A rework of an old Central Park photograph created in Photoshop.
I reworked an old image today.
An unseasonably light a cheerful color. Why not…
Around the corner from our place. For Norm’s Thurday Doors, December 6, 2018.
This post is for Norm’s Thursday Doors, November 29, 2018.
A lovely local gallery on Fifth Avenue just above Washington Square Park is the Salmagundi Club which was founded in 1871. About the Salmagundi Club on Wikipedia.
“Once home to Marlon Brando and novelist Dawn Powell, 43 Fifth Avenue defines grandeur. Completed in 1905 and converted to cooperative in 1978, this 11-story Beaux Arts residence, with its dry moat, bay windows and wrought-iron balconies, is an elegant example of the stately pre-war apartment houses for which Lower Fifth Avenue is known. A grand entrance, framed by limestone lampposts, leads to an extraordinarily ornate marble lobby, attended by a 24-hour doorman. Its sizable homes, with their soaring, 10-1/2 foot ceilings, boast an eclectic variety of original details. 42 residences. (Source: https://streeteasy.com/building/43-5-avenue-new_york)”
Completed in 1908, the American Seaman’s Friend Society Sailors’ Home and Institute was designed by William A. Boring, the architect of the Ellis Island’s immigrant station. Originally built as a hotel for sailors with cabin-like rooms, the landmarked hotel was restored on its centennial in 2008.
In 1912, the survivors of the Titanic stayed at the hotel until the end of the American Inquiry into the ship’s sinking. The surviving crew held a memorial service at the hotel four days after the ship sank.
In 1944, the YMCA took over the hotel from the Seaman’s Relief Center. And during the ’80s and ’90s the hotel hosted Hedwig and the Angry Inch and the Million Dollar Club, amongst many other rock-n-roll events. (Sourec: https://www.thejanenyc.com/history/).
