Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Cloisters are pieces of medeival monestaries/abbies that were purchased by buyers from the Met after WWII and brought a stone at a time to the banks of the Hudson River and reassembled. The result is an amazing hodge-podge building that does indeed look like a castle in parts. It houses the famous Unicorn Tapestries and the admission is pay- what-you-wish. Take the No. 4 bus to the end of the line or the A train to Fort Tryon Park. It is also the highest point geologically on the island of Manhattan. Great light. Ben Marks Richard S. Taylor wrote >The Cloisters in upper Manhattan is a reproduction of a Medieval >castle set on a tall bluff overlooking the Hudson. It's about >70-years old. The Metropolitan Museum of Art operates it as a museum >of Medieval art.