Il primo maggio del 1931 veniva inaugurato l'Empire State Building. Speculazione immobiliare in piena Grande Depressione, simbolo di un nuovo inizio per New York e gli Stati Uniti.
Assolutamente attuale 82 anni dopo.

The construction of the Empire State Building reads like a tall tale. Designed by William F. Lamb, his firm produced drawings of the building in two weeks. From its groundbreaking on January 22, 1930, the skyscraper was built in just 401 days and was simultaneously entered into a competition for "World’s Tallest Building", along with the Chrysler building and 40 Wall Street. Even as it was being built, the Empire State building was hailed as a feat of American engineering, with 102 floors, 73 elevators, 9,000 faucets, and, with the addition of the spire in 1952, a height of 1,453 feet. The building was so big that it was given its own zip code: 10118. Upon its dedication on May 1, 1931, it was indeed the tallest building in the world, a title it held for 42 years until the dedication of the World Trade Center towers in 1972.

Street è un video ad alta definizione di 61 minuti girato in super slow motion a 780 fps dall'artista James Nares nel settembre 2011.
Un esperimento di osservazione delle vita lungo le strade di New York. Street è in mostra al Metropolitan Museum of Art sino alla fine di maggio.

James Gulliver Hancock ha un progetto, disegnare ogni singolo palazzo di New York.

La vista spettacolare di New York dal punto di osservazione del grattacielo One World Trade Center, in attesa della sua apertura nel 2015.

Un giorno a New York condensato in un time lapse di quattro minuti girato da Samuel Orr.

La splendida mappa di New York disegnata a mano dall'illustratrice Jenni Sparks.

L'artista JR Schmidt ha realizzato una perfetta riproduzione in scala di New York usando i mattoncini Lego.

Jared Levy e Michael Marantz hanno filmato il blackout a New York causato dal passaggio dell'uragano Sandy.

Seeing lower Manhattan without power was a surreal experience. This is traditionally a city that never sleeps. One in which the lights are always on. One that is always bustling with people. When the lights went out it was wholly different. This piece is meant to capture and relay the feeling of what it was like to walk around the darkened streets of lower Manhattan.

Il fotografo Iwan Baan racconta come è riuscito a realizzare l'iconica immagine di Lower Manhattan immersa nel buio dopo il passaggio dell'uragano Sandy, pubblicata sul New York magazine.

Baan made the image Wednesday night after the storm, using the new Canon 1D X with the new 24-70mm lens on full open aperture. The camera was set at 25,000 ISO, with a 1/40th of a second shutter speed.

[...] Imagine crouching inside a vibrating helicopter, clutching a handheld camera and peering down at the devastated landscape of a city just ravaged by a storm that's claimed more than 100 lives. Now imagine what it feels like to have no door between you and that wide expanse of nothing, just 46-degree air ripping around the sky. And somehow managing, despite the darkness, to capture such a vivid, emotional snapshot.

Le splendide copertine del New Yorker e del New York magazine sull'uragano Sandy.

Tra le decine di migliaia di corridori rimasti orfani, per la prima volta nella storia, della maratona di New York cancellata per gli effetti dell'uragano Sandy c'è chi ha deciso di donare la propria camera d'albergo ai newyorkesi sfollati e chi invece domattina prenderà comunque il via per percorrere 42,195 km che vanno oltre il puro gesto sportivo.

Il black out a Lower Manhattan

Il black out a Lower Manhattan

Il black out a Lower Manhattan

Le foto degli effetti del passaggio dell'uragano Sandy sulla costa est degli Stati Uniti.
A New York un vasto blackout ha coinvolto Lower e Mid-Manhattan in seguito a un'esplosione alla centrale elettrica della Con Edison.

Il video dell'esplosione alla centrale elettrica della Con Edison, causata al passaggio dell'uragano Sandy, che ha provocato un vasto blackout a Manhattan.

Il futuro come immaginato dal cinema nel supercut di Eclectic Method.

L'11 Settembre 2001 Frank Culbertson era a bordo della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale quando i terroristi attaccarono il World Trade Center e il Pentagono.
L'astronauta della NASA riuscì a riprendere l'impressionante scia di fumo che si sprigionava dagli incendi delle Twin Towers e si allontanava verso l'oceano Atlantico.

I had just finished a number of tasks this morning, the most time-consuming being the physical exams of all crew members. In a private conversation following that, the flight surgeon told me they were having a very bad day on the ground. I had no idea...

He described the situation to me as best he knew it at ~0900 CDT. I was flabbergasted, then horrified. My first thought was that this wasn't a real conversation, that I was still listening to one of my Tom Clancy tapes. It just didn't seem possible on this scale in our country. I couldn't even imagine the particulars, even before the news of further destruction began coming in.

Vladimir came over pretty quickly, sensing that something very serious was being discussed. I waved Michael into the module as well. They were also amazed and stunned. After we signed off, I tried to explain to Vladimir and Michael as best I could the potential magnitude of this act of terror in downtown Manhattan and at the Pentagon. They clearly understood and were very sympathetic.

I glanced at the World Map on the computer to see where over the world we were and noticed that we were coming southeast out of Canada and would be passing over New England in a few minutes. I zipped around the station until I found a window that would give me a view of NYC and grabbed the nearest camera. It happened to be a video camera, and I was looking south from the window of Michael's cabin.

The smoke seemed to have an odd bloom to it at the base of the column that was streaming south of the city. After reading one of the news articles we just received, I believe we were looking at NY around the time of, or shortly after, the collapse of the second tower.