#madisonsquare

[aaliyahunleashed]

#OnThisDay December 31, 1998

Aaliyah appears on the MTV Total Request Live Top 100 Countdown for all the hits for the year of 1998 in preperation of the coming of the new year (1999).

At 11pm EST on this day, she later goes down to the street level and is seen sporting her 1999 New Years glasses and dressed from head to toe in an all black outfit (coat, gloves and all), preparing for the countdown to begin.

[summerrrrrrrrrrrrr]

newyorkrry 2013/2021 🥺

OH I'M GOING TO CRYY

[wanderingnewyork]

Buildings at Madison Square, Manhattan

[railwayhistorical]

On my Way to Work, Part Three

I’ll do a short series of posts now showing what I saw every day on my way to work back in 1991 or 1992. Picking up from my previous post at the Empire State Building, I’ll continue down Fifth Avenue to my destination on 22nd Street.

I’m not certain of the use of, or need for, the netting we see strung up over the sidewalk at the ESB—perhaps the facade of the great edifice was being worked on. A bit further downtown of that icon is yet another—the Flatiron Building, located on 23rd Street and Broadway, adjacent to Madison Square Park.

[I have no picture, here, but there is yet another iconic structure off Madison Square Park—the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, built a few years after the Flatiron, in 1909.]

While the Flatiron, originally called the Fuller Building, was completed in 1902, it cannot be said to be one of the earliest skyscrapers, much to my surprise. This term came to be used in the 19th century (in Chicago) for buildings that used steel for a sturdy skeleton as well as elevators (invented by some guy named Otis) to get people up and down without the need to take to the stairs. The Flatiron, however, could be called one of the most distinctive of skyscrapers. The second and third images presented here provide that distinctive shape one might think of for the Flatiron. And the final picture shows that I could actually gaze upon the Fifth Avenue and 22nd Street sides of the famous building while in the studio where I worked—as long as I opened the window and leaned a fair bit outward!

Four images by Richard Koenig; taken 1991 or 1992.

[nyc-urbanism]

The Metropolitan Life Tower in #MadisonSquare was the tallest building in the world from 1909 to 1913 – before being surpassed by the #Woolworth – and had the highest elevators in the world. The highest elevator traveled 586 feet from the basement to the top of the tower at a speed of 600 feet per minute, the maximum permitted by the Department of Buildings in 1910. As seen in the image above, the heavy elevator motors were installed in the tight space at the tip of the tower above the elevators. #metlifetower #madisonsquarepark #skyscraper #architecture #archilovers #structuralengineering #otiselevators #buildingtechnology #architecturehistory #nomad #urbanism #nycurbanism (at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower)

[hnrqoli]

The Beastie Boys chasing Madonna with squirt guns at Madison Square Garden, 1985

[spookymagoo]

Morning world .. #Repost @happilee_hee ・・・ 마스오빠 짱 아정말 뉴욕온이후로 제일 보람차다 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ #브루노마스 #24k #tour #concert #nyc #madisonsquare #msg #newyork #usa #매디슨스퀘어가든 #뉴욕 #뉴욕시티 #미국 #여행에미치다 #여행스타 #미국여행 #뉴욕슽ㄴ #힐링 #몇년만의콘서트인가 #brunomars #trip #travel #refreshment #맞팔 #선팔 #인친

[rie-k-photo]

Madison Square Park by EagleEyez http://flic.kr/p/Rp7rah