Guess the Location: Official Thread

[czsz]

Looks way too large and open to be on St. Marks.

[TLOZ Link5]

Looks way too large and open to be on St. Marks.

It seems narrow to me, but really deep. Characteristic of a lot of the storefronts there.

[krulltime]

I think this interior thing might be really hard... I will be surprise if someone gets it right! Good luck! ;)

[asg]

It's not Japanese, though you can buy food and tea here.

Here's another picture of the interior and a hint - this is after they moved to their new location.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/asg9000/26_L.jpg

[TLOZ Link5]

The Ten Ren tea shop on Mott Street?

[Clarknt67]

It's not Japanese, though you can buy food and tea here.

Here's another picture of the interior and a hint - this is after they moved to their new location.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/asg9000/26_L.jpg

It's Pearl River, the new Soho location for the Chinatown department store. (Isn't the soho local in addition to the Chinatown location?)

[asg]

That's it.

There is just the SoHo location now; they closed the second, smaller store about a year ago.

[Clarknt67]

Ok since I solved the last, I'll post a new one:

http://www.govisland.com/Images/Views_from_Island/DSCN0186.jpg

[thomasjfletcher]

Great thread- only just found it.
Is that pic Governor's Island??

[Gulcrapek]

Park on Red Hook coast? Looks too north though.

[NYatKNIGHT]

Governors Island?

[Clarknt67]

Great thread- only just found it.
Is that pic Governor's Island??

yep, that didn't take long:

View of Lower Manhattan from Division Road on Governors Island

http://www.govisland.com/Gallery/views_from_island.asp

[ManhattanKnight]

And now for something a little different . . .

http://img119.echo.cx/img119/4853/dscf38204hq.jpg

[thomasjfletcher]

give me liberty...

here's one....

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LM/Pict0059.jpg

[Bowbridge]

Is that the UN in the backround? Thrid Window to the Right on the bottom.


Yes, that's the UN in the background. Good eyes.

[thomasjfletcher]

Go for it Law-
that image was from the ALEXANDER HAMILTON CUSTOM HOUSE

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LM/Pict0071.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LM/Pict0042a.jpg

[ZippyTheChimp]

Simple ground rule to keep the thread orderly:

One puzzle at a time

If you have a location to post, you're going to have to solve the existing item. Originators are encouraged to provide clues along the way to keep it moving.

The ManhattanKnight item now has the floor.

[thomasjfletcher]

my apologies manhattanknight!
I'm guessing that's a mural somewhere?

[ManhattanKnight]

Sorry, I wasnt sure if it was solved by what thomasjfletcher posted, I accept responsibility. I think its a painting at the Met or MoMA... or maybe an exhibit at some other museum.

It's a detail from a lithograph poster, not a painting. I doubt that either the Met or MoMA has a copy, but the Museum of the City of New York does (and so do I). The question is what location is depicted in the poster.

[Bowbridge]

The lithograph; maybe the World War I poster by Pennell?

[thomasjfletcher]

The Statue of Liberty?????

[ManhattanKnight]

The lithograph; maybe the World War I poster by Pennell?

Bowbridge's got it. The image (Lady Liberty's severed head) is from Joseph Pennell's 1918 poster showing lower Manhattan in flames during a German air and naval attack, a capability that Kaiser Bill fortunately lacked. Over 2,000,000 copies of the poster were distributed.

http://img295.echo.cx/img295/1475/pennelllibertylargecorrectedsm.jpg

[NoyokA]

That's a disturbing poster.

[ManhattanKnight]

That's a disturbing poster.

At the October, 2001 International Vintage Poster Fair held at the Metropolitan Pavillion in Chelsea, a framed copy of the poster was hung beside the entrance to the exhibition hall.

[Bowbridge]

Try this one.



http://williamschroeder.com/img_8373_std.jpg

[BrooklynRider]

HoHum wall paper, blow-out chandelier and fresco ceiling by elevator? Days Inn - Eighth Ave?

[ManhattanKnight]

It's time for a HINT.

[asg]

It's time for a HINT.
I thought BrooklynRider got it.

HoHum wall paper, blow-out chandelier and fresco ceiling by elevator? Days Inn - Eighth Ave?

[Eugenius]

The now defunct Mayflower?

[NoyokA]

Let's keep the focus on exteriors and interiors we would logically pass or enter.

[ZippyTheChimp]

I don't think anyone is going to get this, and who knows when Bowbridge will be back.

Next.

[ZippyTheChimp]

Next is whoever posts the next one.

[ManhattanKnight]

The Sherry-Netherland spire.

[ManhattanKnight]

A hint for L&O: before playing this game again, you really should figure out how I, good as I am, managed to identify that one out a few minutes after you posted that image.

[ManhattanKnight]

The URL for your image identifies the building. This is from the automatic email notification that your posting generated:




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[ZippyTheChimp]

Yes, we are not to be trusted. After giving it a good shot, everybody checks the image title.

[ZippyTheChimp]

No one listens to the moderators.

[NoyokA]

There's no prize and thus no incentive to cheat. I can't believe people would do it, that said its discouraged.

[thomasjfletcher]

those Sherry-Netherland pictures are awesome, btw...

[asg]

Since the floor is open (and I'm really bored here at work)

How about this one:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/asg9000/IMG_8645.jpg

[thomasjfletcher]

that's the new moma isn't it......?

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID087-03.jpg

[asg]

No.


Okay, yes it is. Too easy.

[Bowbridge]

Sorry for not following up on my post, I was out of town.

"Defunct" came close, but not the Mayflower. Here is a view looking out just before entering the area that was in the previous shot.

http://williamschroeder.com/img_8264_std.jpg

[ManhattanKnight]

The Plaza Hotel.

[ZippyTheChimp]

Odd coincidence in the background.

[Bowbridge]

Correct, the Plaza Hotel.

The inside pics are from the 7,800 sq ft suite on the 18th floor. No, I didn't stay there, as the price was a little steep - $15,000 per night.

I got a quick look at a part of it while the hotel was doing the liquidation sale. I would have liked to have seen the whole thing, but these were the only shots I was able to get.

The view overlooking the park is not from the 18th floor suite.



http://williamschroeder.com/img_8262_std.jpg

http://williamschroeder.com/img_8372_std.jpg

http://williamschroeder.com/img_8375_std.jpg

http://williamschroeder.com/img_8376_std.jpg

[asg]

Guess the location:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/asg9000/IMG_9221.jpg

[thomasjfletcher]

tricky!

[Gulcrapek]

Water Street?

[NoyokA]

Its a shot of 30 Broad Street, the headquarters of Leslie E. Robertson who incidentally engineered the original WTC.

[asg]

Correct! It's a shot of 30 Broad Street taken from New St. Stern got it so quickly - didn't even give me a chance to post a hint.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/asg9000/IMG_9225.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/asg9000/IMG_9224.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/asg9000/IMG_9226.jpg

[ZippyTheChimp]

Where is it?

http://img289.imageshack.us/img289/6907/guess252wh.th.jpg (http://img289.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guess252wh.jpg)

[ManhattanKnight]

Riverbank State Park/North River Water Treatment Plant.

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/forgottentour18/towers-thumb.jpg

[ZippyTheChimp]

If there were prizes, someone would be getting rich.

Stacks from the plant below are a sort of entry sculpture for the park.
.http://img270.echo.cx/img270/6220/riverbank019vk.th.jpg (http://img270.echo.cx/my.php?image=riverbank019vk.jpg)

Overpass at W145 St over Amtrack and the Henry Hudson Pkwy.
http://img270.echo.cx/img270/1481/riverbank020rx.th.jpg (http://img270.echo.cx/my.php?image=riverbank020rx.jpg)

70 ft high, out over the Hudson. Great views.
http://img270.echo.cx/img270/9348/riverbank036up.th.jpg (http://img270.echo.cx/my.php?image=riverbank036up.jpg) http://img270.echo.cx/img270/5246/riverbank042en.th.jpg (http://img270.echo.cx/my.php?image=riverbank042en.jpg)


http://img270.echo.cx/img270/1180/riverbank057zu.th.jpg (http://img270.echo.cx/my.php?image=riverbank057zu.jpg) http://img270.echo.cx/img270/1210/riverbank060oc.th.jpg (http://img270.echo.cx/my.php?image=riverbank060oc.jpg) http://img270.echo.cx/img270/4483/riverbank072fh.th.jpg (http://img270.echo.cx/my.php?image=riverbank072fh.jpg) http://img270.echo.cx/img270/6953/riverbank083tg.th.jpg (http://img270.echo.cx/my.php?image=riverbank083tg.jpg)


http://img270.echo.cx/img270/7897/riverbank096sj.th.jpg (http://img270.echo.cx/my.php?image=riverbank096sj.jpg) http://img270.echo.cx/img270/201/riverbank107bj.th.jpg (http://img270.echo.cx/my.php?image=riverbank107bj.jpg) http://img270.echo.cx/img270/1023/riverbank117nk.th.jpg (http://img270.echo.cx/my.php?image=riverbank117nk.jpg)

[Edward]

Guess the location:

http://www.wirednewyork.com/images/guess12.jpg

[Edward]

It is not in Manhattan.

[Gulcrapek]

York Street station?

I have no idea, I just remember the station is red brick and old..

[NoyokA]

Looks like either a Brooklyn Brewery or a Brooklyn Armory.

[Gulcrapek]

Actually armory is a good guess... it looks a little like the side of the one in Park Slope.

[Edward]

I guess another hint is due. The lettering on the building of which you can only see ..EMEYERS, in full says HAVEMEYERS.

[ManhattanKnight]

Havemeyers and Elder's Sugar Refining Co., Williamsburg (now American Sugar Refining Co.)

http://www.gothamist.com/images/2004_01_domino.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/WBG/WBG025-01.jpg

[Edward]

Yes, that's the correct answer. At some point I will post a larger picture. We have a thread on this building at http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3132

[Bowbridge]

Try this one, but I think it will be pretty easy.

http://williamschroeder.com/wired001.jpg

[Gulcrapek]

Greenwood?

[NoyokA]

Woodlawn Cemetary?

[ZippyTheChimp]

Looks like the Chapel at Greenwood.

[Bowbridge]

The Chapel at Greenwood is correct. I should have gone inside while I was there, I didn't know that they had reopened the Chapel several years ago.

[Gulcrapek]

I was inside. It's kinda small.

[pianoman11686]

When I walked by it today, I thought it would either be really easy or really difficult:

http://images.snapfish.com/3447%3A77523232%7Ffp54%3Dot%3E234%3A%3D937%3D37%3B %3DXROQDF%3E2323%3A59827233ot1lsi

[Gulcrapek]

~Fulton St?

[pianoman11686]

Nope.

[thomasjfletcher]

iT'S in Little Korea, I believe, but where I know not.....

[ZippyTheChimp]

15th St near 10th Ave.
The old Nabisco factory, now Chelsea Market.

[Edward]

32nd Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues

[ManhattanKnight]

It's the sky-bridge connecting the old Gimbel Brothers Department Store with its annex to the south. "[A] copper-clad Art Deco sleeper [1925] by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, of Empire State Building fame." AIA Guide (4th ed.) p. 225.

http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/9278/11243867850577886tx.jpg

[thomasjfletcher]

that's it! What a beauty!

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID126-10.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID126-17.jpg

[pianoman11686]

Wow, not bad guys. While I obviously knew where it was located (32nd between 6th & 7th), I didn't know much else about it. Thanks for the tidbit, ManhattanKnight.

Thomasjfletcher: I did some research, and while I wasn't aware of it, you're right - there is a "little Korea" in Midtown. It's mostly referred to as "Koreatown" or K-Town, and is a very small area. The boundary is most often described as "31st to 36th between 5th & 6th avenue." The "main drag" is supposed to be on 32nd street, between 5th & Broadway. Still, that's pretty close to the actual location of the sky bridge.

[kz1000ps]

95% of the time I visit the city, Penn Station is my gateway to it all, and this is one of those things that I've noticed and wondered about since childhood (so it has that magical dimension in my mind). From the exit at 32nd and 7th it looks very ethereal, almost like a two-dimensional painting floating high above. Great to know a little something about it.

[ManhattanKnight]

This little gem is the smallest member of the two architectural triptychs of the 32nd-34th Street cross-town corridor: McKim, Mead & White's Post Office, Penn Station and Hotel Pennsylvania and Shreve, Lamb & Harmon's Gimbel's sky-bridge, ESB and 3 Park Avenue.

[redhot00]

Here's one. Hints will be forthcoming, but I have a feeling some of you will get it right away.

http://nycjpg.com/prenycjpg/Pictures/dorilton.brackets.jpg

[Edward]

A little advice for next time - change the image file name, since it's reveals the building.

[redhot00]

Thank you

[NoyokA]

Would it be ok to make one that is blurred or distorted, but you can still tell what building it is?

not really...

[NoyokA]

I assumed that would be the answer and didnt even try.

You can however take a small cropped section of a building, if its something distintive about the overrall building.

[ZippyTheChimp]

Paging redhot00:

Your puzzle has the floor. i think a clue is needed.

[ManhattanKnight]

Paging redhot00:

Your puzzle has the floor. i think a clue is needed.

I think (s)he gave up after Edward's comment about revealing filenames. The building, of course, is the Dorilton Apartments (B'way & W. 71st). Next question . . . .

[redhot00]

Yes it is the Dorilton Apartment building, and yes, I stopped giving clues when I was told that the building name was in the filename. Although I still don't know how someone viewing the post could see the file name. It sucks being computer illiterate.

[ManhattanKnight]

Although I still don't know how someone viewing the post could see the file name. It sucks being computer illiterate.

With Windows, right click anywhere within the image and select "Properties" from the drop-down list.

[NYatKNIGHT]

What/where?

http://www.pbase.com/v3/image/51696589.jpg

[Edward]

Looks like a Broadway theater

[TLOZ Link5]

I'm guessing the Town Hall Theatre, on 42nd Street catty-corner across from Condé Nast, on the left. You can also see Grace Plaza reflected in the glass of the canopy/marquee/thingy on the upper left :)

[NYatKNIGHT]

Ding ding ding. Correct. I hoped that reflection would help because I thought it was too hard, but geez - you guys are good.

http://www.pbase.com/v3/image/51700711.jpg



Next!

[lofter1]

^ Good work, TLOZ ;)

[TLOZ Link5]

When I was in grade school, I went to see many plays there with my class: Freaky Friday, Pirates of Penzance, etc. So I know the theater quite well.

It's also featured very lovingly in the movie A Mighty Wind.

[NYatKNIGHT]

Exactly - Mitch and Mickey's old stomping grounds. :)

[lofter1]

Gotta love Mitch & Mickey :) Wish they'd come back for more ...

[lofter1]

(sssshhhh -- there is a wooden door at this end of the white trailers on the left -- near the east edge of the Henry Miller facade)

[ZippyTheChimp]

Guess the location.
http://img280.imageshack.us/img280/9636/guess26a0rm.th.jpg (http://img280.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guess26a0rm.jpg)

[krulltime]

I don't think that I have ever seen that before. It seems to be on top of a bulding though.

[lofter1]

The top of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel entrance at the foot of Greenwich St. across from Battery Park :D .

[ZippyTheChimp]

That's it.

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1871/bbt01g6is.th.jpg (http://img295.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bbt01g6is.jpg)

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/7519/bbt02g2gh.th.jpg (http://img295.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bbt02g2gh.jpg) http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/7761/guess26b0zp.th.jpg (http://img295.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guess26b0zp.jpg)

[lofter1]

Sheer serendipity ... I just happened to stroll past there on Monday, on my way to checking out the progress on the subway dig through Battery Park.

When I noticed this on top of the Tunnel building I wondered: was it seasonal or permanent?

And I hope, as part of the road improvements on the Battery Park side of the building, that they do something about the fence that was beefed up after 9/11.

[ZippyTheChimp]

What's the location?

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/2902/guess277gc.th.jpg (http://img102.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guess277gc.jpg)

[Jake]

Possibly one of the streets near Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn. Hard to say, could be anywhere.

[lofter1]

hmmmm, maybe here?

http://www.tvacres.com/images/addams_gomez5.jpg

[Ninjahedge]

Red "x"

[Jake]

ooooh oooh oooh I KNOW! this is where I got my heroin last time, damn it, I don't know the address but that drug dealer who drove me there knows it, should I ask?

[lofter1]

Maybe some of the old houses at the Brooklyn Navy Yards?

[lofter1]

Inside ...

http://www.dailyheights.com/images/callalillie.com%20navy%20yards.jpg

http://www.officersrow.org/interiors/inside_interiors.html

[lofter1]

Bingo:

http://www.officersrow.org/outside/images/Q2_large.jpg

[splicing]

Guess this location:

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/fab9ebed-c7e6-4881-bf25-eeb47cbc9240.jpg

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/12d632b6-3348-4598-8e13-fb1fccb9f816.jpg

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/0fc61fb4-4ca9-49d2-9895-30b7bceb1f3b.jpg

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/7aeae21c-0a78-402c-a621-4974cb990d1e.jpg

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/1b872e64-dbc1-4a0f-b0d4-17e35ddc42bc.jpg

[ZippyTheChimp]

Good one, Lofter.

Shooters Island

[splicing]

Good one, Lofter.

Shooters Island

Wow. You're good.
I'll make it more difficult next time.

[splicing]

Guess the location:

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/a02b4570-28d4-4894-8ea8-f1a1153c5f8f.jpg

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/9b1659af-9986-4c1c-a4e6-2533e52c5ab6.jpg

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/3d4a2d7f-bb74-4cc7-b737-a3cdaa9685a8.jpg

[splicing]

Almost 200 views without a single guess warrants a hint...

Here's what the location looked like at one time:

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/19c4e6c0-a947-4a02-9762-6873881880f0.jpg

[splicing]

Your immigrant ancestors might have stayed or died here if they were sick.

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/bbfd1d75-5a46-4b52-97bb-97144c416764.jpg

[ManhattanKnight]

North Brother Island.

[splicing]

North Brother Island.
Sorry, no.

[ManhattanKnight]

Hoffman Island.

[TLOZ Link5]

Hart Island?

[Jasonik]

Swinburne Island

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/fromwater/hoffman.swinburne1.jpg
Hoffman Island (foreground), Swinburne Island (background)

"Like Roosevelt and North Brother Islands, these two artificial islands off Staten Island's southeast coast (off South Beach) were used to quarantine infectious patients in the 1800s and early 20th Century. Named for NYC Mayor John Hoffman and Civil War Army surgeon Dr. John Swinburne, the islands were formed from dredged sand in the 1860s. The facilities were closed on both islands by the end of the 1930s. The buildings were gone by the Sixties and the islands have languished since then."
Chet Wilson 2001 (Lost New York) (http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/fromwater/water.html)

NYC Islands (http://webdocs.nyccouncil.info/attachments/63259.htm?CFID=335589&CFTOKEN=70775548)

[splicing]

Hoffman Island.

No, but close.

[splicing]

Hart Island?

Sorry, no.

[splicing]

Rat Island?
"... (http://www.nyc24.org/2003/islands/zone1/cityhistory.html)a two-acre island located between Hart and City islands. It was an artists' colony for some time and also housed a hospital during a yellow fever scare in Pelham Bay."

NYC Islands (http://webdocs.nyccouncil.info/attachments/63259.htm?CFID=335589&CFTOKEN=70775548)

Sorry, no.

[Jasonik]

Sorry, no.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~quarantine/images/maltn07.jpg

I swear I got it before the hint that Hoffman was close.

Edited post above. (http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showpost.php?p=88549&postcount=394)

[splicing]

Swinburne Island

Here's a few more shots of what's left there:

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/d41918ad-52f7-45b0-ba06-23b158831d90.jpg

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/c6903314-ba59-41a0-80b3-ff4db7c55cf1.jpg

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/51e43416-6058-487a-879b-95202a3425ae.jpg

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/4bd9d52c-21b8-45b3-bc7c-5aee3b56dbe4.jpg

[NYatKNIGHT]

Good one. How did you get out there?

[splicing]

Good one. How did you get out there?
http://img.groundspeak.com/user/b5164245-5c56-4a98-8085-9780e23f209a.jpg


Any interest in a few more locations?

[NYatKNIGHT]

By all means, more please, this game is endless, though if it's another island picture it might make the guessing easier, no? You could also attach them to existing threads, or start a new one if there isn't one already.

Looks like you had perfectly calm water for your kayaks, the waves can get really big that far out. Nicely done, glad you brought your camera.

[splicing]

By all means, more please, this game is endless, though if it's another island picture it might make the guessing easier, no? You could also attach them to existing threads, or start a new one if there isn't one already.

Looks like you had perfectly calm water for your kayaks, the waves can get really big that far out. Nicely done, glad you brought your camera.
Good. I like the game.

Another island? Maybe...

Yes, the water was calm that day. I usually have several locations in mind and then decide which would incur the least risk based on the weather, tides, traffic, ect...

BTW, I'd still like to know how ZippyTheChimp identified Shooters Island.

[splicing]

Guess this location - be very specific:

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/9cb4982c-833c-4889-be79-348e24d4dc9c.jpg

[ManhattanKnight]

Riverside Hospital (Entrance), North Brother Island.

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/3475/riverside3tk.jpg
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1962/riversideentrance2ch.jpg

[splicing]

Riverside Hospital (Entrance), North Brother Island.

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/3475/riverside3tk.jpg
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1962/riversideentrance2ch.jpg
Yes!

I was hoping to trick you since you guessed NBI previously.;)

Is the first one your photo?

Here's a few more:

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/f31c2f94-1bc4-47b2-a69c-c8b6c5c41a72.jpg

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/b48d9455-d1e3-4eb8-8e54-26c2d5b8623f.jpg

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/45d0465a-2244-4589-bf7f-6b95254f437a.jpg

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/3fabf83b-29c3-4158-b6fb-57494e4d2c91.jpg

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/3648f5a0-5df0-4f31-9869-ba8d25ee7de6.jpg

[lofter1]

This got me curious ... wondering what the heck it was for ...



http://img.groundspeak.com/user/3fabf83b-29c3-4158-b6fb-57494e4d2c91.jpg


Found one French reference to "BASOLAC" on a site for "Hygiene of the buildings": http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.catalliance.com/francais/listepro.asp%3Fdebut%3D10%26y%3D-10%26idrubrique%3D57%26idfamille%3D5&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBasolac%2B%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

http://www.catalliance.com/gestion/produits/fichiers/0401203.jpg
Basolac
Ref. : 0104203


Détergent acide qui élimine les dépôts minéraux, pierre de lait, tartres minéraux. Compatible inox, PVC, caoutchouc, verre, alu et alliages. Bidon de 10 kg.
And some various references to "Barium Meal", almost all of which have to do with medical procedure regarding x-rays ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barium_meal ) :

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Baritop_100.jpg


A barium meal is a procedure in which barium sulfate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barium_sulfate) is ingested by a patient and, in conjunction with X-rays (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray), images depicting the digestive system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestive_system): the distal esophagus, stomach and duodenum, are obtained. There are two varieties of barium meal, these being single and double contrast meals. A single contrast meal uses only barium to image the upper gastrointestinal tract while a double contrast meal uses barium as well as air. The double contrast meal has the advantage of demonstrating mucosal details and so is much more useful as a diagnostic test allowing the detection of small mucosal lesions.

[ManhattanKnight]

Swinburne Island


A little background reading on quarantine and pestilence in Lower New York Bay:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~quarantine/history2.htm

[infoshare]

And some various references to "Barium Meal",]

Well, I tried but could not guess any of splicers locations. I did, however, discover a tasty new softdrink....gotta crack open another frosty cold "barium meal"....yum.

Cool hyper links,,,Lofter,,,I gota learn that one.

P.s. Ready to guess (or try anyway) that next location!

[splicing]

I waited to give someone else a chance....

Guess this location:

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/41bb8a06-28b5-4670-ae0f-5ad3ca0668b9.jpg

[splicing]

Time for a hint....

Geraldo Rivera

[ZippyTheChimp]

Willowbrook - before Rivera became a sleaze-ball.

[splicing]

Willowbrook - before Rivera became a sleaze-ball.
Yes.

The view is from atop the abandoned water tower.

http://img.groundspeak.com/user/f3e5aa5a-f12e-4a2b-a592-122b5aa5635a.jpg

[ZippyTheChimp]

Guess the location.
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6659/guess293vo.th.jpg (http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guess293vo.jpg)

[Kris]

Is this one too difficult or too easy?

[ZippyTheChimp]

It's not an obscure location. Then again...

It has a connection to the WTC.

[lofter1]

West 41st Street between the two Port Authority Bus Terminal buildings (just west of 8th Ave.)?

[ZippyTheChimp]

That's it.

http://www.wylandfoundation.org/?do=walls&dopage=details&WhalingWalls_ID=46&WhalingWalls_number=40&WhalingWallsImages_ID=49

The original location chosen by the artist for a mural was the Lincoln Tunnel vent tower at the Jacobs Center. After the 1993 WTC bombing, the PA thought that the mural might be a terrorist target (I'm not making this up), so they offered the bizarre location under the bus terminal.

[ManhattanKnight]

This one should be easy. Bonus points for identifying the object as well as its location.

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/5440/may606d3rt.jpg

[infoshare]

Is that the "eagle nest" on 5th Ave.....Pell mell? being the name of the (object) one of the eagles! :confused: :confused: :confused:

[ManhattanKnight]

No and no. Sorry.

[BrooklynRider]

NY Historical Society?

[ManhattanKnight]

Nope. Sorry.

[lofter1]

Looks like you might have stumped everyone with this one ...

[ManhattanKnight]

Looks like you might have stumped everyone with this one ...

Time for a hint, I guess: 35.21N, 80.83W.

[krulltime]

Is it on the tower of Riverside Church?

[ManhattanKnight]

Is it on the tower of Riverside Church?

No, but she can see it from here.

[krulltime]

Hmmm... then it must be that building next to Riverside Church... although I have no idea what is called.

[pianoman11686]

Found this one just browsing some albums online:

http://static.flickr.com/42/119521788_dd73233005_o.jpg

[ManhattanKnight]

I think that the unwritten rules of this game prohibit posing a new puzzle before the last one has been solved (which it hasn't been). But, what the heck, your photo is of 75 1/2 Bedford Street, the "narrowest house in the Village."

[Jasonik]

This one should be easy. Bonus points for identifying the object as well as its location.

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/5440/may606d3rt.jpg
a hint: 35.21N, 80.83W.


Trump Parc
(formerly the Barbizon Plaza Hotel)
106 Central Park South (http://www.thecityreview.com/cps/cps106.html)
I think the protrusion is a lighting fixture for the tower and original glass hipped roof?
http://www.nycjpg.com/prenycjpg/detail/pictures/det.20020307.jpg

Pale Male Jr.'s nest (http://www.palemale.com/march122006.html)

[ManhattanKnight]

Jasonik's solved it. The nest's occupant in the photo is Pale Male, Jr.'s mate, Charlotte. I don't know what those architectural elements are; I was hoping that someone here would. I don't think that their purpose was to illuminate the original roof -- the angles are wrong:

http://www.cardcow.com/images/set9/card13671_fr.jpg

The nest from a different angle:

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/6846/palemalestore1893520805302tv.jpg

[pianoman11686]

I think that the unwritten rules of this game prohibit posing a new puzzle before the last one has been solved (which it hasn't been). But, what the heck, your photo is of 75 1/2 Bedford Street, the "narrowest house in the Village."

Duly noted. And good job: that's probably the fastest one solved yet!

[ZippyTheChimp]

What is it? Where is it?

http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/7041/guess302uf.th.jpg (http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guess302uf.jpg)

[ZippyTheChimp]

Lots of hits here, but not one guess.

I suppose a clue is needed, but I can't think of one that won't give it away.

[BPC]

I see a cherry tree. Brooklyn Botanical Garden?

[infoshare]

Do not have a clue! ............ wild guess for the fun of it! Bronx Zoo.:D :D :D

[Ninjahedge]

Lots of hits here, but not one guess.

I suppose a clue is needed, but I can't think of one that won't give it away.

Start vague, like "East West North or South"

Then if we are still obtuse, narrow it down. Give a Boro or something.

I haven't the slightest clue where this could be. I see no big buildings in the background and no real signage.

The lamps are classic, and there is a shorter white building in the background.

Also those brick stove looking things are rather unusual too....

I have no clue. If I had seen it in person I would know by now... ;)

[ZippyTheChimp]

Infrastructure.

It is approximately where it belongs, but has no relationship to the background.

[ZippyTheChimp]

A tenuous connection to Robert Fulton.

[Jasonik]

Carl Schurz Park?

[ZippyTheChimp]

No, it's in Brooklyn.

[BrooklynRider]

Prospect Park Carousel ticket booth?

[ZippyTheChimp]

1/2 point for the location. But the booth is older than the park.

[ZippyTheChimp]

Not loved by farmers

[ManhattanKnight]

South of the Lefferts house and midway between the Willink Entrance and Carousel stands a Flatbush toll booth believed to be the last of its kind in existence. In style it belongs to the middle of the nineteenth century, and it may date from 1854, when what is currently Flatbush Avenue was opened from the Village of Flatbush to Prospect Hill, or, more likely, from 1855, the year of the inception of the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Jamaica Plank Road Company. The pavilion stood on the west side of the pike, between present Winthrop and Fenimore streets, until 1893, when the Flatbush Road Company -- successor to the Plank Road concern -- went out of existence. Given to the last Flatbush Road Commissioner, John Moore, the booth was removed to the backyard of a dwelling at the corner of Tilden Avenue and 28th Street. Some 40 years later, the relic came to the attention of Joseph N. Neff, President of the Chamber of Commerce, through whose efforts it was rescued and presented to the City of New York by the Flatbush Chamber of Commerce. Thus, in 1925, like its historic neighbor seven years earlier, it was given sanctuary in that part of Prospect Park proper to its native township. The Toll House is an octagonal frame structure with vertical-board siding. Alternate faces are pierced by a door and three shuttered windows, and it is crowned by a concave hipped roof with overhanging eaves. The building contains a single room.

[ZippyTheChimp]

clap-clap-clap.

It's hard to say when the toll booth dates from , because there were many of them, and they were shifted around the county. But all were on the road system that was derived from Indian trails.

Before Europeans arrived, there existed a council meeting place near what became the village of Bedford (Fulton St & Bedford Ave). Tribes from New Jersey would cross the Hudson River to a place near Christopher St, where a creek from the Collect Pond emptied into the river. At the Collect, another creek flowed into the East Rive3r at Peck Slip, providing the Indians with a water route across Manhattan.They crossed the East River to a landing at the north dropoff of the Brooklyn Heights ridge (Fulton Landing). The crossing is where the Dutch put their ferry, and Roebling built his bridge. The trail led east generally along Fulton St to the meeting place, and continued east as what later became Jamaica Ave.

The Canarsee tribe travelled north from Jamaica Bay on Bedford Creek, then on a trail which later became Flatbush Road.

The Dutch widened these trails into what was known as the Ferry Road, the fork near the present Flatbush-Atlantic junction.

http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Town/Ferry/FerryRd.jpg

In 1704, these roads and their feeders were improved, and the entire network was called the Kings Highway. What remains today as Kings Highway is the east-west branch at Flatbush.

In 1803, a law was passed to upgrade the roads from the ferry through Kings, Queens and Suffolk Counties. Under the General Turnpike Act of 1807, the Brooklyn, Jamaica & Flatbush Turnpike Company was incorporated in 1809. Some of the incorporators are familiar street names: John Ditmars, Barent Lefferts, Cornelius Bergen. The company was responsible for the road from the ferry landing out to Jamaica village, and the branch south to Flatbush village.

Toll booths were set up at various points along these roads. One collection point was at the border between the city of Brooklyn and Flatbush township - the intersection of Flatbush Turnpike and Malbone St. Malbone St was the site of a train wreck in 1918 in which 93 people were killed, and the street name was changed to Empire Blvd. The Flatbush Turnpike was to the west of the present Flatbush Ave, within the borders of the not yet envisioned Prospect Park.

In 1856, the city of Brooklyn replaced the old winding Flatbush Turnpike within its borders with the straightened Flatbush Ave. The segments of the old Ferry Road that ran through the villages of Flatbush and Flatlands were also eventually straightened as Flatbush Ave, and extended south to Barren Island.

A portion of the old road remains as Amersfort Pl, near Brooklyn College. Amersfoort was the Dutch name for Flatlands.

http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/7091/amersfortpl01g8om.th.jpg (http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=amersfortpl01g8om.jpg)


A remnant of the Jamaica Plank Road is Hanson Pl, near the Williamsburg Bank Building.

[NYatKNIGHT]

Very cool.

[ZippyTheChimp]

Guess the building

http://img420.imageshack.us/img420/2512/guess319yh.th.jpg (http://img420.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guess319yh.jpg)

[lofter1]

No takers on that one ^^^

Let's try another ...

Guess the LOCATION / SITE:

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[TREPYE]

Guess the building

http://img420.imageshack.us/img420/2512/guess319yh.th.jpg (http://img420.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guess319yh.jpg)

Just to take a stab at it, is it the Brooklyn Courthouse on Court Street and Montague (or nearby)??

[ZippyTheChimp]

Good guess.

Need to expand the clue:
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6882/guess31a5qu.th.jpg (http://img401.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guess31a5qu.jpg)

[ManhattanKnight]

^The old Police Headquarters building, 240 Centre Street, Manhattan.

[ZippyTheChimp]

That's correct.
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/554/policebldg071mk.th.jpg (http://img363.imageshack.us/my.php?image=policebldg071mk.jpg) http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/9476/policebldg017qb.th.jpg (http://img363.imageshack.us/my.php?image=policebldg017qb.jpg)http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/6691/policebldg030cd.th.jpg (http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=policebldg030cd.jpg) http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/1001/policebldg040wi.th.jpg (http://img355.imageshack.us/my.php?image=policebldg040wi.jpg) http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/7402/policebldg058tg.th.jpg (http://img355.imageshack.us/my.php?image=policebldg058tg.jpg) http://img422.imageshack.us/img422/4522/policebldg065wk.th.jpg (http://img422.imageshack.us/my.php?image=policebldg065wk.jpg)

Teddy Roosevelt was NYC Police Commissioner in 1895.

Urban Legend: A time capsule may have been placed under the cornerstone in 1905 containing, among other items, a letter from the Pres Roosevelt.
http://gothamgazette.com/community/1/news/1472

[lofter1]

Guess the LOCATION / SITE ...

A second visual clue for this one ...

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[ManhattanKnight]

The garden of the Church of Saint Luke in the Fields?

[lofter1]

Nope ^^^

You're correct as to the side of the island, but you've gotta go a ways uptown (but not too far) ...

[ManhattanKnight]

The General Theological Seminary.

[lofter1]

farther north, my brothers and sisters ...

[lofter1]

Another visual clue for this one ...

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[milleniumcab]

St. John the Divine?....

[lofter1]

For the life of me, that's too far north ...

[lofter1]

Since this one didn't seem to capture the imagination, I'll reveal the location (before I post another mystery spot) ...

Sacred Heart of Jesus Convent (and Garden)

Sisters of Life (http://sistersoflife.org/history.htm)

450 W. 51st Street

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[lofter1]

the next one ...

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[NoyokA]

Maybe I'm missing something blatantly obvious...

But common' an old staircase...

[lofter1]

Common? Somewhat.

Old? Definitely.

Staircase? Clearly.

But usually not as abused and neglected as this one ...

A wider view:

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[Fahzee]

Is that the tenement musuem at 97 orchard?

I haven't been there in a little while, but I remember that some rooms / floors in the tenement museum were left in a state of disrepair (although that picture looks a lot worse)

my second guess would be my first new york apartment.

[lofter1]

Not the Tenement Museum. But VERY generally that guess is in the same segment of NYC.

LOL (re: Your 1st apartment)

Not sure where that was -- maybe this is it :confused:

[lofter1]

... a state of disrepair (although that picture looks a lot worse)

This one is currently undergoing repair ...

[ManhattanKnight]

The Samuel Tredwell Skidmore House?

[lofter1]

Bingo ^^^ The Skidmore House it is http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif

I took the pic through the doorknob hole in the front door.

About 20 years ago I had a memorable dinner in this house ...

It was in much better shape back then (weren't we all?).

Skidmore House (http://www.nohomanhattan.org/NoHo%20Landmarks.htm) is the sorry one on the right below;
Merchant's House Museum (http://www.merchantshouse.com:80/) is on the left below;
The parking lot at center is currently a construction site
for the Water Tunnel project and will eventually become a park:

http://www.solarek.com/images/blog/skidmore_house_1.jpg

The Skidmore House is to be refurbished as part of the development proposed for the corner of The Bowery / East 4th Street ...

(Thread: 37 East 4th Street (http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12428&highlight=skidmore+atlantic) ).

http://www.curbed.com/2007_01_37e4th%201.5-thumb.jpg

Some recent pics ...

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[NoyokA]

ManhattanKnight, you are too good!

[ManhattanKnight]

So, that creepy-looking guy in a soiled trench coat that I've seen peeking through keyholes was you, Lofter, and not some run-of-the-mill prevert! I should have known.

[lofter1]

Does my coat really look that bad :confused: :o

[ManhattanKnight]

Does my coat really look that bad :confused: :o

No, not really, even though this is more like what I would have expected:

http://members.aol.com/prisoner6birkin/images/goggle.jpg

[ZippyTheChimp]

Easy one.

Guess the location.
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/2055/guess32wh1.th.jpg (http://img59.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guess32wh1.jpg)

[clubBR]

Crown Building on 5th Ave

[clubBR]

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/skillman.doughboy/doughboy1.jpg
Take a guess

[ZippyTheChimp]

http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/2119/crown01pa9.th.jpg (http://img157.imageshack.us/my.php?image=crown01pa9.jpg)

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/3167/crown02xh3.th.jpg (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=crown02xh3.jpg) http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/7843/crown03vn9.th.jpg (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=crown03vn9.jpg) http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/5020/crown04mb7.th.jpg (http://img257.imageshack.us/my.php?image=crown04mb7.jpg) http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/28/crown05tz4.th.jpg (http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=crown05tz4.jpg)

That WWI statue isn't the one in DeWitt Clinton or Chelsea Park.

[clubBR]

Hint: During the first World War British soldiers referred to their American counterparts as blank?

[User Name]

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/skillman.doughboy/doughboy1.jpg
Take a guess

Doughboy Plaza, Woodside Ave between 55th and 56th, Queens.

Here's mine:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/AceLannigan/1331.jpg

Good Luck.

[clubBR]

Good job. Your turn

[Fahzee]

Hippo Playground, Riverside park?

Edit: that feels too easy. is this a trick question?

[User Name]

Hippo Playground, Riverside park?

Edit: that feels too easy. is this a trick question?

Yes and nope you are correct.

[NoyokA]

I'm stickying this thread so that it stays at the top.

[ZippyTheChimp]

Try this one.
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7236/guess33cp3.th.jpg (http://img253.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guess33cp3.jpg)

[Fahzee]

^ is anyone else having a hard time opening that photo?

it may just be my computer....

[ZippyTheChimp]

^
It opened for me, but was slow, so I reloaded a new link.

[ManhattanKnight]

Westbeth.

[ZippyTheChimp]

I'm just going to have to send someone over and unplug ManhattanKnight's monitor.

Westbeth links:
http://www.westbeth.org/

http://www.westbetharts.com/

Photo of courtyard
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/129622703_13ed53e36f_o.jpg

R Duke's Photos (http://www.flickr.com/photos/proudhon/)

[clubBR]

im gonna cut in line
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/628/997qf5.jpg
Guess the park

[ManhattanKnight]

im gonna cut in line
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9gnMiKGayhG_6QA3kejzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBsMW5yM3V oBHNlYwNwcm9mBHZ0aWQDSTA2Nl84OA--/SIG=12k21hr2j/EXP=1177140486/**http%3A//whatisee.org/mt/archives/images/riverside-park-pt1-02.JPG
Guess the park

Cut, post, proofread . . .

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/628/997qf5.jpg

[clubBR]

Cut, post, proofread . . .

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/628/997qf5.jpg
dude i proofread and redid that post 3 times. I just assumed something was wrong with the server so I would get back to it later. Relax
Now guess the park

[ManhattanKnight]

Riverside. Careless, rude, arrogant, and dumb.

[Ninjahedge]

Club....

1. You cut in line.
2. You posted a picture with the parks NAME IN THE LINK ADDRESS and asked "where is this.

MK just pointed out that little fact and you still did not get it... :p


...archives/images/riverside-park-pt1-02.JPG[/IMG]...

[ManhattanKnight]

Club....

1. You cut in line.


Actually, I don't believe that he did, since I don't think that there is any "line" here. Just an understanding that new rounds shouldn't be started when an existing one is still open. The last puzzle was solved; so the thread's now open for a new one.

[Ninjahedge]

MK, the person who solved it is the next poster...


I think I tried to jump in one time and I was kind of ignored. I don't consider it a cardinal sin, but just something to add to my list of "oops" there for CBR....

[ManhattanKnight]

MK, the person who solved it is the next poster...



I don't think so (and few questions here have actually been posed by the person who correctly guessed the last one). Perhaps it's time for the thread's starter to clarify . . .

[clubBR]

Lol my bad. I didnt know the link had the name of the park!! Fault on my part
Whos turn is it?

[Ninjahedge]

I don't think so (and few questions here have actually been posed by the person who correctly guessed the last one). Perhaps it's time for the thread's starter to clarify . . .

Agreed.

Could you guys clarify on who gets the right to the next pic?

[NoyokA]

Club didnt cut in line. Zippy's was answered so it is then up to anyone to post the next location. Its based on whoever posts first.

[clubBR]

Club didnt cut in line. Zippy's was answered so it is then up to anyone to post the next location. Its based on whoever posts first.
Actually, the person who guesses the location correctly goes next. I did cut in line but only because people seemed to have forgotten this thread. Sorry Stern, but thanks!!

[NoyokA]

I find it interesting that I started this thread, game, and now there's new rules. Im not saying that I have a problem with it, I just find it interesting.

The only rule that I really care about is one guess the location at a time. As far as the person who guessed it, I dont think it should be their responsibility to post the next question, if they have one great, and maybe they should be allotted sometime to post one, but if they don't have a good guess the location what is their option? It would then become a punishment for winning the round as they scramble to find a picture they want to post that would challenge the forum.

[ZippyTheChimp]

Actually, the person who guesses the location correctly goes next. I did cut in line but only because people seemed to have forgotten this thread. Sorry Stern, but thanks!!
Posted two years ago:

Simple ground rule to keep the thread orderly:

One puzzle at a time

If you have a location to post, you're going to have to solve the existing item. Originators are encouraged to provide clues along the way to keep it moving.


Next is whoever posts the next one.

There's no line.

[Punzie]

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l98/BenjaminFS/guess-the-location.jpg

[Punzie]

Need more clues?:p

[clubBR]

Puerto Rican Day parade at Central Park??

[Ninjahedge]

One puzzle at a time

If you have a location to post, you're going to have to solve the existing item. Originators are encouraged to provide clues along the way to keep it moving.

Sorry for the misread, but this kind of implies that the person who solves gets rights to the next one.

I kind of agree about Stern's middle ground position. It is only fair that we give the last person to solve a day to post their own before opening it back up again.

But whatever you guys decide!

[Punzie]

Puerto Rican Day parade at Central Park??
Nope! Is it not obvious that the majority of the people are darker than Hispanics?:)
Also, there are no high-rises in this background! (A clue.)

But your are right about it being a festive event. (Another clue.)

[Ninjahedge]

I am sure that, to celebrate PR day, people come out and wave Jamaican flags.... :p

[BrooklynRider]

West Indian Parade on Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn.

[Punzie]

Nope, although in an odd way, both of you came very close...

Another clue:

The location contains a structure that was designed by a prominant NY architecture firm:

OUTSIDE:
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l98/BenjaminFS/guess-the-location3.jpg



INSIDE:
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l98/BenjaminFS/guess-the-location4.jpg

[Punzie]

The the above structure is an "outdoor classroom." The NY architecture firm that designed it also designed this rooftop terrace on Park Avenue:

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l98/BenjaminFS/guess-the-location6.jpg


(Manhattan Knight? :) )

[ManhattanKnight]

The 2006 Irie Jamboree in Roy Wilkins State Park (Jamaica, Queens). Solved (I believe) through clues and Google, not recognition or memory, unfortunately. :(

[Punzie]

The 2006 Irie Jamboree in Roy Wilkins State Park (Jamaica, Queens). Solved (I believe) through clues and Google, not recognition or memory, unfortunately. :(

Solved! I forgive you for cheating;) because you took the trouble to learn about the location.:)

It's possible that BrooklynRider would have guessed it on the next clue I was planning to give. The next clue would have been:

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l98/BenjaminFS/guess-the-location8.jpg
Gazebo at Mill Basin, Brooklyn,
by the architect of the schoolhouse and rooftop.

--------------------------------------------------------------

The architecture firm that designed the 3 landscape structures I posted is Marpillero Pollak Architects located at 132 Duane St:
http://www.mparchitectsnyc.com/ (info@mparchitectsnyc.com)

Marpillero's NYC landscape structures are located here:
http://www.newyork-architects.com/index.php?seite=ny_project_details_us&system_id=2255&profile_sprache=us

This ^^^ site has the details of the Roy Wilkins Park outdoor classroom, SOM Pepsico Park Ave. rooftop terrace, and Mill Basin gazebo. Also, there are renderings of Petrossino Park, located at the intersection of Soho, Little Italy, and Chinatown.

http://www.newyork-architects.com/portal/profile/pics/10352/2255/marpillero_x3.9.jpg
One of Marpillero's renderings of Petrosino Park

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Roy Wilkins Park, where Marpillero's classroom structure is located and the 2006 Irie Jamboree was held, is 53 acres in South Jamaica, Queens:

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l98/BenjaminFS/rw1.gif.............http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l98/BenjaminFS/rw3.gif



Description of Roy Wilkins park:
http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=8743

The Irie Jamboree is the largest Reggae festival in North America. On September 3, 2006, it was held in Roy Wilkins Park, and over 25,000 people attended.
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l98/BenjaminFS/guess-the-location7.jpg

General description of festival: http://queens.about.com/b/a/198518.htm

News report: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/html/20060912T190000-0500_112804_OBS_IRIE_JAMBOREE__K__DRAWS_BUMPER_CRO WD.asp

Some images of the festival: http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/features/dancehall/galleries/416/1/#gallery416

[ManhattanKnight]

Identify this one:

[pianoman11686]

Hugh O'Neill Department store?

Actually, I know it's not, but that would've been my first guess.

[Ninjahedge]

St. Jean Baptiste Church?

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/UES/UES056.htm

no.... similar though....

[clubBR]

Williamsburgh Savings Bank in Brooklyn

[ManhattanKnight]

Spiacente, ma no.

[ZippyTheChimp]

Good clue.

Our Lady of Pompeii Church at Father Demo Square.

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/9307/pompeichurch01chw3.th.jpg (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pompeichurch01chw3.jpg)

[ManhattanKnight]

Zippy's got it:

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/9097/cyn0967abnn3.jpg

[ZippyTheChimp]

Guess the building.

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/1041/guess35uw1.th.jpg (http://img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=guess35uw1.jpg)