Thomas H. Caldwell » NYC

Good Friday visit to New York City

THC — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:32:38 +0000

Lower Manhattan and Jersey City skylines from New Jersey.

From a distance One World Trade Center (nearing completion) is clearly the tallest building in the neighborhood.

The large boxy building on the left is 30 Hudson Street (aka Goldman Sachs Tower) located in Jersey City. Just to the right of GST is One World Trade Center which looks less impossing due to its greater distance.

This Jersey City skyline photo includes 30 Hudson Street (at 781 ft, it’s the tallest building in New Jersey).

Panorama.

Presidents’ Day Weekend Trip (New York City portion)

THC — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:46:30 +0000

The following photos were taken on a 4-day trip to visit two of my three children, Sarah in Manhattan and Steve in the Boston area. Unfortunately Mike could not be included since he lives in Beijing, China.

A rising One World Trade Center as seen from the New Jersey Turnpike. The Pulaski Skyway is in the middle distance.

The Lipstick Building (left) stands at the intersection of 3rd Avenue and 53rd Street.

Same intersection at night.

Citibank Building rests on supercolumns. A student’s question lead William LeMessurier, the building’s designer, to realize that there were some serious design and construction flaws in the the new building (strong quartering winds could blow the building over). As a result, workers were hired to secretly repaired the structure and a future disaster was made less likely. It was many years before the public became aware of this cautionary tale. In other words, I wouldn’t plan on being in NYC during a catagory 5 hurricane.

Citibank Geometry.

Citibank Building does some skyscraping.

In the center is the Sony Building ( formerly AT&T Building) which is also known as the Chippendale Building. Philip Johnson and John Burgee were the architects of this 1984 structure.

599 Lexington Avenue, The Benjamin Hotel, Marriott East Side Hotel (formerly Shelton Towers Hotel), and Chrysler Building.

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel turret with General Electric Building in foreground.

Temple Ahawath Chesed SH (second from left).

100 United Nations Plaza Tower with Trump (where have I heard that name before?) World Tower in the background.

Off to Boston.

Easter Monday 2011

THC — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:25:56 +0000

The Lipstick Building reflects light from nearby star.

It’s a short walk from 2nd Avenue and 53rd Street to The Campanile Apartments (far left) at 450 East 52nd Street. Greta Garbo lived in an apartment on the fifth floor of this building from 1953 until her death in 1990.

Front entrance at Greta Garbo’s Manhattan apartment building (The Campanile Apartments).

On the way back fog moves in from the East River and the Lipstick Building looks different.