sciloverIt's illuminating. Thse who study city morphology, these pictures would be a treasure!
Not just NYC's changes, but you could spend a lifetime studying New York's architecture and never be bored.
Certainly a lot has been lost, but a lot is still there.
I'm thinking the High Line starts its ascent at the southern corner of W. 34th St. and 12th Ave, at about these Lat./ Long. coords.: 40.756433, -74.004078 That's across W. 34th Street from the Javits Center.
You can see the start of he high line at the lower right of the Javits Center, across 34th Street, The dark curving narrow structure that curves off the right side of the photo.
Also alond the right side of the photo you see the tracks of the LIRR coach layover yard, and if you follow the line of the tracks, you see in a few blocks a flat cylindrical building, which is Madison Square Garden Arena, which is built over Penn Station
3rd photo from the top shows the type of trestle bents I mentioned.
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I sure hope they've done extensive new HVAC on that building to suit it to working with large numbers of critically-ill COVID-19 sufferers; the thought of a reversion to open-ward transmission as in the 1918 outbreaks is almost too ominous to speculate about.
Perhaps using 'cubicle technology' refaced with easily-sanitized material, with some sort of overhead 'sealed' to the walls and ducting/filtration to give the effect of negative pressure from central 'aisles' between cubes? Laminar flow at the door to keep airflow patterns 'correct' as people go in and come out?
Also effective socially-distanced facilities for less critical patients ... or those in quarantine as 'tested positive' but either asymptomatic or suffering their 'worse version of a cold'. If there is a problem designing these it could be farmed out to all those architecture students now 'distance learning' as a contest or exercise -- perhaps with free software as a carrot -- with a commission of knowledgeable hospital architects as an advisory board and judging panel. There was some interesting work a couple of decades ago with a Buckminster Fuller idea of 'buildings that fold up into transportable modules' -- the ones I'm thinking of optimized to what were then called ISO series I marine containers. You could get a lot of structure and specialized equipment into a 40' to 53' container, and relatively easily arrange underframes and lift capability to get that container progressively around the country to where it might be needed...
President Trump talked about Javits today!
The trestle bents under the sharp curve of that ascent are the closest I've ever seen to the Lionel O gauge "Graduated Trestle Set".
Fun visit and a nice walk, likely more so now that the Hudson Yards project is complete (I was last there 2-1/2 years ago when it was still under construction.) Enough remnants of the railroad to make it interesting. And pretty much enough other sights and things to make it interesting for everyone in the family. Recommended.
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center was built on former New York Central property, where the High Line began its ascent between 35th and 36th St. and 11th and 12th Ave.
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