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"The Works" comes to town.


On Wednesday, July 19, from 6:30-7:30 p.m., The Skyscraper Museum Founded in 1997, the Skyscraper Museum, located in New York City in the United States, is currently the only museum of its kind in the world. As the name suggests, the museum focuses on high-rise buildings as "objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction,  and The Center for Architecture will present "The Works: Anatomy of a City." The Works: Anatomy of a City offers a cross section of the hidden infrastructure of New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
, using beautiful, innovative graphic images combined with short, clear text explanations to answer all the questions about the way things work in a modern city.

Executive vice president of NYC's Economic Development Corporation, Kate Ascher, describes the technologies that keep the city functioning, as well as the people who support them--the pilots that bring the ships in over the Narrows sandbar sandbar
 or offshore bar

Submerged or partly exposed ridge of sand or coarse sediment that is built by waves offshore from a beach. The swirling turbulence of waves breaking off a beach excavates a trough in the sandy bottom.
, the sandhogs who are currently digging the third water tunnel Water tunnel may refer to:
  • Water tunnel (hydrodynamic), an experimental facility used for testing the hydrodynamic behavior of submerged bodies in flowing water, similar to a wind tunnel
 under Manhattan, the television engineer who scales the Empire State Building's antenna for routine maintenance, and the electrical wizards who maintain the century-old system that delivers power to subways.

The event has be organized by Skyscraper Museum and sponsored by Skyscraper Museum and the Center for Architecture.

The program will take place at The Center for Architecture at 536 LaGuardia Place in Manhattan. Price: Free and open to the public More Info: www.skyscraper skyscraper, modern building of great height, constructed on a steel skeleton. The form originated in the United States. Development of the Form


Many mechanical and structural developments in the last quarter of the 19th cent.
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Title Annotation:AWARDS, ASSOCIATIONS and EVENTS
Publication:Real Estate Weekly
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1U2NY
Date:Jul 12, 2006
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