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2013-12-11 &12-New York, NY-Christmas in the City

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Dec 18, 2013
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Grand Central Station

Grand Central Station-100 Years Old

Grand Central Station-The famous clock

Grand Central Station

Turnbull's dressed up for Christmas

Jack's building on Madison Ave.

Jack's building-Madison Ave

View uptown from Jack's building

Jack's neighborhood-East 80's

Jack's building-East 80s

Cafe Sabret--Sustaining NYC for generations

Park Avenue and 44th

The Helmsley and Met Life Buildings anchoring Park Ave.

St. Bart's-Park Ave

40 Rock from behind St. Patty's

St Patrick's Cathedral Youth Choir

St Patrick's Cathedral

Rockefeller Center in all its Christmas glory

Rock Center Christmas Tree

Angel-Rock Center

Angel-Rock Center

The kids are mesmerized by the Lego Store model of Rockefeller Center!

Lego depiction of a Rock Center motif

Rock Center skating rink

The heart of Rock Center at Christmas

Giant "Toy Soldier"-Rock Center

Giant "Toy Soldier"-Rock Center

Giant "Toy Soldier"-Rock Center

Mercury-Rock Center Skating Rink

Moon over Manhattan

Saks 5th Ave Window Display

Cartier Building-Wrapped for Christmas

Sleepy Hollow Irving Trust Society Christmas Dinner-Don-Retiring this month!

Sleepy Hollow Irving Trust Society Christmas Dinner: Andy-Heading Doral Bank's Risk Group

Sleepy Hollow Irving Trust Society Xmas Dinner: Bill, Retired Internatrional Banker Extraordinaire

The brains of Irving Trust's International Banking Group circa late 70's -early 80's

An outlaw and reprobate, wanted in many countries.

A beautiful woman surrounded by desperate characters

Big Daddy's- Haute Cuisine @ 2nd and 83rd, Jack's neighbornood

Jack's neighborhood-St. Elizabeth's

Grand Central decked out for Christmas

Looking down 57th Street from 42nd Street

The New York Public Library Lion "Fortitude", festooned in Christmas colors

The New York Public Library Lion "Patience", sporting Christmas colors

New York Public Library

Mural of the Flatiron Building -New York Public Library

New York Public Library

Map Room Detail-New York Public Library. Fully restored about Five Years ago

Map Room-New York Public Library

Map Room-New York Pubic Library

New York Pubic Library

Bank of America Tower, 1 Bryant Park

Bryant Park Skating Rink

Bryant Park Hotel, originally the American Radiator Building (The American Radiator Building (since renamed to the American Standard Building) is a landmark skyscraper located at 40 West 40th Street, in midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was conceived by the architects John Howells and Raymond Hood in 1924 and built for the American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Company. The structural form is based on Eliel Saarinen's unbuilt competition entry for the Tribune Tower, augmented with a strong use of color.The architects combined Gothic and modern styles in the design of the building. Black brick on the frontage of the building (symbolizing coal) was selected to give an idea of solidity and to give the building a solid mass. Other parts of the facade were covered in gold bricks (symbolizing fire), and the entry was decorated with marble and black mirrors.)

The Grace Building (L) from Bryant Park

The Princeton Ladies Christmas Luncheon, Bryant Park Grill

Astor Hall-The New York Public Library foyer

McGraw Rotunda, New York Public Library

New York Public Library

Main Reading Room, New York Public Library

New York Public Library

New York Public Library

Lord and Taylor- Christmas Window Display

Lord and Taylor- Christmas Window Display

Lord and Taylor- Christmas Window Display

Lord and Taylor-Shoppers admiring a Christmas window display

The Salvation Army faitfully raising money for the poor for generations

Lord and Taylor HQ

Quite the skirt

Miricle on 34th Street

Macy's Flagship on Herald Square at 34th Street

Macy's Christmas Window Display

The Empire State Building

The Empire State Building from Herald Square

A mime near the crosstown subway shuttle

Ironic-An NYPD Traffic Safety vehicle

Grand Central Station

The Chrysler Building

The Empire State Building

The George Washington Bridge

Convent on the Palisades- NJ Side of the Hudson River

The mighty Hudson and the Palisades from Fort Tryon Park, Upper Manhattan

George Washington Bridge from Fort Tryon Park

Unexpected color in mid-December-Fort Tryon Park, NYC

Fort Tryon Park

Convent on the Palisades, west bank of the Hudson River

The Cloisters from Fort Tryon Park (The Cloisters is a museum located in Fort Tryon Park, Washington Heights, New York City. The building, which is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was built in the 1930s resembling architectural elements of several European medieval abbeys. It is used to exhibit art and architecture from Medieval Europe.)

Fort Tryon Park, Washington Heights, Upper Manhattan

Fort Tryon Park (Fort Tryon Park is a public park located in the Hudson Heights, Washington Heights and Inwood neighborhoods of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is situated on a 67 acres ridge in Upper Manhattan, with a commanding view of the Hudson River, the George Washington Bridge, the New Jersey Palisades and the Harlem River. The park was the creation of philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who in 1917 began to buy up the county estates in the area where the Battle of Fort Washington was fought in the American Revolutionary War, in order to create a park. He engaged the Olmsted Brothers firm – formed by the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, step-brothers John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. – to design the park, and gave it to the city in 1931. The park was completed in 1935.)

The Cloisters Museum of Medieval Art, a division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (John D. Rockefeller purchased sculptor George Gray Barnard's collection of medieval art and gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which from 1934-1939 built The Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park to house it. The Cloisters, which was designed by Charles Collens, incorporates several medieval buildings that were purchased in Europe, brought to the United States, and reassembled, often stone by stone. It is home to the Unicorn Tapestries.)

The Cloisters-Dragon Fresco

The Cloisters-Romanesque Hall

The Cloisters-Romanesque Chapel

The Cloisters-Romanesque Chapel

The Cloisters-Festooned for Christmas

The Cloisters-Arched, vaulted ceiling

The Cloisters-Festooned for Christmas

The Cloisters-Tenth Century stained glass

The Cloisters-Medieval Virgin and Child

The Cloisters-Medieval Bishop

The Cloisters-A Knight's sarcophagus

The Cloisters-The famous unicorn tapestry (The Hunt of the Unicorn, often referred to as the Unicorn Tapestries, is a series of seven tapestries dating from between 1495 and 1505, now in The Cloisters in New York. The tapestries show a group of noblemen and hunters in pursuit of a unicorn. It is believed the tapestries were made in the Southern Netherlands. The Hunt for the Unicorn was a common theme in late medieval and renaissance works of art and literature. The tapestries were woven in wool, metallic threads, and silk. The vibrant colors, still evident today, were produced with three dye plants: weld (yellow), madder (red), and woad (blue). One of the panels, the tapestry called The Mystic Capture of the Unicorn, only survives in two fragments.)

The Cloisters-The famous unicorn tapestry (The tapestries were owned by the La Rochefoucauld family of France for several centuries, with first mention of them showing up in the family's 1728 inventory. At that time five of the tapestries were hanging in a the chateau's bedroom and two were stored in a hall adjacent to the chapel. During the French Revolution the tapestries were looted from the chateau and reportedly were used to cover potatoes – a period during which they apparently sustained damage. By the end of the 1880's they were again in the possession of the family. A visitor to the chateau described them as quaint 15th century wall hangings, yet showing "incomparable freshness and grace". The same visitor records the set as consisting of seven pieces, though one was by that time in fragments and being used as bed curtains.John D. Rockefeller, Jr. bought them in 1922 for about one million United States dollars. Six of the tapestries hung in Rockefeller's house until The Cloisters was built when he donated them to the Metropolitan Museum.)

The Cloisters-Medieval busts of female saints

The Cloisters-Center Panel of the famous Annunciation Triptych (The Annunciation Triptych displays the hallmarks of the emergent Early Netherlandish style. A fascination with the natural world dominates. The smallest details are meticulously worked to reflect reality on a two-dimensional plane. Illusionistic effects are enhanced by the technical innovation of overlaying translucent oil pigments on aqueous opaque pigments. The resulting luminous, enamel-like surface achieves apparent depth, rich gradations of light, and a broad distribution of color values.)

The Cloisters-The famous Annunciation Triptych

The Cloisters-Rosary Bead carved in minute, intracate detail-Dutch, Early 1500s (Rosary beads, miniature altars, and other small devotional objects produced in Brabant in the early 16th century inspire awe by the detail and minuteness of their carving. Produced in relatively large numbers, these rosary beads were carved of many pieces of fine-grained boxwood which were then fitted together, presumably with the aid of a magnifying glass. On the outside of this bead is the crown of thorns among pierced Gothic arches and circles accompanied by biblical inscriptions. The upper interior depicts Adam and Eve and the tree of knowledge when closed; when opened, a triptych is formed, with depictions of, on the left, the Journey to Nazareth and the Nativity; in the center, the Journey and the Adoration of the Kings in the background; and, on the right, the Presentation and the Offering of Doves. In the lower half is the Crucifixion with ancillary scenes of the Agony in the Garden and Peter cutting off the ear of Malachus.)

The Cloisters-Medieval Jewel studded Cross

The Cloisters-Dressed up for Christmas

Street Art near City College

Main Gate-City College of New York (The City College of the City University of New York (known more commonly as the City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City) is a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning. City College's thirty-five acre Manhattan campus along Convent Avenue from 130th Street to 141st Street. is on a hill overlooking Harlem; its neo-Gothic campus was mostly designed by George Browne Post, and many of its buildings are landmarks.CCNY was the first free public institution of higher education in the United States[4] and is considered the flagship campus of the CUNY public university system.[5])

City College of New York

Crest: City College of New York

Main Gate-City College of New York

Gargoyle-City College of New York

Gargoyle-City College of New York

City College of New York

Late afternoon sun lights up City College

Shepard Hall, City College (Shepard Hall, the largest building and the centerpiece of the campus, was modeled after a Gothic cathedral plan with its main entrance on St. Nicholas Terrace. It has a large chapel assembly hall called the Great Hall, which has a mural painted by Edwin Blashfield called "The Graduate.)

City College's gothic spires

Interior-Shepard Hall, City College

The Great Hall inside Shepard Hall, City College

The Great Hall, interior of Shepard Hall, City College

The Great Hall inside Shepard Hall, City College- Mural painted by Edwin Blash titled "The Graduate"

The Great Hall inside shepard Hall, City College- Mural painted by Edwin Blash titled "The Graduate"

145 West 81st Street-my home in the late 70's

West 81st Street-My old neighborhood

Metropolitan Museum of Art-Quit while your ahead, Medussa

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The famous Angel Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche, Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Museum continues a longstanding holiday tradition with the presentation of its Christmas tree, a favorite of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. A vivid eighteenth-century Neapolitan Nativity scene—embellished with a profuse array of diminutive, lifelike attendant figures and silk-robed angels hovering above—adorns the candlelit spruce. Recorded music and lighting ceremonies add to the enjoyment of the holiday display.)

Neapolitan Baroque Crèche detail, at the Met

Angel Tree Detail-The Magi

Angel Tree Detail

Angel Tree Detail-Angels on high

Angel Tree Detail

Angel Tree Detail

The Medieval Hall featuring the Angel Tree at Christmastime

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

View from the rooftop of Laurie's and Paul's building on the upper West Side

Broadway from the rooftop of Laurie's and Paul's building on the upper West Side

Empire State Building and Bank of America spires from the rooftop of Laurie's and Paul's building

George Washington Bridge from the rooftop of Laurie's and Paul's building

Dinner with Jack at this popular Peruvian Restaurant on Amsterdam Ave

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