New York circa 1912. “Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue at 59th Street.” The original “big box.” 5x7 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. [via Shorpy.]
Plaza Hotel: 1912
Tag: new york
Bethesda Fountain.
DC-4 over Manhattan, 1939.
Aerial view of a DC-4 passenger plane flying over midtown Manhattan, NYC, 1939, by Margaret Bourke-White. [via collectivehistory.]
Let’s call this New York.
[via [pixelmechanics](http://pixelmechanics.tumblr.com/post/38620815033).]
New York Skyline
And the Chrysler Building. By Josef Hoflehner. [via skyscraper.]
More Gramercy Park House
This is the most thorough reviews I've found. Click through. The sofa is horrifying. [via Fubiz.]
Mad, Extravagant City
Via 99% Invisible's "Some Other Sign that People Do Not Totally Regret Life", I was reminded of the companion passages from Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara in the fencing of Battery Park City. "One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes—I can’t even enjoy a blade of … Continue reading Mad, Extravagant City
