To the chagrin of many new Yorkers, Brooklyn will have to say goodbye to one of its main historical attractions that says «Watchtower», located on the former headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses. The export permit of the sign gave the building Department. The further fate of the inscription is not yet known. About a year ago, Columbia Heights Associates (in collaboration with Kushner, CIM Group and LIVWRK) purchased the building the»Watchtower»,…

Summer in new York becomes a city of cinema, but not all the shows under the open sky are one of the best beaches of the city. Last week, the Alliance for Coney Island announces its seventh annual series of screenings of Flicks on the Beach. Organizers note that this year’s lineup is more exciting than a trip on ride the Cyclone. The screenings will be held at 7 PM…

Today, subway station, South Ferry, five years after it was hit by hurricane sandy. In October 2012 the station was flooded 15 million gallons of salt water and sewage, from the ways to the entrance. The water has destroyed all electrical and mechanical systems at the station, which at that time was only two years old.   Flooded escalator in the South Ferry station after hurricane sandy, source: flickr In…

Lower Manhattan is the southern part of the main island of new York city. The first European settlement in this part of the present metropolis was founded by the Dutch in 1626. In the beginning of XX century it was intensively built up, however, this does not mean that the prints of the XIX century, was completely razed to the Big Apple. On the stretch from Battery Park to Madison…