Tag: New York City

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The composer Alex Weiser follows up his Pulitzer Prize-nominated debut album and all the days were purple - which set poetry to music from the lider of Anna Margolin and her fellow Yiddish poets Edward Hirsch, Rachel Korn and Abraham Sutzkever to William Carlos Williams and Emily Dickinson who spoke on the transience of love and life, featuring the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmzc8QHALA4 Back in 2014, the designer Thomas Heatherwick unveiled plans for a floating island park at Pier 55 on the Hudson River. Conceived as a 'treasure island' with an undulating topography, dense foliage, and public spaces for performance, the artificial island would replace the dilapidated Pier 55 and adjacent Pier 54, where the RMS Carpathia once docked carrying the survivors...

By the turn of the twentieth century, the Turtle Bay neighbourhood on the east side of Midtown Manhattan was a 'riverside back yard' for the city of New York. Imposing brownstones and squalid tenement housing butted up against the breweries, gasworks, and slaughterhouses which lined the waterfront. Eventually the waterfront would be reshaped by the United Nations headquarters, with dozens of diplomatic missions...