Irish-American families were scattered throughout Seneca Village, accounting for roughly one third of the population during the 1850s. In the vicinity of this sign, the western side of the village, was a cluster of at least three Irish-American . . . — — Map (db m171612) HM
This boathouse is a gift from Jeanne E. Kerbs in memory of her parents Alice Hochstadter Kerbs and Edward A. Kerbs and of their love for the city and its people. — — Map (db m107954)
Wladyslaw Jagiello
King of Poland
Grand Duke of Lithuania
1386 – 1434
Founder of a free union of the people's of East - Central Europe
Victor of the Teutonic aggressors at Grunwald
July 15, 1410 — — Map (db m190130) WM
To our valiant brothers who died
In the service of our country
In World War I
Knights of Pythias - State of New York
Sidney A Schwartz 60th Infantry, Machine Co. Triange Lodge #153
Morris Dickstein 4th Infantry, Co. C Cosmopolitan Lodge . . . — — Map (db m129886) WM
The path on which you are standing roughly follows part of the main street through Seneca Village. A map from circa1838 identifies it as “Spring Street” because it led to a natural spring just south of here, likely the primary . . . — — Map (db m171734) HM
This striking gateway, designed by Edward Coe Embury (1906-1990) with sculpture by Paul Manship (1885-1966), was created as part of Central Park’s children’s zoo which opened in 1961. The zoo was first known as the Lehman Zoo for Children, as . . . — — Map (db m108320) HM
During the winter of 2018 the Central Park Conservancy applied a new protective coating to the bronze sculptural element of the Lehman Gates, as part of an ongoing program of work the maintain Central Park’s sculptures and monuments. The coating . . . — — Map (db m200340) HM
In this area lived several African-American families whose individual occupations give use further insight into the lives of residents of Seneca Village, as well as the types of jobs available to them. Following emancipation, access to economic and . . . — — Map (db m172385) HM
In memory of Mary Harriman Rumsey
Nov 17 1881 - Dec 18 1934
Gracious citizen who gave gladly of her means and herself for the health and happiness of little children — — Map (db m192186) HM
Our three bears were rescued as cubs in Montana in 2013. Luna and Amber are sisters whose mother was illegally shot. Treena is an unrelated bear whose mother was euthanized by wildlife officials after repeatedly foraging for food in a residential . . . — — Map (db m203799) HM
Harbor Seal
Phoca vitulina
While hunting, these strong divers commonly make 10-minute dives to depths of 300 feet.
Range: coastal waters of the northern hemisphere
A Diverse Community
New York's . . . — — Map (db m203801) HM
These stone blocks protruding from the ground beyond this sign are remnants of the western wall of the receiving reservoir, a critical component of the original Croton Aqueduct water supply system. Largely completed in 1842, the aqueduct delivered . . . — — Map (db m172111) HM
In 1842, the city completed construction of one of its most consequential public works project, the Croton Aqueduct system, which supplied the city with fresh water from upstate New York. The system included a large receiving reservoir directly . . . — — Map (db m173696) HM
Designed and built in the 1860s as the park’s most elaborate architectural feature, Bethesda Terrace’s grand staircases and Arcade connect the Mall to the Lower Terrace, overlooking the Lake and the Ramble. The Arcade, a pedestrian passage that . . . — — Map (db m197772) HM
This statue of Scottish national poet Robert Burns (1759–1796), companion to the 1872 Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) sculpture across Literary Walk, is by Sir John Steell (1804–1891), and was dedicated in 1880.
Burns was born . . . — — Map (db m108324) HM
In memory of
S. Rankin Drew
Killed in action May-19-1918.
This tree was planted
May-19-1920
by S. Rankin Drew Post.
American Legion — — Map (db m186541) WM
Since the early 1990s, historians and archaeologists have been working to uncover and reveal the story of Seneca Village. The historians Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar were the first to study Seneca Village in detail and included it in their . . . — — Map (db m171062) HM
Although the reason for the name Seneca Village is unknown, recent historical and geophysical research has uncovered a great deal of information about this unique community and its inhabitants. Seneca Village, which was located from 81st to 89th . . . — — Map (db m171184) HM
This kiosk marks the center of Seneca Village, a predominantly African-American community the existed from 1825-1857. The village originated when African Americans began buying property between 82nd and 83rd Streets and Seventh and Eighth Avenues. . . . — — Map (db m171135) HM
Historical accounts portrayed those living in Seneca Village and the entire area slated for Central Park in derogatory terms. They also disparaged the landscape, empathizing it as rocky, swampy, and diseased. Park promoters presented the site as a . . . — — Map (db m171253) HM
In 1979, the Sheep Meadow, like the rest of Central Park, was in a chronic state of decay following decades of neglect and mismanagement by a fiscally challenged New York City. After a year of restoration, the meadow was green and healthy, and as . . . — — Map (db m203796) HM
This larger-than-life-sized bronze portrait of Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) was dedicated on the “Literary Walk” in Central Park in 1872.
Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and had an early . . . — — Map (db m108323) HM
Studying Grizzly Clues: Traditional Methods
Our field staff helps protect bears in the wild by studying where they live and now they move around. Since observing grizzlies can be challenging, we look for clues they leave behind. . . . — — Map (db m203800) HM
At 142 feet above sea level, this hill is the highest elevation in Central Park and a prominent feature of the Seneca Village location. The hill, now called Summit Rock, is actually a massive bedrock outcrop. Just below, on Central Park West, you . . . — — Map (db m171638) HM
Through these trees in a small clearing is a pool of water fed by a natural spring. This was likely a water source for Seneca Village. Access to fresh water would have been essential to the health and prosperity of the community. The city’s . . . — — Map (db m172030) HM
The historic Arsenal is one of two buildings in Central Park predating the park. It was designed by esteemed architect Martin T. Thompson (1786-1877) and built between 1847 and 1851 by the State of New York as a storage repository for the storage . . . — — Map (db m137070) HM
This building, designed by Martin E. Thompson, was constructed by the State of New York as an arsenal in 1848 before the establishment of Central Park. Since it was acquired by the City in 1857 it has served at various times as the first home of the . . . — — Map (db m203797) HM
When Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed Central Park in 1858, they designated the area south of 65th Street as the “Children’s District”. They deliberately placed features close together that they knew would appeal to . . . — — Map (db m166520) HM
This elegant bronze statue by British Sculptor George Blackall Simonds (1843-1929) depicts a young falconer in Elizabethan garb holding aloft a falcon poised for release.
The Falconer is representative of the rich sculptural collection . . . — — Map (db m31059) HM
Built in 1930-31 by Irwin S. Chanin, the Majestic represents
the architect/developer's first application of the Art Deco
style to a residential building. The Majestic's strong
visual impact derives from an interplay of vertical and
horizontal . . . — — Map (db m172936) HM
Founded in 1870, the museum originally opened at 681 Fifth Avenue, moved to 128 West 14th Street in 1873, and to this site in 1880. The first building in Central Park faced west and was designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould. It was later . . . — — Map (db m35721) HM
Built in Sweden in 1875. Shipped to Pennsylvania in 1875. Exhibited at the U.S. Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, May to November 1876. Moved to this site in 1877. Restored in 1998. — — Map (db m226291) HM
Near this sign and adjacent to All Angels’ Church was the home pf the Wilsons, an African-American family consisting of William Wilson, his wife, Charlotte, and their eight children. Wilson worked as a porter and was also a sexton for the church, . . . — — Map (db m171476) HM
The park’s designers had no way of knowing that automobiles and trucks would one day be invented, but they knew that the noise of horsedrawn wagons with iron wheels would interfere with the visitors’ enjoyment of the Park. Their solution to the . . . — — Map (db m166410) HM
The design that Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux conceived for Central park transformed the rocky, marshy pre-park site into a masterful composition of diverse landscapes to create an idealized expression of rural scenery. These included . . . — — Map (db m127083)
The design that Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux conceived for Central park transformed the rocky, marshy pre-park site into a masterful composition of diverse landscapes to create an idealized expression of rural scenery. These included . . . — — Map (db m203806) HM
At Our Zoos
We have been caring for snow leopards for over 100 years—more than 80 cubs have been born and raised at the Bronx Zoo. We're proud to continue the tradition here at the Central Park Zoo.
In The Wild
We've been a . . . — — Map (db m203798) HM
These American elms are endowed in loving memory of
William John Liebig
March 24, 1923 – February 21, 1999
Pioneer in arterial medicine — — Map (db m108298)
Women's Rights Pioneers
Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Donated by Monumental Women to the City of New York to honor Women's History.
Dedicated on August 26, 2020, 100th Anniversary of the Ratification . . . — — Map (db m189297) HM
Central Carpet
81 Eight Avenue
has been placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1897 — — Map (db m145824) HM
Alice's Garden is dedicated to the memory of Alice Pasekian, who cared for the garden until her death in 2010. Alice was born to Armenian parents, emigrated to Turkey, then the Bronx and later the Webster Women's Residence on West 34th . . . — — Map (db m203763) HM
This elegant town house was built for Andrew S. Norwood, a prosperous bond merchant in 1845-47. The house was designed in a transitional style that combined Greek Revival and Italianate features. The well preserved home remained in the Norwood . . . — — Map (db m147783) HM
Arthur Miller, the noted author and playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, among other works), lived here from 1962 to 1968, during which time he wrote After the Fall, Incident at . . . — — Map (db m145516) HM
Bayard Rustin was an essential figure in the
U.S. Civil Rights Movement who shaped many of
the core principles, strategies, and defining events.
Beginning in the 1940s, Rustin spearheaded
efforts to dismantle racial discrimination . . . — — Map (db m134193) HM
In memory of
Brendan Behan
1923-1964
“To America
my new found land:
the man that hates you
hates the human race.”
Dedication from “Brendan Behan’s
New York”…written in the
Hotel Chelsea in the spring of . . . — — Map (db m145638) HM
Alive-nesses : Proposal for Adaptation is informed by “dazzle” painting, an anti-range finding maritime camouflage technique used by the military between 1914 and 1945. The term “dazzle” was first used by A.H. Thayer in the . . . — — Map (db m57061) HM
This monument consists of a 14-foot-tall
granite stele on which a bronze "doughboy"
soldier is displayed. He holds a rifle, has
a flag draped over his shoulders, and is
depicted as if in the midst of battle.
The derivation of the term . . . — — Map (db m173059) HM WM
Chelsea's name came from Captain Thomas Clarke's farm,
acquired in 1750, which he named for England's Old
Soldiers Home at Chelsea, now part of London. His
grandson, Clement Clarke Moore, who gave "Twas the
night before Christmas” to all . . . — — Map (db m147694) HM
Chelsea was developed from the 1830’s to the 1850’s, largely by Clement Clark Moore, who owned the land on which it was built. The result is an unusually uniform and elegant residential neighborhood in Greek Revival and Italianate styles. The . . . — — Map (db m135160) HM
Designed by Hubert & Pirrson, the Chelsea was opened in 1884 as one of the City's earliest cooperative apartment houses. It became a hotel about 1905. The florid cast iron balconies were made by the firm of J.B. and J.M. Cornell. Artists and writers . . . — — Map (db m111777) HM
In this
Holy Church of Saint Eleftherios New York
on February 26, 1931
The Metropolitan of Corfu
now gracing the throne of the
Ecumenical Patriachate as Athenagoras Αʹ,
was enthroned as
Archbishop of North and South . . . — — Map (db m145883) HM
This Protestant Episcopal Church designed in Tuscan style by Minard Lafever, was opened
for services in 1848. It was lengthened by him in 1854 and the transepts, designed
by Charles Babcock of R. Upjohn & Co., were added in 1858. The original . . . — — Map (db m134104) HM
In the Moore mansion, which stood on this site, in 1822, Clement Clarke Moore, (1779-1863), penned the immortal poem, “A Visit from Saint Nicholas”, (T’was the night before Christmas), as a gift for his children.
Scholar and developer . . . — — Map (db m133551) HM
Scholar and poet Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) is the namesake
of two New York City parks. The
first is a playground in Elmhurst,
Queens, known as the Clement Clarke
Moore Homestead. The second is
this playground, located on a . . . — — Map (db m134956) HM
One of the finest examples of Greek Revival style of architecture in New York, this superbly designed row of houses has retained most of its handsome original detail. Built by Don Alonzo Cushman, parish leader and financier, in 1840. — — Map (db m127169) HM
David Dubinsky, one of the most influential labor leaders in the United
States, was president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union (ILGWU), from 1932 to 1966. Escaping Czarist imprisonment for his
youthful political activities, he . . . — — Map (db m127139) HM
Dr. Gertrude B. Kelly (1862-1934), a pioneer
surgeon and philanthropist, was born
in Ireland and emigrated to the United
States in 1873. She studied at the Women's
Medical College of the New York Infirmary
for Women and Children, which was . . . — — Map (db m126139) HM
First Permanent Home
Gay Men's Health Crisis
1982-1984
Co-founded 1981 by:
Nathan Fain
Larry Kramer
Dr. Lawrence Mass
Paul Popham
Paul Rapoport
Edmund White
————————— . . . — — Map (db m125928) HM
During his administration, Mayor McClellan, son of Civil War General George McClellan, acquired 277 acres of park space, completed construction of the New York Public Library, built Grand Central Terminal, presided over the opening of the subway, . . . — — Map (db m128290) HM
The High Line was built by the New York Central
Railroad between 1929 and 1934 to lift dangerous
freight trains from Manhattan's streets. Originally
extending to the St. John's Park Terminal at Clarkson
Street, the High Line's trains carried . . . — — Map (db m198972) HM
On this site stood, in 1861, the station of the Hudson River Railroad
The first passenger to use it was Abraham Lincoln who came to New York on February 19, 1861, on the way to his inauguration as President of the United States . . . — — Map (db m113057) HM
Manhattan's largest surviving Greek Revival dwelling, the only one with five bays, it was remodeled in 1864-66 in the Italianate style — — Map (db m127242) HM
Dedicated to the memory of
James Schuyler
Poet and Pulitzer Prize winner
Author of The Morning of the Poem among
other works, who lived at the Chelsea Hotel
from 1979 until his death in 1001
Presented by
Farrar, Straus & Giroux . . . — — Map (db m145633) HM
This flag staff erected
in memory of
John Richard Ress, Jr.
Seaman 1st Class U.S.N.
July 24, 1925 – October 31, 1941
U.S.S. Reuben James
“How little, when we parted last,
we thought those pleasant times were fast.” . . . — — Map (db m145906) HM
Original use: United States Lightship #115
Current use: Dockside attraction. Bought while on the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay at White Haven MD.
Built: 1929
Dimensions: 133’3” x 29’ x 10’
Displacement: 600 tons
Construction: Riveted steel . . . — — Map (db m221026) HM
Hello…
I worked in the Master Printers Building at 460 West 34th Street as a pressman for many years. New York City employed 20% of the country’s workers in printing and publishing with most of us working early mornings or late nights to meet . . . — — Map (db m157345) HM
This basketball court is dedicated in
honor of Police Officer David Willis
(1964-1995). Born in Brooklyn on
September 10, 1964 and raised in the
Farragut Houses, Willis attended All
Saints School in Brooklyn and Beach
Channel High School in . . . — — Map (db m172974) HM
This playground, located on 26th Street
between 8th and 9th Avenues, takes
its name from Pennsylvania Station,
commonly known as Penn Station. The
original Penn Station was an above-ground
structure designed by the eminent New
York . . . — — Map (db m172964) HM
October 2, 1919 to September 23, 1997
A salute to the life and achievements of a
pioneering avant-garde independent filmmaker and video artist
from the 1950s to the 1980s
As a teenager studied and performed as a modern dancer with Anna . . . — — Map (db m111905) HM
He invented communications satellites in 1945.
His "Exploration of Space" (1952) was used by Wernher von Braun
to convince President John F. Kennedy to go to the Moon,
and
he wrote "2001: A Space Odyssey"
here At The Chelsea . . . — — Map (db m111782) HM
Large stones were chosen from quarries in New York State and northeastern Pennsylvania. Each stone was selected for its special shape and unusual sculptural qualities. Some are colorful, some are concave, some are craggy. One is very tall, and . . . — — Map (db m135208)
The Muffin House
337 West 20th Street
Built as a foundry c. 1850,
Samuel Bath Thomas (1855- 1919)
converted the ovens for
his English Muffin bakery
in the early 20th century.
The arched brick structures remain
below the courtyard garden. — — Map (db m134103) HM
The great American writer
Thomas Wolfe
1900-1938
Author of
Look Homeward Angel – Of Time and the River
The Web and the Rock – You Can’t Go Home Again
lived in the Chelsea Hotel
during the last years of his life
This . . . — — Map (db m145608) HM
The film score for The Louisiana Story for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music was written at the Chelsea Hotel where he lived for more than fifty years.
Presented in commemoration of his centenary — — Map (db m145791) HM
Whether P.T. Barnum said it or not, “there’s a sucker born every minute” certainly applies to the throngs that lined up at Bowery and Division Street in 1836 for his first big bamboozle – the exhibition of slave woman Joice . . . — — Map (db m132305) HM
Dr. Sun Yat-sen was born on November 12, 1866 to a Cantonese family in Tsuei-Heng Village, Shiangshan County, Kwangtung Province in China, under the rule of the Ching Dynasty. His early education in China, Hawaii and Hong Kong established him as a . . . — — Map (db m131336) HM WM
As a stomping ground for sailors and sporting men, the Bowery/Chatham Square was an appropriate location for Samuel O’Reilly and Charlie Wagner, the fathers of modern tattooing. O’Reilly, who patented the first electric tattooing machine in 1891, . . . — — Map (db m132310) HM
In 1783 the Black Horse Inn stood on this site and the Bull's Head Tavern adjoined it. Here General George Washington began his triumphal march into the city upon its evacuation by the British November 25, 1783. The Citizens Savings Bank, organized . . . — — Map (db m26880) HM
The English Lutheran Congregation built this charming and unpretentious church in 1801 from the same rubble masonry as St. Paul’s Chapel. It is Georgian in style, with the steeply pitched end gables, rich entablature and quoins, and rectangular . . . — — Map (db m148042) HM
Dr. Sun Yat-sen was born in 1866 in China during the Qing Dynasty. His early education in China, Hawaii, and Hong Kong esablished him as a man of two worlds—China and the West—where he learned the essentials about democracy, which became his . . . — — Map (db m241563) HM
Dr. Sun Yat-sen was born in 1866 in China during the Qing Dynasty. His early education in China, Hawaii, and Hong Kong esablished him as a man of two worlds—China and the West—where he learned the essentials about democracy, which became his . . . — — Map (db m241565) HM
This building, constructed in 1895, is among the best of the many eclectic firehouses built by Napoleon Le Brun & Sons. Today it seems surprising that such an elaborate design would be used for so utilitarian a structure. The entire spirit of the . . . — — Map (db m126953) HM
In the 1890s, this Bowery at Doyers Street corner was a gateway to the tiny but thriving Chinatown, even then a famed tourist destination. Squeezed between Bowery, Mott, Pell and Doyers Streets and dominated by Chinese shops and residents, it was . . . — — Map (db m132308) HM
On November 25, 1783, as the British withdrew from Manhattan, General Washington and his troops marched across the still rural island and down the Bowery. Stopping at the Bull’s Head Tavern to rest, they were met by throngs of jubilant citizens . . . — — Map (db m132156) HM
This anchor of the Bowery was, in the 19th Century, a hosiery shop where one clerk stabbed another; then a beer hall where bartender Schaefer was arrested twice for selling beer on Sunday; then a theater whose name changed with the human tide: . . . — — Map (db m132464) HM
On this spot in 1833 stood the Zoological Institute, one of America’s first menageries. Expanding to include equestrian and circus acts, it became the Bowery Amphitheatre. Acts here included the famous clown W.F. Wallett, and “the great . . . — — Map (db m132307) HM
In the Future Our Asian Community Is Safe
is a mural on Mosco St. in Manhattan's Chinatown accompanied by a website that imagines how we transcend White supremacy and anti-Asian violence. The mural depicts a youth holding a red . . . — — Map (db m241567) HM
On this site in the mid-1800s, stood the German Winter Garden (aka Volks Garden), a forgotten treasure of mid-19th century New York’s Kleindeutschland, then the third most dense concentration of Germans in the world. Known for its music . . . — — Map (db m132306) HM
You are standing in front of the former site of bridge jumper Steve Brodie’s Saloon. A fast-talking former Five Points street tough turned con man and gambler who had fallen into debt, Brodie took a dare to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge just . . . — — Map (db m132509) HM
This is the city’s oldest surviving brick townhouse, built in 1785, shortly after the British evacuated New York and before George Washington became President of the new republic. Reflecting the emergence from English colony to new republic, its . . . — — Map (db m132533) HM
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