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34 comments:
Ok, this time you are looking at stone tiles on the ground in Manhattan. Correct?
Very daring with the compound guess, David...but yes!
Were you in the Battery Park vicinity?
No, Debbie--sorry!
North of 42nd Street?
Yes, Debbie!
Riverside Park?
Is this one of those midtown outdoor public spaces?
Is it a palazzo?
Is it a piazza
Debbie, it's in one of those midtown outdoor public spaces. I don't think it qualifies as a piazza.
It is not a palazzo, though that guess is probably warmer than you realize, Scott.
"Palazzo is more broadly used in Italian than its English equivalent "palace". In Italy, a palazzo is a grand building of some architectural ambition that is the headquarters of a family of some renown or of an institution..." Wikipedia
Were you near the Palace Theatre where work is ongoing on the new TKTS structure?
Not as near as you'd probably like me to be, Dolph. It's all relative, of course, but yours is still the warmest guess so far.
Not piazza, not palazzo, Palace, so instead did it have something to do with pizza?
Naaah, Dave.
Okay, I'm going to take back what I wrote about it being a plaza. It qualifies as a plaza. I repeat: It qualifies as a plaza.
Is it in the MoMA's garden?
No, Debbie, but I think you're slightly warmer.
50th Street between 7th and 6th, just east of the Lehman Brothers building?
50th Street between 7th and 6th, just east of the Lehman Brothers building?
Scott, Debbie is still a tad warmer.
Scott, Debbie is still a tad warmer.
Were you west of 5th Avenue?
No, Dolph.
Were you at the IBM building garden on Madison and 56th Street?
You're a little warmer, Debbie.
Is this location proximate to some nation's tourist authority offices?
Not as far as I know, Dolph.
Is it above 65th Street?
Negatory, Debbie.
415 East 54th Street, St. James Tower, Residential Plaza?
No, Debbie, but I think you've once again gotten a little warmer.
767 Third Avenue, or at least an adjacent wall to that building on East 48th Street and 3rd Ave. "At high noon each Wednesday, a workman goes aloft in a 'cherry picker' to advance the game."
Crazy, crazy, Mr. Fischer!
Well-played, Debbie!
I was at Checkmate, on 48th Street just off the corner of 767 Third Avenue. Despite what the 767 website claims about moves being made every Wednesday, I'm pretty sure it's "game over" nowadays. But maybe I'm wrong.
Anyway, in the first photo you can see some of the chess/checkerboardish tiles in the plaza. The second photo is...an ash tray in the plaza! I liked its look, and thought it connected with the checkerish shape of the chess pieces. In the other photos you can see elements of the actual vertical game of chess--a game played with kings, queens, and castles (which long ago were chariots).
There's an "explanation" of the chess match in the building lobby, though I don't think it's very good. (I'm not a chess expert, so I could be horribly wrong about that.) Other attractions of the plaza include two antique vehicles and something else that'll probably turn up soon in a Blog About Town puzzle.
Architectural credit for the plaza (1981) goes to the curiously named firm Fox and Fowle. Credit for the chess structure goes to the Pamela Waters Studio Inc.
Just a note about what went into this one: I not only froze my fingers taking the pictures on a cold day, but I recently wound up returning to the site strictly to make sure that I knew where I had been! I had a lot of trouble finding references to it on the Web, so kudos to Debbie for coming up with a good link to it.
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