Interesting places in Collect Pond (site):

Triumph of the Human Spirit Memorial		Criminal Courthouse
Foley Square		New York City Hospital Corp
Thomas Paine Park		New York Supreme Court
New York Family Court		Site of the Tombs Prison
Site of Cow Bay

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United States Courthouse
Made by Emilio Guerra
Civic Center, Manhattan This imposing-neo-classical skyscraper, begun in 1933, was the last building designed by the noted American architect Cass Gilbert, who died in 1934 while the courthouse was under construction. It was completed by his son, Cass Gilbert, Jr. Gilbert was born in 1853 in Zanesville, Ohio, studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then joined the prestigious firm of McKim, Mead & White as Stanford White's personal assistant. In 1882, he left New York to open his own architectural office in St. Paul, Minnesota, where his best known work was the State Capitol, designed in 1896 and completed in 1903. After he won the competition of 1905 for the United States Custom House at Bowling Green—now a designated New York City Landmark—he moved back to this city. With the completion of the Woolworth Building in 1913—then and for many years the tallest building in the world—he gained international fame. The innovations necessary for the construction of such a high building reflected his lifelong interest in structural techniques. Among his best known later buildings are the West Virginia State Capitol, the Detroit Public Library, the United States Chamber of Commerce and the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D. C., the New York County Lawyers' Association Building, another New York City Landmark, and the New York Life Insurance Building. Gilbert felt that the key to good architecture was proportion. By this he meant not only the ratio of various elements to each other, but also the amount of decoration, and a style that was appropriate to the building's function. It was not then considered inappropriate for a commercial skyscraper, such as the Woolworth Building, to be a neo-Gothic structure—it was, after all, a cathedral of commerce—but it was generally assumed that a government building, such as a state capitol or a courthouse, should be classical in style. This solution to the problem of the skyscraper worked very well in the design of the United States Courthouse. As seen from a distance, it is the tower of the building, with its golden pyramidal roof, that dominates. From Foley Square, the monumental colonnade at the entrance is the dominant architectural feature, in the tradition of the adjoining New York County Courthouse and the Municipal Building. Interestingly enough, this colonnade theme is repeated in the arrangement of stilts supporting the new annex to the United States Courthouse located on Police Plaza. Following the principles of classical architecture, the building is divided into three parts, reflecting the principal features of a column: the base, the shaft, and the capital. The base of the courthouse Is irregularly shaped, express ing the shape of the lot. The back of the building, toward Cardinal Place, is rounded, and the facades on Pearl Street and Police Plaza each have a pair of engaged columns flanked by pilasters. These are all narrow streets, however, and it is the colonnaded portico on the Foley Square front of the building that forms the visual base of the entire composition. Here, the building projects slightly forward, emphasizing the base in relation to the shaft or tower above it. The portico, approached by a broad flight of steps, is supported by a colonnade consisting of ten four-story high unfluted Corinthian columns and is flanked by piers framed by pilasters. A frieze above bears the Inscription United States Court House. This entablature, adorned with guilloche motifs above the piers t each end, is surmounted by a dentiled cornice and a low attic story pierced by square windows separated by carved pilasters. At each end of the attic story there is a man's head carved in bas-relief. A bronze flagpole rises above the Reenter of this base section of the building. The square main tower is set back from this base and rises twenty stories above it. The first sixteen stories are given vertical emphasis by the shafts on each side, which separate the tiers of windows. The windows are separated horizontally from each other by rectangular spandrel panels. Surmounting the seventeenth story, a dentiled cornice sets off the three stories above it, which are treated as a unit. The lowest of these three floors, with small square windows, acts as a visual base for the other two which have high round-arched windows surmounted by small square ones, separated and enhanced by two-story pilasters. The end bays at the corners are of solid masonry pierced by slit windows. This section is crowned by a pierced stone parapet with urns at the corners emphasizing the setback of the tower section above it. The setback portion, supporting the pyramidal roof, rises behind the parapet and in its enrichment may be considered the capital of the columnar form. Five bays on each side provide depth: the windows are separated by three-story high, engaged Ionic columns with paired pilasters lending solidity to the corners. A shallow cornice and low attic story crowns the topmost section of the tower with eagles at the corners connected by simple low parapets. These elements form the' base for the pyramidal roof which is adorned with gold leaf. At the base of the roof, a small pedimented dormer lends emphasis at the center of each side, while three tiers of diminutive dormers adorn the upper portions of the sides. The pyramidal roof is crowned by a small gold-leafed lantern which has a railing at its base and is crowned by corner finials and a steep roof with an oblong finial. FINDINGS AND DESIGNATIONS On the basis of a careful consideration of the history, the architecture and other features of this building, the Landmarks Preservation Commission finds that the United States Courthouse has a special character, special historical and aesthetic interest and value as part of the development, heritage and cultural characteristics of New York City. The Commission further finds that, among its important qualities, the United States Courthouse is one of the most imposing skyscrapers of the 1930s, that it was designed in the neo-classical governmental style of the period by the architect Cass Gilbert, best remembered for the Woolworth Building, that the main shaft of the courthouse rises above an impressive portico which provides an architectural focus for Foley Square, and that it is in the tradition of the adjoining government buildings, the New York County Courthouse and the Municipal Building. - From the 1975 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report


NYC: New York County Courthouse and Triumph of Human Spirit
Made by wallyg
The Supreme Courthouse (New York County Court) overlooks Foley Square and is located between Worth and Pearl Streets. The building houses the Supreme Court and the Office of the County Clerk. In 1927 the New York County Court moved from the old Tweed Courthouse to this spacious granite-faced building. The Boston architect Guy Lowell won a competition in 1913 with a design for a round building. Construction was delayed and the design altered to a hexagonal form; work finally began in 1919. The Roman classical style chosen was popular for courthouse architecture in the first decades of the 20th century. The courthouse was the first major New York commission for the well-known Boston architect Guy Lowell (1870-1927). He designed the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the building plan for Philips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. He was also a landscape architect and designed formal gardens for Andrew Carnegie and J. Pierpont Morgan in New York. The courthouse rises above a 100-foot wide flight of steps to an imposing colonnade of 10 granite fluted Corinthian columns. Above the columns are engraved words of George Washington: The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government. Above this is a triangular pediment, 140-feet long, with 14 classical figures in high relief. Along the huge roofline are three statues representing Law, Truth and Equity. All of the pediment sculpture was carved by Frederick Warren Allen. The monument Triumph of the Human Spirit by Lorenzo Pace is the world’s largest site-specific installation venerating the experience of African American enslavement. Towering over fifty feet and weighing more than 300 tons, the massive black granite sculpture was built near a rediscovered African burial ground. The sculpture depicts an abstract female antelope form, mounted on a boat shaped base. The piece is inspired by “Chi Wara,” an antelope effigy from West Africa that symbolizes a responsibility for continuing the next generation and for celebrating a successful harvest. Triumph of the Human Spirit serves as a monument to honor all Africans brought to America but is also dedicated to all ancestors, as well as the future generations to come. Foley Square is named for Thomas F. “Big Tom” Foley (1852-1925), a prominent Democratic Party leader from the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Foley left school at the age of thirteen to support his widowed mother, working for a period as a blacksmith’s helper. In 1877 he began his active connection with politics as a Tammany election district captain and rose to be First Assembly District leader.


New York State Supreme Courthouse
Made by navema
60 Centre Street, NYC www.navema.com The New York State Supreme Court was established in 1691, making it the oldest continuing court of general jurisdiction in the United States. The Supreme Courthouse (New York County Court) overlooks Foley Square and is located between Worth and Pearl Streets. The building houses the Supreme Court and the Office of the County Clerk. In 1927 the New York County Court moved from the old Tweed Courthouse to this spacious granite-faced building. The Boston architect Guy Lowell won a competition in 1913 with a design for a round building. Construction was delayed and the design altered to a hexagonal form; work finally began in 1919. The Roman classical style chosen was popular for courthouse architecture in the first decades of the 20th century. The courthouse was the first major New York commission for the well-known Boston architect Guy Lowell (1870-1927). He designed the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the building plan for Philips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. He was also a landscape architect and designed formal gardens for Andrew Carnegie and J. Pierpont Morgan in New York. The courthouse rises above a 100-foot wide flight of steps to an imposing colonnade of 10 granite fluted Corinthian columns. Above the columns are engraved words attributed to George Washington: The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government. Above this is a triangular pediment, 140-feet long, with 14 classical figures in high relief. Along the huge roofline are three statues representing Law, Truth and Equity. All of the pediment sculpture was carved by Frederick Warren Allen. The monumental character of the exterior continues on the interior, with its central rotunda and radial corridors. In the 1930s, under the sponsorship of the federal government's artists' relief programs, Attilio Pusterla painted a series of murals on the vestibule ceiling and on the rotunda dome. The New York State Supreme Court building was designated a City Landmark in 1966.


City Hall
Made by Emilio Guerra
Civic Center, Manhattan The New York City Hall is the most beautiful city hall in the United states. It was designed in competition in the Federal Style of architecture with considerable French influence. It is basiMlly C-shaped in plan with two end wings projected forward at the front. This fine marble building consists of two stories above a high basement. At the center an attic story rises above the main roof level and is surmounted by a handsome domed cupola. In front of the central section, of the building, an imposing porch with columns rises above a sweuping flight of stairs which approach it from three sides. The roof of the porch, with a railing (balustrade), forms an open deck in front of five large arched windows set between columns. The great size of these second floor windows relative to the masonry surraunding them is reminiscent of the famous French palace greenhouses (orangeries) and represents a radical piece of design for this country in Federal times. Historically, City Hall is important as the building which, for over one hundred and fifty years, has been the seat of City government. Through its doors have passed all the great personages most intimately connected with the development of this City. Many portraits of these notables adorn its walls today. In addition it has done honor to the dead. The bodies of Lincoln and Grant have lain in state within its walls. The architectural importance of this building is to be found in its superb proportions and in the beautiful French detail of its exterior and central rotunda. This part of the design may be attributed to the French architect in producing this masterpiece. The more strictly Federal detail of the handsome interior rooms has been attributed to McComb and is typical of the Federal work being designed in this country at that time. - From the 1966 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report


Ahrens Building
Made by Emilio Guerra
Lafayette Street, Civic Center, Manhattan, New York City Designed by Manhattan architect George H. Griebel, and constructed in 1894-95, the Ahrens Building is a distinctive example of the Romanesque Revival style successfully adapted to the requirements of a steel-framed elevator building. Griebel's design incorporates a sophisticated arcaded composition, punctuated by unusual and elegant metalclad polygonal oriel windows in the long Lafayette Street facade, which provides a pleasing balance of horizontal and vertical elements. The design displays a skillful interpretation of the contemporary aesthetic of structural polychromy - drawn from the writings, of John Ruskin and often associated with the work of H.H. Richardson -- pared down to a spare, membrane-like facade treatment. The masonry cladding, composed of a rusticated sandstone base and buff-colored brick trimmed with rock-faced brown brick and Romanesque-inspired terra-cotta details, exhibits particularly fine craftsmanship which accentuates the color and texture inherent in the various materials. The extensive use of brick with curved bull-nose profiles, found in the window reveals and the bartizan-like forms at the upper stories, gives the facades a striking textural quality enhanced by the play of light and shadow. This seven-story store and office building was commissioned by liquor merchant Herman F. Ahrens, whose business had been located on the Lafayette Street blockfront for thirty years; intended as a speculative investment, the construction of the building coincided with a municipal project to widen and improve Lafayette Street as a viable transportation route and commercial thoroughfare. Owned by the Ahrens family until the 1960s, the building is remarkably intact and remains a prominent feature in the civic center area. - From the 1992 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report


NYC - Civic Center - New York County Courthouse
Made by wallyg
The Supreme Courthouse (New York County Court) overlooks Foley Square and is located between Worth and Pearl Streets. The building houses the Supreme Court and the Office of the County Clerk. In 1927 the New York County Court moved from the old Tweed Courthouse to this spacious granite-faced building. The Boston architect Guy Lowell won a competition in 1913 with a design for a round building. Construction was delayed and the design altered to a hexagonal form; work finally began in 1919. The Roman classical style chosen was popular for courthouse architecture in the first decades of the 20th century. The courthouse was the first major New York commission for the well-known Boston architect Guy Lowell (1870-1927). He designed the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the building plan for Philips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. He was also a landscape architect and designed formal gardens for Andrew Carnegie and J. Pierpont Morgan in New York. The courthouse rises above a 100-foot wide flight of steps to an imposing colonnade of 10 granite fluted Corinthian columns. Above the columns are engraved words of George Washington: The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government. Above this is a triangular pediment, 140-feet long, with 14 classical figures in high relief. Along the huge roofline are three statues representing Law, Truth and Equity. All of the pediment sculpture was carved by Frederick Warren Allen. Foley Square is named for Thomas F. “Big Tom” Foley (1852-1925), a prominent Democratic Party leader from the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Foley left school at the age of thirteen to support his widowed mother, working for a period as a blacksmith’s helper. In 1877 he began his active connection with politics as a Tammany election district captain and rose to be First Assembly District leader.


NYC: US Courthouse and Triumph of Human Spirit
Made by wallyg
The U.S. Courthouse was built as the Federal courthouse in New York City. Design work was started in 1933 and, after Cass Gilbert's (Woolworth Building) death the next year, supervised by his son until its completion in 1936. The six-storey base of the building is reminiscent of a Classical temple with its pilastered facades and colonnaded entrance, and rising from this is the sturdy 32-storey tower, topped by a pyramidal roof clad in gilded terra-cotta and a lantern. The monument Triumph of the Human Spirit by Lorenzo Pace is the world’s largest site-specific installation venerating the experience of African American enslavement. Towering over fifty feet and weighing more than 300 tons, the massive black granite sculpture was built near a rediscovered African burial ground. The sculpture depicts an abstract female antelope form, mounted on a boat shaped base. The piece is inspired by “Chi Wara,” an antelope effigy from West Africa that symbolizes a responsibility for continuing the next generation and for celebrating a successful harvest. Triumph of the Human Spirit serves as a monument to honor all Africans brought to America but is also dedicated to all ancestors, as well as the future generations to come. Foley Square is named for Thomas F. “Big Tom” Foley (1852-1925), a prominent Democratic Party leader from the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Foley left school at the age of thirteen to support his widowed mother, working for a period as a blacksmith’s helper. In 1877 he began his active connection with politics as a Tammany election district captain and rose to be First Assembly District leader.


NYC - Civic Center - Foley Square
Made by wallyg
Hay-l-apy-ee-che-quay-hee-las, The Place Where the Sun is Born, Menesenek on the Island, Munsee, People of the Stony Country The land on which you presently stand orginally formed the edge of the largest body of fresh water on the island now called Manhattan. On rocky bluffs to the west of this large poind indigenous peoples feasted on oysters that were commonly as large as one foot. Expert navigators, the Lenape carved boats from timber logs by burning and seraping. These ocean-going vessels were used for traveling, fishing and whaling. For thousands of years, this land was inhabited by the Lenape people. They belonged to the tribes or clans symbolized by the wolf, the turtle or the turkey. These three animals also represented the three key elements on which the Lenape people relied for their survival--earth, water and sky--the three natural domains of all living creatures. A Southern branch of the Lenape of Delaware Indians, the Munsee tribe, fished, farmed and hunted on this island. William Penn described their appearance as Tall, straight, well-built...they tread strong. The homeland of the Lenape, Lenapehoking, was a vast domain that stretched along the Atlantic Coast from what is now New York Bay to Delaware Bay, between the Hudson and Delaware River valleys.


Sam Raimi
Made by Mirka23
So, this photo is not the greatest quality, but what can you do? It's completely my fault - I had turned the flash off so that I could take pictures of the set without intruding, and it really should have been turned back on for this, because they had just finished shooting and the light was fading fast. Well, it captures the moment. And I have to add that I still think Sam Raimi is the nicest person in showbusiness. (I've heard rumors that he has become mean since his films got so successful, and I just don't believe it). I wasn't even going to bother him, because he looked so tired as he was leaving the set, but this couple approached him and he seemed ok with taking a picture with them, so I decided to go for it. I was trying to be extra polite, just in case, so I said Mr. Raimi, could I trouble you for a photo? and he said I would be honored. In the course of our very brief conversation I told him I was excited to see the movie and he thanked me for saying such nice things and I told him that I worked nearby and I enjoyed having the chance to see them film and he thanked me for coming down to the set!


On Top of the World.
Made by Spencer Photography
I told you all I was holding the best for last. Wow. Every time I look at this picture printed out at 13 x 19 I'm blown away. I still remember the moment exactly. We were nearing the end of our incredible vacation in NYC, it was absolutely amazing. From the Broadway musical, to walking the streets at night. This was up there with the Musical for being my favorite part of the trip. The top of the Empire State Building. Absolutely amazing, looking down at the city lights, I still am breathless looking at the printed version of this. It's Canadian Thanksgiving today, happy Thanksgiving to all of you Canadian out there! I'm extremely thankful for all the opportunities I am blessed with every single day. I hope everyone has an awesome week! Thanks for all of your critique, suggestions, ideas, tips and general comments / favorites. It's (as always) greatly appreciated and always welcome! :) Front Page EXPLORED! & page hit 70,739 views! Thank you all SO much, I'm so honored!!!


New York County Courthouse (New York State Supreme Court)
Made by Emilio Guerra
Civic Center, Manhattan The portico on the front of this great courthouse creates an extremely imposing entrance with its monumental columns and pediment surmounted by three large, sculptured figures. The sides of the building repeat the scale of the portico with impressive pilasters set between the windows. The remarkable shape of this building is notable, and the courthouse relates well in scale with its neighbors on Foley Square. The handsome detail and use of fine materials characterize it as an outstanding example of Civic architecture. This good design resulted from a competition held by New York City. The hexagonal plan of this building alone gives it an unusual degree of importance. In addition to this feature, its imposing proportions and rich detail make it notable. It has an overall grandeur which is in keeping with its function in housing the New York State Supreme Court Judges for New York County. - From the 1966 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report



Made by maddie.brown
Ryan Kelly --- so i went to this retreat with a club i belong to called challenge. it was AMAZING (and i don't say amazing simply because i got some quality time with jesus (success). but the architecture of the building was AMAZING! seriously! i quote ryan: it's like, a playground for photographers. and then, the land it sat on was amazing, too! i mean seriously, acres of grass and trees. i just wanted to run and run and run and never, ever stop. (while dodging the goose crap, of course) and we did this cheesy ritual thing, you know? the ones where you scream something at the top of your lungs, just to mark that moment? we screamed 2010. wow, monumental. ha. anyways, then we found golfballs here and there in the field. we each took one home. yes. yes we are that awesome. be jealous. SO much fun. can't wait for next year


United States Courthouse
Made by Emilio Guerra
Civic Center, Manhattan This imposing-neo-classical skyscraper, begun in 1933, was the last building designed by the noted American architect Cass Gilbert, who died in 1934 while the courthouse was under construction. It was completed by his son, Cass Gilbert, Jr. Gilbert was born in 1853 in Zanesville, Ohio, studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then joined the prestigious firm of McKim, Mead & White as Stanford White's personal assistant. In 1882, he left New York to open his own architectural office in St. Paul, Minnesota, where his best known work was the State Capitol, designed in 1896 and completed in 1903. After he won the competition of 1905 for the United States Custom House at Bowling Green


NYC - Civic Center - Avenue of the Strongest
Made by wallyg
Avenue of the Strongest was named in 1996 in honor of the men and women of the city's Department of Sanitation after a winter of 16 snowstorms during which they plowed 7 1/2 feet of snow from the city streets. The headquarters of the Department of Sanitation is on Worth Street. Centre Street, originally called Collect Street, was laid over Collect Pond, which was filled in early in the 19th century. The street name was changed in 1928 to identify it as terminating at Centre Market. Worth Street was named for Major General William Jenkins Worth (1749-1849), second in command to Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War. He died in conflict and is buried in .


Ronnie
Made by smoothdude
Ronnie is a constant character in downtown Manhattan. He can almost always be found on Lafayette street one block north of Worth Street. He makes canes using wood he finds and some kind of laquer.. the thing is though that he gives them out for free and gave me one. I bought him a sandwich once but he has never asked for money. He even helps out one of the tin can coffee cart guys sometimes..runs errands for him. Occasionally people like this will dissapear sometimes for a month and I always think they must have died.. but then they show up again good as new. amazing. www.danielkrieger.com


Bodies of Pyongyang in Foley Square
Made by jnap
New York City, New York. Bodies of Pyongyang is a public visual art performance installation--twenty girls wear North Korean schoolgirl uniforms situated inside a (70x70x70) clear cube box installation, located at multiple outdoor venues across Manhattan. These tightly packed schoolgirls will try to move within the confined area expressing their emotional pain and struggle. Red strings symbolizing their dual inner states of suppression and resistance entangle the girls, further restricting their freedom to move inside this already constricting and hermetic space.


Gilded tower of the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse
Made by epicharmus
The last work of Cass Gilbert, the architect behind the Woolworth Building, and one of the last Neoclassical Federal buildings constructed in Manhattan. It is composed of a base constructed like a Greek Temple and a tower topped with a gilded pyramid. Later, it was renamed to honor Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall. I say a little more about the courthouse on my New York City landmarks blog, The Masterpiece Next Door. National Register Number US Courthouse: 87001596


In New York Freedom Looks Like...Too Many Choices
Made by CiaoChessa
In New York I found a friend...to drown out the other voices Something about this sad, abandoned alley caught my attention...this is what I love about NY...the contradictions, the quiet beauty. Somehow, this dank and dirty-looking alley seems beautiful and perfect in its dark and lonely splendor...if you see it, not just look at it, you know what I mean. flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=178119332&...


Buffered Centre Street Northbound Extension
Made by bicyclesonly
A pleasant surprise to find that this extension of the Centre Street bike lane north of the Brooklyn Bridge plaza is proceeding apace. It serves as the northbound counterpart to the downtown Lafayette segment, another sign that DoT has figured out that standalone one-way routes do not a connected system make. It's a small buffer, but better than none. and I hope they plan to keep the cones/barrels in places (or better yet, replace them with plastic bollards!)


Equality: Gay Marriage Hits NYC
Made by Dan Love
ISO 200 | 17mm | f4 | 1/320 Got up early today to head down to City Hall with a journalist friend to try my hand at some reportage on the first day of gay marriage in the state. A great day for New York that I was happy to witness firsthand and participate in as a wannabe newspaper photographer. Even managed to hustle my way into the mix with the pros... loved it. Plenty more in the comments. Congratulations to everybody tying the knot in NYC today!