The Helmsley Building Wood Print

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The Helmsley Building stands astride Park Avenue. Traffic exits and enters the Park Avenue Viaduct through the building, through two portals, one for uptown traffic and one for downtown. They connect to Park Avenue proper at East 46th Street.

565-foot, 35-story Beaux-Arts office building completed in 1929. Designed by Warren & Wetmore for the New York Central Railroad Co. for use as its headquarters. When the building was sold, its name was changed to the "New York General Building", reportedly because this name only required changing two letters. When Harry Helmsley purchased the building he named it The Helmsely Building. It was sold to in 2005 to Istithmar, an investment firm owned by the royal family of Dubai, for $705 million, then to a group headed by Goldman Sachs in December, 2007 for $1.15 billion, and then to property firm RXR Realty in May 2015 for $1.2 billion.

The rectangular, 3-story base is clad in Indiana limestone and Texas pink granite and pierced on...

This is the official website of the artist Gordon James who uses his 50+ years of photographic skills and experience to highlight the beauty of photography and as an art form to create prints, home decor, apparel and more to be made from his wide range of images. My specialist subjects are Steam,and Diesel Locomotives.