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New York City Attractions
The greatest skyscraper on earth features an observatory on the 86th floor.
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The design of this first large city park in the U.S. has been copied all over the world.
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The site of the New Year's Eve celebrations is always crowded with tourists.
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This skyscraper, once in the running for the world's tallest building, is still one of New York's tallest.
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Raymond Hood's black neo-gothic tower with gilded Art Deco crown is one of several historic buildings around Bryant Park.
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This neighborhood in Lower Manhattan was created on top of soil excavated for the construction of the WTC nearby.
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Construction of this cathedral started in 1892 and it is expected to take at least another 100 years before it will be finished.
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New York's Chinatown, founded by immigrants in 1870, is a large neighbourhoud located on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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One of the most famous and most beloved of all skyscrapers in New York City.
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One of Midtown's largest towers rests on 114ft tall supporting columns, opening up space for a church at its base.
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The campus of New York's oldest university features many magnificent buildings.
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This traffic circle near central park features a monument to Christoffer Columbus at its center.
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Coney Island is a seaside resort in Brooklyn with a historic amusement park, Astroland.
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This Art Deco skyscraper by Raymond Hood is best known for the giant globe in the building's lobby.
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The first luxury apartment in the Upper West Side, at the time considered as far as Dakota, hence its name.
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This memorial in Battery Park, Lower Manhattan is dedicated to the many US soldiers who died overseas.
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Now home to the Immigration Museum, Ellis Island was the immigrant gateway to America from 1892 to 1954.
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This triangular building immediately captured the imagination of New Yorkers when it was built in 1903.
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This great railway station was built in 1913 for the New York and Harlem Railway Company.
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General Ulysses S. Grant and his wife are entombed in this imposing pantheon-like building.
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This museum with an important collection of modern art is housed in a building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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The USS Intrepid aircraft carrier serves as a unique environment for a museum displaying among others many helicopters and airplanes.
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Originally a courthouse, this elegant building was saved from the wrecking ball and is now used as a library.
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One of the first glass-walled skyscrapers, the Lever House marks a turning point in American architecture.
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Little Italy is a small neighborhood in Lower Manhattan known as the home of the Italian immigrants in New York.
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What started as a small store expanded into the world's largest department store.
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This historical square is located in the center of the Flatiron district.
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This fifty-story tower modeled after the Campanile de San Marco in Venice was the tallest building in the world between 1909 and 1913.
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This monumental early 20th century landmark was built to house the city's growing administration.
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One of New York's most popular museums features attractions ranging from dinosaur skeletons to a planetarium.
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The famous Plaza Hotel, built in 1907 in French Renaissance style featured in a large number of movies.
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This complex of high-rises known as Radio City was built in the midst of the Great Depression.
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Mies van der Rohe's iconic glass box tower was the benchmark for skyscrapers for several decades.
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This trendy neighborhood boasts the world's largest collection of cast-iron architecture.
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The historic Seaport area features a maritime museum as well as many shops and restaurants.
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This beautiful gothic cathedral is the country's largest roman catholic church.
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Now dwarfed by skyscrapers, this church once towered over Lower Manhattan.
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The United Nations Headquarters Secretariat was built in 1950 by an international committee of architects.
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When it opened in 1931, this luxurious hotel was the largest in the world.
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One of the world's most famous streets is known as the center of New York City's financial district.
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The tallest building in Brooklyn was completed just before the Great Depression.
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The 'Cathedral of Commerce' was the tallest building in the world when completed in 1913.
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A complex of four postmodern skyscrapers, part of Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan.
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