. Yeehaw!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And look at the back part, do you like its jeans, too?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Day five of the egg hunt was the first weekend of the hunt but I had promised myself to join in a walk along the Hudson. I'll try to write about it the next time but it was a good 9 mile walk from 125th Street down to Battery Park. Took this pic at the start of the walk, the trees along the Cherry Walk were just starting to bud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After that walk, I went around lower Manhattan to hunt for more eggs. Found one of my fave eggs, Egg 3 by <a href="http://www.bellerbyandco.com/">Bellerby Globe Makers</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At Mercer Street I came upon Egg 190 by <a href="http://houseofwaris.com/">Waris Ahluwalia</a>, the egg was hand carved from a single piece of Saur wood at Monkey River Studios in Bali. The finished product is beautiful!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">While I was taking a picture of the egg, a boy came near to scan the egg so I told him to go ahead. A lady was with him and told me to finish my shot since I was there first. The boy then asked if I have seen <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/13936786225/in/set-72157644150526463">Egg 36</a>. I haven't yet but when he mentioned the one with the butterflies, I recognized it as it was one of my faves from all the pictures I saw. He then said his lady companion was the one who designed it. Nice!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Another favorite egg is <a href="http://www.benjaminshine.com/">Benjamin Shine</a>'s All Ways New York. Egg 15 was constructed from 52 iconic NYC street signs and pays homage to the unique streets and locations that underpin the diversity of the city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So where did I go after this? I will continue my adventures in egg hunting on Part 2 of this blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can check out 200 of the eggs that I cracked in my Flickr album <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157644150526463/">The Big Egg Hunt NY</a> or if you want to see the 232 eggs in my basket, they're all in <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/110464285055591474374/albums/6003212130960596497">Google+</a></span>.Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-60481317265614829332014-03-24T22:40:00.000-04:002014-03-24T22:42:44.236-04:00On The Set of New York Feature<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I've been so busy lately as I recently transferred to a bigger place. I still walked on weekends but lagged on the upload of my pictures and writing this blog, as packing and other stuff occupied most of my free time. I will share instead a feature from the website <a href="http://www.onthesetofnewyork.com/home.html" target="_blank">onthesetofnewyork.com </a></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was wondering if you would allow me to post some of your images on the website that I run – <a href="http://www.onthesetofnewyork.com/" target="_blank">www.onthesetofnewyork.com</a>
– it is a dedicated site for New York based films and the locations
around the city that they use. It has been running since November 2009
and brings in around 40,000 unique visitors a month. It also showcases
photographs of NYC, some of which I’ve taken during my brief visits
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mark gave me some questions which I tried best to answer. As a result, he came up with <a href="http://www.onthesetofnewyork.com/11032014.html" target="_blank">this article</a>. Thank you for featuring me and my blog, Mark! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Taking a leisurely walk through New York’s Central
Park in the height of winter is just one of the many visits to the city
that Gigi Altarejos has made recently for her online blog. “My first
blog post was on January 2012, when I lived and worked in Manhattan,”
explained Gigi. “I work in Queens now, but always make a point to go and
walk around the city at weekends.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During her visits to the city, Gigi takes along her trusted Nikon
camera and in the past couple of years has built up an online gallery
consisting of thousands of images from the impressively powerful
financial district skyline to the beautiful picturesque lakes of Central
Park, Gigi has managed to seamlessly capture the real essence of the
city. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gigi told otsoNY, “New York is best explored walking and I love the
fact that you could do so any time of the day. I just love taking
pictures and sharing them with friends who are not New York based. I
walk every weekend and always take lots of photos. I think doing so
makes your mind more open to the things around you. I usually walk in
the park and this has made me appreciate nature.” Gigi added, “I count
myself lucky that I live in a place where I can enjoy the seasons and so
try to document its changes as much as I can.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Asked about films set in New York, Gigi replied, “I have always enjoyed
watching films based in New York. Home Alone 2, Coyote Ugly,
Ghostbusters, The Day after Tomorrow and I really enjoy the Spiderman
series. My favourite film would be Coming to America, as the hamburger
joint the movie used for McDowell's was the Wendy's at the corner of the
apartment where I used to live. It is so cool to see my apartment in
the movie. What's sad though, is that the place was recently torn down
to make way for another apartment complex.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gigi is one of the volunteer photographers at The High Line and recently
crossed paths with fellow photographer, Annie Leibovitz. “Our meeting
happened by complete chance. I joined the High Line Soup Experiment
where all attendees gathered for a one-pot meal at a communal table and I
didn't realise I was sitting opposite Annie Leibovitz until the person
beside me mentioned it.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you want to see more of Gigi's photography, otsoNY has posted 2
new volumes in the Picture Gallery. Alternatively, you can read her blog
or follow her on Twitter by clicking on the links.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">B: <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.onthesetofnewyork.com/pictures_vol7.html" target="_blank">The PhotoGallery Vol. 7</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.onthesetofnewyork.com/pictures_vol8.html" target="_blank">The PhotoGallery Vol. 8 </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thank you again to Mark and onthesetofnewyork.com! </span>Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-34754883235888908252014-02-28T23:33:00.000-05:002014-03-10T14:18:30.148-04:00Treasures of The Cloisters <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I love walking in <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2012/06/walk-in-fort-tryon.html" target="_blank">Fort Tryon Park</a>. Not only because of its beautiful gardens, or its historic arches or the views of the Hudson River, George Washington Bridge and the New Jersey palisades, but also because it houses <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/visit/visit-the-cloisters" target="_blank">The Cloisters</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Cloisters is part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. The
Cloisters museum and gardens are located in Fort Tryon Park in upper
Manhattan on four acres overlooking the Hudson River.<br /><br />
The museum boasts nearly five thousand works of art from the 12th
through the 15th Century, exhibited in a unique setting that truly
transports visitors to medieval Europe. The Cloisters we know today,
opened in 1928, and is a unique architectural amalgam of five medieval
French monasteries.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Cloisters is currently celebrating its 75th year anniversary. It started when oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller purchased the Billings Estate and other properties in the Fort Washington area and hired Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to create a park, which he then donated to New York City in 1935. As part of the overall project, Rockefeller also bought the extensive medieval art collection of George Grey Barnard, an American sculptor and collector, who had already established a medieval-art museum near his home in Fort Washington, and gave it to the Metropolitan along with a number of pieces from his own collection, including the Unicorn Tapestries. These became the core of the collection now housed at the Cloisters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Once you enter the museum, it really feels as if you've stepped inside a medieval place. These are the stone steps leading to the main lobby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Another reason why I like going to The Cloisters is that they accept whatever amount you give them as payment for the entrance fee. So, at the start of this month, I went to walk at Fort Tryon Park and, as usual, found myself walking towards The Cloisters for a visit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">From the main lobby are entrances to some of the galleries and the museum shop. There are eighteen galleries in The Cloisters and Gallery 001 or the Romanesque Hall was closed at the time of my visit. The museum was setting up for its newest exhibit, <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/listings/2014/canterbury-stained-glass" target="_blank">Radiant Light</a>, featuring stained glass from Canterbury Cathedral. The exhibit is from February 25 to May 18, 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Romanesque Hall </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">is dominated by two large, twelfth-century frescoes from Spain depicting a lion and a dragon. Here's a pic of the dragon I took during a previous visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Also in this gallery are nearly life-sized figures of the Merovingian kings Clovis and Clothar flanking the entrance to the <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/cloisters/004">Langon Chapel</a>, which I also wasn't able to visit due to the new exhibit being set up, but I'm sharing a pic I took from before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This entrance fascinates me, if you look closely you'll notice that all the figures of the angels around the tympanum are headless.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Adjacent to the Romanesque Hall is Gallery 002 or the</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/cloisters/002" target="_blank">Fuentidueña Chapel</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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Spanish government in 1957, constitute the twelfth-century apse that
dominates this gallery. The interior of the half dome is decorated with a
Catalan fresco depicting the Virgin and Child in Majesty and the
Adoration of the Magi from the church of the Virgin near Tredòs, and a
magnificent twelfth-century painted Spanish wood crucifix hangs from the
arch. Also displayed in the gallery is a twelfth-century Italian
doorway from Tuscany, as well as other works from the Romanesque period.</span></i> </span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">An entryway from this chapel leads to the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/cloisters/003" target="_blank">Saint-Guilhem Cloister</a>.</span><br />
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reconstructed with more than 140 fragments from the Benedictine abbey of
St.-Guilhem-le-Désert. Located northwest of Montpellier, it was founded
in the early ninth century and quickly became a major pilgrimage site.
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plant motifs come from the now-destroyed upper story of the abbey's
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Another entrance from the Main Hall led to Gallery 020 or the <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/cloisters/020" target="_blank">Late Gothic Hall</a>, the largest of all galleries in The Cloisters. It houses paintings and sculptures of the later 15th and early 16th centuries, most of which came from large dismantled altarpieces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What caught my eye immediately after I entered the room was the large tapestry hanging underneath the windows. It is from the 1500s and is called <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/467650" target="_blank">Christ is Born as Man's Redeemer</a> (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)</span>.<br />
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fall from grace and his inability to resist temptation in spite of the
assistance offered by the Virtues, and, on the other, Christ's mission
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Also in this room is a recent acquisition, Christ as a small child holding an apple. I haven't seen this in my previous visits to the museum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the left side of this room is an entryway which leads to Gallery 019 or the </span><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/cloisters/019" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Merode Room</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. This is the display on one of its walls. The tapestry shown herein is from ca. 1500 and is called </span><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/468533?rpp=60&pg=1&gallerynos=19&rndkey=20140228&ao=on&ft=*&pos=18" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Scenes from the Life of the Virgin</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the next room are more tapestries, one of which is <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/479495?rpp=60&pg=7&ao=on&ft=tapestry&pos=365" target="_blank">The Falcon's Bath</a> from ca. 1400 to 1415. Such workmanship! After six centuries, the colors are still so vivid.</span></div>
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that come from the Carmelite church of Boppard on the Rhine near Koblenz
that date from 1440–46. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Near the stained-glass windows is an </span><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/463192?rpp=20&pg=1&ao=on&ft=altars&pos=18" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">alabaster altar</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> with exquisite details. This was a gift from J. Pierpont Morgan in 1909.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Seven world-famous tapestries depicting The Hunt of the Unicorn adorn
this gallery. Against a landscape richly woven with lush flora and
fauna, the mythical beast, possessed of magic powers, tries in vain to
escape the men and dogs that pursue him. A large fireplace evokes the
kind of aristocratic setting in which these tapestries, first recorded
in Paris in 1680, originally would have been situated.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Shown above are four of the seven tapestries. The one at the center is called "The Unicorn is Killed and Brought to the Castle" and the small one hanging on top of the entryway is "</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Unicorn is Captured by the Maiden" or The Lost Unicorn Tapestry since only two pieces are what remains of the original tapestry. It was damaged during the French Revolution when the tapestries were looted from the chateau of the La Rochefoucauld family who owned the tapestries for several centuries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you want to learn more of the Unicorn Tapestries, <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/the-unicorn-tapestries" target="_blank">this link</a> has an in-depth article on the different tapestries, including the flora found on them. Very good read!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I was there at the start of this month, one of the tapestries, "<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/7436008084/in/set-72157630272424928" target="_blank">The Unicorn is Found</a>" was on top of the table, probably for cleaning and/or maintenance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The tapestry hanging on the left of the above photo is called "<a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/37.80.6" target="_blank">The Unicorn in Captivity</a>", I think this is the most popular of all the seven Unicorn tapestries. </span><br />
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rather than part of a series. In this instance, the unicorn probably
represents the beloved tamed. He is tethered to a tree and constrained
by a fence, but the chain is not secure and the fence is low enough to
leap over. The unicorn could escape if he wished but clearly his
confinement is a happy one, to which the ripe, seed-laden pomegranates
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nestled at one corner between two of the tapestries is a tusk from a narwhal, the unicorn of the sea. It was taller than me!</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A series of tapestries devoted to Nine Heroes of the Middle Ages
celebrated in a fourteenth-century poem dominate the room. From the
original ensemble, five survive: David and Joshua of Hebrew scripture;
Hector and Julius Caesar from Classical tradition; and Arthur, the
legendary king of England.</span></i><br />
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are among the earliest tapestries to survive from the Middle Ages.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These galleries have doors which open to the courtyard or the <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/cloisters/007" target="_blank">Cuxa Cloister</a></span>,<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> the open air courtyard was reconstructed with fragments from the twelfth-century cloister of the Benedictine monastery of St-Michel-de-Cuxa. Since it is winter, the garden was closed and clear glass covered the cloisters to keep the cold out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This room opens to Gallery 08, the </span><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/cloisters/008" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Early Gothic Hall</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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centuries. The three thirteenth-century limestone windows overlooking
the Hudson River are filled with Gothic stained-glass panels from the
cathedrals of Canterbury, Rouen, Soissons, and other sites. Also on view
are French, Spanish, and Italian sculptures of the period, as well as
an altarpiece depicting the Adoration of the Shepherds painted by the
Sienese artist Bartolo di Fredi about 1374.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A few short steps down leads to the <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/cloisters/009" target="_blank">Gothic Chapel</a> and the lower level of the museum.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This gallery takes the form of a thirteenth-century chapel, while its
tall windows are filled with brightly colored fourteenth-century
Austrian stained glass from the church of Saint Leonhard in Carinthia
and the castle chapel at Ebreichsdorf near Vienna. </span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The chapel opens to the <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/cloisters/010" target="_blank">Glass Gallery</a>. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Glass Gallery is so designated because of the large collection of
fifteenth- and sixteenth-century silver-stained roundels installed in
the nine lancet windows looking into Bonnefont Cloister. The gallery
also features polychromed sculpture of the later Middle Ages along with
small tapestry hangings and a painted triptych. Small-scale sculptures
in wood, stone, and terracotta are displayed in cases, along with a
variety of decorative art including glass, ceramics, and metalwork.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are a lot of sculptures of Mary and the Child Jesus in the gallery. The big ones are placed near the wall while small ones, like this one in the photo, are displayed inside cases.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here's one of the big sculptures near the wall, with Mary and Jesus in almost the same position.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Also at the lower level is the <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/cloisters/014" target="_blank">Treasury</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Works of art in precious materials on view in this gallery and in <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/cloisters/013">Gallery 013</a> convey the luxury and artistic sophistication of medieval artists and patrons.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am in awe of the workmanship of the artists from many centuries ago. Most of the items in this gallery are small and intricately carved from ivory. I can just imagine the time and effort spent on one item. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Also in the Treasury is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloisters_Cross" target="_blank">Cloister Cross</a>, which is carved from walrus ivory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The carvings which cover both front and back sides include ninety-two
intricately carved figures and ninety-eight inscriptions. The figures,
each of which is only about one-half inch tall, illustrate a number of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible" title="Bible">Biblical</a> scenes, and on the back a number of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament">Old Testament</a> prophets with <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banderole_%28speech_scroll%29" title="Banderole (speech scroll)">banderoles</a> containing quotations from their books.</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Glass Gallery opens to the <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/cloisters/011" target="_blank">Bonnefont Cloister</a> but since it was the middle of winter and the open cloister overlooks the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/12514703094/in/set-72157640955649114" target="_blank">frozen Hudson River</a>, I didn't go out to take pics, but I have one of the adjacent cloister, the <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/cloisters/012" target="_blank">Trie Cloister</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Elements from the cloister of the Carmelite convent of Trie-en-Bigorre,
near Toulouse, were dispersed after the French Revolution. Today some of
these elements, along with pieces from nearby monuments, constitute
this intimate space.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I hope you enjoyed the little tour of The Cloisters through my pics, and I hope all of you can come and visit one day and see for with your own eyes the treasures inside this beautiful museum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the rest of my pics, here are the albums on Flickr:</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157640954961144/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Cloisters, 02.01.14 </span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157640955649114/" target="_blank">Fort Tryon Park, 02.01.14</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157630272424928/" target="_blank">At The Cloisters</a> </span>Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-14444105104930668912014-02-18T23:23:00.000-05:002014-02-19T07:35:37.185-05:00Weekend Walks in January<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I started the year by ringing in 2014 in Times Square. It was great to be there with my family and welcome the new year in the middle of the city that I love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As I've done in the past years, I walked on weekends, usually in Central Park. Here are my favorite pictures taken during my walks in January.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">New York City had its first snow of the year on January 3 so when I walked in Central Park the first weekend of 2014, the park looked like a winter wonderland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The kids and the young at heart had a great time sledding in the park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even Alice and friends were playing in the snow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I reached The Reservoir, it looked like a mirror with its frozen waters reflecting the sky above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The following day, Sunday, I visited Brookfield Place. I was also in the area during the <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/12/canstruction-exhibit-at-brookfield-place.html" target="_blank">Canstruction Exhibit</a> last year. The light fixtures of the place looked great, especially at night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also passed by the pedestrian pathway which opened just last October, the <a href="http://www.lowermanhattan.info/news/wtc_west_concourse_opens_80422.aspx" target="_blank">WTC West Concourse</a> which leads to the WTC Transportation hub.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There was no snow the following weekend but it was a foggy day in Central Park. The mist definitely added to the park's charms that day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the Harlem Meer, the mist was easily seen rising out of the frozen waters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Light mist was also swirling around the waterfall area inside The Loch. I love it here, it's so peaceful and beautiful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The following day I had a short walk in Battery Park. It's always a pleasure to watch the day end and see Lady Liberty across the New York harbor </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> illuminated by the sunset colors</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Battery Park is currently <a href="http://tribecatrib.com/content/battery-parks-coming-attractions" target="_blank">undergoing renovations</a> but I was surprised to see that The Sphere has been moved to another location. This time, it was placed near the Korean War Memorial which is located at the west end of the park. The new location has allowed visitors to view the memorial and the Sphere with One World Trade Center, rising tall just several blocks away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After Battery Park, I proceeded to Brooklyn Bridge Park to take some night time pictures of lower Manhattan. Ah, New York, you always look pretty at night with all the lights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Brooklyn Bridge Park has also a great view of the Manhattan Bridge. It was shining brightly that night, the lights reflecting on the water looked like jewels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Central Park celebrated its third Ice Festival on January 18. This time it was held at the Bethesda Terrace where the <a href="http://www.okamotostudionyc.com/" target="_blank">Okamoto Studio</a> carved a scaled ice version of the Angel of the Waters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On my way home from the Ice Festival, I passed by Bow Bridge, it looked so pretty with the colorful sky above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The following day I dropped by Roosevelt Island for a short visit. The sun was starting to set when I neared the southern end of the island where the Four Freedoms Park is located. It was cool to see the sun "set" on the buildings of Manhattan across the East River.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the other side of the East River facing Queens, the</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> iconic <a href="http://www.elegran.com/edge/2013/07/a-refreshing-decision-preserving-the-pepsi-sign-in-long-island-city" target="_blank">Pepsi sign</a> along Long Island City's waterfront stand among the new buildings in the area. When I was in the island <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/07/around-roosevelt-island-part-2.html" target="_blank">last spring</a> the building at the back of the sign was just several stories high, i</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">ts lower eight floors were recessed 12 feet to keep them 45 feet distant from the back of the sign.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The linden trees at the Four Freedoms Park were all leafless but they still stand guard over FDR's huge bust at the center of the park. I can see One World Trade Center peeking at the right side of the picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It snowed again on the last Saturday of January when I walked in Central Park. The park carousel was closed for the winter season but it looked so charming when viewed from the Playmates Arch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The ice carvings from the previous week's Ice Festival were still at the Bethesda Terrace area. A lot of visitors were admiring the ice sculptures, even <a href="http://charleylhasa.com/" target="_blank">Charley</a> the Lhasa Apso had his picture taken with the angel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By the time I reached the Bow Bridge, snow has already covered its walkway. I love this bridge, it looks beautiful no matter what angle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">From the Bow Bridge and Lake area, I took the pathway up the Cherry Hill towards the fountain area which is usually full of horse carriages, as this is one of their viewing spots in the park. This looks magical!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span data-reactid=".r[2].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[2].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[1].[1].[0].[0].[0].[0].[1].[2][1]"><span data-reactid=".r[2].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[1].[1].[0].[0].[0].[0].[1].[2][1].[0]">Now shall I walk or shall I ride? </span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span data-reactid=".r[2].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[2].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[1].[1].[0].[0].[0].[0].[1].[2][1]"><span data-reactid=".r[2].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[1].[1].[0].[0].[0].[0].[1].[2][1].[0]">"Ride," Pleasure said </span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And to top it all, I saw a marriage proposal right by the park. How sweet! And <a href="http://gothamist.com/2014/01/21/photo_man_proposes_via_massive_graf.php" target="_blank">she said yes</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What a great way to end my weekend walks for the first month of the year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the rest of my pics, here are the albums on Flickr:</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157639574883664/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Central Park, January 2014</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157639995473133/" target="_blank">Night Views from Brooklyn Bridge Park in 2014</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157640365069016/" target="_blank">Roosevelt Island, 01.19.14</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157640342818383/" target="_blank">The High Line, 01.26.14</a> </span>Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-42293269952537496912014-01-28T23:08:00.000-05:002014-01-29T12:48:00.405-05:00Governors Island in 2013<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governors_Island" target="_blank">Governors Island</a> is a 172 acre island in the heart of the New York Harbor, across lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. I've written about the island in a <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2012/10/governors-island.html" target="_blank">previous blog</a> when I first visited in 2012. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The island is currently in full swing for the construction and development of a <a href="http://www.govislandpark.com/" target="_blank">new park and public open spaces</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When it will open to the public in May 2014 a huge portion of the island will be entirely different from what it looked like before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After the federal government sold the island to the people of New York, the city created the Trust for Governors Island, the organization charged with
the operations, planning and redevelopment of 150 acres of the island. </span>T<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">he </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">remaining 22 acres were declared the Governors Island National Monument and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">is managed by the National Park Service. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Trust is transforming Governors Island into a destination with great
public open space, as well as educational, not-for-profit, and
commercial facilities. Construction has been completed on 30 new acres
of park and public spaces that will open for public use in May 2014. In
summer of 2013, The Trust broke ground on the Hills, the crowning
feature of the new park. Made of recycled construction and fill
materials, The Hills will rise 25 to 80 feet above the Island, and the
summit of the tallest Hill will provide visitors with a 360-degree
panorama of the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor and the Lower
Manhattan skyline. </span></i></blockquote>
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it opened in May, visited again in July and in September, on the last day before it closed its 2013 season. </span>When I went there on its opening day in May, the first improvement at the island can be seen from the ferry, in big white letters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also had the chance to go around the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">barracks buildings inside <a href="http://www.nps.gov/gois/historyculture/fortjay.htm" target="_blank">Fort Jay</a>, one of the two forts in the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/gois/index.htm" target="_blank">Governors Island National Monument</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So I stood on that temporary structure that cold day in May last year and gazed at the ongoing development. Nothing much to see at that point but the base of some structures. I'm sure a lot of development was going on in areas not visible from the arch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was just the first day of the 2013 season and I know I'd be back. Even if it w</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">as cloudy that day and the air still so nippy, Governors Island always has one of the best views of lower Manhattan across the harbor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Summer was already in full swing the next time I was able to visit Governors Island in July 2013. It was the <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/08/city-of-water-day-2013.html" target="_blank">City of Water Day</a> and most of the free boat rides originated from the island. There were many visitors, picnics and bicycle rides seem to be the order of the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Governors Island is home to <a href="http://www.figmentproject.org/" target="_blank">Figment</a>, an annual participatory arts event that aims to provide a forum for community-based art
and experience. Last year, the star of the show was the <a href="http://www.archdaily.com/415655/head-in-the-clouds-pavilion-opens-in-nyc/" target="_blank">Head in the Clouds Pavilion</a> which was made of 53,780 recycled bottles – the amount thrown away in New York City in only <i>1 hour.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also checked on the ongoing construction of the new park. The most obvious difference from my view at the temporary structure at Liggett Hall was that Building </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span class="st">877, the largest non-historic building on Governors Island, was no longer standing on the site it once occupied. It was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/governors-island-building-blown-up_n_3414719.html" target="_blank">imploded</a> on June 9 to make way for the new park. You can watch a video of the implosion on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3qWP9Icez0#t=27" target="_blank">this link</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">September 29 was the last day the island was open for the 2013 season and it was <a href="http://www.govisland.com/downloads/pdf/public_invited_to_preview_new_governors_island_park.pdf" target="_blank">Park Preview Weekend</a>. The public was invited to see the transformation of acres of landfill into an incredible park. Liggett Arch was the gateway to the new park which opens to the <a href="http://www.govislandpark.com/areas/liggett-terrace/" target="_blank">Liggett Terrace</a>.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Arch opens into Liggett Terrace, a great urban plaza made welcoming
by flower beds and mosaics, plantings, art, seating, cafe carts and play
structures. From the Terrace, the Hammock Grove and the Play Lawn
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This red hammock is the first one to grace the <a href="http://www.govislandpark.com/areas/hammock/" target="_blank">Hammock Grove</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I can't wait to try out all the hammocks next year.</span><br />
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the cultivated sunny space of Liggett Terrace and the open expanse of
the Play Lawn and the Hills and Harbor beyond. Visitors come to the
seven-acre grove to enjoy the seasons — spring’s first leaves, summer
shade, and fall leaf colors. Hammocks set in the shade of the trees offer a quiet way
to relax and the inspiration for this area’s name. Hammock Grove offers a wonderful respite and chapter in the park’s
unfolding topography and views. Hammock Grove contains 300 new trees
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>"The tree are being planted in a grid so that the Statue can always be seen." </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The trees were planted inside an area enclosed by pre-cast concrete which can be used as a seat for park visitors. These concrete pieces are <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/10117033465/in/set-72157636248171193" target="_blank">manufactured in Buffalo</a>, NY.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Walking further into the park I saw lots
of construction equipment and materials while Lady Liberty peeked beyond
the mountains of sand and gravel. This area would be known as <a href="http://www.govislandpark.com/areas/the-hills/" target="_blank">The Hills</a>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At the top of the highest hill, visitors are rewarded with an
extraordinary 360° vantage point on the City, the Harbor and its icons.
In a city of exceptional views from skyscrapers, the height of a
nine-story building would offer little of distinction. On Governors
Island, out in the harbor, the height of an 82-foot hill offers a
sensation, even a thrill of a view never seen before, never even
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is still part of The Hills, at the time of my visit work has started as you can see from the signs attached to the fence. If the views from the island at ground level are awesome, how much more from the top of The Hills? </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Liberty Terrace connects New York City to the Statue of Liberty.
Standing on the Terrace, the visitor sees Lady Liberty’s face in person,
perhaps for the first time. As visitors tour the Great Promenade, from
either direction, the Statue comes in view, as a surprise when rounding
the South Prow, or first in profile on the Island’s western Promenade.
As cyclists head south or pedestrians meander through the park, the
trees, hills and lawns frame views of the Statue, all culminating at
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A<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">s the Great Promenade rounds the South Prow, it splits into two levels.
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Overlook, which is elevated seven feet above the Wetland Gardens and
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unfold like a carpet of water-loving plants and green lawn framed by the
blue- gray water, sky and Statue of Liberty beyond. The elevation
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Thank you Governors Island for inviting the public to the Park Preview. I can't wait for the whole development to finish. For sure Governors
Island will be at the top of the list for everybody to visit once it opens for
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157635055623392/" target="_blank">NYC Harbor Tours </a>(City of Water Day)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Last November I joined a group meet-up to walk across the three bridges that connect Manhattan and Brooklyn. Often referred to as BMW, the three bridges are the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge" target="_blank"><b>B</b>rooklyn Bridge</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Bridge" target="_blank"><b>M</b>anhattan Bridge</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamsburg_Bridge" target="_blank"><b>W</b>illiamsburg Bridge</a>. Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges are near each other while Williamsburg is a little bit further. You can see the bridges in this photo </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I took while riding the ferry to Governors Island last year</span>, even if only the towers of Williamsburg is visible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The group met at the Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall station subway stop which is right across the pedestrian entrance of the bridge. </span>I previously wrote about <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/05/battery-park-to-brooklyn-bridge-park_22.html" target="_blank">walking across</a> Brooklyn Bridge. It's always great to walk across the bridge, even if it was slightly raining when we started our walk that day</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are a lot of love locks on the bridge. I like the colored ones with the names printed, sometimes some of them even have designs of the bridge on the locks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A close-up of the bridge's overhead cable wires doesn't show the <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/infrastructure/brooklyn-bridge.shtml" target="_blank">repair works</a> being done which is expected to last until middle of this year. The cable wires always make a great picture of the Brooklyn Bridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As we neared the exit on the Brooklyn side, I saw this sweet sign.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As we neared the Manhattan side of the bridge, I could see more graffiti on many of the buildings in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Bridges,_Manhattan" target="_blank">Two Bridges</a> neighborhood.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In 1910, a year after the bridge opened, the architectural firm Carrère and Hastings drew up preliminary plans for an elaborate grand entry to the bridge on the Manhattan side, as part of the "<a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Beautiful" title="City Beautiful">City Beautiful</a>"
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you walk across Squibb Park Bridge, you may notice a little bounce in
your step. The bridge was designed with trail bridge technology and is
meant to be lightweight and flexible like the trail bridges in our state
and national parks. So whether you’re a first timer or returning
visitor of the Squibb Park Bridge, expect an extra pep in your step and
know that this is completely normal and part of the design.</span></i> </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The bridge offers a great view of lower Manhattan, as well as the beautiful vegetation of the park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I could also see more construction work going on. I know when all the work is done, Brooklyn Bridge Park will be one of the city's best parks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I finally made my way back to Pier 1, lower Manhattan was still shrouded in fog,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also dropped by the area at the park where visitors often leave love locks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then it was time to head home. One last look at the park near Jane's Carousel with Manhattan still covered with heavy fog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was also foggy at Manhattan Bridge, to think we were just walking there earlier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the start of our walk across Manhattan Bridge, I saw artwork along some of the walls and promised myself to look into it. I learned that the artwork are part of <a href="http://dumbo.is/itineraries/667" target="_blank">Dumbo Walls</a>.</span><br />
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brick walls as canvas, international artists transform DUMBO’s
streetscape with works by CAM, DALeast, Eltono, Shepard Fairey, Faith47,
MOMO, Stefan Sagmeister, and Yuko Shimizu.
- See more at: http://dumbo.is/itineraries/667#sthash.MP1x9SSP.dpuf</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The DUMBO Improvement District has teamed up with Two Trees Management to bring art to the blank brick walls
underneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Called "DUMBO Walls", the
installation brings eight world-renowned artists to the Kingsborough,
transforming disused space into an outdoor gallery.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Artists CAM, MOMO, Stefan Sagmesiter, Yuko Shizimu, Shepard Fairey,
Eltono, and Faith 47 added their signature styles to the walls with
colorful, semi-permanent murals. Visitors can marvel at the outdoor art
exhibition, which traverses the walkway near the Manhattan and Brooklyn
bridges. Each of the eight murals signify the debut of the DUMBO Walls
project, which hopes to transform other areas in DUMBO into an open air
exhibition space.</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I like the owls at the Bar and Grill Park by CAM. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And the reindeer by DALeast at the BQE Underpass on Pearl Street.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All of the murals are really good, I've placed the photos in a separate album on Flickr - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157637956990965/" target="_blank">Dumbo Walls</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That was a great walk even if it was raining and foggy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is just a rough illustration of the paths we took on the Three Bridges walk but I'm posting this map to give you an idea where I walked that day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the rest of my photos, here are the albums on Flickr:</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157638100197344/" target="_blank">Three Bridges Walk </a></span></b><br />
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Pearl Street (BQE Underpass)</div>
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sing
brick walls as canvas, international artists transform DUMBO’s
streetscape with works by CAM, DALeast, Eltono, Shepard Fairey, Faith47,
MOMO, Stefan Sagmeister, and Yuko Shimizu.
- See more at: http://dumbo.is/itineraries/667#sthash.MP1x9SSP.dpuf</div>
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Using
brick walls as canvas, international artists transform DUMBO’s
streetscape with works by CAM, DALeast, Eltono, Shepard Fairey, Faith47,
MOMO, Stefan Sagmeister, and Yuko Shimizu.
- See more at: http://dumbo.is/itineraries/667#sthash.MP1x9SSP.dpuf</div>
Gigi A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15115989455609909640noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6602861399588564140.post-45189964604145295662013-12-30T07:44:00.000-05:002013-12-30T23:46:42.135-05:00Walking Through the Seasons in Central Park<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2013 is coming to a close and this year, with the exception of the weeks that I have been out of town for vacations, I have been walking in Central Park every weekend and taking lots of photos. And lots of photos mean more than a hundred each month. It was hard selecting favorites in each month but in the end I decided to choose 13 photos for each month of 2013 and compile them in one Flickr album to represent the things I see during my walks in the park. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I will share and write about some of those photos in this blog and link them to some of my previous blogs. So this is it, Central Park in
2013, looking at the seasons unfolding during the year in the park, through
my eyes. I hope you will enjoy my pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them, and
walking though the park that I love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157632504548801/" target="_blank">January</a></i></b> was cold and most of the water features in the park were frozen. This was Bow Bridge straddling a frozen Lake during the <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/01/first-weekend-of-2013.html" target="_blank">first weekend of 2013</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">January 19 was the 2nd <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/01/central-park-ice-festival.html" target="_blank">Central Park Ice Festival</a> and lots of people watched the Okamoto Studio carve a scale replica, in ice, of Belvedere Castle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the finished product, here's <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/8402029076/in/set-72157638102345825" target="_blank">the link</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All bodies of water were frozen during the last weekend of January as it snowed the day before. It was a beautiful scene at The Lake when I walked by, seeing the white of the snow against the clear blue sky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The city was bracing for the nor'easter Nemo when I took a short walk in the park the afternoon of <b><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157632689277765/" target="_blank">February</a></i></b> 7. It was the first time I saw the Bethesda Terrace and Fountain void of people. The deserted area looked peaceful and beautiful, I was literally looking at the calm before the storm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/02/finding-nemo-in-central-park.html" target="_blank">blizzard Nemo</a> dumped more than a foot of snow in New York City. Central Park was a winter wonderland that weekend. The Gothic Bridge </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">looked gorgeous in the snow and setting sun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Up at Cat Rock on the first week of <i><b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157632906705247/" target="_blank">March</a></b></i>, I could see a lot of people enjoying the Wollman Rink, and the buildings of Central Park South provided a great backdrop. I could stay there the whole day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was scheduled to go on vacation the third week of March and before I left, I <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/03/late-winter-walk-in-central-park.html" target="_blank">walked the length</a> of Central Park starting at the northeast corner at the Harlem Meer. When I reached the Conservatory Garden, some early spring flowers were already blooming. This is iris reticulata, see how pretty it is!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As I walked the park that day light snow started to fall. I took shelter for a while at the Bethesda Arcade, its restored Minton tiles ceiling was a joy to see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As that day progressed, snow kept on falling. The snow on the green trees made the park look like a postcard. Seems like winter didn't want to let go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was away on vacation for three weeks and when I returned in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157633315671488/" target="_blank"><i><b>April</b></i></a>, Central Park was wearing its Spring finery. This was The Pond when I took a <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2013/05/april-walks-in-central-park.html" target="_blank">walk around the middle of April</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By the third weekend of April, most of the spring flowers were in full bloom. When I passed by </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Obelisk, it was framed by the magnolia flowers. Such a pretty sight, don't you think so too?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the end of April, the crabapple trees at the Conservatory Garden were in full bloom. The garden was a riot of pink and white!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By the first week of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157633424984287/" target="_blank"><b><i>May</i></b></a> the temps were mild enough for picnics at the Sheep Meadow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And a walk in late May around the Harlem Meer yielded some great reflection photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you want to take wonderful reflection photos, look no further than Central Park's water features. Two of the reflection shots which I consider my best were taken on a walk in the park one weekend in <i><b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157633977695361/" target="_blank">June</a></b></i>. One was of the Lake taken from the Ladies Pavilion at twilight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And the other taken the following night from The Reservoir -- New York City looking like an oil painting!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the summer months, the city experiences <a href="http://www.amnh.org/our-research/hayden-planetarium/resources/manhattanhenge" target="_blank">Manhattanhenge</a>. These are the two days each year during which the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in Manhattan. In one of my walks in the park, it seems the ducks were watching their own Manhattanhenge as the sun set in between the towers of the Time Warner Center as reflected in The Pond. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sometimes there are concerts held at the park, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">like the MLB All-Star Charity Concert benefiting Sandy Relief in <i><b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157634560556468/" target="_blank">July</a></b></i>, featuring Mariah Carey </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">accompanied by the New York Philharmonic. I had tickets to that free concert but the guards wouldn't let me in as I had my camera with me. So I went to walk in the park instead. A blessing in disguise, I think, as the skies that night gave more colors than the sparkles on Mariah's bling sling. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the summer, I always see the great white egret at the park, sometimes at the Turtle Pond but more often at The Pond. One time I chanced upon it trying to stalk fish but it looked like it was commanding the mallards to swim in a straight line. Anyone care to caption this photo?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Also during the summer months, there are a lot of talents showing off at the park. I chanced upon these guys performing at The Mall one weekend in <b><i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157634966809252/" target="_blank">August</a></i></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Also in August I stayed late at the park one time and took this photo from Cat Rock. Standing there basking in the light of the moon and the stars, it looked like all my dreams and wishes could come true. Central Park in the evening is magical!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The warm summer months also mean rides on the Central Park carousel. It is a popular spot especially to its young visitors, with its 57 hand-carved horses and two chariots. I love the fence around it, there are horses incorporated in the design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By <b><i><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157635897971396/" target="_blank">September</a></span></i></b>, the warm weather has given way to cooler days as autumn approaches. On the first day of autumn, the Wisteria Arbor was full of falling leaves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had written about Central Park's <a href="http://mywalkingpictures.blogspot.com/2012/02/say-it-with-bench.html" target="_blank">Adopt-a-Bench program</a> before but on a walk in September I saw one bench with four plaques. It was a special bench as it was dedicated to the heroes of 9/11.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the second week of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157636427023926/" target="_blank"><b><i>October</i></b></a> the leaves of the trees in the North Meadow have started to change color. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was also in October when I took this photo of the setting sun. I love watching the sun set on The Reservoir. I believe no two sunsets are the same, and most of the time the clouds like to dance with the sun as the day turns into night. We New Yorkers are so lucky -- in the middle of our great big city and surrounded by man-made structures, there is this beautiful park where we can be still, marvel at nature, and watch creation at work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On a walk in late autumn, fiery skies illuminated Belvedere Castle at sunset time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Belvedere Castle has the best views of the Great Lawn and Turtle Pond. I have seen the cycle of the seasons over the months while standing on the castle's terrace. I took this photo in early <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157638717883536/" target="_blank"><b><i>December</i></b></a>, the trees were already bare but Turtle Pond was a beautiful shining mirror reflecting the clear sky and the trees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The city had its share of a couple of snowfalls before the winter solstice. The Central Park Dairy House looked like something from a fairy tale with the snow and its huge holiday wreaths.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Park had a lighting ceremony for its floating Christmas tree on the first week of December but I wasn't able to attend as I was with friends visiting the city. I visited the floating Christmas tree at the Harlem Meer on the third week of December. Because of the cold temps the past days, the Meer was frozen and the lights on the tree was reflected on the ice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The day before Christmas, I went to the Arsenal to view the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/11578638373/in/set-72157638717883536/" target="_blank">Wreath</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/11578639303/in/set-72157638717883536" target="_blank">Interpretations</a> exhibit. On my way to the subway from the Arsenal, I passed through the Inscope Arch and had this great view of Central Park South. If it had been snowing, it would look like I'm inside a snowglobe!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the last weekend of 2013, I walked in Central Park with my family. We passed by the Imagine mosaic on our way out of the park and I recall the lyrics of the song<i></i>.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">♫ Imagine all the people living life in peace ..<br />
You may say I'm a dreamer, </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>but I'm not the only one<br />
I hope some day you'll join us <br />
And the world will be as one ♫♪♫</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quite fitting as we prepare to welcome a new year with hope in our hearts and the love of family and friends guiding our way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope I have somehow captured the many extraordinary moments I experienced during my weekend walks in Central Park. Time and again, I have seen the wonders of nature, the beauty of the seasons, and have found peace and inspiration during my walks in the park. Thank you Central Park! May you continue to bring joy and spread cheer and hope to everyone. </span><span data-reactid=".r[2nvi8].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[2nvi8].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[1].[1].[0].[1].[0].{621398656961149030}.[1].[2][0]"><span data-reactid=".r[2nvi8].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[0].[1].[1].[0].[1].[0].{621398656961149030}.[1].[2][0].[0]">❤️ </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the thirteen photos of each month which I selected to represent 2013, here's the album on Flickr - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157638102345825/" target="_blank">Central Park 2013</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For the photos I took during my walks in the park, these are in separate albums grouped by month. I've linked them in this article, just click on the highlighted month and it will take you to the Flickr album for that specific month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">May we all have a happy, healthy and prosperous 2014!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Each year after Thanksgiving, New York City rolls out its holiday decorations and lights and the city is transformed into a magical place. Most of the decorations are the same year after year, but still they always elicit smiles and fond memories from those who have seen them, and excitement from those who are seeing them for the first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One evening a couple of weeks ago, I walked along Sixth Avenue and came across these wonderful decorations. Coming from the north, I first came across several giant nutcrackers standing guard at the UBS Bldg. between 52nd and 53rd Streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A little further along, between 49th and 50th Streets are the giant Christmas balls of 1251 Sixth Avenue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On the next block is the toy train of Rockefeller Center Station, parked at the fountain of 1271 Sixth Avenue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Directly across the toy train is the colorful Christmas tree of Radio City Music Hall which changes colors every few seconds, from green to gold to red.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Then there's the giant Christmas lights on the next block in front of the McGraw-Hill Bldg between 48th and 49th Streets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On the next block at the News Corp Bldg is a reindeer family, the baby reindeer looked cute!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I also walked one December evening, this time along Fifth Avenue from Central Park South. At 57th Street is the <a href="http://snowflake.unicefusa.org/about/" target="_blank">Unicef snowflake</a>,<span class="includeDocument"> a special symbol
for the world's most vulnerable children. It hangs as a reminder of
UNICEF’s commitment to reach a day when <i>zero</i> children die from preventable causes.</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The original snowflake, a New York attraction since 1984, was dedicated
to UNICEF by the Stonbely family in 2002. The New York Snowflake contains 16,000 crystal prisms, is 23 feet wide
and over 28 feet tall, and weighs more than 3,300 pounds. While the
original Snowflake contains 12,000 crystals, is 17 feet wide and over 14
feet tall, weighs 1,600 pounds and is illuminated by 125 steady-burning
and 300 high-powered flashing LED lights.</span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Near the Unicef snowflakes are the stores of Bergdorf Goodman and Tiffany's, both stores' holiday show windows are eagerly anticipated each year. For my pics on those holiday show windows, here's the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157638313364856/" target="_blank">album on Flickr</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Also in this intersection is Bulgari's, the store's facade is decorated with metallic, light-up snakes, the brand’s <a href="http://nymag.com/thecut/2012/11/bulgaris-giant-light-up-snake-invades-new-york.html" target="_blank">legendary symbol</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the corner of 56th Street, the Harry Winston store glows with its holiday lights that shine in every window.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A block away reindeer prance on the awning at the entrance of The Peninsula.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Across Fifth Avenue but still on 55th Street, a toy soldier guards the entrance to the St. Regis Hotel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A block and a half away, the lights decorating Fendi's look like a variation of Santa. I pretty much prefer their <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/8296205544/in/set-72157632308746370" target="_blank">previous years</a>' light decor which resembles a belt encompassing the building. Seems fitting as they are a leather goods store.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the corner of the next block, the Cartier Building is wrapped in a red bow and a pair of panthers shine in golden light. Beside it, the Versace store light decor also shines prettily.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A pair of toy soldiers bring in good tidings as they stood at the entrance of 630 Fifth Avenue, which is part of the Rockefeller Center complex.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">More toy soldiers, holding different musical instruments, are standing on the area surrounding the rink. Here's a drummer toy soldier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And over at the Lego Store at the Rockefeller Center complex is a big Santa made of Lego bricks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Of course the star of the Rockefeller Center Christmas decors is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Center_Christmas_Tree" target="_blank">tree</a>. Usually a Norway spruce, the tree has been put up every year since 1933. Its lighting has been broadcast live nationwide on NBC's <i>Christmas in Rockefeller Center</i> show and is scheduled for the Wednesday after Thanksgiving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Further down Fifth Avenue by the New York Public Library, the lions Patience and Fortitude are <a href="http://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/2013/12/05/wreaths-returning-new-york-public-library%E2%80%99s-iconic-lions" target="_blank">once again </a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nypl.org/press/press-release/2013/12/05/wreaths-returning-new-york-public-library%E2%80%99s-iconic-lions" target="_blank">wearing wreaths</a> this holiday season for the first time since 2004.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The parks have their own beautiful Christmas trees, too! This year I was able to visit just the ones in Bryant Park and Central Park.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bryant Park this year has gone patriotic with its red, white and blue ornaments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">While at Central Park, the tree is usually floating at the Harlem Meer. When I went there last weekend, the Meer was frozen and the lights of the tree was reflected on the ice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Along Park Avenue, the lights of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmsley_Building" target="_blank">Helmsley Building</a> dominate the area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Walking towards the building and onto Grand Central Terminal, I was treated to the terminal's <a href="http://new.mta.info/news-holidays-christmas-grand-central-metro-north/2013/11/26/holiday-light-show-illuminates-grand" target="_blank">Centennial Holiday Light Show</a>, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">on display daily through December 26.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Over at Macy's on 34th Street is a big Believe sign. One of the Santa elves balloon was at the entrance near the sign when I took this pic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and a mailbox for your letter to Santa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Outside the store, the lights of the Empire State Building shine brightly. When I took this pic, it was lit in red and green for the Christmas holiday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know there are a lot more holiday decorations around the city I haven't covered but the ones I wrote about are the ones that I think are the most well-known and well-loved. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCB7acJlH_n5WKkX4NEFEb4g9lFX95LkFOc9JAG4mdT0df2ud0LUUHxGbk1ro_nCxfjMPDOkWp5XdVkdfEOsD-6NnpzOZ21alwHRPO5IDBkarC6ZRdlPiDVIPSMoyddxLK28CbOXql7OqR/s1600/christmastree1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCB7acJlH_n5WKkX4NEFEb4g9lFX95LkFOc9JAG4mdT0df2ud0LUUHxGbk1ro_nCxfjMPDOkWp5XdVkdfEOsD-6NnpzOZ21alwHRPO5IDBkarC6ZRdlPiDVIPSMoyddxLK28CbOXql7OqR/s1600/christmastree1.gif" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Christmas in New York City is really the best! <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The rest of my photos of the holiday lights in the city are on Flickr. There is a separate album for the show windows. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/76807015@N03/sets/72157638313364856/" target="_blank">2013 NYC Holiday Show Windows</a></span><br />
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