BGuthrie Photos: NY -- Albany -- Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza at night

NY -- Albany -- Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza at night:

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Description of Pictures: I was coming back from Utica and Rome and decided, what the heck, it's a nice night. Let me see how well my digital camera takes nighttime pictures. I didn't bother with a tripod or anything. I just parked the car (after getting lost), strode up to the plaza, and started taking pictures. This was really my first time to take nighttime pictures with the new digital camera.

While I was doing them, it started raining. After a half hour of taking pictures in the rain, I got back in my car, got lost again, and went back to the time-share.

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Wikipedia Description: Empire State Plaza
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The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza (commonly known as simply the Empire State Plaza and less formally as The South Mall) is a complex of several state government buildings in downtown Albany, New York.

History:

The 98-acre (39 ha) complex, the brainchild of Governor Nelson Rockefeller, was built between 1965 and 1978 for 1.7 billion dollars. Wallace Harrison was the principal architect of the plaza. Rockefeller was inspired to create the new government space in 1959 upon the visit of Princess Beatrix. The Corning Tower and Agency buildings were completed in 1973, the Cultural Education Center in 1976, and the Egg in 1978. Today, over 13,000 state employees work at the complex.

Characteristics:

The Plaza consists of various marble and steel buildings, seated on a six-story marble platform along the Hudson River. The buildings comprising the Plaza include:

* the four Agency buildings (numbered "Agency 1" through "Agency 4")
* the Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd Tower
* The Egg
* the Cultural Education Center (State Museum, Library, and Archives)
* the Justice Building
* the Legislative Office Building
* the Swan Street Building (sectioned into "Core 1" through "Core 4")

The Plaza also features a skating rink and fountains, an underground corridor ("the concourse") connecting all of the buildings in the Plaza and the Capitol, and various sculptures and works of art. Several memorials are located on the Plaza, including the New York State Fallen Firefighters Memorial and Vietnam War Memorial.

The scale of the buildings in the Plaza is impressive, and the complex is the most easily recognizable aspect of the Albany skyline. The Corning Tower is the tallest building in New York state outside of New York City; the Swan Street Building is over a quarter of a mile long and inspired by Pharaoh Hatshepsut's Temple at Deir el-Bahri, Egypt.

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