One of the world’s major centres of contemporary culture and finance, New York is
a fast-paced, creative and colourful city that attracts people from all over the
world. Seen from feng shui principles, this is no surprise: “At the tip of Manhattan,
you get interplay from yin (feminine) energy coming in from the sea, and yang (masculine)
energy coming down Manhattan. You don’t get many of those sites on a planet like
ours. So ‘fantastic’ is how I’d describe the feng shui of that spot,” Coxon says.
A hotspot it always was. A group of Dutch explorers first settled the tip of the
island in 1624, purchasing “Manahatta” from native Americans for an alleged $24.
George Washington, the first U.S. president, was inaugurated here in 1789. And the
New York Stock Exchange and the city’s administration benefit from their present
placement just steps away.
In greater New York, the Bronx is probably the roughest, most “masculine” area, but
a person or business starting here may often succeed and move south to Manhattan.
Energy from the entire system is retained by Brooklyn’s and Staten Island’s landmasses,
says Coxon, adding that positive energy also pools in upper Manhattan’s Central Park
and feeds into the midtown area illustrated here. “This is probably why you’ve got
corporate headquarters situated here,” he says. Midtown Manhattan is indeed a concentration
of corporate skyscrapers and the location of the United Nations headquarters, all
built on a grid work of rectilinear streets. “This creates creates stability for
the economy,” Coxon says. Roosevelt Island, a strip of land between Midtown Manhattan
and Queens, also improves the flow of intelligent energy to midtown, but its sharp
southern point shoots aggressively toward the East Village and Lower East Side, acting
as a “poison arrow” and preventing these areas from accumulating the wealth of those
on the western parts of Lower Manhattan, such as Greenwich Village.
Coxon and Diep moved the United Nations building from its current position on the
East River to join the forest of skyscrapers that already benefit from their placement.
Not seeing much room for improvement, the two embellished the area’s edge with five
structures that would amplify the general positivity. The futuristic buildings could
be placed approximately where Rockefeller Centre presently stands, a positive site
already.
