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BCIU was formed November 10, 1955, at the White House Industrial Cooperation Council Conference, as an initiative directed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.It was established with the purpose of improving foreign understanding of business practices within the United States, [1] thereby lifting a national image that had suffered greatly through the course of the Cold War.
The 16-story Beaux-Arts style building was to a design by Starrett & van Vleck. [2] Built in 1911 for Mills & Gibb on the site of the old Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, [3] it boasted a frontage of 114 feet (35 m) on Fourth Avenue and 100 feet (30 m) on Twenty-second Street. [2]
Metropolitan Life had acquired the lot bounded by Madison Avenue, 24th Street, Fourth Avenue (now Park Avenue South), and 25th Street in September 1929. [11] Preliminary plans, submitted that October, proposed a 35-story building that would serve as a new "home office", supplanting the old "home office" in the Metropolitan Life Tower directly ...
Church Missions House (also known as 281 Park Avenue South) is a historic building at Park Avenue South and East 22nd Street in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Part of an area once known as "Charity Row", the building was designed by Robert W. Gibson and Edward J. Neville Stent, with a steel structure and medieval ...
The Church of the Epiphany is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 373 Second Avenue at the corner of East 22nd Street, in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It operates a co-educational PreK–8 Catholic school and Religious Education program.
Madison Square Park Tower, previously 45 East 22nd Street, is a skyscraper completed in 2017 and located between Broadway and Park Avenue South in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. [2] The building was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by Ian Bruce Eichner's Continuum Company.
Migrant brothel that operates 24 hours a day in seedy NYC ‘Market of Sweethearts’ raided by cops Carl Campanile, Joe Marino, Amanda Woods, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon September 19, 2024 at 12:42 PM
The 14th Street–Union Square station has historically ranked among the New York City Subway's busiest stations. [184] Although the station had only 14 million passengers in 1913, [ 185 ] this had increased to 40 million passengers per year in 1925 shortly after the opening of the Canarsie Line platform. [ 186 ]