NYC most famous sites
Brooklyn Bridge built in 1883.
Woolworth Building, the Cathedral of Commerce, in the background.
Brooklyn Bridge, view from Brooklyn.
Bethesda Fountain in Central Park in the summer. The largest fountain in New York is also known as Angel of the Waters.
Statue of Liberty on a grey summer day. The colossus was a gift to American people to from the French to commemorate the centennial of the American revolution.
The San Remo, the Aristocrat of Central Park West, by Emery Roth. View from Central Park.
Patience, one of the Library Lions, is right in front of the New York Public Library on the south side of the steps. The other one is Fortitude. During the 1930s, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia named them for the qualities he felt New Yorkers would need to survive the economic depression.
Statue of Theodore Roosevelt in front of the American Museum of Natural History. The 26th president of the United States was the only president born in New York City.
The Municipal Building, 1914, was built to house the headquarters of the City of New York when all five boroughs consolidated into Greater New York.
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Trinity Church, 1846 by Richard Upjohn - the third reincarnation of the first Anglican Church in New York.
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The Met Life Tower stood the tallest in the world in 1909. The 26-1/2 feet clock is larger than London's Big Ben and the Kremlin clock in Moscow.
Gansevoort Market in Meatpacking District was opened in 1880s as market for meat, poultry and dairy products.
Statue of Hermes, God of Commerce, over Grand Central Terminal. The clock is designed by Tiffany and it's the largest Tiffany glass clock in the world.
Midtown view from the lobby of Mandarin Hotel at Time Warner Center. The most prominent building is One57, the Billionaire Building, luxury condominium residences.
6th Ave, dressed for holidays
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum established as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting. It was built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1959.
Jefferson Market, 1877, was voted one of the 10 most beautiful buildings in the U.S. by a national poll of architects in 1885. It served as part courthouse, part jail, part market, and a fire tower complex.
Washington Square Arch was designed to commemorate 100 years of George Washington's inauguration as the first American president.
Street view in Little Italy.
Empire State Building - view from the Top of the Rock. Tallest in the world for 41 years - from 1931 to 1972.
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Empire State Building - view from below.
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Midtown view from Hoboken, NJ. Empire State Building is lit up red-white-and-blue.
The Flatiron Building, 1902 is the first skyscraper in New York and one of the most photographed buildings ever.
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The Woolworth Building nicknamed Cathedral of Commerce was the tallest in the world in 1913. Build at the staggering at the time cost of 13.5 million dollars, it was paid in cash.
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Bowling Green - the first public park in New York City, 1733.
Chinatown street view.
Palm trees in the Winter Garden Atrium at the World Financial Center.
Paris in New York - the Ansonia Building. Built in 1904 as luxury apartments it had food markets, a laundry, a tailor and valets, wholesale wine and liquor and cigar shops, apothecary and florist shops, a bank, dentists and physicians, a theater, palm garden, Grand ballroom, garage, barber shop, several cafes, roof garden, tea rooms, Turkish bath, it also had the world's largest indoor swimming pool and live seals in the lobby fountain.
Federal Hall has been the site of government activity for about 300 years. It hosted original Supreme Court and the Departments of State, Defense and the Treasury. Here in 1789 George Washington took the oath of office to become the nation's first President.
The Watson residence is the only survivor of the elegant Federal style row houses that lined the streets of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries New York. Story has it that the columns were ones masts on cargo ships owned by Watson.
Greywacke Arch - one of 36 bridges and arches in Central Park.