The Brill Building is an 11-story office block at 1619 Broadway and 49th Street, just north of Times Square, that became the best-known address of the American music business. Its name ended up labeling a whole style of 1960s pop.
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The Flatiron Building is the 22-story steel-framed triangle at the meeting of Fifth Avenue, Broadway and 23rd Street in Manhattan: a wedge of limestone and glazed terracotta, 307 feet tall, with a corner so narrow that it looks like the prow of a...
Governors Island is an island of 70 hectares in New York Harbor, a short ferry ride from Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn: old forts, lawns, hammocks and wide views of the skyline. For two centuries it was a military base, and it opened to the public...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a granite memorial on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan and Queens. Designed by Louis Kahn, it is a sequence of open-air spaces ending in a plaza on the water,...
Prospect Park is Brooklyn's great park, about 213 hectares of meadows, woods and water designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the pair behind Central Park. It opened in 1867 and draws some eight to ten million visits a...
The Shearwater is a wooden schooner of 1929 that sails New York Harbor from North Cove Marina, in Lower Manhattan, a short walk from the World Trade Center site. About 25 meters long and licensed for 48 passengers, she runs 90-minute harbor...
Madison Square Park is a green square of 2.5 hectares where Fifth Avenue and Broadway cross at 23rd Street, in Manhattan's Flatiron District. Its paths and benches sit among some of New York's most famous early skyscrapers.
The Flatiron...
The American Museum of Natural History is the huge natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, across from Central Park: 21 connected buildings, 45 permanent exhibition halls and a planetarium, with about 5 million visits a year....
Dumbo is the Brooklyn neighborhood squeezed between the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge, on the East River: cobbled streets, brick warehouses, galleries, cafés and one of the most photographed views of the New York skyline.
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The Children's Garden is the corner of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, in Crown Heights next to Prospect Park, where children do the gardening themselves. Started in 1914, it is the oldest children's garden in the United States and one of the oldest...
The Staten Island Ferry is the free boat that links Lower Manhattan with Staten Island, one of New York's five boroughs, across the harbor. Commuters use it every day, but for visitors it is one of the best sightseeing rides in the city, and it...
Little Italy is the old Italian quarter of Lower Manhattan, today a stretch of about five blocks of Mulberry Street north of Canal Street. Restaurants with checkered tablecloths line the street, a souvenir of the immigrant neighborhood that once...
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, at 97 and 103 Orchard Street, tells the story of the immigrants who crowded into Manhattan's Lower East Side. The museum is the two tenement buildings themselves, where an estimated 15,000 people from more...
The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art is a small museum on Lighthouse Hill, a quiet residential hill on Staten Island, built to look like a rustic Himalayan monastery. It holds one of the largest collections of Himalayan art in the United...
White Columns is New York's oldest alternative nonprofit art space, at 91 Horatio Street in the West Village, near the Whitney Museum and the High Line. It shows emerging artists who have no commercial gallery behind them.
Its exhibitions...
The New York Botanical Garden is a garden of 100 hectares in Bronx Park, in the Bronx, with more than a million plants in 50 gardens and collections. Founded in 1891 on the model of Kew Gardens in London, it holds glasshouses, an old forest and a...
The United Nations Headquarters is the complex on the East River, in Manhattan's Midtown, where the General Assembly and the Security Council meet. It is a small piece of the world's diplomacy inside New York: the land is run by the UN alone,...
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a garden of 21 hectares in Crown Heights, next to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum, opened in 1911 on the site of an old ash dump. It is a sequence of themed gardens, from a Japanese pond to roses, scents and...
The Neue Galerie is a museum of early 20th-century German and Austrian art and design, in a 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion by Carrère and Hastings at 86th Street, on Museum Mile. Opened in 2001, it has Klimt, Schiele and the Vienna of 1900 at its...
Unique art collections
The result of fifty years of world travel, Elizabeth Street Gallery boasts one of the most unique and interesting collections of fine art in New York City. It is located in a landmark building, a former firehouse...
Utilizing an old red-brick warehouse with wood-beamed ceilings, Pioneer Works presents spirited, cutting-edge temporary art exhibitions from provocative cartoons to large sculptures. Inside, visitors will find a tranquil garden to relax in.
The 2007 opening of the New Museum of Contemporary Art brought a striking sight to the Bowery district: a seven-story stack of off-white boxes, designed by Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA and New York firm...
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49), the famous poet and author, spent his last three years in the newly refurbished Poe Cottage, where he wrote his renowned works ‘Annabel Lee’ and ‘The Bells.’
Girl Scout history, archives and research materials
The Girl Scout Museum, officially known as the Girl Scout National Historic Preservation Center, was established in 1987 to preserve and promote Girl Scout History. It contains a museum...
The Brooklyn Institute's 19th-century beaux-arts building is home to an encyclopedic museum that houses an impressive 1.5 million objects. From ancient Egyptian sarcophagi to 19th-century period rooms, this 560,000-sq-ft space is filled with a...
This one-of-a-kind museum/restaurant/bar located in historic New York honors the pivotal year of 1783, when the British surrendered control of the city after the Revolutionary War and General George Washington gave his famous farewell address to...
An anthology of bank and vault locks
If you want to know how people protected their savings from 4000 BC to the modern 20th-century, John M. Mossman Lock Collection is the right stop. Part of the General Society Museum, the collection...
Discover a wealth of knowledge about online fetishes, stag films, and homosexual necrophilia at the Mallard Duck. Explore the rotating program of temporary exhibitions featuring cyber sex, controversial artists, and more. Look through the...
Located in a magnificent estate constructed by steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick on one of the many luxurious houses located along the former 'Millionaires’ Row' of Fifth Avenue, this art collection is truly something to marvel at. Within the dozen...
For a unique experience, visit the kid-friendly museum located in an old subway station built in 1936 and out of service since 1946! Downstairs on the platform, you can explore 20 original subway and elevated train cars dating back to 1907....
Whether you’re looking for a quick bite, a change of scenery, or an engaging conversation (or all three), Union Square is the place to go. Union Square is a veritable Noah's Ark of New York City, bringing together a unique mix of people in one...
The renowned Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles, is celebrated in this space featuring his iconic sculptures, lamps, and coffee tables. From the serene galleries to the minimalist sculpture garden, every detail is part...
Numismatic museum and research insitute
The American Numismatic Society is both a museum and research institute, dedicated to the study of coins, currency, medals, primitive money and other objects, from all periods and cultures....
This world-renowned museum is a must-see for film, TV and video lovers. It showcases an impressive collection of 130,000+ artifacts, ranging from Elizabeth Taylor's wig from Cleopatra to vintage TVs and cameras to 19th-century optical toys. For a...
The Whitney Museum of American Art is a modern and contemporary art museum devoted to American artists. Since 2015 it has stood at the foot of the High Line, in the Meatpacking District, at Gansevoort and Washington Streets, in a building by...
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, located in Washington DC, is the only United States museum dedicated to preserving both historic and modern design. The grandiose mansion, built by Andrew Carnegie in 1901, houses a collection of over...
For those who admire phallic architecture, this sleek and glossy gallery is the perfect place to explore skyscrapers as both objects of design and engineering, and symbols of urban renewal. Featuring an ever-changing line-up of exhibitions,...
Perched atop Museum Mile, this gorgeous Georgian Colonial Revival-style building houses a museum devoted exclusively to the history, present and future of New York City. Make sure to catch the 28-minute film Timescapes, located on the ground...
Media mogul's private collection
Malcolm Forbes had more than an interest in the publishing industry, as you can see by the eclectic private collection on display at Forbes Galleries. The variety of items hoarded here offer a delightful...
Constructed in 1832 and bought three years later by merchant Seabury Tredwell, this red-brick mansion remains the most genuine Federal house in the vicinity. Its elaborate 19th-century furnishings, including bronze gasoliers, marble mantelpieces,...