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NYC - UES: Junior League of the City of New York
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The Vincent and Helen Astor House, now the Junior League of the City of New York, at 130 East 80th Street was designed by Mott B. Schmidt in 1927-28. This 5-story limestone town house is closedly modeled after Robert Adam's Neo-Classical Society of Arts Buildings at the Adelphi in London.
Constructed of ashlar masonry of Roche limestone imported from France, the facade has a flat, low relief quality. Under the central understated windows, the dobule doors have an Ionic portico that frames the main entrance. Above the portico are four Ionic plasters, which rise through the second and third floors.
The residence was built for millionaire real-estate owner and social reformer Vincent Astor, head of the American Branch of the Astor Family, whose father Colonel John Jacob Astor died in the sinking of the Titantic.. Astor's fortune was used to establish the Vincent Astor Fund, which has benefited major social welfare projects in New York City and assisted such institutions as the New York Public Library and the Bronx Zoo.
In 1943 the house was sold to Mrs. Bertha Rainey Plum, and in late 1947 it was acquired by the Junior League of New York City, which took possession in 1949. The New York Junior League (NYJL) was founded in 1901 in New York CIty by Mary Harriman, daughter of the wealthy railroad executive Edward H. Harriman. An organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers it is one of the largest volunteer service organizations in New York City, with approximately 2,800 volunteers who contribute more than 250,000 hours of service annually.
Eleanor Roosevelt first entered public life when she became involved in settlement work in New York City with the Junior League.
The Vincent and Helen Astor House, now the Junior League of the City of New York, was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Commission in 1967.
East 80th Street Houses National Historic Register #80002686 (1980)
Globe skaters
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1,255-acre park
Created as the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair, on a former dump site known as the Corona Ash Dumps, it also hosted the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Publicly developed by the City of New York, under the oversight of Parks Commissioner Robert Moses.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Meadows–Corona_Park
www.nycgovparks.org/park-features/virtual-tours/flushing-...
www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fmcp
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/for-protectors-of-f...
Unisphere:
"Designed by landscape architect Gilmore D. Clarke, the Unisphere was donated by the United States Steel Corporation and constructed by the American Bridge Company. . . On May 10, 1995, the Unisphere was given official landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission."
Fountain reopened in 2010.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisphere
www.nycgovparks.org/park-features/virtual-tours/flushing-...
Featured in the video for "Melancholia" by William Basinski:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUhimrxosdw
(as well as in many other films etc.)
Queens Museum of Art:
Architect: Aymar Embury II
Opened: 1939
Renovated 1964 by Daniel Chait.
Renovated in 1994 by Rafael Viñoly.
Expansion scheduled in 2013, under the helm of Grimshaw Architects with Ammann & Whitney as engineers.
"Built to house the New York City Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair, where it housed displays about municipal agencies. . . . It is now the only surviving building from the 1939/40 Fair. After the World’s Fair, the building became a recreation center for the newly created Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The north side of the building, now the Queens Museum, housed a roller rink and the south side offered an ice rink. . . . From 1946 to 1950 . . . it housed the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations. . . . In 1972 the north side of the New York City Building was handed to the Queens Museum of Art (or as it was then known, the Queens Center for Art and Culture)."
The other half of the building was an ice-skating rink from 1939–2009.
www.queensmuseum.org
www.queensmuseum.org/about/aboutbuilding-history
twitter.com/QueensMuseum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Museum_of_Art
www.facebook.com/QueensMuseum
vimeo.com/queensmuseum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymar_Embury_II
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammann_%26_Whitney
grimshaw-architects.com
