Restoration of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library
Since our announcement on February 14, 2019, we have been working hard with a team of skilled experts on the $12.5 million exterior restoration of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library. Over the next several months we will be sharing behind the scenes moments of the restoration, featuring important aspects of this project.
Completed in 1906, the McKim, Mead & White designed building is one of the finest examples of Neoclassical architecture in the United States. This is the first comprehensive exterior restoration in the landmark building’s 112-year history and will help to preserve the building for generations to come. The restoration focuses on several main areas of the building’s exterior, including a roof replacement, conservation treatment to the roof, façade, loggia, and sculptures, and a campus-wide landscape design.
Lead sponsorship provided by the Charina Endowment Fund, Inc., Sherman Fairchild Foundation, Inc., Katharine J. Rayner, Mrs. Oscar de la Renta, and The Thompson Family Foundation, Inc. Major Corporate Sponsor: @morgan.stanley. The project is also supported with public funds from the City of New York through the Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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Morgan Library to display three Gutenberg bibles
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1. Wide exterior of Morgan Library
2. Sign reading: The Pierpont Morgan Library
3. Mid of exhibit
4. Pan of exhibit
5. Push to tight shot of a bible
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Bidwell, Morgan Library Curator of printed books:
The Gutenberg bible again is the most important printed book in the West. And collectors and institutions for years have competed to have a copy. The Morgan Library is the only institution in the world to have three copies in one place.
7. Mid of photographer taking pictures
8.Tight shot of a bible
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Bidwell, Morgan Library Curator of printed books:
Gutenberg understood the problems and challenges of book design and was able to find a way of organising the text of the bible so you can navigate this book perfectly. You've got initials and headings. He tried to do red printing that was a little difficult so you've got spaces to put illumination and rubication in by hand. Authorities on typography and printing think that this is a splendid example of graphic design and typography.
10. Pan of one of the bible's two volumes
11. Tight shot of an open page of the page
12. Tilt down tight shot of a page
13. Wide of photographer
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New York City's Morgan Library will begin displaying a collection of three Gutenberg bibles on Tuesday.
The bibles, each printed in 1455, represent the largest number of copies in any single collection.
Two are printed on paper and one on vellum.
The collection is significant according to the library because no other collection in the world holds three Gutenberg bibles.
Curators at the library are encouraging visitors to the exhibition to compare and contrast the differences in technique between the works.
Gutenberg understood the problems and challenges of book design and was able to find a way of organising the text of the bible so you can navigate this book perfectly, said Library Curator John Bidwell.
John Gutenberg is often credited with inventing the printing process of casting pages line by line and running off multiple copies.
Bidwell said experts on typography and printing have hailed the bibles masterpieces.
You've got initials and headings. He tried to do red printing that was a little difficult so you've got spaces to put illumination and rubication in by hand, Bidwell said.
Bibliographers believe Gutenberg used the movable type technique to produce between 120 and 135 bibles in 1455.
About 50 copies survive.
The Bible was the first substantial printed book in the Western world.
The exhibition is open from 20 May and until 28 September 2008.
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New York City (NYC) is known for its scintillating lights, bustling vibe, tall skyscrapers, and melting pot of cultures. But did you know that this sprawling metropolis was once a Dutch trading outpost? As a result, New York was once known as New Amsterdam. Read more on NYC’s history here:
NYC is made up of 5 boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island, and Queens. New York City is a hub for education, commerce, finance, media, technology, international diplomacy, entertainment, tourism, innovation, art, sports, and fashion.
Must-see attractions in NYC include: Times Square, The Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, The Empire State Building, Top of the Rock Observation Deck, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Terminal, Coney Island, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), SoHo, One World Trade Center, Chinatown, Little Italy, The Brooklyn Bridge, The High Line, Chelsea Market, Central Park, American Museum of Natural History, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, 9/11 Memorial & Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, United Nations (UN) Headquarters, Yankee Stadium, Broadway, Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center, Fifth Avenue, Columbus Circle, Madison Square Park, Bryant Park, City Hall Park, Battery Park, Flatiron Building, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Federal Hall, New York City Hall, Madison Avenue, Park Avenue, Hamilton Grange, Hudson Yards, Pier 17, South Street Seaport, Bank of America Tower, New York Public Library, Chrysler Building, Tudor City, Hudson River, East River, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Museum of American Finance, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and Washington Square Park.
The headquarters of the United Nations is located in New York City. NYC is home to numerous universities including Columbia University, New York University (NYU), Pace University, Fordham University, St John’s University, City University of New York (CUNY), Barnard College, New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), and The New School. NYC is also home to NASDAQ, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport are the three airports that service New York City. NYC is also home to sports teams such as the New York Rangers, Brooklyn Nets, New York Knicks, New York Liberty, New York Yankees, and New York Mets. The New York Giants and New York Jets play their home games across the Hudson River in New Jersey.
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Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman takes her place in the Morgan Library
On March 12, 2018, Amanda Gorman, the twenty-year-old Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, visited the Morgan to place a manuscript of her poem “In This Place (An American Lyric)” in a vitrine in the Morgan’s majestic East Room alongside the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Carson McCullers, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Peter Paul Rubens.
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BRITISH MEDICAL STAFF IN NEW YORK CITY DURING WWII & JAPANESE ARMY TACTICS 27880
This WWII newsreel film consists of several segments beginning with Busman's Holiday which shows a group of Royal Air Force servicemen visiting New York City. The film shows the famous Stage Door Canteen, the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Center, and the Central Park Zoo. At 1:14, a troop transport ship arrives at New York Harbor filled with allied wounded. A brief segment follows showing how a group of British medics from the transport ships volunteered to work in the New York area Grasslands Hospital. The Brits also socialize with the Yanks and are shown socializing at a local bar in Westchester at 4:30. Soldiers are shown playing pinball and playing piano in this segment.
At 6:50, a new segment shows a presentation by Marine Lt. Col. Evans Carlson, who studied Japanese battle tactics, morale, and Japanese soldier characteristics in the field in China. Carlson, whose outfit was known as the Gung Ho raiders, speaks of the Japanese as disciplined and touch adversaries.
Evans Fordyce Carlson (26 February 1896 – 27 May 1947) was a decorated and retired United States Marine Corps general officer who was the legendary leader of Carlson's Raiders, during World War II crediting him as the forefather of one of America's first U.S. special operations forces. He is renowned for the Makin Island raid in 1942, and their Long Patrol (aka Carlson's patrol) behind Japanese lines on Guadalcanal, in which 488 Japanese were killed.
Carlson is also credited with introducing the term Gung-ho into the Marine Corps.
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Places to see in ( New York - USA ) American Museum of Natural History
Places to see in ( New York - USA ) American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History, located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City, is one of the largest museums in the world. Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 28 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library.
The museum collections contain over 33 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time, and occupies more than 2 million square feet (0.19×106 m2). The museum has a full-time scientific staff of 225, sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually.
Before construction of the present complex, the museum was housed in the Arsenal building in Central Park. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., the father of the 26th U.S. President, was one of the founders along with John David Wolfe, William T. Blodgett, Robert L. Stuart, Andrew H. Green, Robert Colgate, Morris K. Jesup, Benjamin H. Field, D. Jackson Steward, Richard M. Blatchford, J. P. Morgan, Adrian Iselin, Moses H. Grinnell, Benjamin B. Sherman, A. G. Phelps Dodge, William A. Haines, Charles A. Dana, Joseph H. Choate, Henry G. Stebbins, Henry Parish, and Howard Potter. The founding of the museum realized the dream of naturalist Dr. Albert S. Bickmore. Bickmore, a one-time student of Harvard zoologist Louis Agassiz, lobbied tirelessly for years for the establishment of a natural history museum in New York. His proposal, backed by his powerful sponsors, won the support of the Governor of New York, John Thompson Hoffman, who signed a bill officially creating the American Museum of Natural History on April 6, 1869. In 1874, the cornerstone was laid for the museum's first building, which is now hidden from view by the many buildings in the complex that today occupy most of Manhattan Square. The original Victorian Gothic building, which was opened in 1877, was designed by Calvert Vaux and J. Wrey Mould, both already closely identified with the architecture of Central Park.
The one mission statement of the American Museum of Natural History is: To discover, interpret, and disseminate—through scientific research and education—knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe.
The Sanford Hall of North American birds is a one-story hall located on the third floor of the museum, above the Hall of African Peoples and between the Hall of Primates and Akeley Hall’s second level. Its 25 dioramas depict birds from across North America in their native habitats. The Hall of North American Forests is a one-story hall located on the museum’s ground floor in between the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall and the Warburg Hall of New York State Environments.
The Stout Hall of Asian Peoples is a one-story hall located on the museum’s second floor in between the Hall of Asian Mammals and Birds of the World. The Hall of Mexico and Central America is a one-story hall located on the museum’s second floor behind Birds of the World and before the Hall of South American Peoples. The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, formerly The Hall of Human Biology and Evolution, opened on February 10, 2007.
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The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.
With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress) and the third largest in the world. It is a private, non-governmental, independently managed, nonprofit corporation operating with both private and public financing. The library has branches in the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island and affiliations with academic and professional libraries in the metropolitan area of New York State. The City of New York's other two boroughs, Brooklyn and Queens, are served by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Library, respectively. The branch libraries are open to the general public and consist of circulating libraries. The New York Public Library also has four research libraries, which are also open to the general public.
The library, officially chartered as The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, was developed in the 19th century, founded from an amalgamation of grass-roots libraries and social libraries of bibliophiles and the wealthy, aided by the philanthropy of the wealthiest Americans of their age.
The New York Public Library Main Branch building, which is easily recognizable by its lion statues named Patience and Fortitude that sit either side of the entrance, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, and designated a New York City Landmark in 1967. It has also been featured in many television shows, including Seinfeld and Sex and the City, as well as films such as The Wiz in 1978, Ghostbusters in 1984, and The Day After Tomorrow in 2004.
At the behest of Joseph Cogswell, John Jacob Astor placed a codicil in his will to bequeath $400,000 (equivalent of $11.3 million in 2017) for the creation of a public library. The library created was a free reference library; its books were not permitted to circulate.
The library was built on Fifth Avenue, between 70th and 71th Streets, in 1877. Bibliophile and philanthropist James Lenox donated a vast collection of his Americana, art works, manuscripts, and rare books, including the first Gutenberg Bible in the New World. At its inception, the library charged admission and did not permit physical access to any literary items. An act of the New York State Legislature incorporated the Lenox Library in 1870.
Former Governor of New York and presidential candidate Samuel J. Tilden believed that a library with citywide reach was required, and upon his death in 1886, he bequeathed the bulk of his fortune—about $2.4 million (equivalent of $65 million in 2017)—to establish and maintain a free library and reading room in the city of New York.
On May 23, 1895, Bigelow, Cadwalader, and George L. Rives agreed to create The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The newly established library consolidated with the grass-roots New York Free Circulating Library in February 1901.
The organizers of the New York Public Library, wanting an imposing main branch, chose a central site available at the two-block section of Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets.
On May 23, 1911, the main branch of the New York Public Library was officially opened in a ceremony presided over by President William Howard Taft. After a dedication ceremony, attended by 50,000 people, the library was open to the general public that day.
The main reading room was contemporaneously the largest of its kind in the world at 77 ft (23 m) wide by 295 ft (90 m) long, with 50-foot-high (15 m) ceilings.
Eldridge Street Museum : New York Historic Landmark
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Langham Place, Fifth Avenue Suites in New York City NY
Reserve: . . . . . . . .. .. ... . .. .. .. Langham Place, Fifth Avenue Suites 400 Fifth Avenue New York City NY 10018 Featuring a full kitchen with dishwasher, this apartment with kitchen facilities is in Midtown Manhattan, just 650 feet from the Empire State Building. Wi-Fi access is provided free of charge. A flat-screen cable TV, a washing machine and a tumble dryer are featured in each luxury apartment at Langham Place, Fifth Avenue Suites. A dining area with dining table and a view of Manhattan are also provided. The private bathroom has a spa tub. A 24-hour front desk welcomes guests to Langham Place, which features an on-site bar as well. Guests are also provided with a personal assistant and access to a house car during their stay. Grand Central Train Station and the Chrysler Building are both just under half a mile from the apartments. The Morgan Library and Museum is just a 3-minute walk away.
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Conveniently located within 5 minutes' walk of Central Park and Columbus Circle metro station, this boutique hotel features an interior lobby garden with trees and ivy walls. Guests will enjoy a variety of dining outlets, concierge services and fitness centre.
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La Fifth Avenue con i negozi di lusso, Broadway luci e musical, lo skyline degli Skycrapers, Manhattan, oggi sa di mito del XX secolo i turisti asiatici frequentano la metropoli in visita ma hanno città con grattacieli moderni ed ancora in costruzione con dimensioni ed altezze superiori però rimane la Grande Mela.
In bus per la città sui luoghi più conosciuti -Ground Zero 11-9-2011, il ponte di Brooklyn con sosta sotto il ponte da entrambi i lati, l'ONU-(1947-53), la City Hall il municipio di NY, Wall Street, la Chinatown la più vecchia degli Stati Uniti, Little Italy -, la Circle line al Pier 83 per navigare intorno al centro sul fiume, al Battery Park per una corsa sul traghetto per vedere la Statua della Libertà e il panorama dei grattacieli o arrivare a Staten Island. Un giro in elicottero per osservare dall'alto NY per vedute uniche, oltre l'immancabile Empire State Building, rinnovato, per il panorama mozzafiato al tramonto,Times Square, i teatri di Broadway e il Radio City Music Hall(5874 posti).
L'elenco dei musei, edifici pubblici, privati visitabili è lunghissima da non perdere: il Rockfeller Center per la pista del ghiaccio -luci, bandiere, addobbi natalizi, proiezioni intorno sui muri, indimenticabile, a dicembre uno dei simboli di NY con l'albero di Natale, Broadway con la parata del Thanksgiving Day, e per lo shopping; St. Patrick Cathedral di fronte al Rockfeller Center, in stile gotico, la più grande chiesa cattolica-1879- negli USA e famosa in città; Trump Tower negozi e appartamenti lussuosi; il Grand Central Terminal, la stazione ferroviaria di NY con l'ingresso enorme; l'Art Decò del Chrysler Building; Lincoln Centre, centro della cultura di NY; il Sony Building e IBM Building con lab da visitare; St. John The Divine ad Harlem, insieme piacevole di stili fino al contemporaneo luogo di culto più grande degli States.
I musei e biblioteche sono numerosi e almeno da visitare sono: il MOMA affollatissimo la più grande nel suo genere Arte Moderna ; il Met Metropolitan Museum of Art uno dei più grandi musei del mondo con la galleria della civiltà egiziana, e arte europea, collezione di strumenti musicali; Guggenheim Museum (1937) arch. F.L.Wright espone opere di scultura e pittura arte contemporanea(pure Chagall e Picasso);American Museum of Natural History con il Rose Space Center-Planetarium-; la New York Public Library(1911) sei milioni di volumi, in edificio molto bello con davanti statue di leone;Morgan Library Madison Av.-ParkAv. dai papiri egiziani alla carta stampata.
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Conveniently located within 5 minutes' walk of Central Park and Columbus Circle metro station, this boutique hotel features an interior lobby garden with trees and ivy walls. Guests will enjoy a variety of dining outlets, concierge services and fitness centre.
A flat-screen cable TV and room service options are provided in all rooms at this Morgans Original Hudson hotel. In-room spa services are available as well.
Guests can relax with a game of billiards, read in the library, or catch up with family and friends on business centre computers. During the summer, the Sky Terrace offers rooftop views of the city and the Hudson River.
Hudson Common features an extensive craft beer selection and specializes in classic American fare, such as hamburgers. Specialty cocktails are also offered.
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Hudson Common features an extensive craft beer selection and specializes in classic American fare, such as hamburgers. Specialty cocktails are also offered.
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NY Public Library Naturalization Ceremony
NY Public Library Naturalization Ceremony: An incredible ceremony with nearly 200 people swearing in as official US citizens just days before July 4th, 2017, at the iconic New York Public Library.
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Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States (1850–1853), the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House. A former U.S. representative from New York, Fillmore was elected the nation's 12th vice president in 1848, and succeeded to the presidency in July 1850 upon the death of President Zachary Taylor. He was instrumental in getting the Compromise of 1850 passed, a bargain that led to a brief truce in the battle over slavery. He failed to win the Whig nomination for president in 1852; he gained the endorsement of the nativist Know Nothing Party four years later, and finished third in that election.
Fillmore was born into poverty in the Finger Lakes area of New York state—his parents were tenant farmers during his formative years. Though he had little formal schooling, he rose from poverty through diligent study and became a successful attorney. He became prominent in the Buffalo area as an attorney and politician, was elected to the New York Assembly in 1828, and to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1832. Initially, he belonged to the Anti-Masonic Party, but became a Whig as the party formed in the mid-1830s; he was a rival for state party leadership with editor Thurlow Weed and Weed's protégé, William H. Seward. Through his career, Fillmore declared slavery an evil, but one beyond the powers of the federal government, whereas Seward was not only openly hostile to slavery, he argued that the federal government had a role to play in ending it. Fillmore was an unsuccessful candidate for Speaker of the House when the Whigs took control of the chamber in 1841 but was made Ways and Means Committee chairman. Defeated in bids for the Whig nomination for vice president in 1844, and for New York governor the same year, Fillmore was elected Comptroller of New York in 1847, the first to hold that post by direct election.
As vice president, Fillmore was largely ignored by Taylor, even in the dispensing of patronage in New York, on which Taylor consulted Weed and Seward. In his capacity as President of the Senate however, he presided over angry debates in the Senate as Congress decided whether to allow slavery in the Mexican Cession. Fillmore supported Henry Clay's Omnibus Bill (the basis of the 1850 Compromise) though Taylor did not. Upon becoming president in July 1850, Fillmore dismissed Taylor's cabinet and carried out his own policy priorities. He began by exerting pressure on Congress to pass the Compromise, highlighting how it gave legislative victories to both North and South – the five-bill package was approved and then enacted into law that September. The Fugitive Slave Act, expediting the return of escaped slaves to those who claimed ownership, was a controversial part of the Compromise, and Fillmore felt himself duty-bound to enforce it, though it damaged his popularity and also the Whig Party, which was torn North from South. In foreign policy, Fillmore supported U.S. Navy expeditions to open trade in Japan, opposed French designs on Hawaii, and was embarrassed by Narciso López's filibuster expeditions to Cuba. He sought election to a full term in 1852 but was passed over by the Whigs in favor of Winfield Scott.
As the Whig Party broke up after Fillmore's presidency, many in Fillmore's conservative wing joined the Know Nothings, forming the American Party. In his 1856 candidacy as that party's nominee, Fillmore had little to say about immigration, focusing instead on the preservation of the Union, and won only Maryland. Fillmore was active in many civic endeavors—he helped in founding the University of Buffalo and served as its first chancellor. During the American Civil War, Fillmore denounced secession and agreed that the Union must be maintained by force if necessary, but was critical of the war policies of Abraham Lincoln. After peace was restored, he supported the Reconstruction policies of President Andrew Johnson. Though he is largely obscure today, Fillmore has been praised by some, for his foreign policy, and criticized by others, for his enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act and his association with the Know Nothings.