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2 Columbus Circle (formerly the Gallery of Modern Art and the New York Cultural Center) is a nine-story building on the south side of Columbus Circle in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.^[1]

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A&P

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, was an American chain of grocery stores that operated from 1859 to 2015.

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Abe Feder

Abraham Hyman Feder (July 27, 1908, Milwaukee, Wisconsin – April 24, 1997, Manhattan, New York) was an American lighting designer.

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Abraham Beame

Abraham David Beame (né Birnbaum; March 20, 1906February 10, 2001) was an American accountant, investor, and Democratic Party politician who was the 104th mayor of New York City, in office from 1974 to 1977.

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Ada Louise Huxtable

Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was an American architecture critic and writer on architecture.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.

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Aeolian-Skinner

Æolian-Skinner Organ Company, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts was an American builder of a large number of pipe organs from its inception as the Skinner Organ Company in 1901 until its closure in 1972.

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Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static "stabiles", and his monumental public sculptures.

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American Institute of Architects

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States.

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Andrew Alper

Andrew Alper was the President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC).

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Architectural design competition

An architectural design competition is a type of design competition in which an organization that intends on constructing a new building invites architects to submit design proposals.

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Architectural drawing

An architectural drawing or architect's drawing is a technical drawing of a building (or building project) that falls within the definition of architecture.

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Architectural model

An architectural model is a type of scale model made to study aspects of an architectural design or to communicate design intent.

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Architectural terracotta

Architectural terracotta refers to a fired mixture of clay and water that can be used in a non-structural, semi-structural, or structural capacity on the exterior or interior of a building.

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Édouard Manet

Édouard Manet (23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter.

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Bernard Tschumi

Bernard Tschumi (born 25 January 1944 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is an architect, writer, and educator, commonly associated with deconstructivism.

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Brad Cloepfil

Brad Cloepfil (born 1956) is an American architect, educator and principal of Allied Works Architecture of Portland, Oregon and New York City.

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Broadway (Manhattan)

Broadway is a road in the U.S. state of New York. 2 Columbus Circle and Broadway (Manhattan) are Midtown Manhattan.

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Central Park

Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City that was the first landscaped park in the United States. 2 Columbus Circle and Central Park are Midtown Manhattan.

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Central Park Place

Central Park Place is a residential condominium building in the Hell's Kitchen and Midtown Manhattan neighborhoods of New York City. 2 Columbus Circle and Central Park Place are Eighth Avenue (Manhattan).

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Central Park Tower

Central Park Tower is a residential supertall skyscraper at 225 West 57th Street, along Billionaires' Row, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the building rises with 98 above-ground stories and three basement stories, although the top story is numbered 136. 2 Columbus Circle and Central Park Tower are Broadway (Manhattan) and Midtown Manhattan.

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Charles Bluhdorn

Charles George Bluhdorn (born Karl Georg Blühdorn; September 20, 1926 – February 19, 1983) was an Austrian-born American industrialist. 2 Columbus Circle and Charles Bluhdorn are Gulf and Western Industries.

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Chevrolet

Chevrolet, colloquially referred to as Chevy, is an American automobile division of the manufacturer General Motors (GM).

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City block

A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design.

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Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.

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Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) is the architecture school of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Columbus Circle

Columbus Circle is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South (West 59th Street), and Central Park West, at the southwest corner of Central Park. 2 Columbus Circle and Columbus Circle are Broadway (Manhattan), Eighth Avenue (Manhattan) and Midtown Manhattan.

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Concrete

Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.

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Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

The Contemporary Art Museum St.

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Cosentini Associates

Cosentini Associates is an engineering firm that provides consulting engineering services for the building industry.

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Dahesh Museum of Art

The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only museum in the United States devoted to the collection and exhibition of European academic art of the 19th and 20th century. 2 Columbus Circle and Dahesh Museum of Art are museums in Manhattan.

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David Childs

David Magie Childs (born April 1, 1941) is an American architect and chairman of the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

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Deflection (engineering)

In structural engineering, deflection is the degree to which a part of a long structural element (such as beam) is deformed laterally (in the direction transverse to its longitudinal axis) under a load.

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Deutsche Bank Center

Deutsche Bank Center (also known as One Columbus Circle and formerly the Time Warner Center) is a mixed-use building on Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York City, United States. 2 Columbus Circle and Deutsche Bank Center are Columbus Circle.

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Diospyros celebica

Diospyros celebica (commonly known as black ebony or Makassar ebony) is a species of flowering tree in the family Ebenaceae that is endemic to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.

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Doge's Palace

The Doge's Palace (Doge pronounced; Palazzo Ducale; Pałaso Dogal) is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice in northern Italy.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

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Dropped ceiling

A dropped ceiling is a secondary ceiling, hung below the main (structural) ceiling.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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Ed Koch

Edward Irving Koch (December 12, 1924February 1, 2013) was an American politician, lawyer, political commentator, film critic, and television personality.

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Edward Durell Stone

Edward Durell Stone (March 9, 1902 – August 6, 1978) was an American architect known for the formal, highly decorative buildings he designed in the 1950s and 1960s. 2 Columbus Circle and Edward Durell Stone are Edward Durell Stone buildings.

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Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)

Eighth Avenue is a major north–south avenue on the west side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic below 59th Street. 2 Columbus Circle and Eighth Avenue (Manhattan) are Midtown Manhattan.

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Environmental impact assessment

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is the assessment of the environmental consequences of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision to move forward with the proposed action.

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Experimental theatre

Experimental theatre (also known as avant-garde theatre), inspired largely by Wagner's concept of Gesamtkunstwerk, began in Western theatre in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu plays as a rejection of both the age in particular and, in general, the dominant ways of writing and producing plays.

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Façade

A façade or facade is generally the front part or exterior of a building.

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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private university with its main campuses in New Jersey, located in Madison / Florham Park and in Teaneck / Hackensack.

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Fairleigh S. Dickinson

Colonel Fairleigh Stanton Dickinson Sr. (August 22, 1866 – June 23, 1948) was the co-founder of the Fortune 500 medical technology company Becton Dickinson and the named benefactor of Fairleigh Dickinson University.

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Faith Hubley

Faith Hubley (née Chestman; September 16, 1924 – December 7, 2001) was an American animator, known for her experimental work both in collaboration with her husband John Hubley, and on her own following her husband's death.

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Fordham University

Fordham University is a private Jesuit research university in New York City.

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Fritted glass

Fritted glass is finely porous glass through which gas or liquid may pass, made by sintering together glass particles into a solid but porous body.

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Gainsborough Studios (Manhattan)

The Gainsborough Studios, also known as 222 Central Park South, is a residential building on Central Park South, just east of Columbus Circle, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. 2 Columbus Circle and Gainsborough Studios (Manhattan) are Midtown Manhattan.

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Glenn Adamson

Glenn Adamson (born 1972) is an American curator, author, and historian whose research and work focuses on the intersections of design, craft, and contemporary art.

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Government of New York City

The government of New York City, headquartered at New York City Hall in Lower Manhattan, is organized under the New York City Charter and provides for a mayor-council system.

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Grace Glueck

Grace Glueck (July 24, 1926 – October 8, 2022) was an American arts journalist.

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Gulf and Western Industries

Gulf and Western Industries, Inc. (stylized as Gulf+Western) was an American conglomerate.

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Henry Geldzahler

Henry Geldzahler (July 9, 1935 – August 16, 1994) was a Belgian-born American curator of contemporary art in the late 20th century, as well as a historian and critic of modern art.

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Herbert Muschamp

Herbert Mitchell Muschamp (November 28, 1947 – October 2, 2007) was an American architecture critic.

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Hilton Kramer

Hilton Kramer (March 25, 1928 – March 27, 2012) was an American art critic and essayist.

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History of New York City (1946–1977)

Immediately after World War II, New York City became known as one of the world's greatest cities.

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Holly Hotchner

Holly Hotchner is the former president and CEO of the National Women's History Museum.

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Huntington Hartford

George Huntington Hartford II (April 18, 1911 – May 19, 2008) was an American businessman, philanthropist, stage and film producer, and art collector.

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Ian Schrager

Ian Schrager (born July 19, 1946) is an American entrepreneur, hotelier and real estate developer, credited for co-creating the "boutique hotel" category of accommodation.

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Ivan Sergeyevich Obolensky

Ivan Sergeyevich Obolensky (May 15, 1925 – January 29, 2019) was an American financial analyst and corporate officer.

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J. M. W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist.

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Jean Hélion

Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist.

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Jerome Chazen

Jerome A. Chazen (March 21, 1927 – February 6, 2022) was an American businessman who was the founder and chairman of Chazen Capital Partners.

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John Canaday

John Edwin Canaday (February 1, 1907 – July 19, 1985) was a leading American art critic, author and art historian.

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John Hubley

John Kirkham Hubley (May 21, 1914 – February 21, 1977) was an American animated film director, art director, producer, and writer known for his work with the United Productions of America (UPA) and his own independent studio, Storyboard, Inc.

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Joseph Moinian

Joseph Moinian (born February 25, 1954) is an American investor, real estate developer, and philanthropist.

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Justin Davidson

Justin Davidson (born May 16, 1966) is an American classical music and architecture critic of Italian birth.

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Land lot

In real estate, a Land lot or plot of land is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner(s).

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Legitimate theatre

Legitimate theatre is live performance that relies almost entirely on diegetic elements, with actors performing through speech and natural movement.

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Lever House

Lever House is a office building at 390 Park Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. 2 Columbus Circle and Lever House are Midtown Manhattan.

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List of numbered streets in Manhattan

The New York City borough of Manhattan contains 214 numbered east–west streets ranging from 1st to 228th, the majority of them designated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811.

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Live streaming

Livestreaming, live-streaming, or live streaming is the streaming of video or audio in real time or near real time.

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Load-bearing wall

A load-bearing wall or bearing wall is a wall that is an active structural element of a building, which holds the weight of the elements above it, by conducting its weight to a foundation structure below it.

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Loggia

In architecture, a loggia (usually) is a covered exterior gallery or corridor, usually on an upper level, but sometimes on the ground level of a building.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Manuela Hoelterhoff

Manuela Vali Hoelterhoff is a German-born American cultural journalist, who was the executive editor of Muse, the arts and culture section of Bloomberg News until 2015.

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Mario Amaya

Mario Amaya (October 6, 1933 – June 29, 1986) was an American art critic, museum director and magazine editor, and (1972–1976) director of the New York Cultural Center and (1976–1979) the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Marjorie Fitzgibbon

Marjorie Fitzgibbon (née Steele; 27 August 1930 – 20 January 2018) was an Irish-American artist and actress.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Massing

Massing is a term in architecture which refers to the perception of the general shape and form as well as size of a building.

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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York.

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Mezzanine

A mezzanine (or in Italian, a mezzanino) is an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building, a loft with non-sloped walls.

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Michael Bloomberg

Michael Rubens Bloomberg (born February 14, 1942) is an American businessman and politician.

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Midtown Manhattan

Midtown Manhattan is the central portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan and serves as the city's primary central business district.

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Mo-Sai

Mo-Sai is a method of producing precast concrete cladding panels.

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Modernism

Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience.

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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is an art museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Museum of Arts and Design

The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), based in Manhattan, New York City, collects, displays, and interprets objects that document contemporary and historic innovation in craft, art, and design. 2 Columbus Circle and Museum of Arts and Design are Edward Durell Stone buildings and museums in Manhattan.

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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. 2 Columbus Circle and museum of Modern Art are Edward Durell Stone buildings, Midtown Manhattan and museums in Manhattan.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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National Trust for Historic Preservation

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a privately funded, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that works in the field of historic preservation in the United States.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York City Board of Estimate

The New York City Board of Estimate was a governmental body in New York City responsible for numerous areas of municipal policy and decisions, including the city budget, land-use, contracts, franchises, and water rates.

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New York City Council

The New York City Council is the lawmaking body of New York City in the United States.

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New York City Department of Buildings

The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) is the department of the New York City government that enforces the city's building codes and zoning regulations, issues building permits, licenses, registers and disciplines certain construction trades, responds to structural emergencies and inspects over 1,000,000 new and existing buildings.

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New York City Department of City Planning

The Department of City Planning (DCP) is the department of the government of New York City responsible for setting the framework of city's physical and socioeconomic planning.

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New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) is the department of the government of New York City dedicated to supporting New York City's cultural life.

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New York City Economic Development Corporation

New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is a public-benefit corporation that serves as the official economic development organization for New York City.

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New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is the New York City agency charged with administering the city's Landmarks Preservation Law.

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New York City Subway

The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.

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New York Coliseum

The New York Coliseum was a convention center that stood at Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York City, from 1956 to 2000.

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New York Court of Appeals

The New York Court of Appeals is the highest court in the Unified Court System of the State of New York.

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New York Herald Tribune

The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper published between 1924 and 1966.

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New York Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the judiciary of New York.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.

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Newsday

Newsday is a daily newspaper in the United States primarily serving Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area.

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Nicolai Ouroussoff

Nicolai Ouroussoff (Николай Урусов) is a writer and educator who was an architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.

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Panel discussion

A panel discussion, or simply a panel, involves a group of people gathered to discuss a topic in front of an audience, typically at scientific, business, or academic conferences, fan conventions, and on television shows.

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Parquet

Parquet (French for "a small compartment") is a geometric mosaic of wood pieces used for decorative effect in flooring.

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Parsons School of Design

Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. 2 Columbus Circle and Parsons School of Design are art museums and galleries in Manhattan.

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Paul Goldberger

Paul Goldberger (born December 4, 1950)Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Clarage, Elizabeth C., Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999.

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Pavel Tchelitchew

Pavel Fyodorovich Tchelitchew (Па́вел Фёдорович Чели́щев) (– 31 July 1957) was a Russian-born surrealist painter, set designer and costume designer.

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Percent for art

The term percent for art refers to a program, often a city ordinance, where a fee, usually some percentage of the project cost, is placed on large scale development projects in order to fund and install public art.

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Plaza Hotel

The Plaza Hotel (also known as The Plaza) is a luxury hotel and condominium apartment building in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. 2 Columbus Circle and Plaza Hotel are Midtown Manhattan.

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Porthole

A porthole, sometimes called bull's-eye window or bull's-eye, is a generally circular window used on the hull of ships to admit light and air.

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Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) is a contemporary performance and visual arts organization in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Preservation League of New York State

The Preservation League of New York State (Preserve NYS) is a nonprofit organization which works to preserve historic structures in New York.

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Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld

Prince Aschwin of Lippe-Biesterfeld (13 June 1914 – 14 May 1988) was an expert in Chinese painting and Indian sculpture and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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Raymond Rohauer

Raymond Rohauer (1924, Buffalo, New York – November 10, 1987) was an American film collector and distributor.

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Reginald Marsh (artist)

Reginald Marsh (March 14, 1898July 3, 1954) was an American painter, born in Paris, most notable for his depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated for by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility.

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Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and draughtsman.

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Richard Lippold

Richard Lippold (May 3, 1915 – August 22, 2002) was an American sculptor, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium.

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Robert A. M. Stern

Robert Arthur Morton Stern (born May 23, 1939) is a New York City–based architect, educator, and author.

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Robert Isabell

Bruce Robert Isabell (June 2, 1952 – July 8, 2009) was an American event planner who was behind lavish and innovative events including weddings and funerals of the richest and most famous.

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Robert Rosenblum

Robert Rosenblum (July 24, 1927 – December 6, 2006) was an American art historian and curator known for his influential and often irreverent scholarship on European and American art of the mid-eighteenth to 20th centuries.

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Rudy Giuliani

Rudolph William Louis Giuliani (born May 28, 1944) is an American politician and disbarred lawyer who served as the 107th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.

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Rustication (architecture)

Two different styles of rustication in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence; smooth-faced above and rough-faced below Rustication is a range of masonry techniques used in classical architecture giving visible surfaces a finish texture that contrasts with smooth, squared-block masonry called ashlar.

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Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers

Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers (also known as Saint Vincent's or SVCMC) was a healthcare system in New York City, anchored by its flagship hospital, St.

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Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey)

The Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter of Paris.

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Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work.

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Sarah Landau

Sarah Bradford Landau (1935–2023) was an architectural historian who taught for many years in the Department of Art History at New York University.

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Seraglio

A seraglio, serail, seray or saray (from palace, via Turkish, Italian and French) is a castle, palace or government building which was considered to have particular administrative importance in various parts of the former Ottoman Empire.

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Sidewalk shed

A sidewalk shed is a temporary structure or scaffold installed over a sidewalk.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States.

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Staging area

A staging area (otherwise staging base, staging facility, staging ground, staging point, or staging post) is a location in which organisms, people, vehicles, equipment, or material are assembled before use.

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Stippling

Stippling is the creation of a pattern simulating varying degrees of solidity or shading by using small dots.

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Terence Riley (curator)

Terence Riley (November 6, 1954 – May 17, 2021) was an American architect and museum curator.

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The Da Vinci Code (film)

The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard, written by Akiva Goldsman, and based on Dan Brown's 2003 novel of the same name.

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The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus

The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus is a painting by the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí, begun in 1958 and finished in 1959.

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The New York Sun

The New York Sun is an American conservative news website and former newspaper based in Manhattan, New York.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Phoenix Companies

The Phoenix Companies, Inc., is a financial services company that traces its origins to 1851.

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Thomas Duane

Thomas K. Duane (born January 30, 1955) is an American politician from New York, who served in the New York State Senate from 1999 to 2012, and in the New York City Council from 1992 to 1998.

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Title (property)

In property law, title is an intangible construct representing a bundle of rights in (to) a piece of property in which a party may own either a legal interest or equitable interest.

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Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018)Some sources say 1931; The New York Times and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930.

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Toshiko Mori

Toshiko Mori (born 1951) is a Japanese architect and the founder and principal of New York–based Toshiko Mori Architect, PLLC and Vision Arc.

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Traffic island

A traffic island is a solid or painted object in a road that channels traffic.

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Transparency (behavior)

As an ethic that spans science, engineering, business, and the humanities, transparency is operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed.

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Troffer

A troffer is a rectangular light fixture that fits into a modular dropped ceiling grid (i.e. 2' by 2' or 2' by 4').

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Trump International Hotel and Tower (New York City)

The Trump International Hotel and Tower, originally the Gulf and Western Building, is a high-rise building at 15 Columbus Circle and 1 Central Park West on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. 2 Columbus Circle and Trump International Hotel and Tower (New York City) are Broadway (Manhattan), Columbus Circle, Eighth Avenue (Manhattan) and Gulf and Western Industries.

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Uniform Land Use Review Procedure

Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) is a process mandated by the 1975 revision of the New York City Charter that is invoked when a proposed development will affect certain legal protections afforded to the existing area and/or its inhabitants.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Viacom (1952–2005)

The original phase of Viacom Inc. (derived from "Video & Audio Communications") was an American mass media and entertainment conglomerate based in New York City.

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WABC-TV

WABC-TV (channel 7) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the ABC network.

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White elephant

A white elephant is a possession that its owner cannot dispose of without extreme difficulty, and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness.

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Wieden+Kennedy

Wieden+Kennedy (W+K; earlier styled Wieden & Kennedy) is an American advertising agency best known for its work for Nike.

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Winslow Ames

Edward Winslow Ames Jr. (July 3, 1907 – October 3, 1990) was an American art historian, author, and museum director.

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Witold Rybczynski

Witold Rybczynski (born 1 March 1943) is a Canadian American architect, professor and writer.

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WNBC

WNBC (channel 4) is a television station in New York City that serves as the flagship of the NBC network.

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World Monuments Fund

World Monuments Fund (WMF) is a private, international, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites around the world through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training.

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World Trade Center (1973–2001)

The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a large complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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Zaha Hadid

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a key figure in architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.

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Zigzag

A zigzag is a pattern made up of small corners at variable angles, though constant within the zigzag, tracing a path between two parallel lines; it can be described as both jagged and fairly regular.

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2006 World Monuments Watch

The World Monuments Watch is a flagship advocacy program of the New York-based private non-profit organization World Monuments Fund (WMF) that is dedicated to preserving the historic, artistic, and architectural heritage around the world.

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220 Central Park South

220 Central Park South is a residential skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, situated along Billionaires' Row on the south side of Central Park South between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. 2 Columbus Circle and 220 Central Park South are Midtown Manhattan.

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240 Central Park South

240 Central Park South is a residential building in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. 2 Columbus Circle and 240 Central Park South are Broadway (Manhattan), Columbus Circle and Midtown Manhattan.

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5 Columbus Circle

5 Columbus Circle (also known as 1790 Broadway and formerly known as the United States Rubber Company Building) is an office building on the southeast corner of Broadway and 58th Street, just south of Columbus Circle, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, United States. 2 Columbus Circle and 5 Columbus Circle are Broadway (Manhattan) and Columbus Circle.

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59th Street–Columbus Circle station

The 59th Street–Columbus Circle station is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and the IND Eighth Avenue Line. 2 Columbus Circle and 59th Street–Columbus Circle station are Broadway (Manhattan), Columbus Circle and Eighth Avenue (Manhattan).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Columbus_Circle

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