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The Clocktower currently serves as a federal office building. It houses numerous federal institutions that are too boring to list. However, the Clocktower also has a more dynamic and interesting history. In the 70’s, PS1 director Alanna Heiss decided to open her first alternative art space in... more

An enduring New York icon, the Brooklyn Bridge is undoubtedly the most poignant vista in the five boroughs--a magnificent achievement of nineteenth century engineering, a symbol of that era's rapid, pre-skyscraper, growth, of the uneasy but everlasting brotherhood of rival boroughs, muse to poets... more

This is the closest twenty-first century New York comes to the early twentieth century boho glamour of the Chelsea Hotel, a gorgeous gilded-age high rise outfitted with high-end facilities, amenities, and accoutrements, and dedicated to the business of film and television. Though there are some... more

The last great achievement of the valuable, if much derided, scrub-New-York-till-it's-safe-all-over Rudy Giuliani era, Hudson River Park is the evolving result of the still-continuing effort by the city to revitalize and rehabilitate what was once the city's embarrassing, fetid, decrepit coastline... more

The headquarters for the boys in blue is one of the most interesting examples of 70’s brutalist architecture at work. The building was built in 1973 to house the main offices for the New York Police Department. The address of the building, One Police Plaza, was made moderately famous in a 1986... more

This beaux-arts masterpiece is one of the many New York City landmarks located in Lower Manhattan. The granite and steel edifice took eight years to build and was finally finished in 1907. The “most Parisian” building in New York was originally designed to house the Hall of Records. However,... more