Carrère and Hastings
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Carrère and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carrère and Thomas Hastings, was an American architecture firm specializing in Beaux-Arts architecture. Located in New York City, the firm practiced from 1885 until 1929, although Hastings practiced alone after Carrère died in an automobile accident in 1911.
The New York Public Library Main Branch, built 1897–1911, Carrère and Hastings, architects. Photographed during late construction in 1908.
John Merven Carrère
Bust of Thomas Hastings, New York Public Library
Ponce de Leon Hotel, 1885–88 (now Flagler College)
Manhattan Bridge
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The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension. Designed by Leon Moisseiff and built by the Phoenix Bridge Company, the bridge has a total length of 6,855 ft (2,089 m). It is one of four toll-free vehicular bridges connecting Manhattan Island to Long Island; the nearby Brooklyn Bridge is just slightly farther west, while the Queensboro and Williamsburg bridges are to the north.
View from Manhattan towards Brooklyn, 2022
The Manhattan Bridge under construction in March 1909
View down Pike Street toward the Manhattan Bridge, 1936, photograph by Berenice Abbott
View from the Manhattan Bridge toward Lower Manhattan in 1938