The Unfinished Oceanwide Plaza Development in Downtown Los Angeles. (Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Downtown LA has recently been captivated by an unexpected sight: towers covered in vibrant graffiti, drawing more attention than the usual urban attractions. Nearby, a statue of a famous basketball player gathered crowds, and a live rock concert saw fans queuing early. However, the main attraction for many was the striking graffiti adorning an abandoned real estate project at a busy downtown intersection. One visitor mentioned he was compelled to visit after seeing it on television, noting that even his typically anti-graffiti mother thought it was worth navigating the traffic to see.
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Skyscrapers loom over older buildings, planes fly overhead, and people crowd the sidewalks in this dramatic bird’s-eye view of Manhattan’s Wall Street. Bertram Hartman’s meaning may not be quite so straightforward, however. He painted Trinity Church And Wall Street in 1929, the year of a great stock market crash that devastated the nation’s economy. By showing the gothic series of Trinity Church overshadowed by skyscrapers, Hartman may have intended his viewers to contemplate the relationship between spiritual and material needs in modern life.
Photographed in the Brooklyn Museum.
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Is it likely that these visually engaging playground slides, which resemble two of NYCs best loved architectural masterpieces, would exist anywhere outside of the Big Apple? Probably not. Continue reading Iconic NYC Skyscrapers Playground Equipment →
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The New York Botanical Garden’s annual Holiday Train Show just closed for the season this past weekend, so if you missed it, there’s always next year! I had the chance to check it out with a friend on the Saturday when we had that amazing snow storm here in the city, and it was a pretty sweet time. The Train Show — which is about so much more than just model trains —  takes place inside the enchanting setting of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, where you can travel back in time, it seems; wandering through miniature landscapes featuring more than 150 scaled iconic buildings, private mansions (many of which do not exist today) and other structures which stretch out amid the plants,  under thousands of twinkling lights through various rooms of the conservatory. Also, there are model trains, but they are not necessarily the show stoppers!
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Photographed by Gail in AMNH Gift Shop
The Manhattan Skyline should be so gorgeous, amiright? You can buy these lamps in the gift shop at the Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side!
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