I. A World center with rare, and
even unique, features
A) The world’s diplomatic center
• The headquarters of the United Nations
UN Headquarters, view
from the East River
General Assembly Hall
“I just don’t understand this. It looks
to me to be scrambled eggs,” Harry S.
Truman reportedly declared in 1952
NSA bugged UN headquarters in New York City,
claim new documents released by Ed Snowden
By Reuters Reporter
Published: 21:47 GMT, 25 August 2013
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article2401913/NSA-bugged-UN-headquartersNew-York-City-claim-documents-releasedEd-Snowden.html
Diplomatic missions
to the US in New York
• 9 embassies (Andorra, Comoros, Seychelles,
…)
• Special offices: Economic and cultural office of
the Republic of China (Taïwan), Economic and
Trade Office of HK
• Total = 117 diplomatic missions (usually:
consulates-general)
B) A globally influential financial center
The Financial District of Lower Manhattan
viewed from New York Harbor,
near the Statue of Liberty, October 2013
One World Trade Center
The 4th-tallest building in the world
and the tallest building in the United
States since its topping out on May
10, 2013. It is also the tallest building
in the Western Hemisphere
70 Pine Street (1932)
22nd-tallest building in the
United States; formerly known
as the American International
Building and the Cities Service
Building 70 Pine is being
transformed into a residential
skyscraper with 644 rental
residences, 132 hotel rooms
and 35,000 square feet of
retail.
40 Wall Street (1930)
26th-tallest in the United
States; was world's tallest
building for less than two
months in 1930; formerly
known as the Bank of
Manhattan Trust Building;
also known as 40 Wall
Street.
New York Stock
Exchange, 2012
C) A cultural and intellectual center
1) Innovation in New York: Silicon Alley
The Flatiron District was the
cradle of Silicon Alley
2) An influential intellectual center
• An attractive and diversified offer in high
education
• Universities
• State Unversity of NY (SUNY)
• City University of NY (CUNY)
• Columbia University
Columbia University
(North of Manhattan)
• International students
• SUNY = leading host university for
international students in the US
• 8 institutions host more than 10 000
international students in the country,
including SUNY, and Columbia U
• China, India = 45% of the total (in the country)
• Laboratories, research
centers
• Example: graduate
school of applied
sciences and
engineering research
center (Roosevelt
Island, 2017); will
complete Cornell Tech
• 2 billion dollars
investment
• Cooperation of Cornell
University and
Technion-Israel
Insitute of Technology
• biotechnology
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Highly specialized schools
Linked with NY’s cultural power and influence
Fashion Institute of Technology
NY School of Interior Design
Juilliard School
Juilliard School
(Lincoln Center for
Performing Arts)
Approximately 900 students
Dance, drama, music
Still ‘best reputation’ for Juilliard at 100
By - The Washington Times - Friday, June 3, 2005
NEW YORK — In 1959, a young violin prodigy named Itzhak Perlman left his native Israel
for the Juilliard School in New York. Then as now, “it has the best reputation,” he
explained.
The venerable New York conservatory, which turns 100 this year, has trained generations
of virtuosos, stars of music, cinema and dance — from jazz great Miles Davis to beloved
actor Robin Williams; to maestro James Levine of New York’s Metropolitan Opera; to
Hollywood’s most decorated composer, John Williams.
• A mass media headquarter
• Written Press
• News agencies: Associated Press (global),
Bloomberg News(specialized in economy,
finance)
• Newspapers and magazines: Time, Newsweek,
Reader’s Digets, Wall Street Journal, … NewYork-based but distributed globally
• Publishing companies
• Example: Harper Collins,
Penguin Random House,
McGraw-Hill Education
• Big educational publisher +
medicine, business,
engineering
• 60 languages
• Digital educational products
used by over 11 million
people
3) A cultural and entertainment center
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Art
Art galleries : Chelsea, Soho
1950s = De Kooning, Jackson Pollock
1960s = Pop Art, Andy Wharhol, the Factory
Dominates the art market
Auction sales; Sotheby’s, Christie’s, twice a
year
Picasso’s Les femmes d’Alger (Version “O”) set to star in New York
The final and undisputable culmination of the famous Femmes d'Alger
series to be offered in Looking Forward to the Past, a curated evening
sale on 11 May
On 11 May in New York, Pablo Picasso’s Les femmes d’Alger (Version “O”)
will be among the star lots featured at Christie’s Looking Forward to the
Past, a new sale providing a distinct and dynamic perspective on some of
the greatest and most revolutionary artists of the 20th century.
http://www.christies.com/features/Picasso-5829-1.aspx
• Linked with the
proportion of wealthy
people in the city
• Patrons,
philanthropists
• Example: Guggenheim
Museum, NY; founded
by the family to
display its art
collection
• Today = TNCs as well
• Example: The Met
patrons
• Fashion
• Garment
District
(Midtown) =
fashion
designers
• Confection/
Dressmaking =
Chinatown,
Lower East
Side
• Fashion Week
• Cultural and sports facilities
• Prestigious museums: Metropolitan Museum,
MoMa (Modern Museum of Art)
• Concert halls/ music venues: Carneggie Hall,
Metropolitan Opera (Lincoln Center)
• Theaters and music halls (Theater District,
north of Times Square)
• Sport facilities: Madison Square Garden,
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (Queens)
• Cinema and TV majors headquarters
• Networks: ABC, CBS, NBC (more than 300
million viewers abroad)
• Cinema: Time Warner Cable Inc.
• Symbolic complex building = Rockefeller
Center
Rockefeller Center
14 buildings
1939
Art Deco style
Mall
Skating ring
Media outlets headquarters: GE,
Associated Press, NBC, Fox News
Channel
McGraw-Hill
Bank of America
NBC studios (late night shows
are recorded)
Observation deck (Top of the
Rock) and restaurant
Tourism in NYC
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2014
56 million visitors; 12 M foreign
Origins: UK, Canada, Brazil, France
Spending = US $35 bn
Generating US $61 bn
360 000 jobs
Most popular US city for international visitors
(33% of overseas travels to the US)
New York City tourism hit record high in 2014,
officials say
US | Mon Feb 2, 2015
http://www.reuters.com/ne
ws/picture/new-york-citytourism-hit-record-highin?articleId=USKBN0L61XM
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