Description
The Museum of the City of New York tells the story of New York and its people in a neo-Georgian building on Fifth Avenue, across from Central Park, at the northern end of Museum Mile.
Its collection of over 1.5 million items is strongest on the 19th and early 20th centuries: more than 3,000 Currier and Ives prints, photographs by Jacob Riis, Berenice Abbott and Stanley Kubrick, and a toy collection, the first museum department for toys in the United States.
Exhibitions range widely, from New York basketball to a yearly gingerbread contest between the boroughs.
On the facade, statues of Alexander Hamilton and DeWitt Clinton by Adolph Weinman look out toward the park. Founded in 1923, the museum began in Gracie Mansion; its own building was dedicated in 1932 and became a city landmark in 1967.
Its collection of over 1.5 million items is strongest on the 19th and early 20th centuries: more than 3,000 Currier and Ives prints, photographs by Jacob Riis, Berenice Abbott and Stanley Kubrick, and a toy collection, the first museum department for toys in the United States.
Exhibitions range widely, from New York basketball to a yearly gingerbread contest between the boroughs.
On the facade, statues of Alexander Hamilton and DeWitt Clinton by Adolph Weinman look out toward the park. Founded in 1923, the museum began in Gracie Mansion; its own building was dedicated in 1932 and became a city landmark in 1967.