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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Join us for a virtual tour of New York’s Hudson Yards on Thursday February 24 at 6PM. Joyce Gold of Joyce Gold History tours will guide us. You can register for this free event at <a href="http://evite.me/EkH8jWepkC">http://evite.me/EkH8jWepkC</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The link will be sent the day before. You MUST register in order to get the link<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>HUDSON YARDS —21<sup>st</sup> CENTURY VERTICAL</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>A brand new city continues to rise in Midtown—the Hudson Yards. It covers 28 acres, between 30<sup>th</sup> & 33<sup>rd</sup> St, & from 10<sup>th</sup> Ave to West St & the Hudson River. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Hudson Yards is a mix of 21<sup>st</sup> century architecture accessorized with a large interactive sculpture and a touch of gently-curved landscaping. Soaring over deep rail yards, this high-end corporate & residential development includes seven stories of retail shopping and restaurants. The <i>Vessel</i>—the 150’-high permanent art installation—attracts urban adventurers to its Escher-like spiral stairwells. The Shed, an ambitious cultural center, was built with a quilted, retractable shell that can open the space to the outdoors. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Hudson Yards has precedents in Manhattan as a city-within-a-city—Battery Park City & Rockefeller Center. Each embodies its time and priorities.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><img border=0 width=72 height=72 style='width:.75in;height:.75in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D81E69.253D66D0"></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>