The High Line is a public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side. It extends from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to West 34th Street, between 10th and 12th Avenues. Here are the facts you ought to...
The Bronx in the northernmost borough of the five New York City boroughs. Here are the facts you ought to know: Total Area: 57.00 sq mi (150.0 km2) Land Area: 42.00 sq mi (110.0 km2) Water Area: 15.00 sq mi (40.0 km2) Population: 1.5 million (2016) Population in...
Manhattan’s only remaining lighthouse acquired it’s name from H. Swift’s 1942 children’s classic story. The popularity gained by the same book saved it from being dismantled when it became obsolete. Here are the facts you ought to know: Built in: 1889 Height: 40 ft (12 m) Construction:...
Did you know that this massive Wall Street icon started as an illegal piece of street art?! It was installed without permission by the sculptor and his friends on Broad Street right in front of the New York Stock Exchange in the wee hours of December...
The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle the area on the western edge of Long Island, which was then largely inhabited by the Lenape, a Native American people. Brooklyn originated in the 17th century as a small Dutch-founded town of “Breuckelen”, named after a municipality...
When closed in 1994, Fort Wadsworth had been the longest active military site in the United States. Here are the facts you ought to know: It started in 1663 as the site of a blockhouse (a small, isolated fort in the form of a single building). Situated...
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...
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 Cathedral of St. Patrick (commonly called St. Patrick’s Cathedral)...
“The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World” (French: La Liberté...
The Empire State Building stood as the world’s tallest building...