Word: seaport
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that was before the South Street Seaport opened with a bash of festivities, celebrities and rush-hour crowds. In the shadow of the 100-year-old Brooklyn Bridge, the festival market now offers a trove of cultural attractions in a handsome historical resetting. A new Fulton Market is its centerpiece. Built of brick and granite with a hipped metal roof and wide-open entrances, the new market is just that: a bold, shirtsleeves kind of place for honest food without cellophane and a variety of eateries for all tastes and pocketbooks-some 40 establishments...
...result of a 16-year struggle by a persistent group of citizens. Out of a love of old ships and the gritty charm of old buildings and streets, they began a unique route to urban renewal. The first step, in 1967, was the establishment of the South Street Seaport Museum, led by Advertising Executive Peter Stanford, and supported by Shipping Magnate Jakob Isbrandtsen. The pooling of resources from the private sector helped make the institution more than a collection of artifacts. Among the principal contributors: Laurance Rockefeller, the Astor Foundation, RCA, Exxon and Time Inc. The museum, now headed...
Twelve years later a partnership was created among the museum, the Rouse Co., a real estate development firm, and the city and state of New York. The intention: to extend the museum's influence over the entire Seaport area, incorporating a marketplace that would pay the staggering cost of restoration and maintenance. It was rough going; the dream often threatened to capsize in the winds of New York bureaucracy. But four years later, a host of political figures and visitors gathered to ratify the occasion...
Like other celebrated markets, South Street Seaport is far more than a tourist attraction. In time it seems likely to become a habit for the region's residential and Manhattan's working populations, bringing a welcome new taste to the Big Apple...
...basically a tripodic form with a large crossbar spanning the top. Almost like a geyser, water spurts out the top and spills down the sides. The director of Toledo's art museum, Roger Mandle, has called the sculpture "a symbol of the city's role as a major seaport and gateway to the Great Lakes." To the rest of us, Propylea's massive structure brings to mind to mysterious monuments of Stonehenge...