Tag: new york

December 14, 2015 at 5:03 pm

Picture of the Day: Mulberry Street, New York City 1900

Picture of the Day: Mulberry Street, New York City 1900

Old School Cool. Mulberry Street is a principal thoroughfare in Manhattan and often considered the heart of Manhattan’s Little Italy.

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July 14, 2015 at 10:26 pm

The Streets of New York from Above (10 Photos)

The Streets of New York from Above (10 Photos)

Photographer Navid Baraty peers down from perilous heights to show you what the streets of New York City look like from above.

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June 3, 2015 at 6:26 pm

Building One World Trade Center. 11 Years in 2 Minutes

Building One World Trade Center. 11 Years in 2 Minutes

Watch this amazing 11-year timelapse that shows the construction of One World Trade Center from October 2004 to Memorial Day 2015.

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April 21, 2015 at 9:57 am

Guy Buys Every Single Rose this Woman is Selling on One Condition:

Guy Buys Every Single Rose this Woman is Selling on One Condition:

That she spends the rest of the day handing them out for free to anyone that wants one 🙂

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April 20, 2015 at 7:11 pm

Elevator Walls Show the Evolution of New York’s Skyline as You Ride to the 102nd Floor of 1 WTC

Elevator Walls Show the Evolution of New York's Skyline as You Ride to the 102nd Floor of 1 WTC

The elevators to the observatory atop 1 World Trade Center show an animated timelapse that recreates the development of New York City’s skyline, from the 1500s to today.

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March 11, 2015 at 12:08 pm

Picture of the Day: Brooklyn Bridge Symmetry

Picture of the Day: Brooklyn Bridge Symmetry

Photograph by ClĂ©ment Belleudy The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet…

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February 17, 2015 at 7:26 pm

Picture of the Day: Times Square, D-Day, 1944

Picture of the Day: Times Square, D-Day, 1944

Photograph by Howard Hollem, Edward Meyer or MacLaugharie In this poignant photograph, people at Times Square in New York City are seen reading a news ticker about D-Day (Normandy landings), the largest seaborne invasion in history. D-Day occurred on 6 June 1944 when Allied forces targeted a 50-mile (80 km) stretch of Normandy, France…

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December 16, 2014 at 2:07 pm

What New York City Looks Like from the Rooftops of Buildings

What New York City Looks Like from the Rooftops of Buildings

Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov are two of the preeminent ‘rooftoppers’ in the world. Together they are On The Roofs; the duo gained notoriety earlier this year when their GoPro video of them scaling world’s second tallest building (Shanghai Tower) went viral. The Sifter has previously featured their amazing exploits (see here, here and…

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November 26, 2014 at 5:49 pm

Picture of the Day: New York Sunset from the GW Bridge, 1936

Picture of the Day: New York Sunset from the GW Bridge, 1936

Photograph by New York City Municipal Archives, WPA Federal Writers’ Project, Jack Rosenzwieg / AP In this beautiful black and white photo from 22 December 1936, a man looks across the Hudson River towards Manhattan from the New York tower of the George Washington Bridge. The photo is one of over 900,000 that are…

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October 27, 2014 at 5:34 pm

What a $95 Million View in New York Looks Like

What a $95 Million View in New York Looks Like

Photograph by Richard Berenholtz via CIM Group and Macklowe Properties At 1,396 ft, 432 Park Avenue, located between 56th and 57th street is the tallest residential building in New York as well as the entire Western Hemisphere. The building was designed by Rafael Vinoly and features 104 luxury residences with 12’6″ high ceilings and…

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