Greeley Square lies between West 32nd Street and West 33rd Street and between Broadway and Sixth Avenue, and is taken up almost entirely by a triangular park. Greeley and the neighboring Herald Squares stand today as a bow-tie square and serve as rest areas for the thousands...
Herald Square is formed by the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue (a.k.a. Avenue of the Americas) and 34th Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was named for the New York Herald, a now-defunct newspaper formerly headquartered there. The New York Herald, founded...
“The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World” (French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor. It was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States and is recognized as...
The Chrysler Building was the world’s tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931. It is still the tallest brick building in the world, albeit with an internal steel skeleton. Here are the facts you ought to know: –...
Central Park was the first major landscaped public space in urban America. It was created in the late 1850s as an antidote to the turbulent social unrest, largely as the result of the country’s first wave of immigration, and a serious public health crisis, caused by harmful...
The Empire State Building stood as the world’s tallest building for nearly 40 years, from its completion in early 1931 until the topping out of the World Trade Center’s North Tower in late 1970. Here are the facts you ought to know: – designed by William F....
The Manhattan Bridge was the last of the three suspension bridges built across the lower East River, following the Brooklyn and the Williamsburg bridges. Here are the facts you ought to know: – opened to traffic on December 31, 1909 (although incomplete) – took 11 years to...
The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest and most recognizable suspension bridges in the United States. Here are the facts you ought to know: – completed and opened on May 24th, 1883 (took over 13 years to build) – at the time it opened, it was...
