Visit to New York City, New York (2018)
The historic Pershing Square Building is located at 125 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, directly across the street from Grand Central Terminal at the intersection of Park Avenue and 42nd Street. Begun in 1921 and completed in 1923, it was built by firms York and Sawyer alongside Sloan & Robertson. Features a Romanesque Revival design with large, striking Romanesque arches along the base, textured buff-colored brickwork, and intricate terra cotta trim. Because its foundation was laid down before New York’s restrictive 1916 Zoning Resolution went fully into effect, it stands as the last major tall building in Pre-War New York constructed without mandated setbacks, allowing its walls to rise straight up from the base.
Visit to the New York Historical Society
Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy is one of the largest genealogical and local history collections in the country. This extraordinary collection is especially rich in documents tracing the development of New York City and its peoples, encompassing census registers, city directories, passport applications, land records, name origins, and neighborhood history. The Milstein Division also contains important visual materials, from family trees, scrapbooks, and postcards to more than 400,000 photographs, including numerous spectacular views of this city. Every year the division welcomes some 25,000 onsite visits from students, writers, film and television producers, researchers, and city planners.
The image shows Herald Square, a historic intersection and public plaza located at the junction of Broadway, Sixth Avenue, and 34th Street in Midtown Manhattan. The James Gordon Bennett Monument features a large mechanical clock face and bronze statues of Minerva (the goddess of wisdom), two bell-ringers named Stuff and Guff, and bronze owls with eyes that historically illuminated. Visible on the far left edge of the image is the flagship Macy’s Department Store, famously known as the world’s largest store for many decades. Rising high in the background directly behind the plaza structures is the tip of the Empire State Building. The large, classic multi-story commercial building occupying the center backdrop of the plaza is 2 Herald Square (historically known as the Marbridge Building).
COOK storefront stood out to us. The bold interior design uses high lofted ceilings and color to draw the eye in. On the exterior major product offerings are displayed in illustrations to the left and right.
This storefront dispensed of a menu board over the prep space, and instead has colorful drawings that depict the brand story.