New York City Bridges in Street View

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Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is a bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. With a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), it was the longest suspension bridge in the world from its opening until 1903, and the first steel-wire suspension bridge.

Originally referred to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and as the East River Bridge, it was dubbed the Brooklyn Bridge, a name from an earlier January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle,[7] and formally so named by the city government in 1915. Since its opening, it has become an icon of New York City, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1972.

Paul Trillo and Landon Van Soest - Brooklyn Brewery Mash

Brooklyn Brewery Mash - A trip through BK in 3000 photos from Paul Trillo

To promote the Brooklyn Brewery's MASH tour, filmmakers Landon Van Soest and Paul Trillo, created a stop motion tour of the borough using over 3000 still photos.
View the shot breakdown here: vimeo.com/62716085
More info at brooklynbrewerymash.com/

Already Alive - NYC Dark

NYC Dark from Already Alive on Vimeo.

Seeing lower Manhattan without power is a surreal experience. This is traditionally a city that never sleeps. One in which the lights are always on. One that is always bustling with people. When the lights went out it was wholly different. This piece is meant to capture and relay the feeling of what it was like to walk around the darkened streets of lower Manhattan.

See all of Jared's photos here: http://www.jaredlevy.me/gallery/hurricane-sandy-lower-manhattan/

Stills / Voice: Jared Levy http://jaredlevy.me
Timelapse / Music: Michael Marantz http://michaelmarantz.com
Creative Direction: Jason Oppliger http://jasonoppliger.com

Produced by Already Alive http://alreadyalive.com
Original Music by Michael Marantz: http://soundcloud.com/michaelmarantz/nyc-dark

Madison Avenue

Medison Avenue Market by Raúl Rausa

Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States, that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from Madison Square (at 23rd Street) to the Madison Avenue Bridge at 138th Street. In doing so, it passes through Midtown, the Upper East Side (including Carnegie Hill), Spanish Harlem, and Harlem. It is named after and arises from Madison Square, which is itself named after James Madison, the fourth President of the United States. Since the 1920s, the street's name has been synonymous with the American advertising industry.

Madison Avenue was not part of the original New York City street grid established in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, and was carved between Park Avenue (formerly Fourth) and Fifth Avenue in 1836, due to the effort of lawyer and real estate developer Samuel B. Ruggles, a graduate of Yale University who had previously purchased and developed New York's Gramercy Park in 1831, who was in part responsible for the development of Union Square, and who also named Lexington Avenue.

Madison Avenue carries one-way traffic uptown (northbound) from 23rd Street to 135th Street, with the changeover from two-way traffic taking place on January 14, 1966, at which time Fifth Avenue was changed to one way downtown (southbound)

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Advertising industry 

The term "Madison Avenue" is often used metonymically for advertising, and Madison Avenue became identified with the American advertising industry after the explosive growth in this area in the 1920s. According to "The Emergence of Advertising in America" by the year 1861 there were twenty advertising agencies in New York City, and in 1911, the New York City Association of Advertising Agencies was founded, predating the establishment of the American Association of Advertising Agencies by several years. Among various depictions in popular culture, the portion of the advertising industry which centers on Madison Avenue serves as a backdrop for the AMC television drama Mad Men, which focuses on industry activities during the 1960s. In recent decades, many agencies have left Madison Avenue, with some moving further downtown and others moving west.[2] Today, only a few agencies are still located in the old business cluster on Madison Avenue, including Young & Rubicam, StrawberryFrog, TBWA Worldwide and Doyle Dane Bernbach. However, the term is still used to describe the agency business as a whole and large, New York–based agencies in particular.

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Television Headquarters

While CCTV Headquarter is widely famous for OMA's iconic building here is how other television comapnies' headquarters look like.

CNN

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BBC

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SANAA - The New Museum, New York

This is how architectural review should look like in 2012 - slick, qucik, pop and with a lot of great music!
Just like this one from Great Spaces  on SANAA'a the New Museum.

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The New Museum, founded as the New Museum of Contemporary Art by Marcia Tucker in 1977, is the only museum in New York City exclusively devoted to presenting contemporary art from around the world. On December 1, 2007, the New Museum opened its first freestanding, dedicated building at 235 Bowery.

The building, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA with Gensler, New York, serving as executive Architect, is expressed as a series of six asymmetrically stacked aluminum-clad rectilinear boxes shifted off-axis around a central steel core. Sejima + Nishizawa's inspiration came from the traditional set-backs exhibited by some of the city's earlier skyscrapers.

The facade is shrouded in 3,270 square meters of expanded aluminum, originally developed in the United Kingdom as a means of reinforcing roads. It was the first time this medium has been employed in the United States. The basement of the New Museum features a 188-seat theater.

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UN Studio - The New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion, New York

The New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion is a gift from the Netherlands to New York in honour of 400 years of friendship. The project was conceived by the Battery Conservancy to create an extraordinary 'outdoor living room' for spontaneous and scheduled activities, public markets, seating and shade, and a gleaming white, state-of-the-art pavilion for visitor information and delicious locally grown gourmet food. UNStudio's design creates a 5,000 square-foot, carefully programmed space located within Peter Minuit Plaza. This highly sculptural pavilion stands as a gateway to the park and waterfront, with an expressive, undulating roofline and curving walls; a compact building with the authority of a major landmark, evoking a flower opening to its surroundings.

 Today the park is the largest and most dynamic public place in Lower Manhattan. The New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion is made possible by a grant from the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to The Battery Conservancy and was developed in collaboration with the Parks Department and the Department of Transportation. The pavilion was designed by UNStudio, with Handel Architects LLP (New York) serving as associate architect. The Peter Minuit Plaza forms a rare park/transit meeting ground and defines a new era in public space design and construction. It weaves together trees, gardens, art, sculpture, food, and information with ferries, subways, buses, bikes, and pedestrians and forms an iconic, recognizable spot for residents and visitors alike. The new pavilion forms the centerpiece of the plaza.

UN Studio

Bjarke Ingels on The Next List.

Bjarke Ingels on Sanjay Gupta's CNN The Next List.

Driving Around New York City in 1928

How did the streets of New York look like in 1928, altogether with then a railroad, and now a famous park - High Line.

Aleksandar Grkinic - The City: Moments of New York City

Aleksandar spent a month in NYC in summer of 2011 and he's taken video sequences combined into one short view on New York City. Truly amazing video that captures the spirit of people of New York.

Music: Foals - Blue Blood

City Talk - High Line Section 3 / CUNY TV

City Talk is CUNY TV's forum for politics and public affairs. City Talk presents lively discussion of New York City issues, with the people that help make this city function hosted by Professor Doug Muzzio, co-director of the Center for the Study of Leadership in Government and the founder and former director of the Baruch College Survey Research Unit, both at Baruch College's School of Public Affairs.

Returning to City Talk once again are Joshua David and Robert Hammond, co-founders of Friends of the High Line, to discuss the plans for the last section of the park in the sky. Joining them is Dan Barasch, co-founder of the Delancey Underground, who explains his vision for turning the space, which was once a trolley terminal beneath Delancey Street, into a subterranean public park.

Guest List

Dan Barasch Co-Founder, The Delancey Underground

Joshua David Co-Founder, Friends of the High Line

Robert Hammond Co-Founder, Friends of the High Line

Prof. Douglas Muzzio Political Analyst, CUNY TV, Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College/CUNY

Original tape date: December 12, 2011.First aired: December 28, 2011.

Ben Mendelsohn - 60 Hudson Street / Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors

Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors
from Ben Mendelsohn
on Vimeo.

Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. This short documentary peeks inside, offering a glimpse of the massive material infrastructure that makes the Internet possible.

Featuring interviews with Stephen Graham, Saskia Sassen, Dave Timmes of Telx, Rich Miller of datacenterknowledge.com, Stephen Klenert of Atlantic Metro Communications, and Josh Wallace of the City of Palo Alto Utilities.

Sarah Klein and Tom Mason - Sub Cities

A films by Sarah Klein and Tom Mason
Concept by Jennifer McClory


A series that explores that moment of uncertainty and magic that happens when you emerge from the depths of the subway system.

© Redglass Pictures 2011, redglasspictures.com

Paris

Music by Duke Ellington

"Three years ago in Paris I got out of a "metro" train at La Concorde, and saw suddenly a beautiful face... I could not find any words that seemed to me worthy, or as lovely as that sudden emotion." - Ezra Pound

New York City

Music by Erik Satie