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City Hall Park - 1896 The New York World Building (also the Pulitzer Building) was a building in the Civic Center of Manhattan in New York City, along Park Row between Frankfort Street and the Brooklyn Bridge. Part of the former "Newspaper Row", it was designed by George B. Post in the Renaissance Revival style, serving as the headquarters of the New York World after its completion in 1890. The New York World Building was the tallest building in New York City upon completion, becoming the first to overtop Trinity Church, and was by some accounts the world's tallest building. Foto: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017649030/ Text: Wikipedia Colorized by Retronautis #photography #vintagestyle #retro #art #vintagestyle #newyork #nyc #fashion #usa #newyorkcity #instagood #colour #artist #color #painting #drawing #manhattan #travel #centralpark #timessquare #ladyliberty #america #bigapple #newyorker #photooftheday #libertyisland #travelphotography (at City Hall Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnuc8u9KMh7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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City Hall Park - 1896 The New York World Building (also the Pulitzer Building) was a building in the Civic Center of Manhattan in New York City, along Park Row between Frankfort Street and the Brooklyn Bridge. Part of the former "Newspaper Row", it was designed by George B. Post in the Renaissance Revival style, serving as the headquarters of the New York World after its completion in 1890. The New York World Building was the tallest building in New York City upon completion, becoming the first to overtop Trinity Church, and was by some accounts the world's tallest building. Foto: https://www.loc.gov/item/2017649030/ Text: Wikipedia Colorized by Retronautis #photography #vintagestyle #retro #art #vintagestyle #newyork #nyc #fashion #usa #newyorkcity #instagood #colour #artist #color #painting #drawing #manhattan #travel #centralpark #timessquare #ladyliberty #america #bigapple #newyorker #photooftheday #libertyisland #travelphotography (at City Hall Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnucci3L4W9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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5th Avenue - 1905 The Plaza was the dream of financier Bernhard Beinecke, hotelier Fred Sterry, and Harry S. Black, President of the Fuller Construction Company. They purchased a 15-year-old hotel of the same name on the site. The three men set out to replace it with what is surely one of the most elegant hotels in the world. Construction of the 19-story building (a skyscraper back then) took two years at a cost of $12 million – an unprecedented sum in those days. Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, who also designed the Dakota apartments, the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. and The Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston, set about his task to provide all the pomp, glory, and opulence of a French chateau. No cost was spared. The largest single order in history for gold-encrusted china was placed with L. Straus & Sons, and no less than 1,650 crystal chandeliers were purchased. Photo: Ron Harvey / Everett Collection Text: https://www.theplazany.com/history/ #newyork #newyorkcity #brooklyn #manhattan #ny #love #fashion #art #photography #usa #queens #bronx #instagood #instagram #photooftheday #travel #style #bigapple #colorized #history #gothham #knickerbocker #plazahotel #iloveny #centralpark #fifthavenue #newyorknewyork #timesquare #newyorker (at The Plaza Hotel) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmHYfWuKQ05/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Broadstreet - 1904 The New York Stock Exchange occupied the building at the left from 1865 until its demolition in 1901. The current New York Stock Exchange was constructed on the same site in 1903. The columned building on the right, located at the corner of Wall and Nassau Streets, is one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in New York City. It was designed by the firm of Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis, who derived their design from the Parthenon. This building served as the U.S. Custom House (1842-1862) and the U.S. Sub-Treasury (1862-1925), before being designated the Federal Hall National Memorial, which commemorates the site of George Washington's inauguration as the first President of the United States (1789). Text: https://emuseum.nyhistory.org Photo: Library of Congress #newyork #newyorkcity #newyorker #newyork_instagram #newyorknewyork #supremenewyork #ilovenewyork #newyorklife #topnewyorkphoto #timeoutnewyork #newyorkart #newyorkphotographer #newyorkstateofmind #newyorkstyle #newyorktimes #thisisnewyorkcity #newyorkers #newyorkcitylife #eatingnewyork #newyorklike #wildnewyork #unlimitednewyork #newyorkartist #picturesofnewyork #newyorkphoto (at Wall Street - Financial District NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl6YBdsqTvS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Broadstreet - 1904 The New York Stock Exchange occupied the building at the left from 1865 until its demolition in 1901. The current New York Stock Exchange was constructed on the same site in 1903. The columned building on the right, located at the corner of Wall and Nassau Streets, is one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in New York City. It was designed by the firm of Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis, who derived their design from the Parthenon. This building served as the U.S. Custom House (1842-1862) and the U.S. Sub-Treasury (1862-1925), before being designated the Federal Hall National Memorial, which commemorates the site of George Washington's inauguration as the first President of the United States (1789). Text: https://emuseum.nyhistory.org Photo: Library of Congress #newyork #newyorkcity #newyorker #newyork_instagram #newyorknewyork #supremenewyork #ilovenewyork #newyorklife #topnewyorkphoto #timeoutnewyork #newyorkart #newyorkphotographer #newyorkstateofmind #newyorkstyle #newyorktimes #thisisnewyorkcity #newyorkers #newyorkcitylife #eatingnewyork #newyorklike #wildnewyork #unlimitednewyork #newyorkartist #picturesofnewyork #newyorkphoto (at Wall Street - Financial District NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl6X3alNM5z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Grand Army Plaza - 1903 Unveiling the Sherman Monument at the northern section of The Plaza (later Grand Army Plaza) in Manhattan, in 1903. The Metropolitan Club of New York and other buildings on 60th Street and east side of Fifth Avenue is in the background. The Madison Trust Co. building was erected on the lot to the right. Photograph by Robert Louis Bracklow (1849-1919). Source: New-York Historical Society Text: https://www.geographicguide.com Photo: Robert Louis Bracklow #newyork #newyorkcity #NewYorker #newyorknewyork #newyorklife #newyorkphotographer #newyorkstyle #newyorkart #newyorkmodels #NewYorkers #newyorktimes #newyorkstate #newyorkcitylife #NewYorkPhotography #newyorkartist #newyorkexplored #NewYorkStylist #newyorklike #historyinpictures #historybuff# #HistoryLesson #historymade #historylovers #HistoryMakers #historytour #HistoryMaker #historyplace #historyphoto #historyclass (at Grand Army Plaza) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl32eZnKg3j/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Flatironbuilding - 1904 Seeing New York (Seeing New York Automobiles, Inc.) was a New York City sightseeing tour company that operated electric omnibuses and boats in the early 20th century. Tours in open-topped buses left from the Flatiron Building (then the Fuller Building), where the windows were painted to advertise "coaches, automobiles, and yachts". The men wore suits, the women wore gloves and elaborate, often feathered hats. They visited "the historic section, in its Dutch, British and American periods; the Bowery, Chinatown, Brooklyn, Castle Garden, Central Park, the Grand Boulevards, the historic Hudson river, Columbia University, General Grant's tomb, [and] statues of Christopher Columbus and William Shakespeare."By 1913, manager J. H. Mulligan and local manager R. H. Green were operating eight vehicles. In 1904 The Evening World described the tours: Every day a "Seeing New York" coach piles. People call the passengers "rubbernecks." Most of them are so uncomfortable in their lofty perches that they keep their eyes downcast and "rubber" not at all, except when [opera impresario] Mr. Hammerstein or some other notable flits across their path. Photo: Library of Congress ; Detroit Publishing Company Text: Wikipedia #vintage #photography #vintagestyle #retro #art #vintagestyle #newyork #nyc #fashion #usa #newyorkcity #instagood #colour #artist #color #painting #drawing #retronautis #manhattan #travel #centralpark #timessquare #ladyliberty #america #bigapple #newyorker #photooftheday #libertyisland #travelphotography (at Flatiron Building) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl1KLlEKw9m/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Louize Marialei - 1894 Henri Leys (1815-1869), een leerling van Mathieu Ignace van Bree en Ferdinand de Braekeleer, verwierf een grote faam als schilder van historische taferelen en portretten. Onder invloed van de Vlaamse Primitieven en de Duitse renaissanceschilders Albrecht Dürer en Hans Holbein de Jonge, ontwikkelde hij een typische, lineaire stijl waarin historische geloofwaardigheid en psychologische waarachtigheid samenvielen. Tot zijn belangrijkste werken behoren de reeksen schilderingen in het Antwerpse Stadhuis, met zorgvuldig gedocumenteerde voorstellingen van historische gebeurtenissen en taferelen uit het alledaagse leven in het Antwerpen van de 16de eeuw. Meermaals internationaal bekroond op Wereldtentoonstellingen, werd Leys in 1862 in de adelstand verheven. Text: Inventaris onroerend Erfgoed Colorized: Retronautis Foto: https://felixarchief.antwerpen.be/detailpagina?invnr=GP_5640&dtnr=1224_40&dtrecordid=13613&page=1&pageSize=10&type=copy https://www.instagram.com/p/ClhCewWLmol/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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retronautis · 2 years

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Fifth Avenue - 1906 Rockaway is a term applied to two types of carriage: a light, low, United States four-wheel carriage with a fixed top and open sides that may be covered by waterproof curtains, and a heavy carriage enclosed at sides and rear, with a door on each side. The name may be derived from the town of Rockaway, New Jersey, where carriages were originally made.[1] It is featured in Herman Melville’s short story "Bartleby" as the narrator's mode of transport while avoiding the landlords and tenants looking for help in kicking Bartleby out. But the Long Island Museum of Art, American History and Carriages, located in Stony Brook, New York, has a different explanation of the name. According to the Museum, the carriage was designed and built in Jamaica, Queens—a major hub for New York City residents traveling to Long Island for recreation—and was called the Rockaway because it was used to shuttle passengers between Jamaica and the Atlantic Ocean beaches of Long Island's Rockaway Peninsula. Photo: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016802350/ Text: Wikipedia Colorized by: Retronautis (at Flatiron District, NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci740rvqrKv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Fifth Avenue - 1906 Rockaway is a term applied to two types of carriage: a light, low, United States four-wheel carriage with a fixed top and open sides that may be covered by waterproof curtains, and a heavy carriage enclosed at sides and rear, with a door on each side. The name may be derived from the town of Rockaway, New Jersey, where carriages were originally made.[1] It is featured in Herman Melville’s short story "Bartleby" as the narrator's mode of transport while avoiding the landlords and tenants looking for help in kicking Bartleby out. But the Long Island Museum of Art, American History and Carriages, located in Stony Brook, New York, has a different explanation of the name. According to the Museum, the carriage was designed and built in Jamaica, Queens—a major hub for New York City residents traveling to Long Island for recreation—and was called the Rockaway because it was used to shuttle passengers between Jamaica and the Atlantic Ocean beaches of Long Island's Rockaway Peninsula. Photo: https://www.loc.gov/item/2016802350/ Text: Wikipedia Colorized by: Retronautis (at Flatiron District, NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci74uwfqCGq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Borough Hall, Brooklyn - 1911 The Kings County Courthouse was built in 1868, turning this area – now known as Downtown Brooklyn – into a government center and busy area of commerce. In the 1940s, the Kings County Courthouse and other nearby buildings to the north were replaced by a complex of courthouses and a plaza in front of Borough Hall. The Fifth Avenue Line, also called the Fifth Avenue Elevated or Fifth Avenue–Bay Ridge Line, was an elevated rail line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. It ran above Hudson Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, Fifth Avenue, 38th Street, and Third Avenue from Downtown Brooklyn south to Bay Ridge. The statue of Columbus is now located on Cadman Plaza, a park located on the border of the Brooklyn Heights and Downtown Brooklyn neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York City Text: Retronautis, Wikipedia Photo: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-0ef0-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 Colorized by: Retronautis vintage #photography #vintagestyle #retro #art #vintagestyle #newyork #nyc #fashion #usa #newyorkcity #instagood #colour #artist #color #painting #drawing #retronautis #manhattan #travel #centralpark #timessquare #ladyliberty #america #bigapple #newyorker #photooftheday #libertyisland #travelphotography (at Brooklyn Borough Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cic7VfTqf-7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Borough Hall, Brooklyn - 1911 The Kings County Courthouse was built in 1868, turning this area – now known as Downtown Brooklyn – into a government center and busy area of commerce. In the 1940s, the Kings County Courthouse and other nearby buildings to the north were replaced by a complex of courthouses and a plaza in front of Borough Hall. The Fifth Avenue Line, also called the Fifth Avenue Elevated or Fifth Avenue–Bay Ridge Line, was an elevated rail line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. It ran above Hudson Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, Fifth Avenue, 38th Street, and Third Avenue from Downtown Brooklyn south to Bay Ridge. The statue of Columbus is now located on Cadman Plaza, a park located on the border of the Brooklyn Heights and Downtown Brooklyn neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York City Text: Retronautis, Wikipedia Photo: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-0ef0-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 Colorized by: Retronautis vintage #photography #vintagestyle #retro #art #vintagestyle #newyork #nyc #fashion #usa #newyorkcity #instagood #colour #artist #color #painting #drawing #retronautis #manhattan #travel #centralpark #timessquare #ladyliberty #america #bigapple #newyorker #photooftheday #libertyisland #travelphotography (at Brooklyn Borough Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cic2fGRKe4p/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Broadway - 19?? Located on 1511-1515 Broadway, between 44th and 45th Streets. Hotel Astor was a hotel on Times Square in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Built in 1905 and expanded in 1909–1910 for the Astor family, the hotel occupied a site bounded by Broadway, Shubert Alley, and 44th and 45th Streets.[1] Architects Clinton & Russell designed the hotel as a 11-story Beaux-Arts edifice with a mansard roof. It contained 1,000 guest rooms, with two more levels underground for its extensive "backstage" functions, such as the wine cellar. The hotel was developed as a successor to the Waldorf-Astoria. Hotel Astor's success triggered the construction of the nearby Knickerbocker Hotel by other members of the Astor family two years later. The building was razed in 1967 to make way for the high-rise office tower One Astor Plaza. Text: Wikipedia Photo: Detroit Publishing Company vintage #photography #vintagestyle #retro #art #vintagestyle #newyork #nyc #fashion #usa #newyorkcity #instagood #colour #artist #color #painting #drawing #retronautis #manhattan #travel #centralpark #timessquare #ladyliberty #america #bigapple #newyorker #photooftheday #libertyisland #travelphotography (at Broadway Manahattan NY) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiQB7o7KD7y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Frankrijklei - 19?? Een uniek zicht op de Frankrijklei! Op deze uiterst gedetailleerde foto ziet met o.a Het Leienpaleis, de Nationale bank en de Beob Bank. Men merkt ook op dat er een fontein, naar een ontwerp van architect Henri Beyaert uit 1886, zich voor de ingang van de Nationale Bank bevind. Hoe zalig het moet zijn geweest om rustig rond te kuieren of chill met de fiest rond de rijden voor het tijdperk van Koning Auto ! In het Leienpaleis, het best bewaarde oud herenhuis op de Frankrijklei, kan men de grandeur van die tijd bezichtigen met een hapje en een drankje! Foto : Felixarchief: https://felixarchief.antwerpen.be/detailpagina?invnr=GP_6828&dtnr=1224_40&dtrecordid=14800&page=1&pageSize=10&type=copy Text : Retronautis #retronautis #Belgie #Belgium #antwerpen #antwerp #visitantwerp #erfgoed #bestofantwerp #bestofbelgium #vlaanderen #thisisantwerp #stadsgids #history #anvers #vintage #tourism #historic #flanders #brabant #geschiedenis (at Het Leienpaleis) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiNqzpAr0Uu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Kattendijkdok - 1907 Op deze foto ziet men Prins Albert gekleed in uniform van Luitenant - Generaal en prinses Elisabeth met een in beige kleurig gebrocheerd costume met blauwe glazen hoed. Het echtpaar werd plechtig ontvangen door de Burgemeester Alfons Hertogs aan het centraal station onder passende muzikale begeleiding van patriotischtische aria’s. Nadat de prinses bloemen kreeg overhandigd van de kleindochter van de Burgemeester begaf het koninklijke gezelschap per koets naar de ere tribune aan het Kattendijkdok-Oost. Na een korte introductie speech van de Burgemeester richte de Prins zich in het Nederlands tot de genodigden: “De Prinses en ik bedanken u voor de minzame woorden en de vriendelijke ontvangst die het schepen college ons hier bereid heeft. Ik ben u erkentelijk dat ge mij de gelegenheid geeft mijn belangstelling voor de Antwerpse Haven te doen blijken. Met genoegen slluit ik me bij u aan om de grondleggers van dit werk lof toe te zwaaien.” Bron: Felixarchief Text: GVA #retronautis #Belgie #Belgium #antwerpen #antwerp #visitantwerp #erfgoed #bestofantwerp #bestofbelgium #vlaanderen #thisisantwerp #stadsgids #history #anvers #vintage #tourism #historic #flanders #brabant #geschiedenis (at Kattendijkdok-oostkaai) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChZc0Iyr_Rp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Frankrijklei - Ongedateerd De Frankrijklei werd ontworpen als een brede laan, bestaande uit een hoofdweg voor koetsen met daarnaast parallelle wegen bedoeld voor wandelaars, die gescheiden werden door bomenrijen. Afbeelding 8 toont het klassieke uitzicht van de Frankrijklei. Langs de boulevard werden tijdens de jaren 1860 en ’70 grote neoclassicistische burger- en herenhuizen opgericht met verzorgde façades. Deze rijke panden waren zeer populair onder de Antwerpse upper-class #retronautis #Belgie #Belgium #antwerpen #antwerp #visitantwerp #erfgoed #bestofantwerp #bestofbelgium #vlaanderen #thisisantwerp #stadsgids #history #anvers #vintage #tourism #historic #flanders #brabant #geschiedenis Foto: https://felixarchief.antwerpen.be/detailpagina?invnr=GP_39&dtnr=1224_40&dtrecordid=8018&page=1&pageSize=10&type=copy Text: https://docplayer.nl/215149717-Universiteit-antwerpen-interdisciplinair-onderzoeksproject-herenhuis-frankrijklei-109-en-koetshuis-rubenslei-27-te-antwerpen.html (at Frankrijklei) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgKYyx9rZLV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Fifth Avenu - 1895 Fifth Avenue North from 65th Street 1898, showing the Mrs. William Backhouse Astor Jr. and John Jacob Astor IV house in the foreground. The house was designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Later the Astors commissioned a new house further uptown to commission their hold on high society. After. In 1912, John Jacob Astor IV helped his wife board the last lifeboat of the RMS Titanic. He stayed behind and went down with the ship. Photo: Museum of the city of New York Text: Retronautis #vintage #photography #vintagestyle #retro #art #vintagestyle #newyork #nyc #fashion #usa #newyorkcity #instagood #colour #artist #color #painting #drawing #retronautis #manhattan #travel #centralpark #timessquare #ladyliberty #america #bigapple #newyorker #photooftheday #libertyisland #travelphotography (at Fifth Avenue) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeBO9buq5vr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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