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Statue of Liberty. View form the ferry to Liberty & Ellis Islands.


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The gilded-bronze equestrian group statue by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens serves as the centerpiece of Manhattan's Grand Army Plaza. It depicts one of the United States' best-known generals, William Tecumseh Sherman (1820 – 1891)


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Metronome, a large public art installation located along the south end of Union Square. If the clock reads 122411079..... it means that it is 12:24 P.M. (12 hours and 24 minutes 11 seconds since midnight)


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Annual Lunar New Year Parade in Chinatown, New York City.

February 2017
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Life Force (1988 ) by David Bakalar at Columbia University Campus, on the plaza that stretches over Amsterdam Avenue. The sculpture was given to the school by an anonymous donor.


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Apartment building at 218 Grand Street in China Town, built in 1900


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Villard Houses, at 455 Madison Avenue between 50th and 51st Street in Manhattan, constructed in 1884. Now Lotte New York Palace Hotel is housed in the houses and an adjacent modern 55-story skyscraper.


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Headquarters for Barry Diller’s Interactive Corporation, the IAC building, designed by Frank Gehry and completed in 2007. Behind it is the Chelsea Nouvel, a condominium designed by architect Jean Nouvel. View from the High Line, a public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side.


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Cemetery at St. Paul's Church National Historic Site, on Broadway just south forn City Hall Park, is one of the oldest, continuously used burial yards in US with gravestones dating to 1704.


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Oculus by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava at the World Trade Center. Two rows of white steel ribs that curve around each side, create an eye shape in plan.


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31-foot-tall Rose Crystal Tower at Union Square by the world-renowned American glass sculptor Dale Chihuly. On display through October 2018.


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Great Hall of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, designed by the architect Richard Morris Hunt, who was one of the founding trustees of the Metropolitan. Metropolitan Museum receives a new shipment of flowers every Monday.


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Sphinx Joachim by the young sculptor Marguerite Humeau (b. 1986, France). Equipped with motion detectors, it roars as an alarm every time it senses a human presence. High Line, elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail on the west side of Manhattan


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The reflection in the windows of Millenium Hilton, that is located across the street of Oculus, 9/11 Memorial and Museum, and One World Observatory


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Happy Valentine's Day! “LOVE red blue” by Robert Indiana at 6th Avenue and 54th street.


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86th Street, a new station on the first phase of the Second Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, officially opened to the public at noon on Jan. 1, 2017.


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Puck Building, the longtime home of Puck magazine, in the Nolita neighborhood of Manhattan with a gilded statues of Shakespeare's character Puck.


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Katz's Delicatessen, a kosher-style deli, founded in 1888, on the southwest corner of Houston and Ludlow Streets on the Lower East Side in Manhattan.

Read more  about the deli in my blog
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Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, built under the initiative of John D. Rockefeller III during Robert Moses' program of urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s. The view from inside.


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The restored historic Eldridge Street Synagogue in Chinatown (1887), one of the first synagogues erected in the United States by Eastern European Jews

Read about Eldridge Street Synagogue in my blog 
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View from the Top of the Rock Observation Deck, located on the 70th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza


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"Reclining Figure" by Henry Moore(1965) reflecting in the Paul Milstein Pool and Terrace of Lincoln Center Plaza.


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A statue of the cartoon character Bart Simpson by Nancy Cartwright, the actress who provides his voice, outside of News Corp. headquarters in Midtown


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Group of Four Trees (1972) by Jean Dubuffet,French painter and sculptor, made of synthetic plastic over an aluminum frame. Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza.


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The Museum of Jewish Heritage, Battery Park City, has collection that contains more than 25,000 items relating to modern Jewish history and the Holocaust.


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The bronze larger-than-life-sized statue of Hans Christian Andersen reading his book "The Ugly Duckling" in Central Park, on the west side of the Conservatory Pond north of the East 72nd Street entrance to Central Park.


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Prometheus, the 18-foot-tall, eight-ton, gilded cast bronze sculpture created by Paul Manship in 1934, is the best-known sculpture in Rockefeller Center and is the most photographed monumental sculpture in all of New York City.

Read about the statue in my blog
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The American Radiator Building ( Bryant Park Hotel now), a landmark skyscraper ( built in 1924) located at 40 West 40th Street near Brtyant Park and Empire State Building.


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      • Statue of Liberty. View form the ferry to Libert...
      • The gilded-bronze equestrian group statue by scu...
      • Metronome, a large public art installation located...
      • Annual Lunar New Year Parade in Chinatown, New Yor...
      • Life Force (1988 ) by David Bakalar at Columbia Un...
      • Apartment building at 218 Grand Street in China T...
      • Villard Houses, at 455 Madison Avenue between 50t...
      • Headquarters for Barry Diller’s Interactive Corpor...
      • Cemetery at St. Paul's Church National Historic Si...
      • Oculus by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava at ...
      • 31-foot-tall Rose Crystal Tower at Union Square by...
      • Great Hall of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Ne...
      • Sphinx Joachim by the young sculptor Marguerite...
      • The reflection in the windows of Millenium Hilto...
      • Happy Valentine's Day! “LOVE red blue” by Rober...
      • 86th Street, a new station on the first phase o...
      • Puck Building, the longtime home of Puck magazine,...
      • Katz's Delicatessen, a kosher-style deli, founded...
      • Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for...
      • The restored historic Eldridge Street Synagogue in...
      • View from the Top of the Rock Observation Deck, l...
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