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The Easter Bunny Topiary. Channel Gardens, Rockefeller Center


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Kalustyan’s at 123 Lexington Avenue,one of the best places to shop for unique spices and hard-to-find ingredients, is in the buildig that was once owned by President Chester A. Arthur. He was sworn in as president there on September 20, 1881


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Two Ladies Liberty. Times Square


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LOOP,an interactive art installation in the Garment District that turns animated flipbook-esque movies into a sight to see by displaying them on large futuristic cylinders. This free installation is open to the public now through March 31.


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Naked Cowboy (real name: Robert John Burck) an American street performer in Times Square


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The Rink at Rockefeller Center was open on Christmas Day in 1936. Originnaly it was called "skating pond"


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The large bronze relief, by Wheeler Williams, a founder and president of the American Artist Professional League above the former flagship location of Parke-Bernet Galleries at 980 Madison Avenue


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30 Rockefeller Plaza,nicknamed 30 Rock, 16 Tallest in New York City, was completed in 1933 and is the centerpiece of the 19-tower Rockefeller Center complex.


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Albertine, a reading room and bookshop, the only bookshop in New York devoted solely to books in French, tucked inside the historic Payne Whitney mansion near Metropolitan Museum of Art.


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The Hans Christian Andersen statue in Central Park, erected in 1956 to commemorate the author's 150th birthday.On Saturdays all summer long since 1956, New York children have gathered around the statue to hear his tales told by a fine ensemble of storytellers


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The church of St. Margaret Mary. Brooklyn, one short block from Manhatten Beach and the ocean. March 22, 2018


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Juggling in Bryant Park on a snow day.The Bryant Park Jugglers use the park throughout the year almost every day.


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To celebrate her new book, IRIS APFEL: Accidental Icon, Bergdorf Goodman teamed up with Iris Apfel to create a pop-up shop and store windows Bergdorf Goodman,a luxury goods department store on Fifth Avenue, created store windows to celebrate a new book "Accidental Icon" by Iris Apfel,one of the great style icons of modern times.


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Stations of the Cross - a new, temporary artwork in the Trinity Church (Wall street) churchyard


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The LuEsther T. Mertz Library in New York Botanical Garden, one of the world's largest and most important botanical and horticultural research libraries.


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The Irish Hunger Memorial at the corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue in the Battery Park City represents a rural Irish landscape with an abandoned stone cottage, stone walls, fallow potato fields and the flora on the north Connacht wetlands.


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The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir is 40 feet deep and holds a billion gallons of water


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Orchid Show 2018 at New York Botanical garden. Palms of the World Gallery structure designed by Daniël Ost.


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The Immigrants by sculptor Luis Sanguino in Battery Park near Castle Clinton,which served as a processing facility for newly arrived immigrants from 1855 to 1890.The inscription on the base reads: "DEDICATED TO THE PEOPLE OF ALL NATIONS WHO ENTERED AMERICA THROUGH CASTLE GARDEN IN MEMORY OF SAMUEL RUDIN 1896-1975 WHOSE PARENTS ARRIVED IN AMERICA IN 1883"


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Cleopatra’s Needle, the oldest man-made construction in Central Park, was commissioned by Pharaoh Thutmosis III around 1450 BC in celebration of his 3rd jubilee, was gift from Egypt to Central Park in 1881.


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Tightrope Walker,an outdoor bronze sculpture by Dutch artist Kees Verkade, installed on Columbia University's Revson Plaza. It was created as a tribute to General William J. Donovan, a graduate of Columbia College,the commander of New York’s “Fighting 69th” regiment in the First World War.


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Bronx River, named after colonial settler Jonas Bronck,the only fresh water river in New York City, and a Stone Mill, built in 1840. New York Botanical garden.


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The Cornell Tech campus spans 12 acres on Roosevelt Island. Cornell Tech is anchored by the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, a joint academic venture between Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.


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Central Park, Conservatory Waters


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Sea of Light, 'Sensory' Art Installation at the South Street Seaport open every day through March 2018.


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The Maritime Hotel at 363 West 16th Street at Ninth Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. It has 120 rooms and 4 suites, all decorated in a nautical theme, in line with the porthole-inspired facade.

Read more about the history of this hotel here in my blog 
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Lewis G. Morris House at 1015 Park Avenue, built in 1913-14 as a private residence for Lewis Gouverneur Morris, a financier and descendent of Gouverneur Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence,


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SeaGlass Carousel in Battery Park opened in summer 2015. It took 10 years and $16 million —half in public funds, half in private to built it. Rides on the Seaglass Carousel cost $5 and last about three and a half minutes.


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Peter Caesar Alberti Marker at Battery Park honoring Pietro Cesare Alberti (1608–1655), the first Italian American immigrant to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam


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The Scholar's Lion at the Columbia's Univercity main campus in Morningside Heights. Presented on Dean's Day, April 3, 2004, in honor of Columbia's 250th anniversary by alumnus and sculptor Greg Wyatt.


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The curved condo at 520 West 28th Street, West Chelsea, with loft-Like condominiums , the first project in New York by world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid, the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize.


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      • Two Ladies Liberty. Times Square
      • LOOP,an interactive art installation in the Garme...
      • Naked Cowboy (real name: Robert John Burck) an Ame...
      • The Rink at Rockefeller Center was open on Christ...
      • The large bronze relief, by Wheeler Williams, a f...
      • 30 Rockefeller Plaza,nicknamed 30 Rock, 16 Tallest...
      • Albertine, a reading room and bookshop, the only b...
      • The Hans Christian Andersen statue in Central Park...
      • The church of St. Margaret Mary. Brooklyn, one sh...
      • Juggling in Bryant Park on a snow day.The Bryant P...
      • To celebrate her new book, IRIS APFEL: Accidental ...
      • Stations of the Cross - a new, temporary artwork i...
      • The LuEsther T. Mertz Library in New York Botanica...
      • The Irish Hunger Memorial at the corner of Vesey ...
      • The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir is 40 fee...
      • Orchid Show 2018 at New York Botanical garden. Pa...
      • The Immigrants by sculptor Luis Sanguino in Batter...
      • Cleopatra’s Needle, the oldest man-made constructi...
      • Tightrope Walker,an outdoor bronze sculpture by Du...
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      • Central Park, Conservatory Waters
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      • SeaGlass Carousel in Battery Park opened in summer...
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