Monthly Archives: September 2009

Museum with a view

Impressions on the Panorama of New York @ Queens Museum of Art Arriving at the Queens Museum of Art (for the first time) I’ve realized how different it looks from museums in Manhattan. There was no coat check. Instead there … Continue reading

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Early politics in New Amsterdam

Russell Shorto Island at the Center of the World In early 17th century, Manhattan was not a village anymore. fourty five thousands people lived on the island. In the beginning the cohabitation between natives and settlers went well. Certainly because they depended on the natives’ knowledge of … Continue reading

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How it all began…

How can one imagine that New York was once a city with a beaver on its seal? Anyone living in the 21st century has to put-up a very different mindset to try to understand what was happening on the island … Continue reading

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Mannahatta/Manhattan

The Mannahatta Project is one of the best projects about geography and cities that was ever conceived. It is visually shocking and fascinating.  It is such a dramatical difference between NYC 400 years ago and now, that the contemporary population the the island … Continue reading

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