Spent a lovely day at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, yesterday photographing the flowers and a few other things. I will be posting some of the flowers at a future date.
Here are a few doors for Norm’s Thrusday Doors 6/16/2016.
Wave Hill Doors
Month: June 2016
Battery and Financial
Brookfield Place (Wikipedia), originally known as the World Financial Center, is a complex of office buildings located across West Street from the World Trade Center site in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Overlooking the Hudson River, Brookfield Place has been home to offices of various companies including Merrill Lynch, RBC Capital Markets, Nomura Group, American Express and Brookfield Asset Management, among others. In 2014, the complex was given its current name following the completion of extensive renovations.
I use to work as a GIS analyst and graphics designer (1998-2012) for a AECOM, the later part of my employ at 200 Liberty Street. I included an old photo of the Twin WFC Towers and the Irish Hunger Memorial—part of Battery City Park.
Battery, NYC 12/21/2001
Irish Hunger Memorial 10/15/2008
North Cove Yacht Harbor, NYC 6/4/2016
North Cove Yacht Harbor, NYC 6/4/2016
North Cove Yacht Harbor, NYC 6/4/2016
The Winter Garden Atrium (Wikipedia) is a 10-story glass-vaulted pavilion on Vesey Street (runs east-west in Lower Manhattan). The street is named after Rev. William Vesey (1674-1746), the first rector of nearby Trinity Church. The Winter Garden is part of New York City’s Brookfield Place office complex. Originally constructed in 1988, and substantially rebuilt in 2002, the Atrium houses various plants, trees and flowers, and shops. The rear of the building opens onto the World Financial Center Plaza and the North Cove Yacht Harbor on the Hudson River.
Winter Garden, NYC 12/19/2011
Winter Garden, NYC 6/4/2016
North End Way, NYC 6/4/2016
World Trade Center Transportation Hub (Wikipedia) is the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s name for the new PATH station and the associated transit and retail complex which opened on March 3, 2016. The station’s renaming took place when the station reopened. Designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, the Transportation Hub is composed of a train station with a large and open mezzanine under the National September 11 Memorial plaza. This mezzanine is connected to an aboveground head house structure, called the Oculus, located between 2 World Trade Center and 3 World Trade Center, as well as public concourses under the various towers in the World Trade Center complex.
We entered at 4 Word Trade Center at the corner of Liberty and Church Street and walked along an underground passage to get to the Oculus.
Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, designer of the station, said the Oculus resembles a bird being released from a child’s hand. The roof was originally designed to mechanically open to increase light and ventilation to the enclosed space. Herbert Muschamp, architecture critic of The New York Times, compared the design to the Bethesda Terrace and Fountain in Central Park, and wrote in 2004:
“Santiago Calatrava’s design for the World Trade Center PATH station should satisfy those who believe that buildings planned for ground zero must aspire to a spiritual dimension. Over the years, many people have discerned a metaphysical element in Mr. Calatrava’s work. I hope New Yorkers will detect its presence, too. With deep appreciation, I congratulate the Port Authority for commissioning Mr. Calatrava, the great Spanish architect and engineer, to design a building with the power to shape the future of New York. It is a pleasure to report, for once, that public officials are not overstating the case when they describe a design as breathtaking.”
World Trade Center Transportation Hub, NYC 6/4/2016
World Trade Center Transportation Hub, NYC 6/4/2016
World Trade Center Transportation Hub, NYC 6/4/2016
World Trade Center Transportation Hub, NYC 6/4/2016
Oculus, WTC Transportation Hub, NYC 6/4/2016
Oculus, WTC Transportation Hub, NYC 6/4/2016
Oculus, WTC Transportation Hub, NYC 6/4/2016
Oculus, WTC Transportation Hub, NYC 6/4/2016
View west from St. Paul’s Chapel 1776, NYC 6/4/2016
The Fulton Center (Wikipedia) is a transit center and retail complex centered at the intersection of Fulton Street and Broadway in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The complex is part of a $1.4 billion project by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a public agency of the state of New York, to rehabilitate the Fulton Street New York City Subway station, and construct new underground passageways and access points into the complex. The complex officially opened on November 10, 2014, along with the Dey Street Passageway.
The Fulton Center (website) designed by Grimshaw Architects in collaboration with Arup and world-renowned designer James Carpenter, who is celebrated for his work with light and public space.
The centerpiece of Fulton Center is the Sky Reflector Net strung with a distinctive cable knit structure. Sun, clouds, rain and snow are all visible from inside the building. Natural light is amplified throughout the open spaces, penetrating the depths of the subway concourse two levels below the street.
Fulton Center, NYC 6/4/2016
Fulton Center, NYC 6/4/2016
Fulton Center, NYC 6/4/2016
Distilled Birds
Lehman Door
For Thursday Doors – June 9, 2016 by Norm 2.0
Two Flowers
Similar hues perhaps but not the same.
Insects and Flowers
Lots of insects are all out taking advantage of the flowers and greenery in June. I pulled in a few from previous years to illustrate a few common species. Insects are tricky, I often use BugGuide.net to get help identifying them.
I found a nice simple guide: A Pictorial Guide to Some Common Bees of the New York City Metropolitan Area (Images and descriptions compiled by Kevin C. Matteson).
Flower Fly (Allograpta obliqua), Ward Pond Ridge 7/20/2014
Drone Fly, Central Park 6/26/2015
Hoeny Bee, Central Park 6/26/2015
Common Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica virginica), Central Park 6/26/2015
Common Carpenter Bee, Central Park 6/26/2015
Common Carpenter Bee, Central Park 6/26/2015
Flower Fly (Allograpta obliqua), Central Park 6/26/2015
Flower Flies on Black-eyed Susan, Central Park 6/26/15
Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombusimpatiens), Central Park 5/31/2016
Bumble Bee, Central Park
Fire Marked Doors
Fire insurance marks were metal plaques marked with the emblem of the insurance company which were affixed to the front of insured buildings as a guide to the insurance company’s fire brigade. These identification marks were used in the eighteenth and nineteenth century in the days before municipal fire services were formed.
Subscribers paid firefighting companies in advance for fire protection and in exchange would receive a fire mark to attach to their building. The payments for the fire marks supported the firefighting companies. Volunteer fire departments were also common in the United States, and some fire insurers contributed money to these departments and awarded bonuses to the first fire engine arriving at the scene of a fire.
Firefighting used to be a private for-profit industry. In the 1800’sin cities like New York and Baltimore, there were private “clubs” or “gangs” who were in charge of putting out fires. The infamous Boss Tweed started his illustrious political career at a volunteer fire company. The first club at the scene got money from the insurance company and sometimes loot. So, they had an incentive to get there fast. They also had an incentive to sabotage competition. They also often ended up getting in fights over territory and many times buildings would burn down before the issue was resolved.
These historic c. 1850 buildings on Washington Place, between 6th and 7th Avenues, have fire insurance marks.
For Norm’s Thursday Doors 6/2/2016.
Fire Mark at 108 Washigton Place, NYC 5/29/2016
These two c. 1899 buildings (stable and studio) are on West 4th Street on the other side of the fire marked buildings.
