The 17 Most Iconic Landmarks in New York City
17 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.
Broadway & Theatre District
New York, United States
Broadway is the pinnacle of English-language theatre — a concentration of 41 professional theatres in the blocks surrounding Times Square that collectively produce the musicals, plays, and spectacles that define American theatrical culture.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W 53rd St, Manhattan, New York, 10019, United States
MoMA is the most influential modern art museum in the world — the institution that defined what 'modern art' meant for the 20th century and continues to shape the conversation in the 21st.
One World Observatory
285 Fulton Street, New York, NY 10007
One World Observatory sits atop One World Trade Center — the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 541 metres (1,776 feet, a deliberate reference to the year of American independence), built on the site of the Twin Towers destroyed on September 11, 2001.
Staten Island Ferry
Whitehall Terminal, 4 Whitehall St, New York, NY 10004
The best view of the Statue of Liberty costs nothing.
Statue of Liberty
New York, United States
The Statue of Liberty is the most recognisable monument in America — a 93-metre copper colossus designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi with a structural skeleton engineered by Gustave Eiffel, gifted by France in 1886 to celebrate the centennial of American independence and the shared values of liberty and democracy.
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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