NYC Skyline- A View from Socrates Sculpture Park

by Dora Sofia Caputo

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NYC Skyline- A View from Socrates Sculpture Park

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Dora Sofia Caputo

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NYC Skyline - A View From Socrates Sculpture Park - Dora Sofia Caputo
Image of the New York City Skyline - Mid town Manhattan - taken from across the East River, from Socrates Sculpture Park, in Long Island City, Queens, New York.
Since its very beginnings, New York City has been reaching for the sky. For much of its early history, the tallest structures here were church steeples and City Hall, but that all of changed in 1883, when the Brooklyn Bridge opened. By the turn of the 20th-century, the Flatiron Building and the Woolworth Building achieved new records for height until the Chrysler Building and Empire State Building set the gold standard for skyscrapers. Building tall is the defining feature of New York, and while the scale of construction has had ups and downs along with the economy, buildings have always grown higher and higher. In the past several years, the trend has accelerated almost beyond imagining with a pipeline full of super-tall towers. Many are super-luxury NYC apartments for the mega-rich, but even so, they will drastically alter the skyline by 2021
Socrates Sculpture Park is an outdoor museum and public park where artists can create and exhibit sculptures and multi-media installations. It is located one block from the Noguchi Museum at the intersection of Broadway and Vernon Boulevard in the neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, New York City. In addition to exhibition space, the park offers an arts education program, artist residency program, and job training.

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January 28th, 2018

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