New York, New York, 2017

Photos start at Hudson Yards and High Line

Hudson railyards

Rail yards and Javits Convention Center west of 11th Ave. A 12,700,000 sq. ft. development is under construction above the rail yards east of 11th Ave. http://bit.ly/2rMQztg

High Line, NYC

Here, the High Line extends west on 30th Street toward the Hudson. It then swings north (right) to pass the rail yards.

Read the yellow sign

View from High Line looking south along 11th Avenue. The most distant building visible is the Goldman Sachs Tower in Jersey City.

Along the High Line

New buildings are replacing the old

New buildings along the High Line

Hudson Yards construction

... as seen from Tenth Ave at 33rd St.

Javits Convention Center

... seen from the 34th Street-Hudson Yards subway station.

Bryant Park

A 9.6-acre privately managed public park on the east side of Sixth Ave (W 42nd/44th). Rear of NY Public Library at left in photo.

Bryant Park, looking NW to Sixth Avenue and 42nd St.

The tallest (silver) building is the Bank of America Tower. At 1200 ft (366m), it is New York City's 4th tallest (6th tallest in U.S.). The green building is the Salesforce Tower at 1095 Avenue Of The Americas. It has 41 floors and is 630 ft (192m) tall. It was completed in 1974 as headquarters for New York Telephone.

New York Public Library

Fifth Ave (40th/42nd). This is the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building constructed 1895-1902.

New York Public Library

The Rose Main Reading Room. The photo only captures about half the length of the room (which has 16 chandeliers). Do the math.

Periodical Reading Room

at the NY Public Library

Periodical Reading Room ceiling

The Art-Deco Chrysler Building, 1930

Seen here looking east from 42nd St and Fifth Ave. toward Lexington Ave . At 1,046 feet (318.9 m), the structure was the world's tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931.

Grand Central Terminal

Built in 1913; largest railroad terminal in the world. 89 E 42nd St

Central Synagogue, Lexington Avenue at 55th St.

Built in 1872 in the Moorish Revival style as a copy of Budapest's Dohány Street (Great) Synagogue (next image).

Dohány Street (Great) Synagogue, Budapest, built 1854-59.

My photo from Sept. 12, 2010.

Dohány Street (Great) Synagogue, Budapest

Looking toward the back of (entry to) the sanctuary

Lever House, Park Ave. at 54th (1952)

Designed primarily by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, this building had an outsize effect on those of us studying toward our architecture degrees. It was a "seminal glass-box skyscraper built in the International Style according to the design principles of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Completed in 1952, it was the second curtain wall skyscraper in New York City after the United Nations Secretariat Building. The 307-foot-tall (94 m) building features an innovative courtyard and public space." (Wikipedia)

Park Ave looking south, Lever House at the right

The MetLife Building in the distance was built over 44th Street in 1960 as the Pan Am Building. In front of it is the 35-story Helmsley building on 46th Street, built 1929.

432 Park Ave (56th/57th), 2015

At 1396 feet (425.5m), this is the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere. Designed by Rafael Viñoly.

Park Ave looking south, Lever House at right

The MetLife Building in the distance was built over 44th Street in 1960 as the Pan Am Building. In front of it is the 35-story Helmsley building on 46th Street, built 1929.

St Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Avenue

That's Rockefeller Center (Sixth Avenue) behind me

Seventh Avenue, approaching Times Square

Times Square

Looking south from 47th St.

Times Square

Looking south from 47th St.

One Times Square (at left)

Also known as the New York Times Tower, the 25-story, 363-foot-high (111 m) skyscraper at 42nd Street and Broadway was originally built to serve as The New York Times headquarters, which moved to the tower in 1905. In 1995, Lehman Brothers re-purposed the building for advertising. Most of the building's interior is vacant except for Walgreen's at ground level and Jeff Straus who runs the New Years Eve celebration from his 22nd floor office. http://bit.ly/2rN6Cr4

George M Cohan in Times Square

Looking west along 46th St and across 8th Ave to Hudson River

View from my 16th floor room at Marriott Marquis Times Square. Nearest building at right is Paramount Hotel.

Amsterdam Theatre, 42nd St. (1903)

Both the Beaux-Arts exterior and the Art Nouveau interior are New York City landmarks (1979), and the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. (Wikipedia, http://bit.ly/2rNuNWf)

On board the Fishboat at Pier 81 ...

... for a two-hour cocktail cruise on the Hudson. The brick-colored building is One River Place, with Silver Towers (60 stories, 653 feet) behind.

Midtown from the Hudson

Looking east along 34th St. Javits Conf. Center (left) New Yorker Hotel, and Empire State Bldg.

Midtown from the Hudson

Javits Center, far left. Hudson Yards construction, center foreground. Empire State Building, center background.

Hudson Yards and Empire State Building

Storage and industrial buildings, 28th St (left) to 25th St

Fireboats front center. White building at far right is the Manhattan Borough Repair Shop. Empire State in right background.

Chelsea Piers

Hudson Yard construction in the left distance, seen from the Hudson River

Manhattan from the Hudson River

South is to the right.

Sailboat and 1 World Trade Center

Lower Manhattan

VIA 57 West, Sail condos west side

Residential building on West 57th Street in Hell's Kitchen, designed by Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). 34 stories, 467 ft (142.3 m)

Not my photo: VIA W57 in context

PHOTO BY Iwan Baan Photography, Rozenstraat 145, 1016 NP Amsterdam, The Netherlands, e-mail: studio@iwan.com — all images © Iwan Baan 1996-2017