18 Historic Landmarks in New York City
18 landmarks with verified facts and stories
African Burial Ground
290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007
Beneath Broadway, near City Hall, lie the remains of an estimated fifteen thousand free and enslaved Africans.
Brooklyn Bridge
New York, United States
The Brooklyn Bridge killed its creator before the first cable was strung.
Central Park
New York, United States
Central Park is eight hundred and forty-three acres of engineered wilderness in the middle of Manhattan.
Chelsea Market
75 9th Ave, Manhattan, New York, 10011, United States
This building used to make Oreos.
Ellis Island
New York, United States
Between eighteen ninety-two and nineteen fifty-four, approximately twelve million immigrants entered the United States through 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.
St. Patrick's Old Cathedral
263 Mulberry St, New York, NY 10012
This is not the famous St.
Staten Island Ferry
Whitehall Terminal, 4 Whitehall St, New York, NY 10004
The best view of the Statue of Liberty costs nothing.
Stone Street
Stone St, Manhattan, New York, 10004, United States
In sixteen fifty-eight, the residents of Breuers Straet in New Amsterdam were so annoyed by the dust and mud on their street that they petitioned the Dutch colonial government for permission to pave it — at their own expense.
Tenement Museum
103 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002
An estimated fifteen thousand people from over twenty nations lived in this building between eighteen sixty-three and two thousand.
The Hess Triangle
New York, United States
Look down at the sidewalk on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street.
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.
Times Square
Manhattan, New York, United States
Times Square is named after the New York Times, which moved its headquarters to the newly built One Times Square tower in nineteen oh four.
Washington Square Park
New York, United States
You are standing on top of twenty thousand bodies.
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