New York City Hall

The City Hall in New York is the oldest still in use in this function hall of the United States of America and is located on Broadway, corner of Park Row Street at City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan. The building was built in 1803-1812 and is one of the historic landmarks of the city of New York and the United States. The Town Hall is home to the New York City Council and the Mayor.

History

The first New York City Hall was built in the 17th century by the then Dutch resident at the Pearl Street. The second town hall was located on Wall Street, and was named after the American War of Independence (1775-1783) Federal Building, as New York City was the first capital of the new state. After 1797 Albany the capital of the State of New York was elected, came up with plans for a new town hall, but were postponed indefinitely because of the costs of war.

In 1802, the city of New York hosted a competition for a new city hall, which was won by John McComb Junior. He received $ 350 for his design, after the town hall was built for around $ 350,000. Since then the building has been used as a town hall in New York City.

The construction of the new City Hall was delayed due to an objection of the City Council, the first draft was too extravagant. In response, reduced McComb and Mangin, the size of the building and used brown sandstones at the back of the building in order to reduce costs ( the brown sandstone, composed with the original, deteriorated marble facades of Massachusetts, was from 1954 to 1956 replaced with Alabama limestone ). Labor disputes and an outbreak of yellow fever slowed further the construction of the building, so the building was not inaugurated until 1811. The official opening took place in 1812.

The famous Governor 's Room is used as a museum and as a reception hall for celebrations in connection with the city and national history since its completion in 1816.

Architecture

The building was ( interior design ) built in a mixed style of French Renaissance ( facade ) and Georgian architecture. In 1960, the Town Hall was declared a National Historic Landmark in the United States, taken in 1966 in the National Register of Historic Places.

Environment

The Town Hall is located in the so-called Civic Center, an environment characterized by local, state and federal government buildings area of Manhattan. Well-known buildings in the vicinity of the City Hall are St. Paul's Chapel, St. Peter's Church, the Woolworth Building, Tweed Courthouse, the Manhattan Municipal Building, the Park Row Building, One Police Plaza and the Brooklyn Bridge. The City Hall Park is just three blocks from the site of the former World Trade Center. Just below the town hall square is the 1945 decommissioned subway station City Hall Station. Designed by Rafael Guastavino and 1904 opened subway station and a prime southern terminus of the first New Yorker, she is considered one of the most beautiful stops on the New York subway. Today, there are two somewhat more distant stations that run the town hall in the name: Brooklyn Bridge - City Hall at the corner of Park Row and Centre Street ( for lines 4, 5, 6) and City Hall on the corner of Murray Street and Broadway ( for the trains of N, R, W).