Earlier this week, the statue of Dr. James Marion Sims that has lined the 5th avenue side of Central Park at 103rd street was removed by order of Mayor Bill de Blasio. In this excellent video from our friends at Vox, learn why.
On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 — New York removed the statue of J. Marion Sims as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s review of city markers that could be deemed “symbols of hate.”
From the very top of One World Trade Center, One World Observatory can see just about everything in New York City. While up on the 102nd floor, you can rent an iPad which has a special app on it containing augmented reality bits of information over the skyline you are seeing, plus these short, informative videos telling you what you are looking at. The One World Explorer app videos are now online, and in this one, learn the history of the New York Stock Exchange in just 41-seconds.
Captured on the north-west corner of 46th and Broadway looking south, this great vintage photograph shows a classy Times Square back in 1949. Here is a Google StreetView of how this same vantage point looks today:
