The Portraits of America: Empire State Building: The Museum of the City of New York

The Portraits of America: Empire State Building: The Museum of the City of New York
John S. Berman (Author)
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It is the world's most famous skyscraper, a gleaming Art Deco tower of steel, concrete and marble that is the enduring symbol of New York. Conceived by Governor Alfred E. Smith, the project commenced on January 22, 1930, less than two months after the Black Tuesday stock market crash, as America entered the beginnings of the Great Depression. Along with the revealing text, a wealth of archival photographs taken before, during and after construction illustrate the mammoth undertaking. Every image pays tribute to the steelworkers, riveters, stone masons and the thousands of other unsung heroes whose fearlessness and skill enabled the tower to rise in little more than a year's time, and gave birth to a legendary icon of American vision and ingenuity.

• Rank: #218408 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

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Square Magnet. Helicopter view of sightseers hanging out windows in the crown of the Statue of Liberty w. the NJ shore in the bkgd. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images). The location of this image is New York, NY United States. Copyright: Time & Life Pictures Tourism in New York City includes nearly 47 million foreign and American tourists each year. Major destinations include the Empire State Building , Ellis Island , Broadway theatre productions, museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art , and other tourist attractions including Central Park , Washington Square Park , Rockefeller Center , Times Square , the Bronx Zoo , South Street Seaport , New York Botanical Garden , luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison Avenues , and events such as the Tribeca Film Festival , and free performances in Central Park at Summerstage and Delacorte Theater . The Statue of Liberty is a major tourist attraction and one of the most recognizable icons of the United States. Many New York City ethnic enclaves , such as Jackson Heights , Flushing , and Brighton Beach are major shopping destinations for first and second generation Americans up and down the East Coast. New York City has over 28000 acres (110 km2 ) of parkland and 14 linear miles (22 km) of public beaches. Manhattan's Central Park , designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux , is the most visited city park in the United States. Prospect Park in Brooklyn, also designed by Olmsted and Vaux, has a 90 acres (36 ha) meadow. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, the city's third largest, was the setting for the 1939 World's Fair and 1964 World's Fair . Today, street fairs and street events such as the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village , and New York Marathon also attract tourists. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tourism in New York City , licensed under CC-BY-SA full list of contributors here . This page is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, anyone associated with the topic.

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Description #3 by Zazzle:

Helicopter view of sightseers hanging out windows in the crown of the Statue of Liberty w. the NJ shore in the bkgd. (Photo by Margaret Bourke-White//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images). The location of this image is New York, NY United States. Copyright: Time & Life Pictures Tourism in New York City includes nearly 47 million foreign and American tourists each year. Major destinations include the Empire State Building , Ellis Island , Broadway theatre productions, museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art , and other tourist attractions including Central Park , Washington Square Park , Rockefeller Center , Times Square , the Bronx Zoo , South Street Seaport , New York Botanical Garden , luxury shopping along Fifth and Madison Avenues , and events such as the Tribeca Film Festival , and free performances in Central Park at Summerstage and Delacorte Theater . The Statue of Liberty is a major tourist attraction and one of the most recognizable icons of the United States. Many New York City ethnic enclaves , such as Jackson Heights , Flushing , and Brighton Beach are major shopping destinations for first and second generation Americans up and down the East Coast. New York City has over 28000 acres (110 km2 ) of parkland and 14 linear miles (22 km) of public beaches. Manhattan's Central Park , designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux , is the most visited city park in the United States. Prospect Park in Brooklyn, also designed by Olmsted and Vaux, has a 90 acres (36 ha) meadow. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, the city's third largest, was the setting for the 1939 World's Fair and 1964 World's Fair . Today, street fairs and street events such as the Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village , and New York Marathon also attract tourists. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tourism in New York City , licensed under CC-BY-SA full list of contributors here . This page is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, anyone associated with the topic.