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The HARMAN Store has brought iconic brands JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG, Infinity, Revel and Mark Levinson together for the first time in one place. As the world leader in superior sound quality, HARMAN has designed our store as an experience center that transforms how consumers interact with audio products through our vast portfolio that includes Home Audio, Professional and Automotive products. The in-store environment showcases our brands through unique experiences like the JBL Synthesis Home Theatre, Mark Levinson & Revel 2-Channel Listening Room and Headphone Sound Spider. We encourage visitors to step into our soundproof Sound Cube to hear the distinct sound quality difference of our brands up against other key competitors and checkout the Studer Vista 5M3 mixer to see how the ultimate tool for professionals produces the perfect album, concert experience, Broadway, TV or Radio show using the magic of sound mixing. The HARMAN Store is an ideal shopping destination for those who want to please their most discerning friends and family - from sound aficionados and tech gurus to music lovers and style seekers. Our extremely knowledgeable staff will guide you around the store informing you on our brands and long established history ensuring you leave with the right products to fit your needs.
The HARMAN Store has brought iconic brands JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG, Infinity, Revel and Mark Levinson together for the first time in one place. As the world leader in superior sound quality, HARMAN has designed our store as an experience center that transforms how consumers interact with audio products through our vast portfolio that includes Home Audio, Professional and Automotive products. The in-store environment showcases our brands through unique experiences like the JBL Synthesis Home Theatre, Mark Levinson & Revel 2-Channel Listening Room and Headphone Sound Spider. We encourage visitors to step into our soundproof Sound Cube to hear the distinct sound quality difference of our brands up against other key competitors and checkout the Studer Vista 5M3 mixer to see how the ultimate tool for professionals produces the perfect album, concert experience, Broadway, TV or Radio show using the magic of sound mixing. The HARMAN Store is an ideal shopping destination for those who want to please their most discerning friends and family - from sound aficionados and tech gurus to music lovers and style seekers. Our extremely knowledgeable staff will guide you around the store informing you on our brands and long established history ensuring you leave with the right products to fit your needs.
Barbizon Lighting supplies and integreates lighting and other entertainment technology into theatres, studios, themed-environments, museums, and architecture.
Stage Equipment Services (SES) is a full service Event Production Company which specializes in Entertainment Rigging. A successful production starts with proper planning. Whether it be CAD drafting, load calculations, gear management, venue relations, and / or on site supervision, SES will see your show through from conception all the way to load out. Our rental inventory is ready for your show at a moments notice. Our ETCP certified rigging staff is dedicated to understanding our client’s needs and executing a safe flawless show every time.
The Central Park Conservancy is a private, nonprofit organization that manages Central Park under a contract with the City of New York and NYC Parks. Since its founding in 1980 by a group of dedicated civic and philanthropic leaders, the Conservancy has invested more than $800 million toward the restoration and enhancement of Central Park and is considered a model for urban park management worldwide. With contributions from Park-area residents, corporations and foundations, the Conservancy provides 75 percent of the Park’s $65 million annual operating budget and is responsible for all basic care of the 843-acre park.
The Knickerbocker Club, is a gentlemen's club in New York City founded in 1871.The name "Knickerbocker", mainly thanks to writer Washington Irving, was a byword for a New York patrician, comparable to a "Boston Brahmin."ClubhouseThe Knick's current clubhouse, a neo-Georgian structure at 2 East 62nd Street, was commissioned in 1913 and completed in 1915. It was designed by William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich, and has been designated a city landmark.HistoryThe Knick was founded in 1871 by members of the Union Club of the City of New York who were concerned that the club's admission standards had fallen.By the 1950s, urban social club membership was dwindling, in large part because of the movement of wealthy families to the suburbs. In 1959, the Knickerbocker Club considered rejoining the Union Club, merging The Knick's 550 members with the Union Club's 900 men, but the plan never came to fruition.The Knick was the location of a fictional murder in Victoria Thompson's 2012 whodunit Murder on Fifth Avenue: A Gaslight Mystery (Berkeley 2012, ISBN 978-0425247419).
Wollman Rink is available for public session ice skating, skating lessons, exclusive and non-exclusive events, birthday parties and discount group admission. Details can be found at www.wollmanrink.com.
The Alwyn Court is a 12-story apartment building located at 180 West 58th Street on the corner of Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, one block south of Central Park. It was built between 1907 and 1909, and was designed by Harde & Short in French Renaissance style, with elaborate terra-cotta ornamentation in the Francis I style covering the entire facade. The interior courtyard has a painted architectural facade by artist Richard Haas.The building was constructed with 14-room 5-bathroom apartments which were subdivided during the Depression. Although the interior has changed over time, the exterior, with its intricate terra-cotta decoration, has largely remained unchanged. The facade was cleaned and restored in 1980-81 by Beyer Blinder Belle.The Alwyn Court was designated a New York landmark in 1966 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.In popular cultureIn 2012, the Alwyn Court was prominently featured as the background to a GEICO commercial, in which a semi-naked bodybuilder was shown directing traffic on Seventh Avenue in front of the building.
820 Fifth Avenue is a luxury cooperative in Manhattan, New York City, United States, located on Fifth Avenue at the Northeast corner of East 63rd Street on the Upper East Side.Design and apartmentsThe 12 story limestone-clad neo-Italian Renaissance palazzo is one of the most expensive and exclusive apartment houses in the city. It was designed by Starrett & van Vleck and built by Fred T.Ley in 1916. The land upon which it was built was previously occupied by the Progress Club. The frontage was 100.5 feet on Fifth Avenue and 100 feet on 63rd Street. Construction cost was 1 million dollars, exclusive of the land (which cost another million).The building comprises 12 apartments. There are ten apartments that are full-floor. These apartments are lavish in scale, each containing roughly 6500 square feet. The lower two floors consist of two duplex maisonettes, one 7000 SF, the other 4500 square feet. There is also a superintendent's apartment on the first floor, roughly 750 SF. All apartments feature marble floors, and fireplaces in all major rooms. The outer walls are two and a half feet thick and ceiling height is 11 feet (3.35m). The public rooms all face Central Park, and are accessed via the 44-foot-long gallery. The five bedrooms found in each apartment all have windows on 63rd Street and the numerous (usually seven) (7) servants rooms are in the back.The facade is broken into five sections by four string courses and the centers of the east and south facades feature balustraded balconies.Co-op and amenitiesOriginally a rental, 820 Fifth Avenue was converted into a cooperative in 1949. There are 2 duplex maisonette apartments on the first and second floors, and 10 full-floor apartments on each of floors 3 through 12. Potential buyers must pay entirely in cash. No mortgage financing is allowed. The cooperative board requires potential buyers to possess liquid assets ten times the value of the apartment that they wish to purchase.
Carnegie Hall Tower – wieżowiec w Nowym Jorku, w dzielnicy Midtown Manhattan w USA. Budynek ma 230,7 metrów wysokości, co czyni go szesnastym wśród najwyższych wieżowców w mieście. Liczy 60 kondygnacji.Linki zewnętrzne Carengie Hall Tower na skyscraperpage.com
CitySpire Center – wieżowiec w Nowym Jorku w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Ma ponad 248 metrów wysokości i 75 pięter. Jest to jeden z najwyższych budynków w mieście, zajmujący obecnie 9. miejsce.Został zaprojektowany przez Murphy/Jahn, Inc. Architects. Jego budowa zakończyła się w roku 1987. Jest on wykorzystywany w różnoraki sposób. 23 pierwsze piętra zajmują biura, wyżej znajdują się luksusowe apartamenty, których wielkość rośnie wraz z piętrem. Reprezentuje styl postmodernistyczny w architekturze. Jego całkowita powierzchnia wynosi 77107 m². Budynek należy do Tishman Speyer Properties. Firma ta zakupiła go wraz z 11 innymi budynkami 5 grudnia 2004 roku za ponad 1,8 mld dolarów.Gdy został ukończony, był to drugi na świecie najwyższy budynek zbudowany z betonu. Pomimo tego, że znajduje się bardzo blisko Carnegie Hall Tower i Metropolitan Tower, jest dobrze widoczny z Central Parku. Problemów przysporzyła kopuła, która znajduje się na dachu wieżowca. Krótko po wprowadzeniu się pierwszych mieszkańców zgłaszali oni dziwny dźwięk dochodzący ze szczytu budynku. Dźwięk ten był spowodowany wiejącym po kopulastym dachu wiatrem. Problem ten został szybko rozwiązany.Zobacz też lista najwyższych budynków w Nowym Jorku lista najwyższych budynków w Stanach Zjednoczonych lista najwyższych budynków na świecie
The Arsenal is a symmetrical brick building with modestly Gothic Revival details, located in Central Park, New York City, centered on 64th Street off Fifth Avenue. Built between 1847 and 1851 as a storehouse for arms and ammunition for the New York State Militia, the building predates the design and construction of Central Park, where only the Blockhouse (1814) is older.The Arsenal was designed by Martin E. Thompson (1786–1877), originally trained as a carpenter, who had been a partner of Ithiel Town and went on to become one of the founders of the National Academy of Design. Thompson's symmetrical structure of brick in English bond, with headers every fifth course, presents a central block in the manner of a fortified gatehouse flanked by half-octagonal towers. The carpentry doorframe speaks of its purpose with an American eagle displayed between stacks of cannonballs over the door, and crossed sabers and stacked pikes represented in flanking panels.The building currently houses the offices of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and the Central Park Wildlife Conservation Center, but it has also served as a zoo and housed a portion of the American Museum of Natural History's collections while its permanent structure was being erected. During the course of its lifetime it has also housed a police precinct, a weather bureau, and an art gallery.
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1891, it is one of the most prestigious venues in the world for both classical music and popular music. Carnegie Hall has its own artistic programming, development, and marketing departments, and presents about 250 performances each season. It is also rented out to performing groups. The hall has not had a resident company since 1962, when the New York Philharmonic moved to Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall (renamed Avery Fisher Hall in 1973 and David Geffen Hall in 2015).Carnegie Hall has 3,671 seats, divided among its three auditoriums.Carnegie Hall presented about 200 concerts in the 2008–2009 season, up 3 percent from the previous year. Its stages were rented for an additional 600 events in the 2008–2009 season.VenuesCarnegie Hall contains three distinct, separate performance spaces.Main Hall (Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage)The Isaac Stern Auditorium seats 2,804 on five levels and was named after violinist Isaac Stern in 1997 to recognize his efforts to save the hall from demolition in the 1960s. The hall is enormously high, and visitors to the top balcony must climb 137 steps. All but the top level can be reached by elevator.
The Ziegfeld Theatre was a single-screen movie theater located at 141 West 54th Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City. It opened in 1969 and closed in 2016. The theater was named in honor of the original Ziegfeld Theatre (1927–1966) which was built by the impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr..HistoryOn December 17, 1969, a few hundred feet from the site of the original Ziegfeld Theatre, a new Ziegfeld opened as a single-screen movie house. Located at 141 West 54th Street, it was one of the last large-scale, single-screen movie palaces built in the United States.Constructed by Emery Roth & Sons from designs by Irving Gershon and red-carpeted interior designs by John J. McNamara, it had 1,152 seats (825 seats in the orchestra section and 306 seats in the tiered rear section). It was often used for world premieres and big-event press screenings, such as the November 1977 opening of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.The theater underwent extensive renovations in the late 1990s. It was a centerpiece site during the 2008 New York Film Festival because of reconstruction work at Lincoln Center that year. During the 2000s, digital projection was installed.The theater was the largest single-screen cinema operating in New York and was used for film premieres and gala events.
834 Fifth Avenue is a luxury residential housing cooperative in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It is located on Fifth Avenue at the corner of East 64th Street opposite the Central Park Zoo in Central Park. The limestone-clad building was designed by Rosario Candela, a prolific designer of luxury apartment buildings in Manhattan during the period between World War I and World War II. 834 Fifth Avenue is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious apartment houses in New York City. It has been called "the most pedigreed building on the snobbiest street in the country’s most real estate-obsessed city" in an article in the New York Observer newspaper. This status is due to the building's overall architecture, the scale and layout of the apartments, and the notoriety of its current and past residents. It is one of the finest buildings designed by Rosario Candela, according to The New York Times.HistoryThe building was constructed in 1931, and was one of the last luxury apartment houses completed before the Great Depression halted such projects in New York City. Its street facing facades are composed entirely of limestone. Elements of Art Deco styling were utilized on the entry ways and portions of the Fifth Avenue facade. The building uses setbacks at the upper floors to create terraces for several apartments and provide visual interest from a distance.
666 Fifth Avenue is a 41-story office building on Fifth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.Ownership and historyThe Tishman family via Tishman Realty and Construction built the 1500000sqft tower in 1957. It was designed by Carson & Lundin and the building was called the Tishman Building. One of its most famous exterior features was the prominent 666 address emblazoned on the top of the building. The other distinctive exterior features are embossed aluminum panels. The original design included lobby sculptures by Isamu Noguchi including the "Landscape of the Cloud" which consists of sinuously cut thin railings in the ceiling to create a cloud effect. The cloud is also carried into a ceiling to floor waterfall. The penthouse was occupied by the Top of the Six's restaurant, operated by Stouffer's. For many years the building had a distinctive feature of a T-shaped atrium walk-through open to the sidewalks on 52nd Street, 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue with glass storefronts inside the walk-through. This included a bookstore and another area used for years by Alitalia Airlines. The entrance to 666 Fifth Avenue was inside this walk-through.
Feinstein's/54 Below is a cabaret and restaurant in New York City owned by Broadway producers Steve Baruch, Richard Frankel, Marc Routh and Tom Viertel. It has hosted shows by such notable performers as Patti LuPone, Ben Vereen, Marilyn Maye and Barbara Cook. It is located in the basement of Studio 54.HistoryFeinstein's/54 Below opened in June 3, 2012 as 54 Below. Its designers include architect Richard H. Lewis, set designer John Lee Beatty, lighting designer Ken Billington, and sound designer Peter Hylenski. Scott Wittman also serves as Creative Consultant. Jennifer Ashley Tepper serves as the Director of Programming at Feinstein's/54 Below.Feinstein's/54 Below features a variety of musical artists and styles, including musical theatre, opera, and jazz, the last of which was featured in a series co-produced with WBGO.In September 2015, 54 Below announced a creative alliance with performer and singer, pianist, and music revivalist Michael Feinstein, becoming Feinstein's/54 Below.Awards 2013 BroadwayWorld New York Cabaret Award Patti LuPone: Show of the Year Sondheim Unplugged: Best Variety Show/Recurring Series Terri White: Best One-Show Special Event Alex Rybeck: Best Musical Director for Sibling Revelry with the Callaway Sisters Jackie Hoffman: Best Musical Comedy Performance Laura Benanti: Best Female Celebrity Vocalist Susie Mosher: Best Host/Producer for Variety Show or Open Mic Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway: Best Duo or Group Show Ahrens & Flaherty: Best Revue Jason Robert Brown: Best Original Song for a Cabaret Show Jane Monheit: Best Jazz Vocalist Justin Vivian Bond Jenifer Lewis Maurice Hines 2013 Concierge Choice Award: Nightlife MAC Awards: Board of Directors Award 2013 Nightlife Award
1717 Broadway is a skyscraper located in Manhattan, New York City, United States, and is the tallest hotel in North America. The building contains two hotels, the Courtyard New York Manhattan/Central Park and the Residence Inn New York Manhattan/Central Park, with a total of 639 rooms. The glass-clad building is located on the Northwest corner of 54th Street and Broadway.
The Ed Sullivan Theater, located at 1697–1699 Broadway between West 53rd and West 54th, in the Theater District in Manhattan, is a venerable radio and television studio in New York City. The theater has been used as a venue for live and taped CBS broadcasts since 1936.It is historically known as the home of The Ed Sullivan Show and the site of The Beatles' US debut performance. It has also housed David Letterman's tenure of CBS' Late Show from 1993 to 2015. The theatre currently houses The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the second incarnation of the Late Show franchise. It is on the National Register of Historic Places, and the interior has been designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.First 66 yearsThe 13-story, brown brick and terra cotta office building with a ground-floor theater was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp. It was built by Arthur Hammerstein between 1925 and 1927, and was named Hammerstein's Theatre after his father, Oscar Hammerstein I. The original neo-Gothic interior contained pointed-arch stained-glass windows with scenes from the elder Hammerstein's operas. Its first production was the three-hour musical Golden Dawn, the second male lead of which was Cary Grant, then still using his birth name, Archie Leach. Arthur Hammerstein went bankrupt in 1931, and lost ownership of the building.
Columbus Circle, named for Christopher Columbus, is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South (West 59th Street), and Central Park West, at the southwest corner of Central Park. It is the point from which all official distances from New York City are measured. The name is also used for the neighborhood a few blocks around the circle in each direction. To the south of the circle lies Hell's Kitchen, also known as "Clinton", and the Theater District, and to the north is the Upper West Side.The circleCompleted in 1905 and renovated a century later, the circle was designed by William P. Eno – a businessman who pioneered many early innovations in road safety and traffic control – as part of Frederick Law Olmsted's vision for Central Park, which included a "Grand Circle" at the Merchants' Gate, its most important Eighth Avenue entrance.
Le Bernardin is a Michelin Guide three star, formerly three star Zagat-rated French seafood restaurant located at 155 West 51st Street (between 6th Avenue and 7th Avenue), in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It was started in 1972 in Paris by Gilbert Le Coze and his sister Maguy Le Coze under the name Les Moines de St. Bernardin and moved to New York in 1986.Gilbert le Coze died of a heart attack in 1994, and Eric Ripert succeeded him as the head chef. Signature dishes include kindai maguro (sustainably raised Japanese bluefin tuna), wagyu beef and escolar. Chef Ripert has gone on to open Philadelphia's 10 Arts and Westend Bistro in Washington D.C.Awards and accoladesIn 2009, Le Bernardin was voted 15th best restaurant in the world in the Restaurant magazine Top 50.Le Bernardin is one of only six restaurants in New York awarded three Michelin stars, and is the restaurant which has held four stars from The New York Times for the longest period of time, having earned the ranking in early 1986.