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Lady Liberty by Allen Beatty

Jersey City Mural
Fine art photography of a magnificent mural of Lady Liberty painted in Jersey City, N.J. Unfortunately, it has faded away.

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Lady Liberty 17
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French people to the American people. Designed by renowned French sculptor Frederic Barthdoldi, the Statue was shipped to the United States in 221 crates to be reassembled here.

The "reconstruction" of Lady Liberty began in May of 1986. The official unveiling on October 28, 1986 was declared a public holiday. Wall St. was the only area of the city working that day. As upwards of 20,000 people passed by in celebration, the office boys from hundreds of windows above spontaneously began to unreel spools of tape from the ticker machines and throw them on the marchers. And so the famous New York ticker-tape parade was born.

Since then, Lady Liberty has been an awe inspiring and revered sight to all who enter New York harbor. Her 100th birthday was held on July 4th, 1986. President Ronald Regan declared "We are the keepers of the flame of liberty, we hold it high for the world to see."

These pictures our my tribute to "Our Lady".

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Smoking - Allen Beatty

Smoking
I love advertising on buildings. Many of them are true works of art. This one is my personal favorite.

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Smoking 2
Fine Art Photography of an old Camel Cigarette advertisement on the side of a building at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City.

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Smoking Billboard - Times Square, 1948

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Two Icons by Allen Beatty

For four exciting days, Super Bowl Boulevard was the biggest and brightest show on Broadway. Spanning thirteen blocks along one of the world's most famous streets, the Boulevard was the epicenter for NFL fans during Super Bowl XLVIII celebrating all things football. Fans from all over the world and residents of the region visited by the thousands to engage with the NFL, the New York/New Jersey Host Committee and the League's broadcasting partners and sponsors and just have a good time.

Here we see fine art photography of two American icons with the Empire State Building providing the background for the oversized Super Bowl Host Committee Helmet. A wild sight probably never to be repeated.

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Yankee Stadium Main Entrance by Allen Beatty

Yankee Stadium Main Entrance

Yankee Stadium Facade by Allen Beatty

Yankee Stadium Facade

One of the most distinguishing characteristics of Yankee Stadium is the "facade", a white frieze that runs along the bleacher billboards and scoreboard.

The facade was an addition made by Osborn Engineering, when the owners of the Yankees asked that the stadium be given "an air of dignity."

So the Osborn Engineering Company erected what was known originally as a frieze. Somewhere along the way it took on the term of facade, and most people know it today as the facade.", according to Yankee Stadium tour guide Tony Morante.

It originally ran around the roof of the grandstand's upper deck. This original facade was made of copper, and over the course of time, developed a patina (just like the Statue of Liberty). It was painted white in the mid-1960s.

When the stadium was renovated in the 1970s, 10 rows were added to the top of upper deck, and the support columns were removed. The original roof had to be removed; the facade was removed and sold as scrap. A smaller, concrete version was erected above the scoreboards and billboards behind the bleachers. In the new stadium, the facade was replicated in its original position along the roof of the upper deck, although now constructed of steel painted white. It does not cantilever out over the upper deck as much as the original did.

The iconic facade is employed in graphics for the YES Network and was incorporated into the logo for the 2008 All-Star Game held at the Stadium.

The term "facade" is actually a misnomer. The scalloped arches are actually a frieze, and it was originally known as such. It is unknown when or where the term "facade" came into use, but it has become the more common name, used by fans, broadcasters, and personnel. With the move to the new stadium, the organization has made a move to return to the term "frieze", exclusively using it in public statements and literature.

However, fans still refer to it as the "The Facade."

Yankee Stadium 2 by Allen Beatty

Yankee Stadium 2

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Yankee Stadium 3 by Allen Beatty

Yankee Stadium 3

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Yankee Stadium is a stadium located in The Bronx in New York City. It is the home ballpark for the New York Yankees, one of the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises. It opened at the beginning of the 2009 MLB season as a replacement for the team's previous home, the original Yankee Stadium, which opened in 1923 and closed in 2008. The new ballpark was constructed across the street, north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park. The ballpark opened April 2, 2009, when the Yankees hosted a workout day in front of fans from the Bronx community. The first game at the new Yankee Stadium was a pre-season exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs played on April 3, 2009, which the Yankees won 7 to 4. The first regular season game was played on April 16, a 10 to 2 Yankee loss to the Cleveland Indians.

Much of the stadium incorporates design elements from the previous Yankee Stadium, paying homage to the Yankees' history. Although stadium construction began in August 2006, the project of building a new stadium for the Yankees is one that spanned many years and faced many controversies. The stadium was built on what had been 24 acres of public parkland. Replacement baseball fields opened in April 2012. Also controversial was the price tag of $1.5 billion, which makes it not only the most expensive baseball stadium ever built, but the second-most expensive stadium of any kind (after MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey)

This is a view of the "Newest" Yankee Stadium taken from the upper deck during a night game. The view takes in the wonderful feel of Ameica's pasttime at the old ballpark. The green grass, the batter, the pitcher and all is well with the world. At least for a few hours.

Allen Beatty's NYC Galleries

Big Apple Sports

Gallery devoted to the sports teams of the Big Apple metropolitan area

Graffiti - Murals - Plus

Graffiti is writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. Stickers and other adhesives are not considered graffiti. Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings, and has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. In modern times, paint, particularly spray paint, and marker pens have become the most commonly used graffiti materials. In most countries, marking or painting property without the property owner's consent is considered defacement and vandalism, which is a punishable crime. Graffiti may also express underlying social and political messages and a whole genre of artistic expression is based upon spray paint graffiti styles. Within hip hop culture, graffiti has evolved alongside hip hop music, b-boying, and other elements. Unrelated to hip-hop graffiti, gangs use their own form of graffiti to mark territory or to serve as an indicator of gang-related activities. Controversies that surround graffiti continue to create disagreement amongst city officials/law enforcement and writers who wish to display and appreciate work in public locations. There are many different types and styles of graffiti and it is a rapidly developing art form whose value is highly contested, reviled by many authorities while also subject to protection, sometimes within the same jurisdiction The murals that are seen throughout the world do not engender the same controversy. For the most part they are requested or commissioned. Many cities such as Philadelphia have an established mural arts program. Also in this gallery I will include advertising and posters which in many cases I consider artistic. Art or vandalism ? You be the judge. You can tell how I feel by how I title the photograph.

Lady Liberty

A tribute in pictures to "The Lady" who greets all that enter New York harbor. If an image has the FAA watermark in the lower right hand corner it will NOT appear on any print you purchase.

New Jersey

This gallery is devoted to the real New Jersey that is loved and appreciated by the people who live and visit there. I also have a gallery devoted solely to the Jersey Shore as well as the FAA group New Jersey administered by me. To see many more wonderful fine art images of New Jersey please visit both.

New York City Scenes

Images from the most exciting city in the world "The Big Apple", New York City

Sidewalk Catwalk

Another example of why it's so much fun to live close to NYC. There is always something going on. NY is particularly engaged in presenting various outside art shows. There has been the Gates exhibit in Central Park 2005, Sculpture on Park Avenue in 2009, The Cow Parade held all over the city in 2008 and in the summer of 2010 there was a "Sidewalk Catwalk" which was a display of mannequins dressed by famous fashion designers on Broadway for several weeks and the subject of this gallery. It's always fun for a photgrapher in NYC If an image has the FAA watermark in the lower right hand corner it will NOT appear on any print you purchase.

Urban Art

" Where passion pulls follow ,never question this, it may be the only chance in your life to be truely alive with the source pulsing through your veins. Even if the journey goes down a futile path, it still is not in vain." From the poem The Art of Art by Adryan Rotica. That poem to me express the creativity and passion of the street artist. This gallery is devoted to the various expressions of art you will find in the cities. Be it grafitti, murals, commissioned or otherwise, and even advertisements on buildings. They are all forms of art you will find in the cities. If an image has the FAA watermark in the lower right hand corner it will NOT appear on any print you purchase.

N Y C Subway Mosaic

NYC Subway System - Allen Beatty

Subway Sign
A New York City subway sign on 42nd street and 8th avenue indicating all the lines that can be boarded at this station.



Subway Entrance
Times Square and 42nd Street is a large station complex of the New York City Subway, located under Times Square at the intersection of 42nd Street, Seventh Avenue, and Broadway in Midtown Manhattan. When considered together with 42nd Street Port Authority Bus Terminal, it is the busiest complex in the system, serving 60,604,822 passengers in 2011.

The complex provides free transfers between the IRT 42nd Street Shuttle, the BMT Broadway Line, the IRT Broadway Seventh Avenue Line and the IRT Flushing Line, with a long transfer to the IND Eighth Avenue Line one block west at 42nd Street Port Authority Bus Terminal. It is served by the:

1, 2, 3, 7, N, and Q trains at all times
R and 42nd Street Shuttle trains at all times except late nights
7 trains during rush hours in the peak direction



Son This Is The Real Train
Grand Central Terminal , colloquially called Grand Central Station, or shortened to simply Grand Central, is a commuter rail terminal station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

Built by and named for the New York Central Railroad in the heyday of American long-distance passenger rail travel, it is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms:44, with 67 tracks along them. They are on two levels, both below ground, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower, though the total number of tracks along platforms and in rail yards exceeds 100. The terminal covers an area of 48 acres .

The terminal serves commuters traveling on the Metro-North Railroad to Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties in New York State, and Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut. Until 1991 the terminal served Amtrak, which moved to nearby Pennsylvania Station upon completion of the Empire Connection.

Although the terminal has been properly called Grand Central Terminal since 1913, many people continue to refer to it as Grand Central Station, the name of the previous rail station on the same site, and of the U.S. Post Office station next door, which is not part of the terminal. It is also sometimes used to refer to the Grand Central 42nd Street subway station, which serves the terminal.

According to the travel magazine Travel + Leisure in its October 2011 survey, Grand Central Terminal is "the world's number six most visited tourist attraction", bringing in approximately 21,600,000 visitors annually.

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Images from the most exciting city in the world "The Big Apple", New York City

I Love New York Mural

A mural on a building at the corner of 6th Avenue and 17th street in New York City of an artist spray painting an I Love NY Mural with an aerosol can.

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Music Break - with - Geordie's Choice

No Limits Exhibit Empire State Building

New York is a city in constant motion, and in a new public art exhibition, even the skyscrapers seem to be getting in on the action.

Steel sculptures of 10 prominent city buildings dot the median strip of Park Avenue between 54th Street and 67th Street in Manhattan as part of contemporary artist Alexandre Arrechea's No Limits installation. But passersby can be forgiven if they don't instantly recognize the structures. Each has been given a tweak that, as the project's statement explains, it plays on the idea of elastic architecture as a metaphor for the challenges and opportunities of shifting conditions and new realities.

Here the Empire State Building is coiled into six foot wide octagon.

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Groovin High By Faith Ringgold

The High Line is a 1-mile New York City linear park built on a 1.45-mile section of the elevated former New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line, which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan; it has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway. A similar project in Paris, the 3-mile Promenade plant? completed in 1993, was the inspiration for this project. The High Line currently runs from Gansevoort Street, three blocks below West 14th Street, in the Meatpacking District, to 30th Street, through the neighborhood of Chelsea to the West Side Yard, near the Javits Convention Center. Formerly the viaduct of the High Line went as far south as Spring Street just north of Canal Street, but the lower section was demolished in 1960.The recycling of the railway into an urban park has spurred real estate development in the neighborhoods which lie along the line.

For the High Line, Ringgold has revisited her colorful and paradigmatic story quilt Groovin High (1986), one of the many story quilts Ringgold created that inspired a revival of the medium in the late 1970s. Depicting a crowded dance hall bordered by quilted hand-dyed fabrics, Groovin High is evocative of Ringgold?s memories of Sunday afternoon dances at the Savoy and her connection to the African American communities of her native Harlem. Her style reflects formal treatments of shape, color, and perspective reminiscent of many painters whose styles defined the Harlem Renaissance, an immensely productive and creative cultural movement of the 1920s that erupted out of the African American community living in the eponymous New York neighborhood.

Space for the High Line Billboard is donated by ParkFast.com and is changed every several months.

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Music Break - with - Geordie's Choice

Human Nature Exhibit 2

Nine 16-to 20-foot-tall, human-shaped stone figures by Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone, will transform Rockefeller Center, inhabiting the plaza between 49th and 50th Streets as if transported from another time. The work, Human Nature, will be free to the public and was on view from April 23 through June 7, 2013.

Human Nature is a stark contrast to its highly developed architectural surroundings in Midtown Manhattan. The figures will populate the plaza where the famous Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is displayed, the massive forms of their legs and shoulders forming post-and-lintel structures beneath and among which visitors will be able to walk.

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Olmec Head

On display in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza on 1st Avenue and 47th street in New York City, the Olmec Head donated by the State of Veracruz was available to view until May 5th, 2013.

This stone and dust temporary sculpture is a replica of the first majestic Olmec head to be uncovered in San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan in 1964.

Standing over ten feet tall, the facial features of "The King" correspond to what was considered beautiful at the time: a slight strabismus, deformed cranium, amd ear covers.

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The Guggenheim by Allen Beatty

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (often referred to as "The Guggenheim") is a well-known art museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a renowned and continuously expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year. The museum was established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, under the guidance of its first director, the artist Hilla von Rebay. It adopted its current name after the death of its founder Solomon R. Guggenheim in 1952.

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the cylindrical museum building, wider at the top than the bottom, was conceived as a "temple of the spirit" and is one of the 20th century's most important architectural landmarks. The building opened on October 21, 1959, replacing rented spaces used by the museum since its founding. Its unique ramp gallery extends from just under the skylight in the ceiling in a long, continuous spiral along the outer edges of the building until it reaches the ground level. The building underwent extensive expansion and renovations from 1992 to 1993 (when an adjoining tower was built) and from 2005 to 2008. The museum's collection has grown organically, over eight decades, and is founded upon several important private collections, beginning with Solomon R. Guggenheim's original collection. The collection is shared with the museum's sister museums in Bilbao, Spain, and elsewhere.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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The Metropolitan Museum Of Art Roof Garden

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden (Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden) is a rooftop garden terrace, art venue and restaurant open in the warm weather months at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Roof Garden offers views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. The garden is the gift of philanthropists Iris and B. Gerald Cantor, founder and chairman of securities firm Cantor Fitzgerald. The Garden was opened to the public on August 1, 1987.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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