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The Washington Square Arch, officially the Washington Arch, [1] is a marble memorial arch in Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by architect Stanford White in 1891, [ 2 ] it commemorates the centennial of George Washington's 1789 inauguration as President of the United ...
In the history of motion pictures in the United States, many films have been set in New York City, or a fictionalized version thereof. The following is a list of films and documentaries set in New York, however the list includes a number of films which only have a tenuous connection to the city. The list is sorted by the year the film was released.
The exhibition was to be located in the former main customs building in Stockholm harbor. After several years of financial issues the project was abandoned in 2009, and the building was instead set to hold a new contemporary photography exhibition, called Fotografiska. [3] New plans for a permanent ABBA exhibition were announced on 3 October 2012.
ABBA Voyage is a virtual concert residency by the Swedish pop group ABBA.The concerts feature virtual avatars (dubbed 'ABBAtars'), depicting the group as they appeared in 1979, and use vocals re-recorded by the group in a Swedish studio specifically for this show, accompanied by a 10 piece live instrumental band on stage. [2]
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), which owns The Sphere, considered placing the sculpture in Liberty Park, located between the 90 West Street building and the World Trade Center Memorial site. Liberty Park would not be constructed until at least 2014, so a temporary location was needed to place The Sphere. By February 2011 ...
[15] [16] [17] Gold Medal Studios became the largest film studio in the United States outside of Los Angeles at the time of its 1956 reopening, [15] expanding in 1958. [18] Gold Medal Studios building at 807 East 175th St & Marion Ave., in The Bronx, New York City, New York was photographed by Bronx Chamber of Commerce in 1957. [19]
The main floor of the tent had a large-scale Texaco highway map of New York state, made of 567 terrazzo panels. [233] [48] Each panel weighed 400 pounds (180 kg). The panels covered a total area of 9,000 square feet (840 m 2), [48] and the map had dimensions of 130 by 166 feet (40 by 51 m). [156] [234] The top of the map faced east. [235]
Conversely, the New-York Tribune described the arch as poorly placed, [197] and the Municipal Art Commission thought the arch faced the wrong way. [198] The Brooklyn Times-Union described the Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch as superior to Manhattan's Washington Square Arch [ 198 ] and, in 1913, described the arch as the "Arc de Triomphe of America".