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#MapMondays! 1642 Map of New Amsterdam (today's Downtown Manhattan). The map inscription reads "Map of Original Grants of Village Lots from the Dutch West India Company to the Inhabitants of New-Amsterdam, (Now New-York.) lying below the present line of Wall Street." The waterline shown on the map is drastically different from today's landfilled shoreline, with Pearl Street (named from the pearly oyster shells that lined the shores) to the east and Greenwich Street to the west. The northern border of New Amsterdam was Wall Street, named after a physical wall built to protect the colony from Native Americans. North of the wall was mainly farms and small villages, such as Greenwich Village and the Village of Harlem.
#newamsterdam #mapmonday #cartography #historicmap #downtownmanhattan #wallstreet #colonialnewyork #fortamsterdam #wallstreet #pearlstreetnyc #greenwichstreetnyc #dutchwestindiacompany #map #nychistory

"Life Underground" the permanent public art installation by sculptor Tom Otterness in 2001 for the 14th Street – Eighth Avenue subway station (A, C, E , and L trains). The installation features miniature bronze figures in various scenes scattered around the station. One of the most well known of these scenes is a sewer alligator snatching a small child. 🐊 Otterness has stated the statues “scattered in little surprises" around the station represent "the impossibility of understanding life in New York."
What is your favorite public art installation in NYC? Comment below.

🤔 Did you know Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza library and Botanic Gardens were built over a reservoir?

The Mount Prospect Reservoir at Grand Army Plaza, circa 1900 (second photo, 1913). The reservoir was built in the late 1850s at the second highest point in Brooklyn and supplied water for the borough before consolidation into greater New York City. Once #Brooklyn became part of #NYC they no longer needed their own water system and in 1911 the reservoir was filled and construction began on a new Beaux-Arts public library that would rival the one being built in #Manhattan on 42nd and 5th at the site of the former #CrotonReservoir.
Political debates and rising costs soon delayed the project, and by 1930 only a third of the building, the #Flatbush wing, was completed! In 1935 the library scrapped the project and brought in new architects, Githens and Keally, who stripped the partially completed structure of its ornament, instead proposing to build a more modern building. The library was completed in 1941 and featured an enormous central entrance glittered with gold surrounded by a blank, unadorned limestone facade.

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Photographs of NYC by Andreas Feininger 📸

As a staff photographer for the popular weekly American news magazine Life from 1943 to 1962, during the years of its greatest cultural influence, Andreas Feininger created photographic essays that often reached more than ten million people a week. The son of the #painter Lyonel Feininger, Andreas Feininger (1906-1999) received his arts education at the Bauhaus (1925-1927). Upon moving to New York City in 1939, he specialized in architectural #photography. In both his affinity for the subject and his #modernist aesthetics, Feininger became the leading photographer of the #Manhattan #skyline in the postwar years, communicating the city’s density and intensity, day and night, in both stark and atmospheric black-and-white images.

#Feininger employed a special telephoto lens that allowed him to shoot from a distance of three to seven miles. He explained in a 1983 BBC interview: “I found that the farther away you go, the more monumental the buildings look.... Without this kind of scale, I feel you lose part of what’s essential and only the telephoto lens can bring it out, because it doesn’t distort.” Feininger collected his photographs in a series of books, both on New York City and on the art and techniques of photography, including The Face of New York.

This windowless skyscraper was designed to resist a nuclear fallout – self-sufficient for 1,500 people for two weeks, with 250,000 gallons of fuel to power generators, water, and food for the occupants.

33 Thomas Street, also known as the AT&T Long Lines Building is one of Manhattan's most unusual skyscrapers - a building made for machines, not people. Designed by architect John Carl Warnecke in 1969 for AT&T, 33 Thomas is 550 feet tall, clad in flame-retardant red granite panels, placed over precast concrete slabs. The building’s stepped massing, extruded volumes, and uniform rugged materiality represent the hallmarks of brutalist architecture.

Inside, 33 Thomas houses an important telecommunications hub, which was the worlds largest long-distance phone call processing center when it was built.
In addition one of the major "4ESS switches" in the skyscraper acts as an "international gateway" for long-distance traffic. A recent investigation by The Intercept exposed the telephone switches inside 33 Thomas have come under the control of the National Security Agency. Today, the mysterious building is one of the most important surveillance sites in the United States. To read more about the history of the skyscraper and about its role in the NSA, visit Brutal NYC our survey on brutalist architecture in New York City. nycurbanism.com/brutalnyc (link in bio)

#Brutalism #Brutalnyc #brutalist_architecture #brutalismo #brutalist #modernarchitecture #tribeca #urbanism

Limited Edition 'Game Of Thrones' MetroCards will be available At Grand Central starting Tuesday next week. There will be only a quarter million printed of the four designs (above) so get yours before they sell out! #GameofThrones #GoTmetrocard #MTA @mtaartsdesign @mta_subways

The city’s (future) tallest skyscraper (@centralparktower), most expensive house (@one57) and the skinniest skyscraper (@111w57) rising along 57th Street at the south end of Central Park. 📸 NYC Urbanism team member @mchlanglo793

#MapMondays! 1915 advertisement for Long Island City land auction.

#MapMonday #maps #cartography #queensny #licnyc #astoria #nychistory #realestate #realestatehistory #urbanism

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