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Die berühmten Strassenschluchten von New York haben mich durchaus sehr beeindruckt. The famous canyons of New York have me quite impressed. Crowne Plaza Hotel Times Square Manhattan - New York Amerika (America) September 2012 Redfield Plugin "Fine Touch" follow me on facebook: www.facebook.com/neumeier.carmen

51st Street & Madness by Jason Knauer

Warm December, 2015 night looking east from the outdoor roof deck lounge of The Press Lounge in Hell's Kitchen, New York City.

Commuters traverse Times Square capturing rushing to get home.

Sunset image of the Financial District and Word Trade One in Downtown Manhattan.

Mesmerized by the buzzing city of New York

Midtown Manhattan, or simply Midtown, is a geographic area of Manhattan, New York City. It is home to some of the city's most iconic buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the United Nations Headquarters. It contains world-famous commercial zones such as Rockefeller Center, Broadway, and Times Square. Midtown Manhattan is the largest central business district in the United States and ranks among the most intensely used pieces of real estate in the world. The majority of New York City's skyscrapers, including its tallest hotels and apartment towers, lie within Midtown. The area hosts commuters and residents working in its offices, hotels, and retail establishments; many tourists, visiting residents, and students populate the district. Some areas, such as Times Square and Fifth Avenue, have large clusters of retail stores. Sixth Avenue in Midtown holds the headquarters of three of the four major U.S. television networks. It is a growing center of finance, second in importance within the United States only to Downtown Manhattan's Financial District. Times Square is the center of Broadway theatre.

Visit my Website Like me on Facebook I am working in east coast these days. I flew my family with me on this trip. We went to New York for shopping and dinner. After dinner, when we were returning to hotel, my wife said, look at Manhattan skyline, it was looking stunningly beautiful and clear in night. We drove to Weehawken Waterfront Park on Jersey side to see the Manhattan skyline. We spent some time there and I took the opportunity to take few pictures. Later at hotel, I created this panorama with 5 images stitching together. Combined image is about 50 megapixels. You can print 24” X 72” image without pixilation. Contact me if you want to buy / use it. Thanks for visiting. Hope you like it. My 500 PX Profile

The ever changing New York Manhattan Skyline from Weehawken New Jersey as building activities are becoming as intense all over the island of Manhattan as I remember in my life time. New high-rises abound from the northern reaches of Central Park up at 110th all the way down to Battery Park the the New York Times has referred to ‘Skyscraper Wars’ and obviously this is a sign that New York City’s is doing well and progressing. The challenge for photographers who want to capture the skyline rich with a juxtaposition of classic and modern architecture however is that these modern marvels are slowly enveloping and obstructing the view of a few of old and classic art deco skyscrapers on the island. Capturing the prominently lit buildings in the image I have here is now proving to be quite a challenge, starting from left to right, the Empire State Building on 34th and Fifth, next to that the New Yorker Hotel with its distinct New Yorker red lettering, the monolithic One Penn Plaza with its red ‘1’, to the south or right the golden pyramid-like top of the New York Life building that’s actually built on the site of the original Madison Square Garden, to its south the MetLife Tower on 23rd street which along with the Empire State Building had a spell as tallest building in the World and finally the blue and white lights of the ConEdison Building on 14th Street. In this image, between the MetLife Tower and the ConEdison Building there is mass of lights from a huge new project called Hudson Yards where a small complex is being built over the train yards that terminate by the Hudson River that is an amazing feat of engineering. This building in this image is now twice the size from when I took this back in March of last year 2015 as its exterior nears completion (I’ll post some images soon), 10 Hudson Yards, the world headquarters of Coach Bags. It will be dwarfed by 30 Hudson Yards which will be Time Warner’s New York headquarters and studios (I’ve included a link about the Hudson Yards complex) on 34st where the Empire State Building is several avenues east. I saw it happen with the beautiful Chrysler Building on 42nd Street where it used to be visible from almost any angle from New Jersey not so anymore and slowly the even the Empire State Building is being surrounded, the views obstructed….change/evolution/progress is good….the only constant in life is change. Taken with Olympus E-5 using Olympus Zuiko 12-60MM F2.8 SWD lens on Slik 340DX tripod, HDR of RAW files processed in Photomatix and cleaned up in Adobe Lightroom. www.hudsonyardsnewyork.com/

F.A.O. Schwarz Fifth Avenue location back in 2012, located in the General Motors Building across from the famous Plaza Hotel closed last summer in July of 2015 but unlike in the past when a location in New York City closed, there was no new destination for the 150 year old retailer. F.A.O. Schwarz was bought by ToysRUs back in 2009, but like ToysRUs’s Times Square location which closed in December of 2015, the owner of the General Motors Building (which hasn’t been General Motor’s for a while now, they barely have a single floor of offices) was looking to greatly hike the rent when the lease was up so parent company ToysRUs made a deal to get out of the lease early, and end F.A.O.Schwarz’s reign as one of the World’s oldest toy stores. Their existence relegated to an online store. There has been talk that ToysRUs may seek another Manhattan location, but the likely location for a F.A.O.Schwarz boutique will probably be in the American Dream Mall in the New Jersey Meadowlands across the highway from MetLife Stadium when ToysRUs opens a new megastore within the Mall. Frederick August Otto Schwarz the youngest of three brothers was born in Germany and in 1856 immigrated to the United States, specifically Baltimore Maryland where his two older brothers were living. Six years later in 1862, the Schwarz Brothers opened their first toy retail establishment in Baltimore, ‘Toy Bazaar’. The successful venture spawned stores in Boston then Philadelphia. Frederick opened a ‘Toy Bazaar’ in New York in 1870 on Broadway, but his vision for the establishment differed from his older siblings. The youngest Schwarz truly loved toys and it was his vision to provide toys for children that were amazing and cool. The New York establishment was stocked with exclusive and specially crafted exquisite toys from Europe. Fredrick’s vision was a great success, so much so that by 1876 ‘Toy Bazaar’ opened a second New York City location in a much larger location. In 1889 Fredrick started to use the name FAO Schwarz in the advertisements in the newspapers, when the store relocated further uptown to 23rd Street in 1897, it was officially FAO Schwarz. Fredrick passed away in 1911, but his legacy lived on. In 1931 the FAO Schwarz store moved to 745 Fifth Avenue for 55 years until it relocated to its final destination at the General Motors Building where it remained until last summer. The store was a tourist magnet, but like ToysRUs’s Times Square location, the large percentage of visitors were lookers not purchasers. The truth is that as consumers continue to migrate more and more to online purchasing, in high price locales like New York’s Fifth Avenue, it will become more and more difficult to justify paying exorbitant rents for establishments that don’t bring enough to cover their basic costs. So these locations will become the home of high end exclusive retailers as is already happening. In this picture taken of the Fifth Avenue entrance, on the glass is a clear reflection of the historic Plaza Hotel which is directly across the street. Captured with Olympus Evolt E-510 using an Olympus Zuiko 14-42MM F3.5-5.6 lens, processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. www.fao.com/home/index.jsp