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NEW YORK CITY
LANDMARKSPhotographs by JAKE RAJS
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The Guggenheim
Front Cover: Statue of Liberty and Empire State Building
Back Cover: Ice-skating in Central Park
1 Statue of Liberty
2 Ellis Island
3 Museum of Jewish Heritage
4 Battery Park, Winter Garden
5 Ground Zero
6 Federal Hall
7 Wall Street, NY Stock Exchange & Trinity Church8 South Street Seaport
9 Skyscraper Museum
10 Brooklyn Bridge
11 African Burial Ground National Monument
12 Woolworth Building, Beekman Tower
13 Chinatown
14 Soho Cast Iron District
15 Lower East Side
16 New Museum of Contemporary Art
17 Cooper Union
18 Washington Square Arch
19 Jefferson Market
20 Flat Iron
21 Chelsea Piers
22 IAC Building
23 Highline
24 Empire State Building
25 Morgan Library
26 Times Square
27 NY Public Library
28 Grand Central
29 Met Life Building (Park Avenue)
30 Chrysler Building
31 UN
32 NY Yacht Club
33 Radio City34 Rockefeller Center & GE Building
35 Saint Patricks Cathedral
36 Villard Mansion & Helmsley Palace Hotel
37 21 Jockey Club
38 Central Synagogue
39 Citicorp
40 Lever House & Park Avenue
41 Sony Building
42 Paley Park
43 MOMA
44 Tiffany & Trump Tower
45 59th Street Bridge
46 Plaza Hotel & Pulitzer Fountain
47 Apple Store
48 Central Park & Bethesda Fountain
49 Hearst Tower
50 Columbus Circle: Time Warner & MAD
51 Lincoln Center & Metropolitan Opera
52 Dakota & Lennon Imagine
53 Ansonia
54 Museum of Natural History
55 Rose Planetarium
56 The Frick
57 Whitney Museum
58 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
59 Neue Gallerie
60 Jewish Museum
61 Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
62 The Guggenheim
63 Riverside Park & 79th street Boat Basin
64 Cathedral of St. John the Divine
65 Riverside Church
66 Apollo Theater
67 Strivers Row, New York Brownstones
68 George Washington Bridge
69 The Cloisters
70 Yankee Stadium
71 NY Botanic Garden & Bronx Zoo72 Citi Field & Arthur Ashe Stadium
73 Brooklyn Museum
74 Brooklyn Botanic Garden
75 Verrazano Narrows Bridge & Marathon
LANDMARKS LIST
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THE PLAZAHOTELFifth Avenue between 58th and 59th StreetsBUILT 1907ARCHITECT: Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (1847-1918)
The Plaza Hotel is a New York iconas recognizable a landmarkas the Brooklyn Bridgeand a place invested by New Yorkerswith many memories, of afternoon tea in the Palm Court, weddings in
the Grand Ballroom, corporate conferences and college mixers.
Opened in 1907, the Plaza was designed in a modified French Renais-
sance style by Henry J. Hardenbergh. He had earlier (1880-84) de-signed the famed Dakota Apartments on Central Park West and 72nd
Street. At first it seems the two buildings are very different: the Dakota
dark and Victorian, the Plaza bright and white and very much of the
"City Beautiful" era. But close inspection reveals the buildings to have
similar chteauesque profiles and details. Still, the Plaza is the more
glittering building, its white brick and limestone mass, rising majesti-
cally behind the open space of Grand Army Plaza, reflecting back the
sunlight that showers the building, making it gleam and glisten by day.
This effect is accentuated by the lovely Pulitzer Fountain, erected in
1916 and designed by Thomas Hastings, in front of the hotel. The
Plaza was expanded and enhanced in 1919-21 by Warren & Wetmore,
architects of Grand Central Terminal. They added the elegantly
canopied Fifth Avenue entrance, as well as several important interior
spaces. But the building is mostly Hardenbergh's. Inside, the Palm
Court is especially noteworthy, with its spectacular stained-glass lay-
light, recently restored. All Americans of a certain age also know the
Plaza for six-and-a-half-year-old Eloise. In 1955, Kay Thompson, an
outstanding nightclub chanteuse who frequently appeared at the
Plaza's Persian Room, wrote a children's book, illustrated by Hilary
Knight, about the adventures of a frolicsome girl who lives in the
Plaza Hotel. The book and its sequels made the Plaza for many years
the most famous building in New York among America's children.
Look for Hilary Knights 1964 oil portrait of Eloise, which hangs in
the corridor along the south side of the Palm Court.
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Brooklyn Bridge
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