New York City Landmarks

Central Park

Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1858, first example of movement to create urban parks, features Bethesda Terrace and Fountains, unfinished Belvedere Castle, The Harlem Meer (a lake), Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, Cleopatra's Needle, and Strawberry Fields (honoring John Lennon) 840 acres in central Manhattan, most popular in the city

Empire State Building

Famous office building built in the 1930s - Art Deco style over 1250 feet, WAS the tallest skyscraper in the world for 40 years, passing the Chrysler building -has outdoor observatory near top

Seagram Building

Famous skyscraper with steel frame with glass curtain wall -architects: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Phillip Johnson -Reflection of minimalist movement in painting "less is more" -Bauhaus ideals: minimalistic, functional, efficient

Richmond Town

Historic village and museum complex in Staten Island The village consists of more than 30 historic buildings and sites dating from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries.

Freedom Tower/ 1 World Trade Center

Skyscraper where twin towers used to be -1776 feet tall

Yankee Stadium

Stadium located in the Bronx, built in 2009 one black from old stadium - home ballpark for Major League Baseball (MLB) and the home stadium for Major League Soccer (MLS).

Grand Central Station

- commuter railroad terminal at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan -one of the busiest in the world -featured in numerous films

Fifth Avenue

- one of the world's most famous and most expensive shopping streets, -houses all the major flagship stores of major fashion designers -features Apple's glass building store

Woolworth Building

-Steel frame structure -Tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930 at 792 feet -designed by Cass Gilbert

9/11 Memorial (National September 11 Memorial & Museum)

-two square reflecting pools in the center where the Twin Towers stood - centerpiece of the memorial is a steel girder from the World Trade Center -designed by Israeli-American architect Michael Arad

The Chrysler Building

Art deco skyscraper of late 1920s - outside decorated by hubcaps and metal eagles - famous scalloped roof shines in sun - spire needle on top to gain height - part of the "Race into the Sky", a construction competition with 40 Wall Street and the Empire State Building for world's tallest building

Guggenheim Museum

Art museum shaped like inverted ziggurat - designed by Frank Lloyd Wright resembling a nautilus shell - unique ramp gallery extends in a long, continuous spiral

Coney Island

New York Island, contains amusement parks and serves as center of entertainment, - features beaches and boardwalks, The Wonder Wheel and The Cyclone

The New York Public Library

Officially names the Steven A. Schwartzman building - Next to Bryant Park -features the Rose Main Reading room -LION statues nicknamed "Patience" and "Fortitude" by Mayor La Guardia in the Great Depression (formerly Leo Astor & Leo Lennox)

Bronx Zoo

One of largest metropolitan zoos in the world, -Designed by Heins & LaFarge as Beaux-Arts pavilions -features Rainey Memorial Gates -1906 controversy over Ota Benga, a Mbuti pygmy, who lived in zoo

The Cloisters Museum

art museum designed like European medieval villa, houses gothic chapels in Fort Tryon Park in Washington Heights home to the "Hunt of the Unicorn" tapestry

The Met (New York Metropolitan Museum of Art)

classical art museum in NYC

Rockefeller Center

complex of 19 commercial buildings in midtown Manhattan between 48th and 51st streets and Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue -features ice skating rink, famous Christmas tree, Atlas statue, Prometheus statue - Houses NBC studios and Radio City Music Hall - symbol of industry and capitalism - controversy over Diego Rivera mural commissioned then removed called "Man at the Crossroads"

Statue of Liberty

designed by F. A. Bartholdi and presented to the U.S. by France; unveiled 1886, on Liberty Island in New York harbor depicting a Neo-classical woman holding a burning torch made of copper -features poem by Emma Lazarus at the base

Flatiron Building

famous triangular building -built 1902, designed by Chicago architect Daniel Burnhan -originally named the Fuller Building after George A. Fuller, "father of the skyscraper"

Brooklyn Bridge

first major suspension bridge over the East River designed by John Roebling, with construction overseen by his wife, Emily Roebling built 1867-84. 5989 feet long -features gothic revival arches

Unisphere

giant steel globe that sits in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens - constructed as the theme symbol of the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair - park has Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the current venue for the US Open tennis tournament

Wall Street

home to the New York Stock Exchange in Lower Manhattan - symbolizes American financial interests. Home to Federal Hall where Washington was sworn in

Times Square

major commercial intersection and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan -known for advertising billboards -nicknamed 'heart of the world" -center of Broadway district

MoMA (New York's Museum of Modern Art)

modern art museum in NYC, home of Picasso's "Persistence of Memory", Van Gogh's "Starry Night", Chagall's "I and the Village", Matisse's "The Dance", Modrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie", Warhol's "Campbell's Soup Cans", Wyeth's "Christina's World"

Greenwich Village

neighborhood in Manhattan - Artist, writers, and intellectuals flocked here to live expressive, bohemian lifestyles -site of Stonewall Riots -famous "Gay Street" called Acceptance street

The Oculus

new transportation hub at World Trade Center, including subway lines and PATH trains to New Jersey, and a shopping mall - designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava -Nicknames include the whale, white elephant, the stegosaurus

The High Line

• old train rails converted to elevated walkway park • tourist attraction; promotes walking built on old West Side Line, originating in the Meatpacking District