Grand Central Terminal and Chrysler Building Crown

This is the view from 43rd Street just west of Grand Central terminal. The windows panes of the terminal were lit up into individual “pixels” of colorful lights. Above the terminal is one of the most recognizable structures in Manhattan, the art deco terraced crown of the Chrysler Building.

Chrysler Building on a Foggy Night

A prominent symbol of the American Gothic, the Chrysler Building seen on a foggy night evokes melancholy with stillness and beauty in midtown Manhattan. 



Sunset Over Manhattan

These sunset views over midtown Manhattan skyline were captured yesterday from the 7 train stops in Queens.

Chrysler Building

The Chrysler Building
 

Chrysler Building Crown On A Rainy And Foggy Night

The Chrysler Building in midtown Manhattan is one of the most recognizable structures in Manhattan because of its art deco, terraced crown. There are two sets of lighting in the top spires and decoration, the V-shaped lighting inserts in the steel of the building itself, and the floodlights that are on mast arms directed back at the building. These images were made one rainy, foggy night from 43rd Street just west of Grand Central Terminal Terminal.

The CHRYSLER BUILDING Crown

from Wikipedia:

The Chrysler Building is also well renowned and recognised for its terraced crown. Composed of seven radiating terraced arches, Van Alen's design of the crown is a cruciform groin vault constructed into seven concentric members with transitioning set-backs, mounted up one behind each other. The stainless-steel cladding is ribbed and riveted in a radiating pattern with many triangular vaulted windows, transitioning into smaller segments of the seven narrow set-backs of the facade of the terraced crown. The entire crown is clad with silvery "Enduro KA-2" metal, an austenitic stainless steel developed in Germany by Krupp and marketed under the trade name "Nirosta" (a German acronym for nichtrostender Stahl, meaning "rust-proof steel").

When the building first opened, it contained a public viewing gallery on the 71st floor, which was closed to the public in 1945. This floor is now the highest-occupied floor, most recently occupied by an office space management firm. The private Cloud Club occupied a three-floor high space from the 66th–68th floors, but closed in the late 1970s. Above the 71st floor, the stories of the building are designed mostly for exterior appearance, functioning mainly as landings for the stairway to the spire. Very narrow with low, sloped ceilings, these top stories are useful only for holding radio-broadcasting and other mechanical and electrical equipment. Television station WCBS-TV (Channel 2) originally transmitted from the top of the Chrysler in the 1940s and early 1950s, before moving to the Empire State Building. For many years, WPAT-FM and WTFM (now WKTU) also used the Chrysler Building as a transmission site, but they also moved to the Empire by the 1970s. There are currently no commercial broadcast stations located at the Chrysler Building.