16 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in New York City
16 landmarks with verified facts and stories
9/11 Memorial
180 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10007
The two reflecting pools sit in the exact footprints of the Twin Towers.
Brooklyn Bridge
New York, United States
The Brooklyn Bridge killed its creator before the first cable was strung.
Chelsea Market
75 9th Ave, Manhattan, New York, 10011, United States
This building used to make Oreos.
City Hall Subway Station
Manhattan, New York, United States
Beneath City Hall is the most beautiful subway station in New York, and it has been closed since nineteen forty-five.
DUMBO
Washington St & Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
DUMBO stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, a name the residents invented in the nineteen seventies specifically because it sounded stupid.
Empire State Building
20 W 34th St, New York, NY 10001
On July twenty-eighth, nineteen forty-five, a B-25 Mitchell bomber flew into the seventy-eighth floor of this building.
Federal Hall
26 Wall St, New York, NY 10005
Everyone walks past this building to photograph the Stock Exchange across the street.
Flatiron Building
175 5th Ave, New York, NY 10010
When construction started, New Yorkers placed bets on how far the debris would spread when the wind knocked it down.
Grand Central Terminal
89 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017
The stars on the ceiling are backwards, and the official explanation is magnificent nonsense.
Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th St, Brooklyn, New York, 11232, United States
By the eighteen sixties, more people visited Green-Wood Cemetery each year than any attraction in America except Niagara Falls.
Smallpox Hospital Ruins
New York, United States
On the southern tip of Roosevelt Island — a narrow strip of land in the East River between Manhattan and Queens — stand the Gothic Revival ruins of a hospital built to quarantine smallpox patients from the rest of New York City.
St. Patrick's Old Cathedral
263 Mulberry St, New York, NY 10012
This is not the famous St.
The Cloisters
99 Margaret Corbin Dr, New York, NY 10040
Somebody dismantled five medieval European monasteries, shipped them across the Atlantic stone by stone, and rebuilt them on a hilltop in northern Manhattan overlooking the Hudson River.
The High Line
New York, United States
Before this was a park, it was a freight railway.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028
The Met holds over one and a half million objects spanning five thousand years of human history.
Vessel (Hudson Yards)
20 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001
Hudson Yards is the most expensive private real estate development in American history — twenty-five billion dollars spent building a neighbourhood from scratch on a platform over an active rail yard on Manhattan's far West Side.
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