![]() “CNN” seems bad enough (is there any connection with the building below?) but, compared with what comes next, might one day be viewed with nostalgia.Īnd don’t get me started on sports arenas! At least the new Yankee Stadium will, so far anyway, still be called “Yankee Stadium”. The PanAm building, travesty though it is, is even worse with “MetLife” at the top (can Snoopy be farīehind?). The RCA building now has “GE” at the top (did it once say “SONY”?). But in a few months, it will be gone another quirky corner of Manhattan that has been scrubbed, smoothed, polished, branded and lost.Īs I was riding in a bus down Fifth Avenue last Sunday, I glanced down 59th Street and, after locating the twin towers of the Time Warner Center, I spied the old “Essex House” sign.Īt the time it struck me as a classic icon of “old New York” but now I think such “branding” could get out of hand. about the rise of Automobile Row in the early 20th century. That incongruous combination of ornate base and spartan tower still speaks subtly - to anyone patient enough to listen Shreve & Lamb’s brown-brick facade was far simpler than the monumental colonnade. ![]() Bagli reports, will be to the Citigroup Center, where it is taking 135,000 square feet on a 10-year lease beginning next summer. General Motors’ next move, my colleague Charles V. It stayed there until 1968, when it moved across town to Fifth Avenue. (That sign position, currently used by CNN, is offered by Moinian as an opportunity for “significant corporate branding.”)Įventually, G.M. General Motors projected its name on the skyline from the top of the building. Its Eastern executive and clerical headquarters in the new building,” The Times reported, “but arrangements will be made for private dining rooms, club rooms, barber shop and a board room seating 40 Then, Shreve & Lamb designed a 22-story addition, principally for the General Motors Corporation. Until 1926, the three-story colonnade was all that stood on the site. Renamed 3 Columbus Circle, this is what the building will look like with a new glass curtain wall. (In recent decades, this space was the home of Coliseum Books. In 1922, the Hudson Motor Car Company leased the Colonnade Building’s principal storefront,Īt Broadway and 57th Street, as a sales room for its Essex line of automobiles. Tenants were drawn to the building all the same, as Broadway was the heart of the automotive industry in New York City. Harriss might lose by using this space for attractive architectural treatment instead of sacrificing certain artistic Inches, and a statistician could figure out without much difficulty how much prospective rent Dr. Harriss, a deputy police commissioner who also invested in real estate.ĭescribing the plan in February 1921, The Times noted that the columns would not be flattened in order to increase the size of the storefronts between them: “They will be set back from the building line several This is a visible vestige of the Colonnade Building, designed by William Welles BosworthĪnd developed by John A. Instead, it sits on a block bounded by Broadway, Eighth Avenue, 57th and 58th Streets.)Ī new glass facade designed by the firm Gensler will obliterate evidence of the building’s history and heritage as a hub of Automobile Row.įor now, a palisade of three-story Ionic columns, supporting a neo-Classical entablature, surrounds the base of the structure. (It should be noted that 3 Columbus Circle has no frontage on Columbus Circle. The General Motors Building as it looks today from 57th Street and Broadway. Now all of a sudden it Only shows up in a totally different state and with exact name search. Is there something I could do to send signals to Google to show that I am in Matthews, NC?Ģ months ago my listing quit showing up at all unless you typed exact business name What could possibly cause my listing or Google to do this? I have been without my listing for a few months now and have NO calls coming in from it. If you search Locksmith Independence, KS it shows up on the maps. ![]() If you search Locksmith Matthews, NC my listing does not show up at all. Keep in mind the GMB is in Matthews, NC All my service areas and the actual map show the correct areas. Now if I search my business name under the auto populate I see it with Independence, KS on the listing. I pretty much do not have any traffic, views or calls now. ![]() Posted about my SAB listing a few weeks ago about not showing up in search only when you entered the exact name. ![]()
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