#project365 [day 71] up the Helmsley

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Back in day 66 I showed the entrance to this building and wrote about its peculiar location. The Helmsley Building is a 35-story building located at 230 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, which was built in 1929 as the New York Central Building. Designed by Warren & Wetmore, the architects of Grand Central Terminal, in the Beaux-Arts style. Before the erection of the Pan Am Building – now the MetLife Building – this building stood out over the city's second most prestigious avenue as the tallest structure in the great "Terminal City" complex around Grand Central. Up until now, there is nothing of note about it, but since it sits in the middle of the avenue, in front of the road itself, traffic flows through the building. If you are driving South on Park Avenue, when you reach this junction you will go under the building and then over the Grand Central Terminal, before rejoining the Park Avenue Proper at East 46th Street. Traffic exits and enters the Park Avenue Viaduct through the building, through two portals, one for uptown traffic and one for downtown. 

-- Gear
Fujifilm X-T1
Fujifilm XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6R LM OIS WR
-- Post
Lightroom : HDR merge, initial tone and final crop.
Photoshop: Perspective correction, clean up and sharpening.
NikCollection Color Efex Pro 4: Toning and Detail extraction.