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The thirty-eight urban gems covered here range from newly created
linear spaces along the water's edge, such as Brooklyn Bridge Park
and the East River Waterfront Esplanade, to revitalized squares and
circles, such as those at Gansevoort Plaza in the Meatpacking
District and Columbus Circle, to repurposed open spaces like the
freight tracks, now the High Line, and Concrete Plant Park in the
Bronx. Readers can discover midtown atriums, mingle with the crowds
in Union Square, travel offshore to nearby Governors Island, and
enjoy the vistas of historic Green-Wood Cemetery. Pete Hamill
writes in his foreword, "I've . . . made a list of new places I
must visit while there is time. With any luck at all, I'll see all
of them. I hope you, the reader, can find the time too." Concise
descriptions, helpful maps, and vivid photographs capture the New
York urban scene.
The New York Public Library, one of the nation's architectural
wonders, is possibly our finest classical building. Designed by
John Merven Carrere and Thomas Hastings, and inspired by the great
classical buildings in Paris and Rome, it was completed in 1911.
The library boasts a magnificent exterior, but that is only the
beginning. In the interior, one splendid hall follows another, an
awesome gallery leads to richly decorated rooms, and stairways are
vaulted in marble. From the terrace to the breathtaking Main
Reading Room is a triumphal way. All the devices of the classical
tradition, the main artistic current of Western civilization, are
brought into play. Maidens, cherubs, and satyr masks look down from
ceilings. Lions' heads, paws, rams' heads, and griffins are on
every side. In this beautiful volume, featuring new color
photography by Anne Day, every facet of the building is described,
including its inception and construction."
The Municipal Art Society of New York recently celebrated its
fiftieth year of offering walking tours to the public; in 2007 more
than 10,000 people participated. This illustrated guidebook to
highlights of architecture, preservation, urban planning, and
public art described by two experienced guides, with pictures,
route maps, and travel information, covers Manhattan from downtown
skyscrapers to Harlem by way of Madison Square, Art Deco Midtown,
Grand Central Terminal, Columbus Circle, Central Park, and more.
During the rise of New York from the capital of an upstart nation
to a global metropolis, the visual language of Greek and Roman
antiquity played a formative role in the development of the city's
art and architecture. This compilation of essays offers a survey of
diverse reinterpretations of classical forms in some of New York's
most iconic buildings, public monuments, and civic spaces.
Classical New York examines the influence of Greco-Roman thought
and design from the Greek Revival of the late eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries through the late-nineteenth-century American
Renaissance and Beaux Arts period and into the twentieth century's
Art Deco. At every juncture, New Yorkers looked to the classical
past for knowledge and inspiration in seeking out new ways to
cultivate a civic identity, to design their buildings and
monuments, and to structure their public and private spaces.
Specialists from a range of disciplines-archaeology, architectural
history, art history, classics, and history- focus on how classical
art and architecture are repurposed to help shape many of New York
City's most evocative buildings and works of art. Federal Hall
evoked the Parthenon as an architectural and democratic model; the
Pantheon served as a model for the creation of Libraries at New
York University and Columbia University; Pennsylvania Station
derived its form from the Baths of Caracalla; and Atlas and
Prometheus of Rockefeller Center recast ancient myths in a new
light during the Great Depression. Designed to add breadth and
depth to the exchange of ideas about the place and meaning of
ancient Greece and Rome in our experience of New York City today,
this examination of post-Revolutionary art, politics, and
philosophy enriches the conversation about how we shape space-be it
civic, religious, academic, theatrical, or domestic-and how we make
use of that space and the objects in it.
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