Gallery
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The Astor Library, seen in a 1900 drawing, opened in 1849. It is now the Joseph Papp Public Theatre
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The Astor Place riot in 1849: anti-British feelings expressed in a dispute over competing productions of Macbeth; the Astor Opera House is in the background
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After the riot, the Opera House closed and the building was turned over to the New York Mercantile Library, who later built this 11-story building on the site
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The Cooper Union Foundation Building has stood on Astor Place, anchoring the north end of Cooper Square, since 1859
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The Astor Place Building at 444 Lafayette Street was built in 1876...
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...while across the street stands the modern condominium building at 445 Lafayette (2004)
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The beaver in the Astor Place subway station is a tribute to John Jacob Astor, whose fortune was founded on beaver-pelt trading
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Tony Rosenthal's Alamo, behind it, Kmart, in the building that was once the annex to the giant Wanamaker's Department Store
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)