Wishing Wall New Year Times Square Confetti

Wishing Wall of New Year Times Square Confetti: People Share their hopes, dreams and resolutions for the New Year - then will watch them flutter down as part of the two tons confetti in Times Square on New Year's Eve!

You can submit your wish in person at the Times Square Information Center, housed in the landmarked Embassy Theater, which was the world’s first newsreel theater, or via online form. The wishes will be collected and added to the confetti that will flutter down onto Times Square at 12 o’clock on New Year’s Eve.

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One Times Square

One Times Square was originally completed in 1904 to serve as the new headquarters of The New York Times

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One Times Square, is also known as 1475 Broadway, the New York Times Building, the New York Times Tower, or the Times Tower, is a 25 story, 395 foot high skyscraper at 42nd Street and Broadway in New York City.

Santa Claus car 2

Title: Santa Claus car. Date Created / Published: c1913 Dec. 29. Medium: 1 photographic print. Summary: Santa Claus in automobile decorated with Christmas trees, moose and deer heads, and other seasonal decorations. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-75215 (b and w film copy neg.) Call Number: SSF - Santa Claus--1913 [P and P]

Notes: J188487 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Gilbert Studio, Independence, Iowa. Subjects: Santa Claus--1910-1920. Christmas decorations--Iowa--Independence--1910-1920. Automobiles--Iowa--Independence--1910-1920. Format: Photographic prints--1910-1920. Collections: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand.

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Hawk at Strawberry Fields

December 17, 2012 10:30 am. Central Park West and 72d street. The Dakota 1 west 72d is 100 feet to our left and Strawberry Fields 100 feet to our right.. Image and editing by sookietex.

The Dakota, constructed from October 25, 1880 to October 27, 1884,[3] is a co-op apartment building located on the northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, at 1 West 72nd Street, New York, NY 10023.

Strawberry Fields is a 2.5-acre landscaped section in New York City's Central Park that is dedicated to the memory of Beatles member John Lennon. It is named after The Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever".

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My Hanukkah menorah

My Hanukkah menorah - Looking out the window north up Broadway from west 77th street NY, NY. The New York City metropolitan area is home to the largest Jewish community outside Israel

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Apollo 17 Gene Cernan beside LRV at start of EVA-3

Gene Cernan beside LRV at start of EVA-3. December 11, 1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

At 2:35 p.m. Dec. 11, the commander and lunar module pilot entered the LM to prepare for descent to the lunar surface. At 6:55:42 p.m. Dec. 11, the LM was placed into an orbit with a perilune altitude of 6.2 nautical miles. Approximately 47 minutes later, the powered descent to the lunar surface began.

Landing occurred at 7:54:57 p.m. Dec. 11, at lunar latitude 20 degrees, 10 minutes north, and longitude 30 degrees 46 minutes east. Apollo 17 was the last lunar landing mission. Three extravehicular activities, or EVAs, lasted a total of 22 hours, four minutes on the lunar surface.

EVA No. 1 began at 11:54:49 p.m. Dec. 11, with Eugene Cernan egressing at 12:01 a.m. Dec. 12. The first EVA was seven hours, 12 minutes long and was completed at 7:06:42 a.m. Dec. 12. The second EVA began at 11:28:06 p.m. Dec. 12, and lasted seven hours, 37 minutes, ending at at 7:05:02 a.m. Dec. 13. The final EVA began at 10:25:48 p.m. Dec. 13, and ended at 5:40:56 a.m. Dec. 14.

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A kind of cat Paul Klee

A kind of cat, Eine Art Katze. Artist: Paul Klee. December 18, 1879 –  June 29, 1940) was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter. Completion Date: 1937. Style: Expressionism. Period: Late Works/ Genre: animal painting. Dimensions: 21 x 26.7 cm.

Klee has been variously associated with Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Abstraction, but his pictures are difficult to classify. He generally worked in isolation from his peers, and interpreted new art trends in his own way. He was inventive in his methods and technique. Klee worked in many different media—oil paint, watercolor, ink, pastel, etching, and others. He often combined them into one work. He used canvas, burlap, muslin, linen, gauze, cardboard, metal foils, fabric, wallpaper, and newsprint. Klee employed spray paint, knife application, stamping, glazing, and impasto, and mixed media such as oil with watercolor, water color with pen and India ink, and oil with tempera.

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Santa Claus Lord and Taylor Christmas window

Santa Claus Lord and Taylor Christmas window - Samuel Lord, an immigrant to the United States from England and George Washington Taylor, his wife's cousin, founded the store in 1826 on Catherine Street in Manhattan in order to sell hosiery, misses' wear and "elegant Cashmere shawls". By 1861, the store was located on Broadway at Grand Street, and in 1870 they moved to a newly constructed cast-iron building at Broadway and 20th Street,

Lord and Taylor opened its Starrett and van Vleck designed flagship store and headquarters on Fifth Avenue between 38th and 39th streets on February 24, 1914.

Among other firsts, it was the first store to present innovative Christmas windows filled with holiday displays rather than merchandise,

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Cat and Bird

Cat and Bird - Artist: Paul Klee. Style: Expressionism. Paul Klee, December 18, 1879 –  June 29, 1940) was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was also a student of orientalism.

Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered colour theory, and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting had for Renaissance art.

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The Tabby Le Chat Tigre

The Tabby Le Chat Tigre. Artist: Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910) born in Laval, France.

A post-Impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He was known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector. Ridiculed during his life, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.

Rousseau's work exerted an extensive influence on several generations of vanguard artists, starting with Picasso and including Jean Hugo, Léger, Beckmann and the Surrealists,"

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