New York City Landmarks

by Rajs, Jake; Morrone, Francis

• ISBN13: 9781851496693
• ISBN10: 1851496696
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-16
• Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Ltd

Summary

In this book, Jake Rajs' amazing eye has captured seventy-five of New York City's most-celebrated landmarks in ways never seen before. Each image is accompanied by a short text, written by Francis Morrone, offering the full details of the monument - the

Table of Contents

Statue of Liberty	p. 14
Ellis Island	p. 20
Museum of Jewish Heritage	p. 24
The Winter Garden	p. 26
Ground Zero	p. 30
Federal Hall National Memorial	p. 36
Wall Street, New York Stock Exchange & Trinity Church	p. 38
South Street Seaport	p. 42
Skyscraper Museum	p. 46
Brooklyn Bridge	p. 48
African Burial Ground	p. 54
Woolworth Building	p. 56
8 Spruce Street	p. 58
Chinatown	p. 60
SoHo Cast Iron District	p. 62
Lower East Side: Tenement Museum, Eldridge Street Synagogue, Katz's Delicatessen	p. 64
The New Museum of Contemporary Art	p. 68
Cooper Union	p. 70
Washington Square Arch	p. 72
Jefferson Market Courthouse	p. 76
Flatiron Building	p. 78
Chelsea Piers	p. 80
IAC Building	p. 82
100 Eleventh Avenue	p. 83
The High Line	p. 84
Empire State Building	p. 88
The Morgan Library	p. 92
Times Square (and Father Duffy Square)	p. 96
New York Public Library	p. 98
Grand Central Terminal	p. 102
Metlife Building	p. 106
Chrysler Building	p. 108
The United Nations Headquarters	p. 112
New York Yacht Club	p. 116
Radio City Music Hall	p. 118
Rockefeller Center & GE Building	p. 120
Saint Patrick's Cathedral	p. 124
Villard Houses & New York Palace Hotel	p. 128
21 Club	p. 130
Central Synagogue	p. 132
Citicorp Center	p. 134
Lever House & Park Avenue	p. 136
Sony Building	p. 138
Paley Park	p. 140
MoMA	p. 142
Tiffany & Co	p. 146
Trump Tower	p. 146
The Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge	p. 148
Plaza Hotel & Pulitzer Fountain	p. 150
Apple Store	p. 154
Central Park & Bethesda Fountain	p. 156
Hearst Tower	p. 162
Columbus Circle: Time Warner Center, Museum of Arts & Design	p. 164
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts	p. 168
The Dakota	p. 172
The Ansonia Hotel	p. 176
American Museum of Natural History	p. 178
Rose Center for Earth and Space	p. 180
The Frick Collection	p. 182
Whitney Museum	p. 184
The Metropolitan Museum of Art	p. 186
Neue Galerie	p. 192
The Jewish Museum	p. 194
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (Andrew Carnegie Mansion)	p. 196
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum	p. 198
Riverside Park	p. 202
Cathedral of St John the Divine	p. 206
Riverside Church	p. 208
Apollo Theater	p. 210
Strivers' Row	p. 212
The Cloisters	p. 214
George Washington Bridge	p. 216
Yankee Stadium	p. 220
New York Botanical Garden and Bronx Zoo	p. 224
Arthur Ashe Stadium & Citi Field	p. 226
Brooklyn Museum	p. 228
Brooklyn Botanic Garden	p. 230
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge & Marathon	p. 232
Index	p. 235
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