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South Williamsburg, 1980

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South Williamsburg, 1980

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Aerial view of South Williamsburg and the Williamsburg Bridge with the Lower Manhattan skyline in the background. Circa 1980.

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Stormy City - dense clouds cover #Midtown in 1950 with the Waldorf Astoria, GE and Chrysler Buildings in the distance. Tap to view in high res or purchase a fine-art print from our website.
Grand Central’s Lost Theater The ceiling and mural in @CentralCellars, the Grand Central wine shop are all that remain of the Newsreel Theater that operated inside of Grand Central Terminal for three decades starting in 1937. Located near track 17, the Art Moderne-style theater had a grand lobby and lounge with a star-covered mural, and a 242-seat theater. Next to the screen was an incandescent clock that reminded people of the time as to not miss their train. There was also standing room in the back with a small bar.
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Floor plans, sections, and an illustration showing the stacks at the New York Public Library. When the library opened in 1911 the skeleton bookcases were the largest in the world, holding 4,500,000 volumes! If laid end to end, the shelves would reach from New York to Philadelphia! The main stacks are made up of seven levels, each 7' 6" tall with deck floors of 1 1/2" marble. The main stack contains 98,000 adjustable and 16,000 fixed shelves. In addition to the original stacks is an extension under Bryant Park, which extends all the way back to the fountain and features compact shelving so more books can fit. The stacks connect to the library using a 62-foot long tunnel. Recently the library installed a new conveyor belt system that allows researchers to retrieve books from the stacks under the Bryan Park green in just minutes. But this isn't even enough space for the entire collection, and NYPL has an offsite facility in Princeton New Jersey that holds another three million items. Previously the library organized the books by subject, but to make more efficient use of the space and to eliminate the need for shifting books as new materials arrive, they now organize by size and year of acquisition. Today the collection contains over 15 million items!
An airport 🛫 in Manhattan? Today we're looking at three unsuccessful proposals to add airports to Manhattan's dense urban fabric that seem pretty insane today. 1) This quickly forgotten proposal to build airstrips in Midtown chose the roof of the original Penn Station and General Post Office as their site. By bridging over 8th Avenue, the proposal by Hamilton Wright would have created two-avenue long landing strips for airplanes in Midtown. (circa 1930s) 2) In 1932 Norman Bel Geddes proposed building a floating airport just south of the Battery in the center of New York Harbor. To get to and from Geddes' rotary airport, passengers would travel in an 800-foot-long moving walkway below the harbor! 3) A 1946 plan in Life Magazine featured an airport planning for Manhattan's wesrt side, 200 feet above street level covering 144 square blocks from Broadway to the Hudson and 24th to 71st Streets. The top deck of runways would be as big as Central Park and cover "a series of buildings ten stories high, topped by a vast hangar deck." The project was estimated to cost $3 Billion and was proposed by real estate developer William Zeckendorf. It would definitely be nice to have an airport closer to Manhattan, but these proposals are pretty wild! What do you think? ✈️
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