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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 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 ...
ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released on 21 September 1992 through PolyGram , making it the first compilation to be released after the company had acquired Polar Music , and thus the rights to the ABBA back catalogue.
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.
[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 Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper -clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France , was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its ...
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]
The Lafayette Memorial is a public memorial located in Brooklyn's Prospect Park in New York City.The memorial, designed by sculptor Daniel Chester French and architect Henry Bacon, was dedicated in 1917 and consists of a bas-relief of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette alongside a groom (speculated by some historians to be James Armistead Lafayette) and a horse.