Category: Planes Trains and Automobiles

Motor hotels: Manhattan’s most luxurious parking garage “Your car never touched by human hands!”

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date March 19, 2012
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If you don’t already check in to the marvelous Modern Mechanix blog from time to time, then you’re missing out on some retro-futuristic genius. The blog usually highlights visionary drawings from the Modern Mechanics archives. But in the case of one illustration from May 1929, one particular wacky, wondrous dream was actually carried out —… Read More

Tags automobiles, midtown, parking garages, Times Square

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The High Line: The wild, wild West Side, cowboys included, inspires an elevated railroad and a remarkable park

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date March 9, 2012
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Joel Sternfeld’s extraordinary four-seasons photographs of the High Line — displayed in his 2002 show Walking The High Line — revealed a ribbon of nature surrounded by urbanity and presented a peek into forgotten history. These images greatly influenced the later design of the park, a mix of seamless design and tastefully untethered flora. Courtesy… Read More

Tags Cornelius Vanderbilt, Elevated Railroad, High Line, Hudson River, St. John's Park, West Side Highway, West Side Improvement