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I have no other method to talk about New York than showing you what I love there. The great city is the only refuge against intolerance and puritan inquisition. All American life is an emotion machine, and there is more emotion on one single day in Broadway than in all the American States together.
Paul Morand – New York – 1929.
Paul Morand – New York – 1929.
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Grant's Tomb |
Uptown
The northern part of the island. Less visited, yet it still deserves a visit for its two ancient houses, for its vast park on the hills, dominating the Hudson Valley, and for its fabulous Roman Cloisters brought by a passionate collector from Southern France, reconstructed here stone by stone. Mor... [ + ] |
The Majestic Apartments |
Upper West Side
A quarter that used to be mostly disadvantaged, it had been a sinister place between the crisis in 1929 and the 1970s, Upper West Side was, at the second half of the 20th century, an object of a politic of great works destined to eradicate the misery bags. At that time, the district acquired a repu... [ + ] |
Imagine - A Tribute to John Lennon |
Central Park
In the heart of the city, a huge park made according to the
tradition of English gardens. An urban wonder of the world, created
from the beginning of 1857 by Frederic Law Olmsted. It's the green lung of
the megapolis, a place to walk on sunny Sunday mornings, a natural
space where a number o... [ + ] |
Jewish Museum |
Upper East Side
Since 1880, Upper East Side has been the chic quarter of Manhattan. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the area has seen the growth of luxurious buildings, grandiose residential palaces and even real small castles owned by the New Yorker business tycoons, rich industrialists and the famous fa... [ + ] |
Grand Central Station |
Midtown
Midtown is the squared part of the island comprising Central Park in the north and Madison Square Park in the south, between the 26th and the 6th Streets. The almost-centre axe of this middle part of Manhattan is none other than the elegant Fifth Avenue, extending from the North Manhattan, near Har... [ + ] |
Terrace on the 5th Avenue |
Rockefeller Center
On a space as large as 15 acres (6 hectares) located between the 58th and the 51st Streets, and the 5th and the 6th Avenues, an ensemble of 14 skyscrapers were erected in the 1930s, known as the Rockefeller Center, constituting then a real urban ensemble in the heart of Manhattan. A work of archite... [ + ] |
ESB from East River |
Midtown South
To simplify the navigation we’ve divided Midtown into two parts : Midtown and Midtown South, starting from the crossroad of Times Square. Here, you wil discover the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building, the Madison Square Garden, the NY Public Library and Union Square. [ + ] |
Le relais Hertzien |
Empire State Building
Of a height of 381 m (1,250 feet), the ESB counts 102 floors (comprising of 85 floors of offices) illuminated by 6,500 windows, with 1,860 stairs and 73 elevators (six of which reserved for wares). It held its title as the world’s highest building until the 1970s. After 911 and the WTC Twin Tower ... [ + ] |
Washington Square Arch |
Greenwich Village
Built on the marshes beside Hudson River, the quarter distinguish itself from the rest of the city through its check pattern map resulted from the winding track that joins the bed of old waterflows. From the 1920s, Greenwich Village becomes the refuge of bohemian literary and arts. Novelists O’Hen... [ + ] |
Galleries |
Soho et Tribeca
Contraction of South Houston, while it’s located in the south of Houston Street. The district remained rural until the 18th century. A canal limited it in the south. Polluted and nauseating, it was changed at the beginning of the 19th century. Only the souvenir of Canal Street remains. The name... [ + ] |
Chinatown Restaurant |
Little Italy et Chinatown
In the 19th century, the limits of Little Italy had been a lot bigger than they are at the present day, and the Italian community, whose members reached 120,000 at the beginning of the 20th century, was also very dominant in the West Village. Chinatown extends systematically from Broadway in the we... [ + ] |
Canal Street - DKNY Mural |
Lower East Side
A wide area covering all the southeast part of the island, The Lower East Side extends from the south of the 14th Street to the South Street Seaport, and from the East River to Broadway, thus including within its territory Chinatown, Little Italy, Soho, Noho and the East Village. These quarters hav... [ + ] |
Brooklyn Bridge |
Downtown - Financial District
Battery Park, simply called The Battery by the New Yorkers, extends on the southernmost point of Manhattan. A magnificent esplanade allowing you to walk along the Upper Bay of New York. It had been here, indeed, that the first Dutch colonies settled down in the 16th Century. Wall Street, a narrow... [ + ] |
Statue of Liberty |
Upper New York Bay
On a 8 km long track, the famous Staten Island Ferry connects the southernmost point of Manhattan to St. George, on Staten Island. A very frequented track not only by commuting New Yorkers but also by tourists wanting to take the marvelous promenade in the Upper New York Bay. [ + ] |