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Historical Markers and War Memorials in New York County, New York
Adjacent to New York County, New York
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| | Long before the construction of Central Park, the rock bluffs in the landscape just south of the Haarlem Meer played an important part in our city's - and nation's - history. Both British and American recognized these hills as a key strategic . . . — — Map (db m97300) HM |
| | The great Hungarian composer Bela Bartok 1881 - 1945
made his home in this house during the last year of his life — — Map (db m77400) HM |
| Near Vesey Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Accompanied by an honor guard of British police guards, the “Bell of Hope” was presented to the people of New York by the Lord Mayor of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury on September 11, 2002. The Bell of Hope was created by . . . — — Map (db m43442) HM |
| Near Vesey Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Bell of Hope
In 2002 on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Bell of Hope was presented to the people of New York by the Lord Mayor of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury. It was created by England’s renowned Whitechapel Foundry, . . . — — Map (db m115606) HM |
| On Fifth Avenue at W. 8th Street, on the right when traveling south on Fifth Avenue. |
| | Bella Abzug
July 24, 1920 — March 31, 1998
2 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
Born in The Bronx to Russian immigrants, Bella Abzug was a graduate of Hunter College (1942) and Columbia Law School (1947). A labor and civil rights lawyer, much of her . . . — — Map (db m101595) HM |
| Near First Avenue north of East 26th Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | This fountain presented by the Auxiliary to Bellevue Hospital Inc. to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Bellevue Hospital
1736-1986 — — Map (db m152763) HM |
| Near 79th Street Transverse Rd. |
| | Erected in 1869 as a lookout. It now houses the New York Meteorological Observatory which was founded in 1868 by Dr. Daniel Draper who was its director until his retirement in 1912. At which time the observatory came under the direction of the . . . — — Map (db m56954) HM |
| On Sixth Avenue north of West 40th Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | President of Mexico (1858-1872)
Born in Guelatao, Oaxaca, of humble origins, Juarez established the foundation for the Mexican Republic. In 1867, he defeated the French invasion, thus preserving the independence of Mexico.
Gift from the people . . . — — Map (db m155712) HM |
| On Spruce Street at Park Row, on the left when traveling south on Spruce Street. |
| | Printer Patriot Philosopher Statesman Presented by Albert DeGroot to the Press and Printers of the City of New York inveiled January 17, 1872 Ernst Plassman Sculptor — — Map (db m13746) HM |
| Near Liberty Street near Battery Park City Esplanade. |
| | In November 2004, the 15th Anniversary of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the city of Berlin donated this piece of the Wall to Battery Park City. These segments were originally located in downtown Berlin in the area between Potsdamer Plaza and . . . — — Map (db m132053) HM |
| On Lexington Avenue at East 23rd Street on Lexington Avenue. |
| | A center of commerce by the 1840's, NYC attracted a growing immigrant population. Townsend Harris, President of the Board of Education, saw the need for publicly-supported higher education. In 1849, his vision was fulfilled when The Free Academy . . . — — Map (db m116838) HM |
| | Designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould, these stairways, terrace and fountain were the focal feature of the original plan for Central Park by Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted. The fountain sculpture by Emma Stebbins, inspired by the biblical . . . — — Map (db m130039) HM |
| On Seventh Avenue at 42nd Street, on the right when traveling north on Seventh Avenue. Reported missing. |
| | From the beginning of her career in the 1960s, Betsey Johnson has been known for a youthful, exuberant style – epitomized by her habit of cartwheeling down the runway at the end of her fashion shows. Her colorful, flirtatious clothes often . . . — — Map (db m57279) HM |
| Near Seventh Avenue. Reported missing. |
| | Having brought the comfort and simplicity of sportswear into the realm of formal dressing, Blass can rightly be credited as one of the creators of a true “American style.” His blending of classic fabrics, like cashmere and satin, have . . . — — Map (db m58310) HM |
| On Baxter Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | 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 |
| On Rector Street near Trinity Place, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Birthplace of Columbia University
In 1752 Trinity Church gave a grant of land for a new college.
On July 17, 1754, the first class of King’s College, which was to become Columbia University, met in the schoolhouse of Trinity Church located . . . — — Map (db m127717) HM |
| |
Eugene O'Neill
October 16, 1888 — November 27, 1953
America's greatest playwright was born
on this site then called Barrett House — — Map (db m14192) HM |
| On W. 8th Street near 5th Avenue, on the left when traveling east. |
| | This tablet honors Galo Plaza Lasso, President of the Republic of Ecuador (1940-1952) and Secretary General of the Organization of American States, (1968-1972) born here to Maria Adelina Plaza and General Leonidas Plaza, on February 17, 1906, while . . . — — Map (db m101602) HM |
| Reported permanently removed. |
| | On this site, number 6 Pearl Street, Herman Melville was born August 1, 1819. Author of Moby Dick, “Bartelby the Scrivener,” Pierre, Billy Budd and many other American classics. — — Map (db m127940) HM |
| | 1903 - 1941
Lou Gehrig known as the "Pride of the Yankees" was born at this location on June 19th, 1903. In his amazing feat of playing 2130 consecutive games, Lou became known as "The Iron Horse" to the baseball world. Dedicated to . . . — — Map (db m53786) HM |
| On Bowery near Pell Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| |
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 |
| On Bowery near Spring Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | You are standing on the former site of Tony Pastor’s Opera House, one of the legendary birthplaces of vaudeville. Known as the “Bowery Autocrat,” Antonio Pastor (1832-1908), was born in NYC, sang as a child performer in P.T. Barnum’s . . . — — Map (db m133593) HM |
| On East 13th Street west of Second Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | This building
constructed in 1892
was the studio of the noted
architectural sculptors
Karl Bitter
(1867-1815)
and
Giuseppe Moretti
(1857-1935)
In 1891 Karl Bitter won the competition for the design of the Tympanum and Doors of . . . — — Map (db m145262) HM |
| On Canal Street at Bowery, on the right when traveling west on Canal Street. |
| | 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 |
| | This blockhouse was part of a line of fortifications extending from the Hudson to the Harlem River built for the defense of New York by it's (sic) patriotic citizens during the War of 1812-1815.
This tablet is erected by the Woman's Auxiliary to . . . — — Map (db m156889) HM WM |
| On Bleeker Street near LaGuardia Place, on the right when traveling east. |
| | This painting is dedicated to all aspiring dreamers, outcasts, and gypsies drawn to Greenwich Village life.
“The mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time.” . . . — — Map (db m140669) HM |
| On Seventh Avenue. Reported missing. |
| | Following a career in costume design, Cahin launched her fashion business in the 1950s. Calling her clothing “kinetic art forms for living,” she adapted simple cuts from the history of world clothing to meet the needs of modern women. . . . — — Map (db m58165) HM |
| On Bond Street at Bowery, on the left when traveling east on Bond Street. |
| | This unique cast iron building was designed in 1874 by architect Henry Engelbert, in the French Second Empire style. It successfully presents two harmonious facades to the streets that meet at its corner site. First known as the German Exchange . . . — — Map (db m147105) HM |
| On Bowery Street at Grand Street on Bowery Street. |
| | This impressive building, completed in 1895, is located on the site of the first Bowery Savings Bank. Designed by Stanford White of the firm of McKim, Mead & White, it is an excellent example of neo-classical architecture.
The Building was . . . — — Map (db m56935) HM |
| Near Broadway, on the left when traveling south. |
| | The first public park to be established in New York March 12, 1733 “Resolved that the Corporation will Lease a Piece of Land lying at the lower End of Broadway fronting to the Fort to some of the inhabitants of the Said Broadway in Order to . . . — — Map (db m13735) HM |
| On Broadway at Morris Street, on the left when traveling south on Broadway. Reported permanently removed. |
| | Bowling Green This little patch of green surrounded by grand Broadway office buildings survives as New York City’s oldest public park – Bowling Green. It served as a cattle pasture and a parade ground before being designated in 1733 as a . . . — — Map (db m147009) HM |
| On Bowling Green Drive at Broadway, on the left when traveling east on Bowling Green Drive. |
| | Erected by the Common Council in 1771, this fence surrounds New York’s earliest park. The park was leased in 1733 for use as a bowling green at a rental of one peppercorn a year. Patriots, who in 1776 destroyed an equestrian statue of George III . . . — — Map (db m13728) HM |
| On Pearl Street near Fulton Street, on the left when traveling south. |
| | On this site, then 39 Queen Street, Robert Bowne, New York merchant, philanthropist, and educator, established Bowne & Company in 1775.
The company is New York’s oldest business concern operating under the same name since its founding.
Robert . . . — — Map (db m132532) HM |
| On Hudson Street at Grove Street, on the left when traveling north on Hudson Street. |
| | A boyhood home of Bret Harte
The writer of “The Luck of Roaring Camp” — — Map (db m143843) HM |
| On West 23rd Street west of Seventh Avenue, on the right when traveling east. |
| |
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 |
| | Bristol Basin
Beneath this East River Drive of the City of New York lie stones, bricks and rubble from the bombed city of Bristol in England… brought here in ballast from overseas, these fragments that once were homes shall testify while men love . . . — — Map (db m124605) HM WM |
| On Broadway at Park Place, on the left when traveling south on Broadway. |
| | The British Army maintained a military presence in New York from 1640 to 1783. During the American Revolution, the British built barracks in this vicinity and used the land now occupied by City Hall Park for military exercises and executions. — — Map (db m130570) HM |
| Near Broad Street, in the median. |
| |
19 street panels along the path of the original Broad Street canal
1642: The Dutch create a canal south of Beaver Street by expanding a small rivulet known as “the ditch”. It is called the “Herre Graft”.
1642: Broad . . . — — Map (db m131079) HM |
| On Broadway at Maiden Lane, on the left when traveling south on Broadway. |
| | Broadway – Maiden Lane about 1880 --------------- Erected by the Maiden Lane Historical Society 1928 — — Map (db m24103) HM |
| On Broadway at West 35th Street, on the left when traveling south on Broadway. |
| | Hello…
My name is Lee Schubert. Shortly after my brother moved to New York City from Syracuse, in 1900, I followed. We leased the Herald Square Theatre on Broadway at 35th Street – a success from the start. Later our brother J.J. joined . . . — — Map (db m155284) HM |
| Near West 34th Street east of Sixth Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Front:
Hello…
I am Sojourner Truth. Born into slavery, I escaped to freedom and was an outspoken activist. The sound of boos and hisses filled the Broadway Tabernacle Church when I demanded equal rights for men and women of all races. The . . . — — Map (db m154884) HM |
| On Broadway at Chambers Street on Broadway. |
| | Designed by renowned architect Cass Gilbert, this vibrant structure, faced with pale pink granite, multi-hued brick,, and colored terra cotta, is a distinctive interpretation of the Beaux-Arts style popularized by the 1893 World's Columbian . . . — — Map (db m147005) HM |
| | On February 4, 1846, the ship Brooklyn sailed from Manhattan's Old Slip. Chartered by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the ship carried men, women, and children to California as part of the epic movement of Mormons to the West. By . . . — — Map (db m21511) HM |
| On Battery Place near Greenwich Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel
Manhattan Plaza
Longest Underwater Vehicular Tunnel in North America
9,117 feet in length
Opened May 25th, 1950
Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority — — Map (db m132052) HM |
| On Gramercy Park South at Irving Place, on the left when traveling west on Gramercy Park South. |
| | In 1859, the Society of Friends, known as Quakers, commissioned the firm of King & Kellum to design a structure "exactly suited for a Friends Meeting, entirely plain, neat and chaste, of good taste, but avoiding all useless ornament". This building . . . — — Map (db m147006) HM |
| On Greene Street at Washington Place, on the left when traveling north on Greene Street. |
| | This ten story neo-renaissance loft building, designed by New York architect John Wooley, was built in 1900-01 for Joseph J. Asch. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory occupied the building's top three floors. In 1909, Triangle employees initiated the . . . — — Map (db m147007) HM |
| | In 1974, the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission designated Bryant Park a Scenic Landmark, call it “...a prime example of a park designed in the French Classical tradition...an urban amenity worthy of our civic pride.: Within five years . . . — — Map (db m57104) HM |
| | The French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed the Statue of Liberty as a giant three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. Over 300 thin sheets of copper, most of it from a copper mine in Karmoy, Norway, fit together to form the Statue’s outer . . . — — Map (db m49285) HM |
| | Part of Bryant Park’s urbane charm is that it is surrounded by prime examples of several periods of New York City architecture. At the northern corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street is 500 Fifth Avenue. Shreve, Lamb & Harmon (architects of the . . . — — Map (db m57101) HM |
| Near West Thames Street at Little West Street when traveling west. |
| | This line in the pavement represents the western edge of Manhattan in 1871. By that time, the shoreline had already been extended well to the west of the original location, which lay along present day Greenwich Street. The fill that expanded the . . . — — Map (db m154067) HM |
| On 196 Hudson Street at Vestry Street on 196 Hudson Street. |
| | Christian Frederick Martin (1796-1873) established his first instrument shop on this site in the late Fall of 1833. He emigrated here with his family from the small town of Markneukirchen, Germany to form what would become C.F. Martin & Co., one of . . . — — Map (db m23056) HM |
| Near Seventh Avenue. Reported missing. |
| | There has never been a more recognizable and controversial name in the realm of American fashion than Calvin Klein. He is the master of the clean and minimal style that dominated global fashion in the late 20th Century, but is also famous for his . . . — — Map (db m58293) HM |
| Near Park Row at Beekman Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Gift of Canada to New York City
Arbor Day, April 28, 1967
Park Association of N.Y.C. — — Map (db m154182) HM |
| On West Street at Canal Street, on the right when traveling north on West Street. |
| | This park was among the city’s first public spaces, officially recognized since 1686. At that time, it took its name from an actual canal that Canal Street later replaced. On October 12, 1920, the governors of New York and New Jersey met here to . . . — — Map (db m144844) HM |
| On Broadway at Wall Street, on the right when traveling south on Broadway. |
| | In memory of Captain James Lawrence of the United States Navy, Who fell on the 1st day of June 1813, in the 32nd year of his age, in the action between the frigates Chesapeake and Shannon. He was distinguished on various occasions, but . . . — — Map (db m24486) HM |
| On Morningside Drive at West 116th Street, on the left when traveling south on Morningside Drive. |
| | Carl Schurz (1829-1906) was born in Liblar, Prussia (near what is now Cologne, Germany). In 1848, while a doctoral candidate at the University of Bonn, he joined the democratic revolt opposing the autocratic German government. After participating in . . . — — Map (db m98463) HM |
| On Clarkson Street near Seventh Avenue South, on the left when traveling east. |
| | This mural was painted in August 1987 by famed graffiti artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) on the wall that adjoins the Carmine Street Pool at the James J. Walker Park handball court. Measuring 18 feet high by 170 feet long and taking its cue from the . . . — — Map (db m143502) HM |
| On West 57th Street east of Seventh Avenue, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Carnegie Hall
has been designated a
Registered National Historic Landmark
under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935
This site possesses exceptional value in commemorating and illustrating the History of the United . . . — — Map (db m160327) HM |
| | Designed by Robert W. Gibson as the residence of Morton F. Plant, this building was constructed in 1904. Messrs. Cartier acquired it in 1917 and after modification by William Welles Bosworth, it was occupied by the firm of Cartier, founded in Paris . . . — — Map (db m147008) HM |
| On Bowery at Bond Street, on the left when traveling south on Bowery. |
| | The Bond Street Savings Bank, completed in 1874, became known as the German Exchange Bank by 1879, catering to a growing German population in this area, which became known as Kleinedeutschland (Little Germany). Although the facades of this . . . — — Map (db m137130) HM |
| Near Battery Place at State Street. |
| | This sandstone fort was built in 1811 as one of five forts erected to defend New York Harbor. The fort originally stood on a small island that was linked to Manhattan by a 200-foot wooden causeway and drawbridge. In the 1850s, landfill extended . . . — — Map (db m147149) HM |
| Near Battery Place at State Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | [Left plaque]:
Last of a series of forts which, from the Dutch settlement of 1624, guarded lower Manhattan, this structure was built by the United States in the years 1808 to 1811. It was first called "West Battery," and was one of the . . . — — Map (db m148097) HM |
| On Carder Road at Hay Road, on the left when traveling west on Carder Road. |
| | [ Side 1 ] A Place Worth ProtectingThe same waterways that connected New York City to the world made it vulnerable to naval attack. During the Revolutionary War, a British maritime force captured New York. In the early days of . . . — — Map (db m47020) HM |
| On Hay Road at Andes Road, on the left when traveling south on Hay Road. |
| | Welcome to Castle Williams. This stone fort was built in 1811 to defend New York City against naval assault. The attack never came. Over the next two hundred years, the once state-of-the-art fort was re-used: as housing for army recruits, as a . . . — — Map (db m47039) HM |
| On Hay Road at Andes Road on Hay Road. |
| | With walls forty feet high and eight feet thick, this red sandstone bastion bristled with over one hundred cannon when it was completed in 1811. Named after its designer, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Williams, it has also been nicknamed the . . . — — Map (db m149131) HM |
| On South Street near Catherine Slip, on the right when traveling north. |
| | The original shoreline of the 17th century Dutch colony was Pearl Street and Cherry Street. Landfill extended it throughout the maritime period to the present line.
As early as 1716, there was a shipyard on the East River at Catherine Street. On . . . — — Map (db m149011) HM |
| On Bowery near Bleeker Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | This is the birthplace of punk rock. A grungy and chaotic laboratory of musical innovation, it witnesses early performance by The Ramones, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Television, Richard Hell, Blondie, The Police, Dead Boys, Joan Jett, Lou Reed, . . . — — Map (db m137713) HM |
| On West 114th Street west of Broadway, on the right when traveling east. |
| | The director and producer of silent and sound epic films lived here from 1906 to 1913. He directed the first Hollywood feature motion picture, The Squaw Man (1913). Known for his multimillion-dollar spectacles, he produced 70 films including . . . — — Map (db m98483) HM |
| On Central Park West at West 74th Street, on the right when traveling south on Central Park West. |
| |
Edward Clark, heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune and owner of much land on the Upper West Side, collaborated with Henry J. Hardenbergh, architect of the nearby Dakota Apartments (1884), the city’s first luxury apartment house. A year later . . . — — Map (db m127460) HM |
| | For such a colossal object, this obelisk is well-travelled. Central Park is the third location for this 220-ton granite monument, which is the oldest public monument in New York City.
Pharaoh Thutmose III commissioned this obelisk approximately . . . — — Map (db m100034) HM |
| On Lexington Avenue at East 55th Street, on the right when traveling south on Lexington Avenue. |
| |
This is the oldest synagogue building in continuous use in New York City. The congregation was established in 1839 and this temple, designed by Henry Fernbach, was completed in 1872. The style is Moorish Revival, the arrangement Gothic. . . . — — Map (db m147691) HM |
| On East 15th Street west of Irving Place, on the right when traveling west. Reported missing. |
| | Architect Gambrill & Richardson
Built in 1869
Restored by the Theatre First Foundation — — Map (db m149915) HM |
| On Fifth Avenue at Washington Mews, on the left when traveling south on Fifth Avenue. |
| | Cervantes
This statue was presented to the
City of New York by the Mayor
of Madrid, Spain in 1986.
It stood in Bryant Park before being
donated to New York University in 1989. — — Map (db m101598) HM |
| On LaGuardia Place south of West 3rd Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Chaim Gross (1904-1991)
From 1963 until his death, the renowned American sculptor Chaim Gross lived and worked here. Born in the Carpathian mountains of Eastern Europe, Gross came to New York City in 1921 and emerged as a pioneer of the direct . . . — — Map (db m124837) HM |
| On Liberty Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Chamber of Commerce Even when it opened in 1901, 65 Liberty Street seemed like a tiny jewel among the towering behemoths of the financial district. The ornament-encrusted building served as the new headquarters of the New York State Chamber of . . . — — Map (db m128462) HM |
| On Elk Street near Duane Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| |
The African Burial Ground was labeled “Negros Buriel Ground” on the 1755 map at the right. Colonial New York laws banned African funerals in officially consecrated graveyards, prohibited gatherings of large numbers of enslaved . . . — — Map (db m129995) HM |
| On Bowery near Prince Street, on the right when traveling north. |
| | You are standing next to an 1876 Federal-era building that was the home and studio of Charles Eisenmann, the premier photographer of sideshow exotics – called “freaks” – who worked at circuses and Bowery dime museums.
A . . . — — Map (db m133271) HM |
| On East 64th Street at Madison Avenue, on the right when traveling east on East 64th Street. |
| | The lawyer and former New York governor lived here from 1917 to 1921, after losing the 1916 presidential elections to Woodrow Wilson. Hughes served as U.S. Secretary of State during the Harding Administration (1921-23) and the Coolidge . . . — — Map (db m98645) HM |
| | A revolutionary composer, Ives was also a traditional insurance executive. His innovative music builds on American popular and folk tunes, and expands the use of rhythm and tonality. His avant-garde works include Concord, Mass., 1840-1860, . . . — — Map (db m55757) HM |
| On Seventh Avenue. Reported missing. |
| | This Anglo-American couturier is widely regarded as one of the greatest fashion designers in history. Having begun his career as a milliner in the 1920s, James later incorporated the sculptural techniques of hat making into his dress designs. His . . . — — Map (db m58163) 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 |
| | Designed by the prominent American architect Ernest Flagg (1857-1947), this building was constructed as a store and offices in 1912-13 for Charles Scribner's Sons, one of America's most prestigious publishing houses. Flagg, an exponent of French . . . — — Map (db m147692) HM |
| | Built in 1849, the brownstone rowhouse is a rare surviving example of a residential building built in the Gothic Revival style, a style most often used for churches. Notable details include the pointed entranceway with clustered colonettes, the . . . — — Map (db m63057) HM |
| |
Charlotte, A Tale of Truth, written by Susanna Rowson, was a popular 18th-century novel. Legend has it that the name on this vault stone was carved by a bored stone cutter while working on the church. It is unknown if anyone is interred in . . . — — Map (db m147693) HM |
| On West 21st Street at Ninth Avenue, on the left when traveling east on West 21st Street. |
| | 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 |
| On West 23rd Street near Tenth Avenue, on the right when traveling east. |
| | 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 |
| On West 23rd Street west of 7th Avenue, on the left when traveling west. |
| | 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 |
| On 9th Avenue at 28th Street, on the left when traveling north on 9th Avenue. |
| | To the Soldiers and Sailors of Chelsea
World War
1914- 1918 — — Map (db m134197) WM |
| On Madison Avenue at E 26th Street, on the left when traveling north on Madison Avenue. |
| | Twenty-first President of the United States of America — — Map (db m41355) HM |
| | Here on September 20, 1881, at 2:15 A.M., Chester Alan Arthur took his oath of office as 21st president of the United States upon the death of president James A. Garfield, killed by a disgruntled office seeker. Garfield's death stirred nationwide . . . — — Map (db m99292) HM |
| On Prince Street near Wooster Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| |
Scholar, City Planner, Visionary Urbanist
Who Transformed A Moribund Industrial Zone
Into A Vital Artistic Commercial
And Residential Community
New York City Planning Commissioner
1969-1977 — — Map (db m140272) HM |
| On Bowery at Spring Street, on the right when traveling north on Bowery. |
| | In 1892, anarchist leader Emma Goldman led a meeting at Military Hall in defense of her lover/comrade, Alexander Berkman, jailed after a botched attempt to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick, villain of the bloody Homestead Steel Strike. A . . . — — Map (db m133550) HM |
| On West 4th Street at Grove Street, on the left when traveling north on West 4th Street. |
| | The land that is now Christopher Park was developed from 1633 to 1638 as a tobacco farm by Wouter Van Twiller, Director-General of New Netherland. Following Van Twiller’s death, his land was divided into three farms: the Trinity Church and Elbert . . . — — Map (db m98743) HM |
| On West 156th Street east of Riverside Drive East, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Gift of Archer M. Huntington
1912 – Built for Spanish speaking people
Landmarked - 1979 — — Map (db m160839) HM |
| On West 24th Street east of Ninth Avenue, on the right when traveling east. |
| |
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 |
| On Park Avenue at East 84th Street, on the right when traveling south on Park Avenue. |
| | This church, designed in the baroque manner by Ditmars and Schickel, was dedicated in 1898 by Michael Augustine Corrigan, third Archbishop of New York. The parish was founded in 1851 and worshipped in a church on this site named in honor of St. . . . — — Map (db m134587) HM |
| On Fifth Avenue at West 10th Street on Fifth Avenue. |
| | This English Gothic structure designed by Richard Upjohn was built in 1840-41 and redecorated about 1888 from plans by Stanford White. "The Ascension," the well known mural by John LaFarge, is above the altar. Here President John Tyler married Julia . . . — — Map (db m106457) HM |
| On Fifth Avenue at East 90th Street when traveling south on Fifth Avenue. |
| | Landmarks of New York
Church of the Heavenly Rest
Chapel of the Beloved Disciple
Designed in a Gothic style by Hardie Phillip, this Protestant Episcopal church was opened for worship Easter Sunday, 1929. The rose window was executed by J. . . . — — Map (db m124606) HM |
| On 9th Avenue at West 28th Street, on the right when traveling north on 9th Avenue. |
| | 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 |
| On East 14th Street at First Avenue, on the right when traveling east on East 14th Street. |
| | Built in 1894, this church was originally called Grace Chapel and Hospital; it was intended to provide free pews for those less fortunate financially than the members of nearby Grace Church. The building is one of only two churches in the city . . . — — Map (db m150856) HM |
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