World's Best Places to Visit - New York City
The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape, an Algonquin people who
hunted, fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson
rivers. Europeans began to explore the region at the beginning of the
16th century–among the first was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian who
sailed up and down the Atlantic coast in search of a route to Asia–but
none settled there until 1624. That year, the Dutch West India Company
sent some 30 families to live and work in a tiny settlement on “Nutten
Island” (today’s Governors Island) that they called New Amsterdam. In
1626, the settlement’s governor general, Peter Minuit, purchased the
much larger Manhattan Island from the natives for 60 guilders in trade
goods such as tools, farming equipment, cloth and wampum (shell beads).
Fewer than 300 people lived in New Amsterdam when the settlement moved
to Manhattan. But it grew quickly, and in 1760 the city (now called New
York City; population 18,000) surpassed Boston to become the
second-largest city in the American colonies. Fifty years later, with a
population 202,589, it became the largest city in the Western
hemisphere. Today, more than 8 million people live in the city’s five
boroughs.
Top sights in New York
Central Park
Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City, between the
Upper West Side and the Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan. It
is the fifth-largest park in New York City by area, covering 843 acres.
Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States, with
an estimated 37.5–38 million visitors annually, and is the most filmed
location in the world.
Following proposals for a large park in Manhattan during the 1840s,
Central Park was first approved in 1853 as a 778-acre park. In 1857,
landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and architect/landscape
designer Calvert Vaux won a design competition for the park with their
"Greensward Plan". Construction began the same year, and the park's
first areas were opened to the public in late 1858. Additional land at
the northern end of Central Park was purchased in 1859, and the park was
completed in 1876. After a period of decline in the early 20th century,
New York City parks commissioner Robert Moses started a program to
clean up Central Park. The Central Park Conservancy, created in 1980 to
combat further deterioration in the late 20th century, refurbished many
parts of the park during the 1980s and 1990s.
Statue of Liberty National Monument
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty
Island in New York Harbor in New York, in the United States. The copper
statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United
States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and
its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was
dedicated on October 28, 1886.
The statue is a figure of Libertas, a robed Roman liberty goddess. She
holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand
carries a tabula ansata inscribed JULY IV MDCCLXXVI, the date of the
U.S. Declaration of Independence. A broken shackle and chain lie at her
feet as she walks forward, commemorating the recent national abolition
of slavery. After its dedication, the statue became an icon of freedom
and of the United States, seen as a symbol of welcome to immigrants
arriving by sea.
Bartholdi was inspired by a French law professor and politician, Édouard
René de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any
monument raised to U.S. independence would properly be a joint project
of the French and U.S. peoples.
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown
Manhattan in New York City. It was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from "Empire State",
the nickname of the state of New York. The building has a roof height of
1,250 feet and stands a total of 1,454 feet tall, including its
antenna. The Empire State Building stood as the world's tallest building
until the construction of the World Trade Center in 1970; following its
collapse in the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Empire State Building
was again the city's tallest skyscraper until 2012. As of 2020, the
building is the seventh-tallest building in New York City, the
ninth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States, the
48th-tallest in the world, and the fifth-tallest freestanding structure
in the Americas.
The site of the Empire State Building, located in Midtown South on the
west side of Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets, was
originally part of an early 18th-century farm. It was developed in 1893
as the site of the Waldorf–Astoria Hotel. In 1929, Empire State Inc.
acquired the site and devised plans for a skyscraper there.
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination,
entertainment center, and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section
of New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue.
Brightly lit by numerous billboards and advertisements, it stretches
from West 42nd to West 47th Streets, and is sometimes referred to as
"the Crossroads of the World", "the Center of the Universe", "the heart
of the Great White Way", and "the heart of the world". One of the
world's busiest pedestrian areas, it is also the hub of the Broadway
Theater District and a major center of the world's entertainment
industry. Times Square is one of the world's most visited tourist
attractions, drawing an estimated 50 million visitors annually.
Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of
them tourists, while over 460,000 pedestrians walk through Times Square
on its busiest days.
Formerly known as Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904
after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the then newly
erected Times Building, now One Times Square.
The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan,
New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is
often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of
modern art in the world. MoMA's collection offers an overview of modern
and contemporary art, including works of architecture and design,
drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and
artist's books, film, and electronic media.
The MoMA Library includes approximately 300,000 books and exhibition
catalogs, over 1,000 periodical titles, and over 40,000 files of
ephemera about individual artists and groups. The archives hold primary
source material related to the history of modern and contemporary art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art maintains a museum and library of art in
the City of New York. Its main collections include arms and armor,
ancient Near Eastern art, Asian art, costumes, drawings and prints,
European sculpture and decorative arts, Greek and Roman art, Islamic
art, medieval art, modern and contemporary art, musical instruments,
photographs, and the Robert Lehman Collection, as well as the arts of
Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. The institution was founded in 1870
and is based in New York, New York.
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New
York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and
Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first
fixed crossing across the East River. It was also the longest suspension
bridge in the world at the time of its opening, with a main span of
1,595.5 feet and a deck located 127 ft above mean high water. The span
was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge or the East River
Bridge but was officially renamed the Brooklyn Bridge in 1915.
Proposals for a bridge connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn were first made
in the early 19th century, which eventually led to the construction of
the current span, designed by John A. Roebling. His son Washington
Roebling oversaw the construction and contributed further design work,
assisted by the latter's wife, Emily Warren Roebling. While construction
started in 1870, numerous controversies and the novelty of the designed
construction process caused the actual construction to be prolonged
over thirteen years.
Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center is a large complex consisting of 19 commercial
buildings covering 22 acres between 48th Street and 51st Street in
Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The 14 original Art Deco buildings,
commissioned by the Rockefeller family, span the area between Fifth
Avenue and Sixth Avenue, split by a large sunken square and a private
street called Rockefeller Plaza. Later additions include 75 Rockefeller
Plaza across 51st Street at the north end of Rockefeller Plaza, and four
International Style buildings located on the west side of Sixth Avenue.
In 1928, the site's then-owner, Columbia University, leased the land to
John D. Rockefeller Jr., who was the main person behind the complex's
construction. Originally envisioned as the site for a new Metropolitan
Opera building, the current Rockefeller Center came about after the Met
could not afford to move to the proposed new building. Various plans
were discussed before the current one was approved in 1932. Construction
of Rockefeller Center started in 1931, and the first buildings opened
in 1933. The core of the complex was completed by 1939.
The original center has several sections.
The High Line
The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and
rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the
west side of Manhattan in New York City. The High Line's design is a
collaboration between James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio +
Renfro, and Piet Oudolf. The abandoned spur has been redesigned as a
"living system" drawing from multiple disciplines which include
landscape architecture, urban design, and ecology. Since opening in
2009, the High Line has become an icon of contemporary landscape
architecture.
The park is built on a disused, southern viaduct section of the New York
Central Railroad's West Side Line. Originating in the Meatpacking
District, the park runs from Gansevoort Street – three blocks below 14th
Street – through Chelsea to the northern edge of the West Side Yard on
34th Street near the Javits Center. The West Side Line formerly extended
south to a railroad terminal at Spring Street, just north of Canal
Street, and north to 35th Street at the site of the Javits Center. The
southern portion of the viaduct was demolished in segments during the
late 20th century.
Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal is a commuter rail terminal located at 42nd
Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Grand
Central is the southern terminus of the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem,
Hudson and New Haven Lines, serving the northern parts of the New York
metropolitan area. It also contains a connection to the New York City
Subway at Grand Central–42nd Street station. The terminal is the
third-busiest train station in North America, after New York Penn
Station and Toronto Union Station.
The distinctive architecture and interior design of Grand Central
Terminal's station house have earned it several landmark designations,
including as a National Historic Landmark. Its Beaux-Arts design
incorporates numerous works of art. Grand Central Terminal is one of the
world's ten most visited tourist attractions, with 21.6 million
visitors in 2018, excluding train and subway passengers. The terminal's
main concourse is often used as a meeting place, and is especially
featured in films and television. Grand Central Terminal contains a
variety of stores and food vendors, including a food court on its
lower-level concourse.
One World Trade Center
One World Trade Center is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade
Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. One WTC is the tallest
building in the United States, the tallest building in the Western
Hemisphere, and the seventh-tallest in the world. The supertall
structure has the same name as the North Tower of the original World
Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September
11, 2001. The new skyscraper stands on the northwest corner of the
16-acre World Trade Center site, on the site of the original 6 World
Trade Center. The building is bounded by West Street to the west, Vesey
Street to the north, Fulton Street to the south, and Washington Street
to the east.
The building's architect is David Childs, whose firm Skidmore, Owings
& Merrill also designed the Burj Khalifa and the Willis Tower. The
construction of below-ground utility relocations, footings, and
foundations for the new building began on April 27, 2006. One World
Trade Center became the tallest structure in New York City on April 30,
2012, when it surpassed the height of the Empire State Building. The
tower's steel structure was topped out on August 30, 2012.
5th Avenue
9/11 Memorial & Museum
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is a memorial and museum
in New York City commemorating the September 11, 2001 attacks, which
killed 2,977 people, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which
killed six. The memorial is located at the World Trade Center site, the
former location of the Twin Towers that were destroyed during the
September 11 attacks. It is operated by a non-profit institution whose
mission is to raise funds for, program, and operate the memorial and
museum at the World Trade Center site.
A memorial was planned in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and
destruction of the World Trade Center for the victims and those involved
in rescue and recovery operations. The winner of the World Trade Center
Site Memorial Competition was Israeli-American architect Michael Arad
of Handel Architects, a New York- and San Francisco-based firm. Arad
worked with landscape-architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners on the
design, creating a forest of swamp white oak trees with two square
reflecting pools in the center marking where the Twin Towers stood.
Broadway
Broadway is a road in the U.S. state of New York. Broadway runs from
State Street at Bowling Green for 13 mi through the borough of Manhattan
and 2 mi through the Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an
additional 18 mi through the municipalities of Yonkers,
Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, and Tarrytown, and
terminating north of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.
It is the oldest north–south main thoroughfare in New York City, with
much of the current street beginning as the Wickquasgeck trail before
the arrival of Europeans. This formed the basis for one of the primary
thoroughfares of the Dutch New Amsterdam colony, which continued under
British rule, although most of it did not bear its current name until
the late 19th century.
Broadway in Manhattan is known widely as the heart of the American
commercial theatrical industry, and is used as a metonym for it, as well
as in the names of alternative theatrical ventures such as Off-Broadway
and Off-off-Broadway.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim,
is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th
Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
It is the permanent home of a continuously expanding collection of
Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art
and also features special exhibitions throughout the year. The museum
was established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1939 as the
Museum of Non-Objective Painting, under the guidance of its first
director, Hilla von Rebay. It adopted its current name after the death
of its founder Solomon R. Guggenheim in 1952.
In 1959, the museum moved from rented space to its current building, a
landmark work of 20th-century architecture designed by Frank Lloyd
Wright. The cylindrical building, wider at the top than at the bottom,
was conceived as a "temple of the spirit". Its unique ramp gallery
extends up from ground level in a long, continuous spiral along the
outer edges of the building to end just under the ceiling skylight.
Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco–style skyscraper located in the
Turtle Bay neighborhood on the East Side of Manhattan, New York City, at
the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue near Midtown
Manhattan. At 1,046 feet, the structure was the world's tallest building
for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in
1931. It is the tallest brick building in the world with a steel
framework. As of 2019, the Chrysler is the 11th-tallest building in the
city, tied with The New York Times Building.
Originally a project of real estate developer and former New York State
Senator William H. Reynolds, the building was constructed by Walter
Chrysler, the head of the Chrysler Corporation, and served as the
corporation's headquarters from 1930 until the mid-1950s. The Chrysler
Building's construction was characterized by a competition with 40 Wall
Street and the Empire State Building to become the world's tallest
building.
The Plaza - A Fairmont Managed Hotel
The Plaza Hotel is a 20-story luxury hotel and condominium apartment
building in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It opened in 1907 and is
now owned by Katara Hospitality.
The hotel is located on the western side of Grand Army Plaza at the
intersection with Central Park South, on the southeastern corner of
Central Park and just west of Fifth Avenue. Construction on the first
Plaza Hotel at this location began in 1883. After the original builders
foreclosed, McKim, Mead & White completed the hotel and it opened in
1890. The current 19-story, French Renaissance-inspired château-style
building was designed by Henry Janeway Hardenbergh. Built in 27 months,
it opened in 1907. The green terracotta-tile roof was manufactured by
Ludowici and can be seen from many vantage points around the city.
The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1969 and was
added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The Plaza
Hotel was also made a National Historic Landmark in 1986.
Bryant Park
Bryant Park is a 9.6-acre public park located in the New York City
borough of Manhattan. Privately managed, it is located between Fifth
Avenue and Avenue of the Americas and between 40th and 42nd Streets in
Midtown Manhattan. The eastern half of Bryant Park is occupied by the
Main Branch of the New York Public Library. The western half, which
contains a lawn, shaded walkways, and amenities such as a carousel, is
located entirely over an underground structure that houses the library's
stacks. The park hosts several events, including a seasonal "Winter
Village" with an ice rink and shops during the winter.
The first park at the site was opened in 1847 and was called Reservoir
Square due to its proximity to the Croton Distributing Reservoir.
Reservoir Square contained the New York Crystal Palace, which hosted the
Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in 1853 and burned down in
1858. The square was renamed in 1884 for journalist William Cullen
Bryant. The reservoir was demolished in 1900 and the NYPL's Main Branch
was built on the site, opening in 1911. Bryant Park was rebuilt in
1933–1934 to a plan by Lusby Simpson.
Coney Island
Coney Island is a residential and commercial neighborhood and
entertainment area, located on a peninsula in the southwestern part of
the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The neighborhood is bounded by
Manhattan Beach to its east, Lower New York Bay to the south and west,
and Gravesend to the north, and includes the subsections of Sea Gate to
its west and Brighton Beach to its east. Coney Island was formerly the
westernmost of the Outer Barrier islands on the southern shore of Long
Island, but in the early 20th century it became a peninsula, connected
to the rest of Long Island by land fill.
The origin of Coney Island's name is disputed, but the area was
originally part of the colonial town of Gravesend. By the mid-19th
century it had become a seaside resort, and by the late 19th century,
amusement parks had also been built at the location. The attractions
reached a historical peak during the first half of the 20th century.
However, they declined in popularity after World War II, and following
years of neglect, several structures were torn down.
Battery Park
The Battery, formerly known as Battery Park, is a 25-acre public park
located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City facing
New York Harbor. It is bounded by Battery Place on the north, State
Street on the east, New York Harbor to the south, and the Hudson River
to the west. The park contains attractions such as an old fort named
Castle Clinton; multiple monuments; and the SeaGlass Carousel. The
surrounding area, known as South Ferry, contains multiple ferry
terminals, including the Staten Island Ferry's Whitehall Terminal as
well as boat launches to the Statue of Liberty National Monument.
The park and surrounding area is named for the artillery batteries that
were built in the late 17th century to protect the settlement behind
them. By the 1820s, the Battery had become an entertainment destination,
with the conversion of Castle Clinton into a theater venue. During the
mid-19th century, the modern-day Battery Park was constructed and Castle
Clinton was converted into an immigration and customs center.
American Museum of Natural History
Since its founding in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History has
been dedicated to a joint mission of science and public education. AMNH
continues to provide a unique platform for communicating the results of
current research to the public.
The Museum’s audience is one of the largest and most diverse of any
museum in the country. Each year nearly four million people visit
onsite, about half of them children. The online audience doubles the
onsite attendance, with over four million unique visitors a year to the
Museum’s online collections and databases, digital library,
exhibition-related Web sites, interactive curricular materials for
students and teachers, and other resources based on Museum science,
research resources, and collections.
The Museum offers a wide array of educational programs targeted to
various audiences—students from preschool through high school, families,
educators, and the general public. These programs take place on-site
and at schools and community sites throughout the City, as part of the
Museum’s continuing efforts to extend its resources beyond its walls.
In 2006, the Museum announced the opening of The Richard Gilder Graduate
School and its Ph.D. Program in Comparative Biology. The Museum is the
first American museum granted the authority to award its own Ph.D.
degree. The Gilder School offers unique opportunities for students to
participate in AMNH’s educational mission as part of their course of
study.
Approximately 500,000 children visit the Museum each year through school
or camp group visits. These visits are facilitated by education staff
or trained teaching volunteers and are enriched by the Teachers’ Guides
and Student Field Journals sent to every group before their visit. Many
visits are focused on special multi-cultural programming designed to
reflect the City’s diversity. In addition, the Museum offers on-site
after school, enrichment, and workforce development programs which allow
students of a variety of ages and interests to participate in the
Museum’s research and education mission.
Professional development programs, a response to the critical need for
trained science teachers, are a key element of the Museum’s approach to
improving science literacy. The Museum offers a wide range of customized
programs for professionals at all levels and works with four CUNY
campuses—Lehman, Hunter, Brooklyn and Queens Colleges—to develop courses
and institutes for teachers-in-training. Use of the Museum as a
teaching resource, exposure to Museum scientists, and techniques for
inquiry-based science in the classroom are elements of all programs.
AMNH is also active in wider community outreach. Four Moveable Museums
are specially outfitted Winnebagos that travel to schools and community
sites throughout the City. More than 150,000 adults take advantage of
hundreds of lectures and fieldtrips sponsored by the Department of
Education each year and, with their families, attend on-site weekend
workshops and cultural events, many of which are associated with Black
History Month, Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, Caribbean
Celebration, and other multi-cultural festivals. The Museum’s National
Center for Science Literacy and Technology brings Museum science and
resources to a national audience through award-winning educational
websites, and books and magazines for teachers and students of all ages.
The American Museum of Natural History has a long tradition of using
innovative permanent and temporary exhibits to bring the Museum’s
scientific research program to the wider public. Consisting of more than
60 staff, including writers, artists, designers, preparators, and model
makers, the AMNH Exhibition Department has been responsible for a
series of groundbreaking shows, including Darwin, Einstein, Dinosaurs:
Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries, and Gold; and new galleries, such as
the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins and the Millstein
Hall of Ocean Life. In the Museum’s Hayden...
Flatiron Building
The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular
22-story, 285-foot tall steel-framed landmarked building located at 175
Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District neighborhood of the borough of
Manhattan, New York City. Designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick
Dinkelberg, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city upon its
1902 completion, at 20 floors high, and one of only two "skyscrapers"
north of 14th Street – the other being the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company Tower, one block east. The building sits on a triangular block
formed by Fifth Avenue, Broadway, and East 22nd Street – where the
building's 87-foot back end is located – with East 23rd Street grazing
the triangle's northern peak. As with numerous other wedge-shaped
buildings, the name "Flatiron" derives from its resemblance to a
cast-iron clothes iron.
The building, which has been called "one of the world's most iconic
skyscrapers and a quintessential symbol of New York City", anchors the
south end of Madison Square and the north end of the Ladies' Mile
Historic District.
Chinatown
Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York
City, bordering the Lower East Side to its east, Little Italy to its
north, Civic Center to its south, and Tribeca to its west. With an
estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people, Chinatown is home to
the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere.
Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves.
The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New
York City, as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area,
which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia,
comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017.
Historically, Chinatown was primarily populated by Cantonese speakers.
However, in the 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of Fuzhounese-speaking
immigrants also arrived and formed a sub-neighborhood annexed to the
eastern portion of Chinatown east of The Bowery, which has become known
as Little Fuzhou subdivided away from the primarily Cantonese populated
original long time established Chinatown of Manhattan from the proximity
of The Bowery going west, known as Little Hong Kong/Guangdong.
Prospect Park
Prospect Park is an urban park in Brooklyn, New York City. The park is
situated between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights,
Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, and Windsor Terrace, and is
adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza, and the Brooklyn
Botanic Garden. With an area of 526 acres, Prospect Park is the second
largest public park in Brooklyn, behind Marine Park.
First proposed in legislation passed in 1859, Prospect Park was laid out
by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who also helped design
Manhattan's Central Park, following various changes to its design.
Prospect Park opened in 1867, though it was not substantially complete
until 1873. The park subsequently underwent numerous modifications and
expansions to its facilities. Several additions to the park were
completed in the 1890s, in the City Beautiful architectural movement. In
the early 20th century, New York City Department of Parks and
Recreation commissioner Robert Moses started a program to clean up
Prospect Park. A period of decline in the late 20th century spurred the
creation of the Prospect Park Alliance, which refurbished many parts of
the park starting in the late 1980s.
Chelsea Market
Chelsea Market is a food hall, shopping mall, office building and
television production facility located in the Chelsea neighborhood of
the borough of Manhattan, in New York City. The Chelsea Market complex
occupies an entire city block with a connecting bridge over Tenth Avenue
to the adjacent 85 Tenth Avenue building. The High Line passes through
the 10th Avenue side of the building.
Chelsea Market was constructed in the 1890s and was originally the site
of the National Biscuit Company factory complex where the Oreo cookie
was invented and produced. The complex was redeveloped in the 1990s and
features a retail concourse at ground level with office space above.
Chelsea Market is currently owned by Alphabet Inc., parent company of
Google. Chelsea Market lies within the "Gansevoort Market Historic
District", which is recognized by New York State and National Register
of Historic Places.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a botanical garden in the borough of
Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded in 1910 and is located in Mount
Prospect Park in central Brooklyn, adjacent to Prospect Park and the
Brooklyn Museum. The 52-acre garden holds over 14,000 taxa of plants and
has nearly a million visitors each year. It includes a number of
specialty "gardens within the Garden", plant collections, the Steinhardt
Conservatory that houses the C. V. Starr Bonsai Museum, three
climate-themed plant pavilions, a white cast-iron-and-glass aquatic
plant house, and an art gallery.
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Intrepid Museum Foundation, Inc., doing business as Intrepid
Sea-Air-Space Museum, is an educational and cultural non-profit
institution operating a museum centered on the aircraft carrier
Intrepid; space shuttle Enterprise; jets; and a guided missile
submarine. It also displays Lockheed A-12 and British Airways Concorde.
The museum promotes awareness and understanding of history, science, and
service through its collections, exhibitions, and programming. Intrepid
Museum Foundation, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is based in New York,
New York.
t. Patrick's Cathedral
The Cathedral of St. Patrick, also called St. Patrick's Cathedral, is a
decorated neo-gothic Catholic cathedral on Manhattan in New York City,
New York, United States, erected in 1879. A prominent landmark of New
York City, it is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of New York as well as a parish church, located on the east
side of Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st Streets in Midtown Manhattan,
directly across the street from Rockefeller Center, facing the Atlas
statue and the International Building. It is considered one of the most
visible symbols of the Catholic Church in the United States.
Little Italy
Little Italy is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City, once
known for its large population of Italian Americans and Italian
immigrants. It is bounded on the west by Tribeca and Soho, on the south
by Chinatown, on the east by the Bowery and Lower East Side, and on the
north by Nolita.
Staten Island Ferry
The Staten Island Ferry is a passenger ferry route operated by the New
York City Department of Transportation. The ferry's single route runs
5.2 miles through New York Harbor between the New York City boroughs of
Manhattan and Staten Island, with ferry boats making the trip in
approximately 25 minutes. The ferry operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week, with boats leaving every 15 to 20 minutes during peak hours and
every 30 minutes at other times. It is the only direct mass-transit
connection between the two boroughs. Historically, the Staten Island
Ferry has charged a relatively low fare compared to other modes of
transit in the area; and since 1997 the route has been fare-free. The
Staten Island Ferry is one of several ferry systems in the New York City
area and is operated separately from systems such as NYC Ferry and NY
Waterway.
The Staten Island Ferry route terminates at Whitehall Terminal, on
Whitehall Street in Lower Manhattan, and at St. George Terminal, in St.
George, Staten Island. At Whitehall, connections are available to the
New York City Subway and several local New York City Bus routes. At St.
George, there are transfers to the Staten Island Railway and to the St.
Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo is a zoo located within Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York.
It is one of the largest zoos in the United States by area, and is the
largest metropolitan zoo in the United States by area, comprising 265
acres of park lands and naturalistic habitats separated by the Bronx
River. On average, the zoo has 2.15 million visitors each year as of
2009.
The Bronx Zoo is world-renowned for its large and diverse animal
collection, and its award-winning exhibitions. The zoo is part of an
integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium managed by the Wildlife
Conservation Society, and it is accredited by the Association of Zoos
and Aquariums.
Washington Square Park
Washington Square Park is a 9.75-acre public park in the Greenwich
Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. One of the best
known of New York City's public parks, it is an icon as well as a
meeting place and center for cultural activity. It is operated by the
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
The park is an open space, dominated by the Washington Square Arch at
the northern gateway to the park, with a tradition of celebrating
nonconformity. The park's fountain area has long been one of the city's
popular spots for residents and tourists. Most of the buildings
surrounding the park now belong to New York University, but many have at
one time served as homes and studios for artists. Some of the buildings
have been built by NYU while others have been converted from their
former uses into academic and residential buildings.
New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at Bronx
Park in the Bronx, New York City. Established in 1891, it is located on a
250-acre site that contains a landscape with over one million living
plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a greenhouse containing several
habitats; and the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, which contains one of the
world's largest collections of botany-related texts. As of 2016, over a
million people visit the New York Botanical Garden annually.
NYBG is also a major educational institution, teaching visitors about
plant science, ecology, and healthful eating through NYBG's interactive
programming. Nearly 90,000 of the annual visitors are children from
underserved neighboring communities. An additional 3,000 are teachers
from New York City's public school system participating in professional
development programs that train them to teach science courses at all
grade levels.
NYBG operates one of the world's largest plant research and conservation
programs, with nearly 600 staff members. Since 1967, the garden has
been listed as a National Historic Landmark, and several buildings have
been designated as official New York City landmarks.
Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden, colloquially known as The Garden or in initials
as MSG, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City. Located in
Midtown Manhattan between 7th and 8th Avenues from 31st to 33rd Streets,
it is situated atop Pennsylvania Station. It is the fourth venue to
bear the name "Madison Square Garden"; the first two were located on
Madison Square, on East 26th Street and Madison Avenue, with the third
Madison Square Garden further uptown at Eighth Avenue and 50th Street.
The Garden is used for professional ice hockey and basketball, as well
as boxing, concerts, ice shows, circuses, professional wrestling and
other forms of sports and entertainment. It is close to other midtown
Manhattan landmarks, including the Empire State Building, Koreatown, and
Macy's at Herald Square. It is home to the New York Rangers of the
National Hockey League, the New York Knicks of the National Basketball
Association, and was home to the New York Liberty from 1997 to 2017.
Originally called Madison Square Garden Center, the Garden opened on
February 11, 1968, and is the oldest major sporting facility in the New
York metropolitan area.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 16.3-acre complex of
buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York
City. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5
million visitors annually. It houses nationally and internationally
renowned performing arts organizations including the New York
Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, and the New York City Ballet.
Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue at 1260 Avenue of the
Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in Midtown Manhattan, New York
City. Nicknamed the Showplace of the Nation, it is the headquarters for
the Rockettes, the precision dance company.
Radio City Music Hall was built on a plot of land that was originally
intended for a Metropolitan Opera House. The opera house plans were
canceled in 1929, leading to the construction of Rockefeller Center.
Radio City Music Hall was designed by Edward Durell Stone and Donald
Deskey in the Art Deco style. One of the more notable parts of the Music
Hall is its large auditorium, which was the world's largest when the
Hall first opened. The new complex included two theaters, the
"International Music Hall" and the Center Theatre, as part of the "Radio
City" portion of Rockefeller Center. The 5,960-seat Music Hall was the
larger of the two venues. It was largely successful until the 1970s,
when declining patronage nearly drove the Music Hall to bankruptcy.
Radio City Music Hall was designated a New York City Landmark in May
1978, and the Music Hall was restored and allowed to remain open. The
hall was extensively renovated in 1999.
Central Park Zoo
The Central Park Zoo is a 6.5-acre zoo located at the southeast corner
of Central Park in New York City. It is part of an integrated system of
four zoos and one aquarium managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society.
In conjunction with the Central Park Zoo's operations, the WCS offers
children's educational programs, is engaged in restoration of endangered
species populations, and reaches out to the local community through
volunteer programs.
Its precursor, a menagerie, was founded in 1864, becoming the first
public zoo to open in New York. The present facility first opened as a
city zoo on December 2, 1934, and was part of a larger revitalization
program of city parks, playgrounds and zoos initiated in 1934 by New
York City Department of Parks and Recreation commissioner Robert Moses.
It was built, in large part, through Civil Works Administration and
Works Progress Administration labor and funding. The Children's Zoo
opened to the north of the main zoo in 1960, using funding from a
donation by Senator Herbert Lehman and his wife Edith.
After 49 years of operation as a city zoo run by NYC Parks, Central Park
Zoo closed in 1983 for reconstruction.
Columbus Circle
Columbus Circle is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection
in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection
of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South, and Central Park West,
at the southwest corner of Central Park. The circle is the point from
which official highway distances from New York City are measured, as
well as the center of the 25 miles restricted-travel area for C-2 visa
holders.
The circle is named after the monument of Christopher Columbus in the
center, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The
name is also used for the neighborhood that surrounds the circle for a
few blocks in each direction. Hell's Kitchen is located to the
southwest, while the Theater District is to the southeast and the
Lincoln Square section of the Upper West Side is to the northwest.
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art houses some 12,000 works of 20th- and
21st-century American art, including paintings, sculptures, drawings,
photographs, and prints, by about 2,000 artists. It contains the
entirety of Edward Hopper's artistic estate, as well as pieces by
artists such as Georgia O'Keefe, Kiki Smith, Louise Nevelson, and Andy
Warhol. The museum also offers public programs including lectures,
seminars, and performances. The museum is housed in a large granite
building at the corner of Madison Avenue and 75th Street designed by the
Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer. Whitney Museum
of American Art was founded in 1930 by sculptor and art patron Gertrude
Vanderbilt Whitney.
Bethesda Terrace
Bethesda Terrace and Fountain are two architectural features overlooking
the southern shore of the Lake in New York City's Central Park. The
fountain, with its Angel of the Waters statue, is located in the center
of the terrace.
Bethesda Terrace's two levels are united by two grand staircases and a
lesser one that passes under Terrace Drive. They provide passage
southward to the Central Park Mall and Naumburg Bandshell at the center
of the park. The upper terrace flanks the 72nd Street Cross Drive and
the lower terrace provides a podium for viewing the Lake. The
mustard-olive colored carved stone is New Brunswick sandstone, with a
harder stone for cappings, with granite steps and landings, and
herringbone pattern paving of Roman brick laid on edge.
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park is an 85-acre park on the Brooklyn side of the East
River in New York City. Designed by landscape architecture firm Michael
Van Valkenburgh Associates, the park is located on a 1.3-mile plot of
land from Atlantic Avenue in the south, under the Brooklyn Heights
Promenade and past the Brooklyn Bridge, to Jay Street north of the
Manhattan Bridge. From north to south, the pier includes the preexisting
Empire–Fulton Ferry and Main Street Parks; the historic Fulton Ferry
Landing; and Piers 1–6, which contain various playgrounds and
residential developments. The park also includes Empire Stores and the
Tobacco Warehouse, two 19th-century structures, and is a part of the
Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, a series of parks and bike paths around
Brooklyn.
The park's first portion, Pier 1, opened in 2010. The land for the park
was formerly an industrial stretch of waterfront owned by the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey. After the city and state signed a
joint agreement in 2002, site planning and project funding proceeded.
The first work, undertaken in 2007, involved the demolition of a
warehouse under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Strawberry Fields
Strawberry Fields is a 2.5-acre landscaped section in New York City's
Central Park, designed by the landscape architect Bruce Kelly, that is
dedicated to the memory of former Beatles member John Lennon. It is
named after the Beatles' song "Strawberry Fields Forever", written by
Lennon. The song itself is named for the former Strawberry Field
children's home in Liverpool, England, located near Lennon's childhood
home.
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, often referred to as Flushing Meadows
Park, or simply Flushing Meadows, is a public park in the northern part
of Queens, New York City. It is bounded by I-678 on the east, Grand
Central Parkway on the west, Flushing Bay on the north, and Union
Turnpike on the south. Flushing Meadows–Corona Park is the
fourth-largest public park in New York City, with a total area of 897
acres.
The site of the park was once geologically part of the Hudson River.
Starting in the first decade of the 20th century, it was used as a
dumping ground for ashes, since at the time, the land was so far away
from the developed parts of New York City as to be considered almost
worthless. New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses first conceived
the idea of developing a large park in Flushing Meadow in the 1920s as
part of a system of parks across eastern Queens. Flushing Meadows–Corona
Park was created as the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair and also
hosted the 1964 New York World's Fair. Following the 1964 fair, the
park fell into disrepair, although some improvements have taken place
since the 1990s and 2000s.
The Met Cloisters
The Cloisters is a museum in Fort Tryon Park in Washington Heights,
Manhattan, New York City, specializing in European medieval
architecture, sculpture, and decorative arts, with a focus on the
Romanesque and Gothic periods. Governed by the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, it contains a large collection of medieval artworks shown in the
architectural settings of French monasteries and abbeys. Its buildings
are centered around four cloisters—the Cuxa, Saint-Guilhem, Bonnefont
and Trie—that were purchased by American sculptor and art dealer George
Grey Barnard, dismantled in Europe between 1934 and 1939, and moved to
New York. They were acquired for the museum by financier and
philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Other major sources of objects
were the collections of J. P. Morgan and Joseph Brummer.
The museum's building was designed by the architect Charles Collens, on a
site on a steep hill, with upper and lower levels. It contains medieval
gardens and a series of chapels and themed galleries, including the
Romanesque, Fuentidueña, Unicorn, Spanish and Gothic rooms. The design,
layout, and ambiance of the building is intended to evoke a sense of
medieval European monastic life.
Liberty Island
Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the
United States. Its most notable feature is the Statue of Liberty, a
large statue by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi that was dedicated in 1886.
Long known as Bedloe's Island, it was renamed by an act of the United
States Congress in 1956. Part of New York State, the island is an
exclave of the New York City borough of Manhattan, surrounded by the
waters of Jersey City, New Jersey.
Liberty Island became part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in
1937 through Presidential Proclamation 2250, signed by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1966, it was listed on the National Register
of Historic Places as part of Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis
Island and Liberty Island.
Manhattan Bridge
The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River
in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with
Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension. The main span is
1,470 ft long, with the suspension cables being 3,224 ft long. The
bridge's total length is 6,855 ft. It is one of four toll-free vehicular
bridges connecting Manhattan Island to Long Island; the nearby Brooklyn
Bridge is just slightly further downtown, while the Queensboro and
Williamsburg bridges are to the north.
The bridge was designed by Leon Moisseiff, built by The Phoenix Bridge
Company, and opened to traffic on December 31, 1909. An innovative
design, it was the first suspension bridge to employ Josef Melan's
deflection theory for deck stiffening, resulting in the first use of a
lightly-webbed weight-saving Warren truss for its construction.
Considered the forerunner of modern suspension bridges, it served as the
model for many of the record-breaking spans built in the first half of
the twentieth century.
Madison Square Park
Madison Square is a public square formed by the intersection of Fifth
Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in the New York City borough of
Manhattan. The square was named for James Madison, fourth President of
the United States. The focus of the square is Madison Square Park, a
6.2-acre public park, which is bounded on the east by Madison Avenue; on
the south by 23rd Street; on the north by 26th Street; and on the west
by Fifth Avenue and Broadway as they cross.
The park and the square are at the northern end of the Flatiron District
neighborhood of Manhattan. The neighborhood to the north and west of
the park is NoMad and to the north and east is Rose Hill.
Madison Square is probably best known around the world for providing the
name of Madison Square Garden, a sports arena and its successor which
were located just northeast of the park for 47 years, until 1925. The
current Madison Square Garden, the fourth such building, is not in the
area.
Liberty State Park
Liberty State Park is a park in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located on
Upper New York Bay in Jersey City, opposite both Liberty Island and
Ellis Island. The park opened in 1976 to coincide with bicentennial
celebrations and is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division
of Parks and Forestry. Liberty State Park covers 1,212 acres. The main
part of the park is bordered by water on three sides: on the north by
the Morris Canal Big Basin and on the south and east by Upper New York
Bay. The New Jersey Turnpike Newark Bay Extension marks its western
perimeter.
Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt Island is a narrow island in New York City's East River. It
lies between Manhattan Island to its west and the borough of Queens, on
Long Island, to its east. It is politically part of the borough of
Manhattan, and New York County. Running from the equivalent of East 46th
to 85th Streets on Manhattan Island, it is about 2 miles long, with a
maximum width of 800 feet, and a total area of 147 acres. Together with
Mill Rock, Roosevelt Island constitutes Manhattan's Census Tract 238,
which has a land area of 0.279 sq mi, and had a population of 9,520 as
of the 2000 United States Census. It had a population of 11,661 as of
the 2010 United States Census.
The island was called Minnehanonck by the Lenape and Varkens Eylandt by
New Netherlanders, and during the colonial era and later as Blackwell's
Island. It was known as Welfare Island when it was used principally for
hospitals, from 1921 to 1973. It was renamed Roosevelt Island in 1973.
Roosevelt Island is owned by the city but was leased to New York state's
Urban Development Corporation for 99 years in 1969. Most of the
residential buildings on Roosevelt Island are rental buildings.
United Nations Headquarters
The United Nations is headquartered in New York City, in a complex
designed by a board of architects led by Wallace Harrison, and built by
the architectural firm Harrison & Abramovitz. The complex has served
as the official headquarters of the United Nations since its completion
in 1952. It is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, on
17 to 18 acres of grounds overlooking the East River. Its borders are
First Avenue on the west, East 42nd Street to the south, East 48th
Street on the north and the East River to the east. The term "Turtle
Bay" is occasionally used as a metonym for the UN headquarters or for
the United Nations as a whole.
The headquarters holds the seats of the principal organs of the UN,
including the General Assembly and the Security Council, but excluding
the International Court of Justice, which is seated in the Hague. The
United Nations has three additional, subsidiary, regional headquarters,
or headquarters districts. These were opened in Geneva in 1946, Vienna
in 1980, and Nairobi in 1996.
Waldorf Astoria New York
The Waldorf Astoria New York is a luxury hotel in Midtown Manhattan in
New York City. The structure, at 301 Park Avenue between 49th and 50th
streets, is a 47-story 625 ft Art Deco landmark designed by architects
Schultze and Weaver, which was completed in 1931. The building was the
world's tallest hotel from 1931 until 1963, when it was surpassed by
Moscow's Hotel Ukraina by 23 feet. An icon of glamour and luxury, the
current Waldorf Astoria is one of the world's most prestigious and best
known hotels. Waldorf Astoria Hotels and Resorts is a division of Hilton
Hotels, and a portfolio of high-end properties around the world now
operate under the name, including in New York City. Both the exterior
and the interior of the Waldorf Astoria are designated by the New York
City Landmarks Preservation Commission as official landmarks.
The original Waldorf–Astoria was built in two stages, as the Waldorf
Hotel and the Astoria Hotel, which accounts for its dual name. That
original site was situated on Astor family properties along Fifth
Avenue, opened in 1893, and designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh. It was
demolished in 1929 to make way for the construction of the Empire State
Building.
Wollman Rink
Wollman Rink is a public ice rink in the southern part of Central Park,
Manhattan, New York City. It is named after the Wollman family who
donated the funds for its original construction. The rink is open for
ice skating from late October to early April; from late May to September
it is transformed into Victorian Gardens, an amusement park for
children.
The ice rink is currently operated by the Trump Organization. The
children's amusement park is operated by Central Amusement
International, LLC, who also operates the Luna Park amusement park in
Coney Island, Brooklyn.
Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle is a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City.
It contains exhibit rooms and an observation deck, and since 1919, has
also housed the official Central Park weather station.
Belvedere Castle was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux
in 1867–1869. An architectural hybrid of Gothic and Romanesque styles,
Vaux's design called for a Manhattan schist and granite structure with a
corner tower with conical cap, with the existing lookout over parapet
walls between them. Its name comes from belvedere, which means
"beautiful view" in Italian.
New York Aquarium
The New York Aquarium is the oldest continually operating aquarium in
the United States, located on the Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island,
Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded at Castle Garden in Battery
Park, Manhattan in 1896, and moved to Coney Island in 1957. The aquarium
is operated by the Wildlife Conservation Society as part of its
integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium, most notably the Bronx
Zoo. It is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
As part of WCS, the aquarium's mission is to save wildlife and wild
places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and
inspiring people to value nature.
The facility occupies 14 acres and boasts 266 species of aquatic
wildlife. Its mission is to raise public awareness about issues facing
the ocean and its inhabitants with special exhibits, public events and
research. The New York Seascape program, based out of the aquarium, is
WCS’s local conservation program designed to restore healthy populations
of marine species and protect New York waters, which are vital to the
area’s economic and cultural vitality.
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall Corporation owns and operates auditoriums and stages that
present concerts ranging from orchestral performances, chamber music,
recitals, and choral music to folk, world, musical theater, and jazz in
the United States. It also conducts films, lectures, readings, museum
exhibitions, and others; and provides facilities for business meetings,
school, community and family, and professional programs. In addition,
the company offers music education programs; and auditoriums and stages
on rental basis for various events. Carnegie Hall Corporation was
formerly known as Music Hall Company. The company was founded in 1889
and is based in New York, New York.
Tenement Museum
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, located at 97 and 103 Orchard
Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City,
is a National Historic Site. The Museum's two historical tenement
buildings were home to an estimated 15,000 people, from over 20 nations,
between 1863 and 2011. The museum, which includes a visitors' center,
promotes tolerance and historical perspective on the immigrant
experience.
Trump Tower
Trump Tower is a 58-floor, 664-foot-tall mixed-use skyscraper at 721–725
Fifth Avenue, between 56th and 57th Streets, in Midtown Manhattan, New
York City. Trump Tower serves as the headquarters for The Trump
Organization. Additionally, it houses the penthouse condominium
residence of the building's namesake and developer, U.S. President
Donald Trump, who is also a businessman and real estate developer.
Several members of the Trump family also live, or have resided, in the
building. The tower stands on a plot where the flagship store of
department-store chain Bonwit Teller was formerly located.
Der Scutt of Poor, Swanke, Hayden & Connell designed Trump Tower,
and Trump and the Equitable Life Assurance Company developed it.
Although it is in one of Midtown Manhattan's special zoning districts,
the tower was approved because it was to be built as a mixed-use
development. Trump was permitted to add more stories to the tower
because of the atrium on the ground floor.
George Washington Bridge
The George Washington Bridge is a double-decked suspension bridge
spanning the Hudson River, connecting the Washington Heights
neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City with the borough of Fort Lee
in New Jersey. The bridge is named after George Washington, the first
President of the United States. The George Washington Bridge is the
world's busiest motor vehicle bridge, carrying over 103 million vehicles
per year in 2016. It is owned by the Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey, a bi-state government agency that operates infrastructure in
the Port of New York and New Jersey. The George Washington Bridge is
also informally known as the GW Bridge, the GWB, the GW, or the George,
and was known as the Fort Lee Bridge or Hudson River Bridge during
construction.
The idea of a bridge across the Hudson River was first proposed in 1906,
but it was not until 1925 that the state legislatures of New York and
New Jersey voted to allow for the planning and construction of such a
bridge. Construction on the George Washington Bridge started in October
1927; the bridge was ceremonially dedicated on October 24, 1931, and
opened to traffic the next day.
Museum of the City of New York
The Museum of the City of New York is a history and art museum in
Manhattan, New York City, New York. It was founded by Henry Collins
Brown, in 1923 to preserve and present the history of New York City, and
its people. It is located at 1220–1227 Fifth Avenue between East 103rd
to 104th Streets, across from Central Park in Manhattan's Upper East
Side, at the northern end of the Museum Mile section of Fifth Avenue.
The red brick with marble trim museum was built in 1929–30 and was
designed by Joseph H. Freedlander in the neo-Georgian style, with
statues of Alexander Hamilton and DeWitt Clinton by sculptor Adolph
Alexander Weinman facing Central Park from niches in the facade.
The museum is a private non-profit organization which receives
government support as a member of New York City's Cultural Institutions
Group, commonly known as "CIG"s. Its other sources of income are
endowments, admission fees, and contributions.
The museum is hosting the "New York At Its Core" permanent exhibition,
the first-ever museum presentation of New York City's full history.
Madame Tussauds New York
Madame Tussauds New York Inc. operates an interactive museum in New
York. It comprises life-like wax figures of celebrities, including
sports legends, political leaders, historical icons, pop stars,
television stars, world leaders, and Hollywood stars. The company was
founded in 2000 and is based in New York, New York. Madame Tussauds New
York Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Merlin Entertainments Group Ltd.
The Morgan Library & Museum
The Morgan Library & Museum—formerly the Pierpont Morgan Library—is a
museum and research library located at 225 Madison Avenue at East 36th
Street in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It
was founded to house the private library of J. P. Morgan in 1906, which
included manuscripts and printed books, some of them in rare bindings,
as well as his collection of prints and drawings. The library was
designed by Charles McKim of the firm of McKim, Mead and White and cost
$1.2 million. It was made a public institution in 1924 by J. P. Morgan's
son John Pierpont Morgan, Jr., in accordance with his father's will.
The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1966 and was
declared a National Historic Landmark later that same year.
Luna Park
Luna Park is the name of an amusement park in Coney Island, Brooklyn,
New York City. It opened on May 29, 2010, at the site of Astroland, an
amusement park that had been in operation from 1962 to 2008, and
Dreamland, which operated at the site in 2009. It was named after the
original 1903 Luna Park which existed until 1944 on a site just north of
the current park's 1000 Surf Avenue location.
The park was designed, developed, and operated by Central Amusement
International, LLC, a subsidiary of the Italian company Zamperla which
built 19 new mechanical rides for the park. There are also interactive
games, food and beverage concessions, and live entertainment.
As of 2017, the park's general manager is Fernando Velasquez.
Brookfield Place
Brookfield Place, built and still commonly referred to as the World
Financial Center, is a shopping center and office-building complex
located across West Street from the World Trade Center in the Battery
Park City neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Overlooking the
Hudson River, Brookfield Place has been home to offices of various
companies including Merrill Lynch, RBC Capital Markets, Nomura Group,
American Express, Bank of New York Mellon, Time Inc. 95.5 K-LOVE, 96.7
Air1, and Brookfield Asset Management. In 2014, the complex was given
its current name following the completion of extensive renovations.
7th Avenue
Seventh Avenue – known as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard north of
Central Park – is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of
Manhattan in New York City. It is southbound below Central Park and a
two-way street north of the park.
Seventh Avenue originates in the West Village at Clarkson Street, where
Varick Street becomes Seventh Avenue South. A part of the avenue in the
Garment District is co-named Fashion Avenue. It is interrupted by
Central Park from 59th to 110th Street. Artisans' Gate is the 59th
Street exit from Central Park to Seventh Avenue. North of Warriors' Gate
at the north end of the Park, the avenue carries traffic in both
directions through Harlem, where it is called Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Boulevard. Addresses continue as if the street was continuous through
Central Park, with the first block north of the park being the 1800
block. The United States Postal Service delivers mail using either
street name. As is the case with "Sixth Avenue" and "Avenue of the
Americas", long-time New Yorkers continue to use the older name.
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