Weekend, July 24-25, 2021 – ON THE HALL IN QUEENS HOSPITAL CENTER IS ANOTHER WPA ARTPIECE

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JULY  24-25,  2021

OUR 424TH EDITION

ANOTHER WPA

MURAL 

REVEALED 

WPA MURAL DISCOVERED ON A TRIP TO QUEENS HOSPITAL

FUNCTION OF A HOSPITAL

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WEEKEND PHOTO OF THE DAY
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FRIDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

CUNARD LINE PIER NOW CHELSEA PIERS

Guy Ludwig and Ed Lticher added great history  Thanks 

I believe today’s historic photograph is of the White Star Line’s pier complex on the Hudson river. This is where the Titanic would have tied up had she made it.  The Titanic (and her sisters the Olympic and the Gigantic – no kidding, but she was renamed Britannic) flew the flag of White Star Lines, a company controlled by J.P. Morgan.  Following the Titanic disaster, White Star became an easy target for acquisition by the most powerful transatlantic line, Cunard.  Four years after Titanic sank, the Britannic went to the bottom of the Aegean Sea after hitting a mine.  It took until the 1930’s but eventually Cunard did merge with White Star, and in 1949 bought out firm completely and retired its name.   Guy Ludwig Westview

Chelsea PiersDesigned by the architectural firm of Warren and Wetmore, which was also designing Grand Central Terminal at the same time, the Chelsea Piers replaced a hodgepodge of run-down waterfront structures with a magnificent row of grand buildings embellished with pink granite facades.In 1910, the opening of the Chelsea Piers was marked with a ribbon cutting and speeches, including lots of back-patting after 30 long years of talk and 8 years of construction. In 1907, even before the piers were completed, the first of the new luxury liners, the Lusitania and Mauretania, docked there. The man responsible for the completion of the piers, Mayor George B. McClellan, wasn’t even in office when the liner Oceanic broke through a colorful wide ribbon to signal the official opening of the Chelsea Piers. The next day The New York Times called them “the most remarkable urban design achievement of their day.”For the next 50 years, the Chelsea Piers served the needs of the New York port: first, as the city’s premier passenger ship terminal; then as an embarkation point for soldiers departing for the battlefields of World Wars I and II; and finally, during the late 1950s and early 1960s, as a cargo terminal.After that, the Chelsea Piers, like much of Manhattan’s waterfront, became neglected maritime relics, made obsolete by the jet plane that whisked passengers across the Atlantic and the large container ships that required dock facilities and truck linkages that Manhattan could never provide.

https://www.chelseapiers.com/company/history/

Ed Litcher

Text by Judith Berdy
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Edited by  Deborah Dorff
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I had the honor to receive a Marjorie Matthews Award today for service with the Coler Community Advisory Board and the Coler Auxiliary. The ceremony was held at the Queens Hospital Center.

There are over 500 volunteers who work on these committees to make our municipal hospitals better serve all the residents of New York City,

Of course being there, I had to find out about the wonderful WPA mural that is in the main corridor and the progress of converting Triboro Hospital into affordable housing. 

Soon we will update you on our visit to the site.

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