Whom You Know: READ THIS: One Thousand New York Buildings - Photography by Jorg Brockmann, Text by Bill Harris, Foreword by Judith Dupre

Sunday, November 15, 2009

READ THIS: One Thousand New York Buildings - Photography by Jorg Brockmann, Text by Bill Harris, Foreword by Judith Dupre

The architecture of New York is like nowhere else, and we haven't seen a better work depict it! The team of Jorg Brockmann and Bill Harris has assembled an excellent array of the best of New York buildings, concentrating on our favorite borough, Manhattan which encompasses the first 394 pages, followed by one on The Bronx, one on Queens, two on Brooklyn and one on Staten Island. We love how in the foreword Kurt Vonnegut is quoted: "[He] coined the phrase 'Skyscraper National Park' to describe Manhattan." This book was began as a project before 9/11/01 but was completed after, beginning with the Statue of Liberty and ending with a Cathedral.

In the foreword, Judith Dupre also smartly states:

"I cannot decide if New York is a city of sidewalks or of sky."

"If you want to know New York, walk."

The history in this book is amazing and a great accompaniment to the pictures. We learned that we want a vanity address! (Never knew what this was...) Did you know electric advertising signs here started in 1891? We could go on and on, but this is a book of pictures, fit for any office or home coffee table. Though it is completely black and white, the colors of your memories will bring it to life!

Some of our favorites include:

The New York Stock Exchange

The World Financial Center (worked here!)

St. Peter's Church (Downtown)

McSorley's Old Ale House

St. Patrick's Old Cathedral

Siegel-Cooper Dry Goods Store

National Arts Club

Marble Collegiate Church

Villard Houses

Waldorf Astoria

Grand Central Terminal

Sony Building

Henri Bendel

University Club

Tiffany's

St. Patrick's Cathedral

The Plaza Hotel

Bergdorf Goodman

RCA Building

9 West 57th Street (worked here!)

Equitable Center (worked here!)

Seagram Building

Ritz Tower

Hotel Pierre

Bloomingdale's

45 East 66th Street

867 Madison Avenue

972 Fifth Avenue

Ukrainian Institute

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Duke House

Loeb Boathouse

Published by Black Dog & Leventhal, One Thousand New York Buildings is a must have for every New Yorker, and everyone that loves New York. We thought we would like this, but we really loved it! Whom You Know strongly recommends One Thousand New York Buildings. It is not often when a book exceeds our expectations!

Pub. Date: May 2002
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc.
Format: Hardcover, 576pp
ISBN-13: 9781579122379
ISBN: 157912237X

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