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Empire State in May to light up for NYU, EMS Week
 The Empire State Building in May will light up for E.U. Day, the FDNY, NYPD, NYU graduation and several other events and organizations, according to the tower’s official lighting schedule.
The May lighting schedule:
May 2 - all blue in honor of the 30th Anniversary of The Weather Channel
May 7 - orange, orange and yellow in honor of the 25th Anniversary of the James Beard Foundation and the 22nd Annual James Beard Awards
May 9 - blue, yellow and blue in honor of E.U. Day
May 10 - all green in honor of the 30th Anniversary of the Rocky Mountain Institute
May 11 through 13 - all blue in honor of Police Memorial Week
May 14 - all green in honor of the Robin Hood Foundation
May 15 - purple, purple and white in honor of New York University’s 2012 Commencement
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May 1, 2012 5:32 PM Comments (0)
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1 WTC officially tallest building in NYC
Shortly after 2 p.m. today, One World Trade Center became the tallest building in New York City.
 Since Sept. 11, 2001, the Empire State Building had been the tallest skyscraper in the city.
“What you see here today is this determination to remember what we lost, and rebuild even higher,” Bill Baroni, the deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said during a ceremony marking the milestone. “This is a great day for the Port Authority, for the people of New York and New Jersey, but it will be greater when this building is teeming with tenants and teeming with people going to work and tourists coming up here to look at the amazing views.”
The Empire State Building is 1,250 feet tall (but if you count its broadcast tower, it’s 1,453 feet, 8 9/16 inches.) But even the owners of the Empire State Building aren’t quibbling over the broadcast tower today. “The world’s most famous office building, the ancestor of all super-tall towers, welcomes our newer, taller cousin to the skyline. We’ve watched you grow, and now we salute you,” reads the official statement issued on behalf of the Empire State Building.
The Empire State Building tonight will light up red, white and blue “in honor of 1 World Trade Center.” 1 WTC tonight will light up in blue and white, the official colors of the Port Authority, according to Port Authority Executive Director Pat Foye.
During today’s milestone, two, 26-foot steel interior columns were attached to the top of 1 WTC, reaching a height of 1,271 feet above street level, according to the Port Authority.
The public observation deck at 1 WTC will also surpass the ESB’s public’s outdoor deck on 86, indoor observation deck on 102 and the outdoor, VIP-only 103rd floor.
In the coming months, 1 World Trade Center will top out at 1,368 feet, (104 stories) and then get a 408-foot telecommunications spire that will push the tower’s height to 1,776 feet. It will be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
The goal is to open the building in 2014, Foye said during today’s news conference.
Also rising rapidly at the World Trade Center complex, 4 WTCnear the southwest corner of the site, is close to reaching its full height of 977 feet, at 72 stories. At a construction update two weeks ago, 4 WTC was listed at 65 floors.
Often overlooked, the 52-story rebuilt 7 WTC opened on the north side of the site in 2006. (It replaced the 47-story WTC 7 that collapsed at 5:20 p.m. on Sept. 11.)
The plaza and waterfalls at the 9/11 Memorial have been open to the public since the 10-year anniversary of the attack. The museum remains under construction but there is a 9/11 Memorial Preview Site on Vesey Street and the Tribute WTC 9/11 center on Liberty Street.
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Tugboat capsizes at Statue of Liberty work site
A tugboat assisting with the interior renovations at the Statue of Liberty today capsized as it was preparing to transport a 60-ton construction crane off Liberty Island, according to officials from the Coast Guard and National Park Service.
Two people were rescued from the water by the crew of a nearby NY Waterways sightseeing boat and the U.S. Park Police Marine Unit. Four others on board were able to scramble atop the tug as it rolled onto its side, according to Mindi Rambo, the National Park Service’s spokeswoman for the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island.
The Katherine G, which has been identified as both a work barge and tugboat, capsized at the north end of Liberty Island at approximately 9:50 a.m. Two captains, a U.S. Park Police officer, the crane operator and two other crew members were on board at the time.
Update as of 10 p.m.: Will Van Dorp of the Tugster blog, said the Katherine G is “a liftboat–not a tug.”
Rescue workers transported the Katherine G crew and passengers to Ellis Island for evaluation by Jersey City EMS. Two crew members suffered minor injuries and were transported to Jersey City Medical Center, according to Rambo.
The crane, which had been used during the construction work on the pedestal and base of the Statue of Liberty, today was completely submerged. A boom was deployed in the water to contain fuel that might leak from either the barge or the crane, Rambo said.
All interior portions of the statue and the observation decks on its pedestal have been closed to the public since Oct. 29 to allow for new stairs, security system upgrades and a new elevator and wheelchair lift to the pedestal. “At this time we are still planning to reopen by the end of 2012 barring any unforeseen circumstances,” Rambo told NewYorkology via email Thursday - a day prior to the tugboat incident.
A date has not yet been set for when tickets will once again be available to visit the crown of the Statue of Liberty. “We won’t have a date tickets go back on sale until we have a firm date that we will re-open to the public,” Rambo told NewYorkology on Thursday.
The remainder of Liberty Island remains open to the public throughout the renovation.
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April 6, 2012 3:06 PM Comments (1)
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Empire State to light up for Easter, Earth Day in April
 The Empire State Building in April will light up for Easter, Earth Day, baseball’s Opening Day and other events, according to the tower’s official lighting schedule.
The April lighting schedule:
April 2 - blue in honor of Autism Speaks and World Autism Awareness Day
April 4 - red, white and blue in honor of Major League Baseball’s Opening Day
April 5 through 8 - green, pink and yellow in celebration of Easter
Update: April 11 - In a deviation from its posted all-white schedule, portions of the building lit up in tie-dye colors for part of the night.
Update: April 17 - red, white and blue for the United States Olympic Committee and 100 Days to the 2012 Olympic Games in London
Update: April 18 - tie-dye colors in honor of Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and FURTHUR
April 20 through 22 - green in honor of Earth Day
April 25 - blue, white and blue for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Partners in Preservation
April 26 - red, red and white in honor of Coty Inc. and the annual DKMS Linked Against Leukemia Gala
April 27 through 29 - pink, pink and white in honor of the Sakura Bicentennial. Update as of April 16: The listing now states the lighting will be for the Sakura Centennial.
Update: April 30 - red, white and blue “in honor of 1 World Trade Center” as it passes the Empire State to become the tallest building in NYC.
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April 2, 2012 4:19 PM Comments (0)
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Empire State to light up for Hearst, Big East, Girl Scouts
The Empire State Building in March will light up for St. Patrick’s Day, the Girl Scouts, the Big East basketball tournament, opening day for Red Bulls soccer as well as the 125th anniversary of Heart Corporation, according to the tower’s official lighting schedule.
The March lighting schedule:
March 5 - blue for the 125th anniversary of Hearst Corporation
March 9 through 11 - blue, white and red for the Big East Conference and the 2012 Big East Men’s Championships
March 12 - green for the 100th Anniversary of the Girl Scouts of the USA
March 16 through 18 - green for St. Patrick’s Day
March 23 through 25 - white, red and white for the New York Red Bulls’ Opening Day
Update: March 31 - In honor of Earth Hour, the lights will go out from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.
The top three tiers of the tower light up with regular white lights on nights when no event is scheduled. Colors are subject to change.
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March 5, 2012 2:47 PM Comments (0)
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WTC1 lit up red to honor Cardinal Dolan
 One World Trade Center will be lit up in red for one week to honor the recent elevation of Archbishop Timothy Dolan to cardinal after the Empire State Building rejected a similar request.
U.S. Congressman Michael G. Grimm (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) initially asked the Empire State Building’s Lighting Partnership Committee to illuminate the skyscraper red for Dolan but was denied. Grimm then made the same request to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which is in charge of the WTC site.
“The Port Authority has agreed to light One World Trade Center – at no cost to the agency - beginning tonight, February 24th, for one week,” according to a statement issued by the Port Authority.
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February 24, 2012 9:22 PM Comments (0)
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Manhattanhenge 2012: May 29/30 and July 11/12
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Friday posted the 2012 dates for Manhattanhenge, when the sun sets in alignment with the Manhattan street grid.
Since the primary streets of Manhattan’s street grid is about 30 degrees east of geographic north, the -henge event does not coincide with the equinox.
Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History, coined the “Manhattanhenge” term and continues to calculate the dates each year.
2012 Manhattanhenge dates
Half-sun on the grid:
Tuesday, May 29 - 8:17 p.m.
Thursday, July 12 - 8:25 p.m.
Full-sun on the grid:
Wednesday, May 30 - 8:16 p.m.
Wednesday, July 11 - 8:24 p.m.
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February 18, 2012 12:57 PM Comments (0)
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NYC skyline to go all in blue for Giants' Super Bowl win
Many of New York City’s skyscrapers and other iconic building will light up blue tonight in salute to the Giants’ Super Bowl championship.
The top of the Empire State Building, One Bryant Park and Four Times Square, the ConEd Tower, Brooklyn Borough Hall and the JFK Airport control tower will all shine blue tonight, officials at each building have confirmed.
Most of the buildings will remain blue again on Tuesday night after the ticker-tape parade and other celebrations.
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February 6, 2012 5:02 PM Comments (0)
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Empire State to light up for Super Bowl, Valentine's
 The Empire State Building will go Super Bowl-bound Giants blue again in February, and change colors on other nights to honor the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, the Millrose Games, Valentine’s Day, Presidents Day and other events, according to the tower’s official lighting schedule.
The full February lighting schedule:
Feb. 3 - blue, orange and blue in honor of the American Cancer Society and World Cancer Day
Feb. 4 and 5 - blue in honor of the New York Giants, Super Bowl XLVI vs. the New England Patriots. Update: After the Super Bowl win, the blue lights stayed on until dawn.
Update: Feb. 6 and 7 - blue in honor of the New York Giants Super Bowl XLVI victory
Feb. 8 - orange, orange and white in honor of the 35th Annual Empire State Building Run-Up Powered by the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
Feb. 10 through 12 - blue, white and blue in honor of the 105th Millrose Games
Feb. 13 - purple, purple and yellow in honor of the 136th Annual Westminster Kennel Club All-Breed Dog Show
Feb. 14 - red, pink and white for Valentine’s Day
Update: Feb. 17 - blue, orange and blue in memory of “baseball Hall of Famer, World Series champion, humanitarian, and beloved New York Met - Gary Carter”
Update: Feb. 17 18 through 20 - red, white and blue for Presidents Day
Feb. 27 - green, blue and green in honor of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy and Corporate Philanthropy Day
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February 2, 2012 11:24 AM Comments (0)
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Last look: Admirals Row at Brooklyn Navy Yard
Demolition crews are scheduled to move in soon to raze nine buildings on Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Civil War-era Admirals Row.
Two will be saved. The “Quarters B” building, in Greek Revival and Italianate style, was likely constructed between 1859 and 1870. “This would have been housing for the captain of the yard,” David Naczycz said Saturday while leading an Urban Oyster tour of the Navy Yard.
Despite severe damage to roof, the Timber Shed at the edge of Admirals Row will also be saved. The shed probably dates to 1853, according to the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp.
Last week the federal government transferred the Admirals Row property to the City of New York, which will turn it over to the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC) for redevelopment. Plans call for a supermarket and new industrial space for the Navy Yard, which already has a wait-list for tenants.
Extensive interior and exterior pictures of the decay can be seen at Officer’s Row and Nathan Kensinger’s photography website.
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January 30, 2012 1:19 PM Comments (0)
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