City Grit by edwardreese

Its been foggy any rainy all week here around New York City. Not really great weather for the Christmas holidays.

Here is a view of the crappy weather from up on top of the rock in Rockefeller Center. It’s a three-image pano with some blur effects added in post.

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Atlas, St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City, US by dleiva

Atlas, Rockefella Centre, St Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City, New York, America.
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Top of the Rock by emil4l

Observatory on top of Rockefeller Center

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New York Serenade by lazydesperados

Give me back that old time feeling of New York. Make it 1950something…

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The statue of Atlas in front of the Rockefeller center by spikerbagger

Atlas is a bronze statue in front of Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan, New York City, across Fifth Avenue from St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The sculpture depicts the Ancient Greek Titan Atlas holding the heavens. It was created by sculptor Lee Lawrie with the help of Rene Paul Chambellan, and it was installed in 1937.

The sculpture is in the Art Deco style, as is the entire Rockefeller Center. Atlas in the sculpture is 15 feet (4.6 m) tall, while the entire statue is 45 feet (14 m) tall,[1][2] as high as a four-story building. It weighs 7 tonnes (7,000 kg),[3] and is the largest sculpture at Rockefeller Center.[4] The North-South axis of the armillary sphere on his shoulders points towards the North Star as seen from New York City.[5]

When Atlas was unveiled in 1937, some people protested, claiming that it looked like Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Later, painter James Montgomery Flagg said that Atlas “looks too much as Mussolini thinks he looks”.[6]

The piece has since been appropriated as a symbol of the Objectivist movement[7] and has been associated with Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged (1957).

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