Columbia University
- Subway Exit to Columbia University
- Entrance to Columbia University. I like the old entrance (in the 60s and 70s) better because there were no police guards there.
- Old Library for Ceremonies
facing south at the western side of the campus mall. There is a huge
portrait of Dwight Eisenhower in this building. He was the president
of Columbia University from 1948 to 1950, after the retirement from the
army and before becoming the first NATO commander. He had connections
with New York's financial circles, and raised tons of money for the
University. I took a photo of the Eisenhower portrait there during
my earlier visit, and I hope to post it here when I find it. I was
not allowed into the building when I went there in March of 2009,
because the board of trustees meeting was being held there.
Eisenhower did many things for the United States and for the World. Not many people seem to know that he redefined the role of university presidents: to bring in money. - Front Steps are for student gathering and relaxation.
- Present Library facing west on the easter side of the mall.
- Street Sign at Broadway and
117th Street telling you are coming to Barnard College.
Barnard College is one of the elite colleges for women in the United
States. It was created because Columbia University used to be a
all-male college.
- Entrance to Barnard College. Barnard ladies seem to like Hillary Clinton.
- Columbia's Earl Hall seen from the entrance to Barnard.
- Courtyard surrounded by dormitories.
- Photo with a Student. It was a pleasure to have a photo with a Barnard lady at her college (February of 2009).
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Lincoln Center and Central Park
- Lincoln Center in New York.
The Opera House is in the center between the New York State Theater
(left) and the Avery Fisher Philharmonic Hall (right). This photo was
taken in 2004.
- Christmas Tree
at the Lincoln Center. In the background is the Avery Fisher Symphony
Hall (2007).
- Avery Fisher Hall for Symphonies. Daytime view.
- Metropolitan Opera House.
- Juliard School of Music.
- Cafe Fiorello. Many people
come to this Italian restaurant after their events at the Lincoln Center.
You can meet some interesting people here, often from your own hometown.
Here is what you can see
in this restaurant.
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- Christmas Tree
at the Lincoln Center. In the background is the Avery Fisher Symphony
Hall (2007).
- Central Park from the Empire
State Building.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Reservoir
at the northern part of the Central Park.
- The Reservoir seen from the 5th floor of the Guggenheim Museum (2009).
- The Reservoir seen from the New York Hilton (2007).
- seen from the Hotel Essex House (2004). Trees and westside condos, south of Columbia University.
- Under the trees of the Central Park.
- Westside Residential Buildings from the Central Park.
- Fifth Avenue between the the Central Park and the eastside residential buildings.
- 7th Avenue and the
Central Park at 62nd Street.
- New York Pops Orchestra performing summer concerts in the Park.
- Meeting Interesting People.
I had a pleasure of having a photo with Barnard and Columbia students
(2004).
- Statue of Christopher Columbus at the Columbus circle near the south-west corner of the Central Park.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Reservoir
at the northern part of the Central Park.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
(2001).
- Greek warrior. (2001)
- The Death of Socrates
(2007). After seeing this painting, I went to the Agora Park of Athens
where Socrates died.
Click here for what Socrates means to me.
- with an Art Student from Japan. There are thousands of portrait of photos of important people in this museum, but there are not as important as one living student.
- Two Brazilian Ladies
at the entrance of the Museum.
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- Solomon Guggenheim Museum.
This landmark structure was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in
1959, while I was a student at Princeton. I used to go there
often then, but not now. I still go there when they have important
events.
- Full Exterior View.
- Spiral Exhibition Floors. There are five floors.
- El Greco to Picasso Exhibition was held in 2006-7, and I was there.
- Artist from Croatia. It is always a pleasure to meet real people, instead portraits, at museums. I met this graphic artist from Dvornik and talked about her place. She invited me to visit her house when I come to that area. She was with her daughter.
- Five-Star Hotels on Central Park
South.
- Plaza Hotel at the south-eastern corner of the Central Park. This hotel usually hosts prime and foreign ministers coming from foreign countries. The hotel's Palm Court serves a very classy Sunday brunch buffet. I dined there several times.
- St. Regis Hotel used to be in this area, but moved to 55th Street.
- Hotel Essex House is one of the
those hotels facing the Central Park.
A View of the Central Park and Beyond from a third-floor room of this hotel.
57th Street and South
- Carnegie Hall on 57th Street
between 6th and 7th Avenues. Carnegie Hall has
a very rich history. These days, main music events take place
at the Lincoln Center, but Carnegie Hall is still carries out
its important mission. When I was in Princeton from 1958 to
1962, the Lincoln Center did not exist, and I used to go there
often.
- Carnegie Tower is a high-rise condo building added to this famous music hall.
- Isaac Stern Place. This section of 57th Street is named after this legendary violinist.
- Other Condo Buildings on the Isaac Stern Place.
- Russian Tea Room is
another landmark on this section of 57th Street. This
restaurant is next to Carnegie Hall.
- Front View of this restaurant.
- Interior of of the Russian Tear Room.
- Eat like a Czar, though not dressed like him.
- Tiffany & Co. The headquarters store of this famous international jewerly chain. This store is located at the south-eastern corner of 5th Ave. and 57th St. Within the radius of two blocks, there are numerous stores for extensive items. Next to this store is the Trump Tower.
- Inside the Trump Tower. Shops and cafeterias.
- Van Cleef & Arpels at the
north-western corner.
- One of the Show Windows of the Van Cleef.
- Bergdorf-Goodman department
store.
- One of the Show Windows at the Bergdorf-Goodman.
- Tournou Watch seen from the Trump Tower. It is the biggest watch store in the world.
- New York Hilton seen from 6th Avenue south. During the 1960s, this hotel used to host the January meeting the American Physical Society. I used to meet many colleagues here.
- Daytime View of the hotel.
- Main Lobby where you register your room.
- Very Rarely, 6th Avenue is like this in front of the Hilton (July 2007). The "Radio City" sign is seen.
- Hilton's Tall Neighbor, viewed from an upper-floor room of the hotel.
- Hilton's Rich Neighbor. UBS (United Bank of Switzerland) is one of the leading financial institutions in the world. Rich Americans used to come to this bank to hide their money.
- Living Nativity at the Radio City Music Hall. Jesus was born!
- Main Entrance of the Radio City Music Hall on 6th Avenue (Avenue of Americas).
- A noble man travels to Bethlehem to pay his respect to his new King.
- Rockettes (Radio City Dancers) perform on the stage.
- Happy people dancing under the bright sun.
- Falk Dance performed by Rockettes.
- Crhistmas Party on Stage.
- Statue of a Rockette Dancer.
There is a small museum in the lower floor of the music hall. This
museum contains historical items collected since this music hall
was opened in 1933.
- Nativity of 1975 at the Radio City Music Hall.
- Nativity of 1961. The photo quality is not great, but I was there with my camera.
- Nativity Scene of 1945. I saw my first Nativity scene at my childhood church in Korea. North or South? Korea used to be one country until 1945.
- Pometheus at the Rockefeller Center (winter).
- Another View of the Pometheus (summer).
- Summer-time Resaurant in front of
at the Pometheus (1970).
- Three Ponds at the Center (1970).
- Three Ponds in 2009.
- Christmas Season. Beyond these ponds, there is a department store on the east side of 5th Avenue. This is how the building looks during the night.
- Interesting People. There are a number of specialty shops attracting sophisticated shoppers. I met a group of ladies at a shop offering British items.
- Three Ponds at the Center (1970).
Marilyn Monroe's subway grate. - Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where kings and presidents of the worlds stay.
- Sunday Breakfast Buffet at the Waldorf.
- Expensive Shops on the ground floor.
- Nikita Khruschev of the Soviet Union stayed in this hotel while attending the 1962 session of the United Nations (from hotel exhibition). He performed some shows with his shoes at the UN conference hall.
- Interesting People.
Not everybody in this hotel is a king or president. I had a
photo with a group of fun-seeking young people.
- Convenience Cafeteria near the Hotel. It is generally agreed that restaurant within the hotel is unreasonably expensive. Let the presidents or king eat there, but their bodyguards eat at outside cafeterias.
- Marilyn Monroe's Subway Grate is one block north of the Lexington Avenue entrance of this hotel. I am standing here with two ladies from Croatia. They became very happy when I told them about Tesla. To them, Tesla was a Croatian, while he was a Serbian to Serbians.
45th Street and South
- PanAm Building (used to be),
seen from Park Avenue North (1975). PanAm was once America's
flagship airlines company., and this building used to be one of New
York's most prominent buildings, just north of New York Central
Station on Park Avenu. PanAm is now gone, and this building
carries the MetLife sign. But it is still called the PanAm
Building.
- This is now the Met Life Building, seen from Park Avenue South (2009).
- Met Life Building seen from the UN Plaza on 42nd Street (2009).
- PanAm Terminal at the JFK Airport. As America's falgship carrier, PanAm used to maintain this terminal building at New York's JFK Airport. Since PanAm became abosorbed into the Delta Airlines in 1995, this building is now one of the two Delta terminals.
- PanAm Reunion. This Delta Airlines lady used to work for PanAm. I met her during my Delta flight from Nice to Washington in 2006. When I asked her whether she used to work for PanAm, she became very happy, and we had this photo.
- Chrysler Buliding used to be New York's tallest building for eleven month before the Empire State building was completed in 1931 (photo from the public domain). It is one block east of the PanAm (MetLife) building.
- View from the Empire State Building (1975). Both the Chrysler and PanAm buildings are seen.
- Professional Quality Photo from the public domain.
- Seen from the UN Plaza through 43rd Street.
- What is this building for? I tried to go inside and find out, but was stopped at the entrance lobby. I had a photo with a couple from Portugal who also came here for the same purpose. The guard told us we could get into the building only through guided tour services (October 2011).
- Grand Central Station. Main entrance on 42nd Street. The main purpose of this building is to host trains coming into and going out from the New York City, but it provides many other services.
- Grand Central Station south of the PanAm building.
- The Main Hall is still used for railroad passengers. Ticket windows and the information booth can be seen. In 1958, I bought here a round-trip railroad from New York to Rochester, Minnesota. I went there to see my cousin who was visiting the Mayo Clinic.
- Oyster Bar Restaurant in the Basement is one of New York's landmark restaurants.
- The Grand Central Supermarket is one of the numeroud shops in this station.
- Iinteresting People. There are many interesting people in this building. This man is dressed like Jesus during the Holloween weekend.
- Wedding Receptions are held here for some couples. These young ladies were waiting for the bride to come, and I had a photo with them.
- Grand Central Buiding north of the
PamAm building (1970). This building is not for railroad services. There
are many offices in this building.
- United Nations Building on the bank of the East River.
- Front View of the UN building from 42nd Street.
- Entrance Pool viewed from 42nd Street.
- Conference Hall. This building appears to be a new addition.
- Flags representing member countries.
- Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union
came to the UN in 1960, and make his case in his stylish way. At that time,
the Soviet Union was so strong that the independence of Eastern European
nations was unthinkable. This is an anti-Khrushchev sign in front of the
UN building.
- The United States Mission to the United Nations across the street from the UN main building. People say this and that of the American influence on the world, but the United States still plays the dominant role in this UN organization.
- 335 E. 45th Street. At this location, there used to be the main office of the American Institute of Physics and American Physical Society. This building is now for the Korean mission to the United Nations. The Korean government was set up according to the UN-mandated election held on May 10, 1948. In 1950, the United States sent troops to Korea according to UN's Security Council resolution. The Israeli government was set up in a similar way.
- The United Nations is the most important peace-keeping and humanitarian organization. When foreign students come to New York, the UN Plaza is the No. 1 place to visit. I had a photo with a group of Indian students in front of the UN building. I asked them from which region of India they came from. They said Assam. I said a rainy place. They became very happy with me.
- Times Square. Broadway and the 44th Street (1975).
- Times Square of 2009.
- Southern End of the Square at 42nd Street. The new year's ball falls down from the tall building. Since the name of this building is changing so often, I cannot keep track of it.
- Movie Theaters on 42nd Street (1970). These days, all those theaters are gone.
- Stores on Broadway.
- Broadway and 7th Avenue. The Times Square is at the intersection of Broadway and 42nd Street.
- Nasdq Headquarters on Broadway at 43rd Street (2004). The appearance of this building changes too often to keep track of it.
- New York Public Library, photo taken in 1908 (from the public domain). This building extends from 40th Street to 42nd Street. The main entrance is on 5th Avenue .
- Back of the Library.
- Bryant Park between behind the New York Public Library.
- Treed Area of the Park provides enough shaded area for people to relax in the middle of the busy city.
- Free Internet Connection is available throughout the park.
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Views from the Empire State Building (1975)
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35th Street and South
23rd Street and South
Downtown
Future WTC towers. Publication of the Port Authority of
New York and New Jersey.
New York Harbor
Princeton
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Princeton is a university town 60 kilometer from New York. You can
spend one day there while in New York.
- Campus of Princeton University.
This campus is one of attractions for tourists coming to New York.
Many people are interested in sending their children or grandchildren to
this university.
- Princeton Carnival. Before the commencement day (end of May), there is a week-long alumni re-union. On the final day of the re-union, there is a parade of Princeton alumni, called "P-rade." You can see the life-style of affluent Americans.
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- Ulm (Einstein's Birth Place).
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Kaliningrad. (Einstein's philosophical base).
- Washington.
- Pittsburgh.
- Baltic Cities
- China
- Italy
- Poland
- Russia
- Scandinavia
- Kiev
- London
- Minsk
- Paris
- Rio de Janeiro
- Vienna
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