#405 Lexington Avenue

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The Chrysler Building in New York City opened to the public on May 27, 1930.  

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Chrysler Buildings Art Deco Lobby, 405 Lexington Avenue, NYC 1930.

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El 27 de mayo de 1930 tenía lugar la ceremonia de inauguración de uno de los edificios más destacados de Nueva York, diseñado por el arquitecto William Van Alen. La construcción es una de las mejores muestras de la arquitectura Art Deco americana. Ubicado en la zona este de Manhattan, las obras de demolición de los edificios que ocupaban su lugar comenzaron en octubre de 1928 y el 11 del mes siguiente se inició la excavación para cimentar el edificio. Las obras se extendieron hasta 1930 cuando se terminaron los 318,8 metros que convirtieron al Chrysler en el edificio más alto del mundo hasta la inauguración del Empire State en 1931. La característica aguja de acero de 56,38 metros que corona el edificio fue transportada hasta él en segmentos y montada in situ.

Chrysler building, Nueva york

Rascacielos de estilo art déco con 77 plantas y 319 metro de altura, que fue el edificio más grande del mundo durante 11 meses, siendo superado por el Empire State Building en 1931.

Ejemplo clásico de la arquitectura art déco, es considerado por muchos arquitectos de nuestro tiempo como uno de los mejores edificios de Nueva York.

Las obras empezaron el 19 de septiembre de 1928. El 15 de octubre de 1928 la Goodwin Construction Company empezó la demolición del edificio existente en la parcela, que se completó el 9 de noviembre.31​ La excavación de los cimientos, que tendrían 21 metros de profundidad,18​ empezó una semana después y se completó a mediados de enero, cuando se alcanzó la roca madre.31​ La construcción del edificio propiamente dicha empezó el 21 de enero,31​ y en septiembre de 1929 se completó la estructura de acero.

Finalización Los primeros inquilinos se trasladaron al Edificio Chrysler en abril de 1930, aunque la construcción aún no estaba finalizada totalmente. El 27 de mayo de 1930 se realizó la ceremonia formal de inauguración, que coincidió con la reunión anual de la Asociación de Propietarios y Comerciantes de la Calle 42. En el vestíbulo del edificio se colocó una placa de bronce «en reconocimiento a la contribución del Sr. Chrysler al avance de la ciudad». Las obras acabaron en agosto de 1930, pero curiosamente la fecha de finalización registrada en el Departamento de Construcción de Manhattan es el 19 de febrero de 1932.18​

Cuando se completó, el 20 de mayo de 1930,11​ el aumento de altura producido por la aguja permitió que el Edificio Chrysler superara al 40 Wall Street y se convirtiera en el edificio más alto del mundo, superando también a la Torre Eiffel, que hasta entonces ostentaba el título de estructura más alta del mundo realizada por el hombre.4​42​ Fue el primer edificio con más de 300 metros de altura.

New York. Edificio Chrysler El edificio se encuentra situado en el lado este de Manhattan en la intersección de la calle 42 y la Avenida Lexington, con entrada principal por 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, Estados Unidos, frente a la Grand Central Station, aunque también dispone de accesos por las calles 42 y 43.

Margaret Bourke-White, fotógrafa de la revista LIFE, se prepara para tomar una foto de una de las águilas en el piso 61 del edificio Chrysler en la ciudad de Nueva York en 1934. Arte Deco… Periodista y fotógrafa Margaret Bourke-White, en la parte superior del edificio Chrysler, ciudad de Nueva York, 1935. Ella fue la primera mujer corresponsal de guerra en el ejército de los Estados Unidos, la primera mujer permitida para fotografiar la industria soviética, y la primera mujer fotógrafa para la revista Life.

La fotógrafa estadounidense Margaret Bourke-White en lo alto del edificio Chrysler. Nueva York, Estados Unidos. 1930. Foto de: Oscar Graubner. Bourke-White fue la primera fotoperiodista de guerra estadounidense.

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2nd Avenue & East 42nd Street Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue. 

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405 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, New York Chrysler Building

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Crysler Building Lobby

Art Deco, 1930

405 Lexington Avenue

Manhattan, New York

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The 77-story Chrysler Building. 405 Lexington Avenue, east block between 42nd to 43rd streets. William Van Allen, 1928-1930.

Night view of Chrysler Building. Circa, 1930.

Photo: Samuel H. Gottscho.

Source: Albrecht, Donald. "The Mithic City. Photographs of New York by Samuel H. Gottscho, 1925-1940". New York. Museum of the City of New York-Princeton Architectural Press. 2005.

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Upper stories, tower, and spire of Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York City, Photo by Browning Studio, 1931

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Time Inc. moved its offices to the 50th and 51st floors of the Chrysler Building in the summer of 1931. While the building was modern in virtually every aspect, electrical air conditioning was not yet a standard amenity. 

However, as seen in the memo above, the Chrysler Corporation did develop a novel air conditioning system which it offered to building tenants in 1934. Referring most likely to what became known as Airtemp, the product was not immediately embraced by Time vice president and general manager Roy Larsen, who responded with his concern that an air conditioned office might make him “get soft.”

Charles Douglas Jackson. Memo to Henry R. Luce and Roy E. Larsen regarding air conditioning. June 4, 1934. Time Inc. Records, Roy E. Larsen Bio File, New-York Historical Society.   

Irving Browning.  Upper stories, tower, and spire of Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue, New York City. circa 1931. New-York Historical Society

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Welcome Wagon

Season Three! At long last!

This better be better than Season Two.

And the first thing we see is a Take Back the Night banner, just in case anyone thought this season wasn’t going to be all about rape. *sigh* This may be hard to get through. At least the show takes the subject matter seriously.

Veronica’s Criminology professor is played by Patrick Fabian who is renowned for playing creeps and scumbags. Is it too soon to say that he’s the Hearst Rapist? Probably. Maybe he’s just the scumbag of the week.

Um, that TA is definitely the same actor who played Lucky last season, wearing a, frankly, terrible wig and some quintessentially 00’s facial scruff. Which, I mean, other than the unfortunate hair things going on is good overall since he was good as Lucky. The reuse of an actor is awfully blatant.

Okay, so fuck this Tim guy! Sexist shithead! Your smug ass wouldn’t be here to be smart mouthing Veronica without Elementary Education majors, fuckstick!

BURN, TIMOTHY, BURN!

Yeah, I don’t like the remixed opening them. Lame.

Sooooo… Wasn’t Hearst meant to be a fairly exclusive college? And yet nearly the entire cast of last season (that are still alive and in Neptune) got in? Veronica, Wallace, and Mac I get, but Logan has never been shown to be academically minded even in the slightest. Dick gets in because of family connections, fair enough, but Logan has no family left (aside from Trina and no one has ever considered her a positive association) and what he did have was accused of murder shortly before being mysteriously murdered himself. (Which, btw, is that going to be followed up on? I assume not since we, the audience, already know who done it.)

VINNIE!

Oh, Veronica and Keith, I’ve missed these two!

Sorry, Veronica, Keith’s right on this one. That is The Chrysler Building, as notable by the street number visible behind them, 405. As in 405 Lexington Avenue, the address of The Chrysler Building, whereas The Empire State Building is located at 350 5th Avenue. “Fun” facts.

BACKUP! And he’s in charge? Great call Keith!

What? Veronica, first of all, how can you put Backup’s business out there like that? Secondly, if Backup has a lady friend, I need to know all about her. You can’t just drop that sort of nugget and cut to the next scene like that. This is cruel.

Stosh? What kind of white nonsense is that name? Also, Piz is not a name that a person would choose to go by. I mean, be honest, a person that chooses to go by the name Piz is gonna get called “piss” and “puss” and all related derivations thereof. That is just not something someone would subject themselves to willingly.

And here we finally have the mystery of the week. (Also, Piz is Bash on GLOW, so apparently this guy has a thing for characters with stupid names.)

And, holy crap, Veronica is actually getting paid for one of these things? It’s about time. As noted in the past she has been out a lot of money on a fair few of these cases with little or no potential of return. I’m glad she’s turned this into an actual business deal.

Jason Beghe, yet another actor who has a history of playing scumbags. He can’t be Keith’s bail jumper since he literally just walked out of a prison… unless he jumped bail in Mexico or something.

Mac’s back! And as predicted, Beaver seems to have successfully passed on his sexual dysfunction. And her roommate is the opposite. I’m guessing the new name in the credits to be this free-spirited lady. Does she have a ridiculous name too? Mulva?

So the Take Back the Night crew wants to shut down the fraternities? Has this been shown to help the campus sexual assault problems at various universities? Serious question. Like I understand the line of reasoning, that frats engender and compound attitudes and behaviors associated with toxic masculinity but has shutting them down helped?

Ski mask and Union Jack Speedo is Little Dick, right? Seems like a thing he’d do… actually, he’d probably do it without the ski mask... or the speedo.

So Jason Beghe is a Fitzpatrick? He seems kind of a lot older than Liam. Also, Liam is out to get Kendall now? Why? Because she couldn’t get the life insurance for both Casablancas boys? Or is it that she didn’t want to share? And if Liam is after her, wouldn’t it stand to reason that Cormac, here, could be as well?

Okay, well… that makes a certain amount of sense, I guess.

So Cormac saying that Kendall knows who she can and can’t trust means that she can’t trust him, right? Keith is unknowingly delivering Kendall’s would-be murderer to her hiding spot.

Parker, okay, not a terrible name.

So this kid with the info on the thieves who supposedly a townie from Neptune? Has this crazy thick Boston accent. It’s really weird since most actors on American TV have this trained, generic, bland Midwestern accent and now a kid who’s supposedly from Southern California is very obviously from Southie.

So the fat blonde girl isn’t actually fat, so she’s the sophomore Veronica was talking to when interviewing the other victims.

“The Needs Hosed Down,” is perhaps the aptest description of Little Dick Casablancas.

Donald Fagen? As in the lead singer of Steely Dan? That reference was too old for this show when it was new, much less Tumblr.

Yeah, I’m not sure what to think of Cormac’s quiet calm. Could honestly be that he’s learned patience in prison, that doing something is not always better than doing nothing… or it could be that Keith is the only person who knows where Kendall is and doesn’t want him to risk the desert for all the reasons he said.

So is Veronica honestly interested in the mentoring program or was this just a ploy to get into the files? Because she seems rather flush with extra-curriculars already, what with needing to help her father keep them fed and having a social life and all. But if she’s not, what’s the connection between this scene and the conversation with the other victim?

So Logan only barely got into this school and he’s chronically ditching class? Why go to all the effort to get in if you have no plans on actually doing anything?

Oh, Piz is wearing Duncan’s sweater! Okay. I was confused, because he clearly wasn’t, like, upset that Veronica was talking to another dude or whatever, but it took me a minute to work out what that look was.

AH! The Southie kid and his bros were a false lead! Okay. Veronica was not interested in the mentorship program. That was a misdirect to get this dude to admit that he knew and had access to juvenile offenders and their records.

Too soon, Piz! You are not a high enough level friend to unlock her tragic backstory! You know beyond a certainty that she has a boyfriend so fucking chill, my dude! Not even a little bit, huh? Not even a tiny drop of chill, eh? You should go to the store and get some, then, friend-o, because this is just coming on way too strong.

Yep. Cormac’s trying to kill her.

Scratch that. Killed her.

And now Keith is stranded in the desert. And Dick “messed up bad”… like Hearst Rapist Bad?

And Parker is the next victim… so not Dick then. That would be way too obvious. Serial rapists don’t knock on doors and linger far too long in hallways leaving themselves to be easily identified by a plethora of witnesses.

Again with the cliffhangers. This does not need to become a thing again this season. It gets old.

So this was a much better opener than was Season Two’s but then that’s hardly surprising, given that “Normal is the Watchword” was just a huge mess. Obviously, it’s benefitted by the Hearst Rapist story having already been set up last season, but the reintroduction of it here would have been a perfectly good introduction even if it hadn’t. The standalone mystery was a little thin, but that’s not surprising considering the show has to introduce two new main characters in the form of Parker and Boring Boy #4 (because Piz is a stupid name), as well as the professor, his TA, and the Take Back the Night team, all of whom are almost certainly going to be important as the season rolls on.

I’m not sure how I feel about Dick being turned into an actual character with actual depth. Like, on the one hand, all of last season he basically existed to show us the audience how much worse he is than Logan to make Logan more palatable a match for Veronica, now the show wants us to actually care about him. It didn’t work when they rebooted Jackie’s character, not sure this is going to come out any better. On the other hand, if he’s going to stick around past the end of last season, then I guess they should at least do something to justify the screen time he’s taking up.

Weevil’s still in the credits despite him being arrested for… they didn’t say, but conspiracy to commit murder is what he’s guilty of. Though I don’t think they could make that stick without also arresting and convicting the actual killers, The Fitzpatricks. So I guess it was just an assault charge, in which case, he could be out in time to still be part of the story… so where is he?

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Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Avenue, by William Van Alen, NYC, 1930.

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The Art Deco Chrysler Building NY. Built Sept 1928 to May 1930 at 405 Lexington Avenue

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Chrysler Building - 405 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY. 1930, William Van Alen.

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The 77-story Chrysler Building. 405 Lexington Avenue, east block between 42nd to 43rd streets. William Van Allen, 1928-1930.

View looking east of Chrysler Building from Lincoln Building. Circa, 1931.

Photo: Unknown.

Source: "New York Illustrated" (New York. Manhattan Post Card Publishing Co. 1938).

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This co-working company is opening a huge outpost at the Chrysler Building

Co-working company Spaces is opening its largest New York City location yet at the Chrysler Building. Spaces, a division of Regus parent company IWG, signed a lease for slightly more than 110,000 square feet at the iconic Midtown office tower, company representatives confirmed to The Real Deal. Spaces is taking part of the first floor in the 77-story, 1,046-foot-tall tower at 405 Lexington Avenue, which will provide the company with a private elevator leading up […]

Source: https://therealdeal.com/2018/09/11/this-co-working-company-is-opening-a-huge-outpost-at-the-chrysler-building/