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Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings in midtown Manhattan, stretching from 48th to 51st Streets between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It's one of the largest private building projects ever undertaken and…
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Grand Central Station
Grand Central Terminal is one of the world's most famous train stations and one of New York City's most visited landmarks. It opened on February 2, 1913, at 12:01 AM, and 150,000 people showed up on the first day to see …
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, known to New Yorkers simply as "the Met," is one of the largest and most comprehensive art museums in the world. It sits along the eastern edge of Central Park on Fifth Avenue, part of the…
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Bow Bridge
Bow Bridge is the most photographed bridge in Central Park and one of the most romantic spots in New York City. Its graceful cast-iron arch spans the Lake, connecting Cherry Hill to the Ramble. The bridge was designed b…
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Cherry Lane Theatre
The Cherry Lane Theatre is the oldest continuously running off-Broadway theatre in New York City, tucked into a quiet bend of Commerce Street in Greenwich Village. The building dates to 1817, when it was a farm silo. Ov…
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Washington Square Arch
Washington Square Arch is a white marble triumphal arch standing at the northern end of Washington Square Park, marking the southern terminus of Fifth Avenue. It's one of the most recognized landmarks in Greenwich Villag…
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Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is one of the most beloved skyscrapers in the world and a masterpiece of Art Deco design. Rising 1,048 feet above Lexington Avenue in midtown Manhattan, it has been a defining feature of the New Yor…
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New York Public Library
The New York Public Library's main branch, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, is one of the most magnificent public buildings in the United States. Sitting on Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets, directly behind …
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NYU Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library is the flagship of New York University's library system and one of the most striking modernist buildings in Greenwich Village. Rising 12 storeys above Washington Square South, it holds the …
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Fiorello H. LaGuardia Monument
The Fiorello H. LaGuardia Monument is a bronze sculpture in LaGuardia Place Gardens in Greenwich Village, depicting one of New York City's most beloved mayors in characteristic mid-stride, gesticulating and talking, exac…
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Strawberry Fields
Strawberry Fields is a quiet, landscaped section of Central Park dedicated to the memory of John Lennon, who was shot and killed outside his home at the Dakota apartment building on December 8, 1980. The memorial is dire…
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American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the largest museums in the world, occupying 25 interconnected buildings spread across four city blocks on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has been a New York institut…
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Hans Christian Andersen Monument
The Hans Christian Andersen Monument sits on the west side of Conservatory Water in Central Park, depicting the Danish fairy tale author with an open book on his knee and his most famous creation, the Ugly Duckling, at h…
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Bethesda Terrace
Bethesda Terrace is the architectural heart of Central Park, a grand two-level terrace overlooking the Lake with a ceremonial staircase, an ornate arcade, and the famous Angel of the Waters fountain at its centre. The t…
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Central Park
Central Park is a 843-acre rectangle of green in the middle of Manhattan, stretching from 59th Street to 110th Street between Fifth Avenue and Central Park West. It is the most visited urban park in the United States, dr…
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Central Prk W
Central Park West is the avenue that runs along the western edge of Central Park in New York City, lined with some of Manhattan's best-known apartment buildings. The stretch around 81st Street faces the park and sits clo…
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Belvedere Castle
Belvedere Castle is a small Gothic and Romanesque style castle on Vista Rock in Central Park, New York City. Built as a decorative lookout, it became the home of the park's official weather readings and is one of the bes…
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Oak Bridge
Oak Bridge is a pedestrian bridge in Central Park, New York City, carrying a path across Bank Rock Bay at the northern end of the Lake. Because of what it crosses it is also called Bank Rock Bridge, and it works as one o…
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Borough Hall
Brooklyn Borough Hall is a Greek Revival civic building on Court Street in downtown Brooklyn, New York City. It was built in the 1840s as the city hall of the then independent City of Brooklyn and still serves as a gover…
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Columbus Park
Columbus Park is a small public plaza in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City, beside Brooklyn Borough Hall and a few minutes on foot from Brooklyn Heights. It sits where the borough's government and courts meet some of the …
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New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange at 11 Wall Street in New York City is the home of the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization. Its temple-like facade, in place since 1903, is among the most recognised sights …
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Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall is an Art Deco theatre at 1260 Sixth Avenue in Rockefeller Center, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Opened in 1932, it is often described as the world's largest indoor theatre and is the home of th…
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Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a suspension bridge across the East River that links Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City. When it opened in 1883 it was the longest suspension bridge in the world, and it remains one of the cit…
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Woolworth Building
The Woolworth Building is a Gothic Revival skyscraper at 233 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, New York City. When it opened in 1913 it was the tallest building in the world, a title it held for 17 years, and it is still one …
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New York City Hall
New York City Hall is the seat of New York City's government, set in City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan. Finished in the early 1810s, it is one of the oldest city halls in the United States still used for its original pur…
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St. Paul's Chapel
St. Paul's Chapel at 209 Broadway in New York City is Manhattan's oldest surviving church building and the oldest public building in the city still in continuous use. Completed in 1766, it predates the United States, and…
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Tenement Museum
The Tenement Museum at 103 Orchard Street in New York City tells the story of the immigrant families who lived in the Lower East Side's crowded apartment buildings. It is set in and around a real 19th-century tenement, s…
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Trinity Church
Trinity Church is a Gothic Revival parish church at the head of Wall Street, at 89 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Its congregation dates to a royal charter of 1697, and the building you see today opened in 1…
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Federal Hall
Federal Hall is a Greek Revival museum and national memorial at 26 Wall Street in New York City, run by the National Park Service. It stands on the site where George Washington took the oath of office as the first US pre…
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Columbus Circle
Columbus Circle is the busy roundabout at the southwest corner of Central Park in New York City, where Broadway, Eighth Avenue, Central Park South and Central Park West meet. It is anchored by a tall column topped with a…
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Charging Bull
The Charging Bull is a bronze sculpture at Bowling Green, at the foot of Broadway in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Made by the artist Arturo Di Modica, it has become the best-known symbol of Wall Street and of a rising…
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The Dakota
The Dakota is a late 19th-century apartment building on Central Park West at West 72nd Street in New York City. It is one of the city's best-known residential addresses, famous for its distinctive gabled design, its appe…
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Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
The Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House is a grand Beaux-Arts building at 1 Bowling Green, at the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City. It was built in the early 1900s to collect duties on the goods pouring into o…
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Helmsley Building
The Helmsley Building is a 1929 office tower at 230 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, standing directly north of Grand Central Terminal. Built as the New York Central Building, it is a landmark of the Beau…
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Romantic New York: Central Park Walking Tour & Escape Game
105 min · EN
Places on this quest: Central Park · Bethesda Terrace
The Ghost of Wall Street, Historic Downtown New York
65 min · EN
Places on this quest: Charging Bull · Brooklyn Bridge
Ghost Hunt in New York
90 min · EN
Places on this quest: Oak Bridge · Belvedere Castle
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