#nyc city hall

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Tony Sarg was a versatile artist whose work included illustrations, puppets, and parade balloons (it was his idea to introduce the latter to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade). In 1927 he published a book called Tony Sarg's New York, which featured drawings of city landmarks as they looked in real life, teeming with people. (The book now goes for around $475.) I'll be posting these drawings over the next several months. This one, of course, is of City Hall.

For a Sarg map of Greenwich Village, see this post.

Photo: Fine Art America

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joni Mitchell, Carnegie Hall, New York City, February 23, 1972 © Anthony Pescatore.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Welcome to the stunningly beautiful, but abandoned, New York City Hall station.

Abandoned for more than 70 yrs., it had chandeliers and beautiful leaded glass skylights.

But, by 1945, the newer, longer subway cars could no longer fit on the station’s curved tracks, so it was closed.

The City Hall station was designed by the architects Heins & LaFarge, notable for their work at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

Today, the ticket booths and wooden benches are gone, and many of the skylights are broken or still retain the tar that was used to black them out during WWII. 

In addition to the Transit Museum’s tours, (you have to be a member and tickets sell out quickly), you can catch a glimpse of the subway station if you stay on the downtown 6 train after it leaves the Brooklyn Bridge station, as it will loop through the City Hall station to head back uptown.

They were going to widen it, but ridership fell off (well, of course it did, it was closed. Duh!)

The entrances underwent a $17K cleanup. 

And are still there. 

https://www.6sqft.com/nyc-city-hall-subway-station-tour-history/

[more-relics]

David Gilmour Pink Floyd - Radio City Music Hall, NYC. March 17, 1973. © Bob Gruen

[janellemonae]

A dream realized. thank you NYC f.a.m.🥹

[coolthingsguyslike]

[scarletandnovaviolet]

Ascensionism at Radio City Music Hall 5.22.24

[visit-new-york]

Radio City Music Hall

[bonomovesinmysteriousways]

City Hall Subway Station, NYC

[p1325]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Postcard of the old General Post Office downtown, 1922. Called "Mullett's Monstrosity" after its architect, it was demolished in 1939.

Photo: Hip Postcard

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Bob Dylan at Town Hall, New York, April 12, 1963.

[more-relics]

Nick Mason Pink Floyd at Radio City Music Hall, NYC. March 17, 1973. © Bob Gruen

[nyandreasphotography]

Moynihan Train Hall - Midtown Manhattan, New York City by Andreas Komodromos

[cristijackson]

On This Day, Michael Jackson attends, and performs at the 12th Annual MTV Video Music Awards Ceremony at Radio City Hall |September 7th , 1995 - NYC

[visit-new-york]

Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue and theater at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City