You are standing at the former site of Alexander’s Musee, a popular dime museum that in 1886 presented the singer/dancer/acrobat/musician/comedian Billy Kersands, the first African American performer to achieve nationwide popularity with White as . . . — — Map (db m136924) HM
This is the birthplace of punk rock. A grungy and chaotic laboratory of musical innovation, it witnessed 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
An extraordinary figure in the socialist and anarchist movement of the late 19th century, German-born Justus H. Schwab lived with his family and operated a saloon at 50 East 1st Street for nearly 30 tears.
Schwab’s saloon was an epicenter for . . . — — Map (db m124737) HM
In 1973, artist Liz Christie and her band of volunteers transformed a vacant lot at this site to create the Bowery-Houston Community Farm and Garden. Her Green Guerillas cleared garbage, built soil from police-stable manure, and planted trees, . . . — — Map (db m137008) HM
On this site once stood a five-story tenement building which between 1895 and 1902 housed the notorious McGurk’s Suicide Hall. Advertised as “The roughest joint in town,” McGurk’s attracted the lowest of low-brow clientele – from . . . — — Map (db m137009) HM
New York's second non-sectarian cemetery was started in 1831, one year after the first. The underground family vaults are individually marked by many monuments. James Lenox, a founder of the New York Public Library, is buried here as well as two . . . — — Map (db m105338) HM
Enclosed within this block is the oldest public non-sectarian cemetery in the city. Descendants of the 19th century owners may still be buried here. The 156 solid marble vaults were built completely underground as a health precaution. Though no . . . — — Map (db m39518) HM
You are standing in front of one of the best-preserved reminders of Kleindeutschland - “Little Germany” – once the most prominent German-American neighborhood in America. Fleeing economic and political instability, Germans began immigrating . . . — — Map (db m137179) HM
NY Marble Cemetery is a hidden half-acre garden bounded by 2nd and 3rd Streets, Second Avenue and Bowery. Built in 1830, it is NYC’s oldest non-denominational cemetery. In contains 156 underground family vaults the size of small rooms, surrounded by . . . — — Map (db m137155) HM
You are standing at the former site of the Five Spot Café, which in the 1950s and ‘60s was owned and operated by brothers Joe and Iggy Termini, who brought in the era’s most progressive jazz artists, including Thelonious Monk, Cecil Taylor, Eric . . . — — Map (db m132311) HM
On this spot in the late 1800s stood Otto Maurer’s Magical Bazaar. Called the “Wizard of the Bowery” by the NY Herald, the German-born Maurer made and sold magic and juggling apparatus, performer and taught magic here. Famous and . . . — — Map (db m137049) HM
You are standing in front of the 1970s home of the Tin Palace, a vital part of New York’s alternative music scene. Originally a Federal-style 3-story, built circa 1830, it was allegedly a speakeasy run by gangster Meyer Lansky in the 1920s. In 1970, . . . — — Map (db m137087) HM
Billed as the world’s smallest opera house, with 107 seats, the Amato Opera renovated the Neoclassical Revival style building in 1964. The company was founded by Anthony and Sally Amato in 1948 to present grand opera at low prices, performed by . . . — — Map (db m136961) HM
This is the site of the former St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church (1857 to 1940) a mostly German immigrant parish. On Wednesday, June 15, 1904, the church chartered the excursion steamer, General Slocum, to take the members on the 17th . . . — — Map (db m145735) HM
You are standing in front of an 1844 townhouse which was converted in the 1960s from a cold-water flop to home and gathering place for a newly developing, inclusive avant-garde. Poets Amiri Bakara and Hetty Jones hosted writers, painters, . . . — — Map (db m132312) HM
In the 1960’s, this 1845 former rooming house became a laboratory for artistic, literary and political currents. Writers LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka) and Hettie Jones, their Yugen magazine and Toten Press, musician Archie Shepp and painter . . . — — Map (db m131766) HM
Argentinian composer
Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina,
lived in this building until 1936.
Placed in loving memory
by his devoted followers — — Map (db m166089) HM
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
For hundreds of years, my family of artists has been promoting humanity and what it can do. I promote this neighborhood. The streets of the Lower East Side are not paved with gold – they’re paved with mosaics! These aren’t just my artworks; . . . — — Map (db m242348) HM
For the advancement of science and art Peter Cooper, inventor, civic leader, philanthropist, founded this institution offering free education to all. In its great hall, birthplace of many important social and political movements, America’s leading . . . — — Map (db m41171) HM
Son of a revolutionary patriot Born in Fox Meadows (Now Scarsdale) N.Y. June 21, 1774 Died in Tompkinsville, Staten Island N.Y. June 11, 1825 Governor of New York State 1807-1817 — Vice President of the United States 1817-1825 Military . . . — — Map (db m41207) HM
This mansion was once part of the row that lined the entire blockfront. With its arched Federal-Baroque doorway, grand proportions and original wrought iron handrailings at the stoop, it is now a rare survivor of a type which, because of its great . . . — — Map (db m145160) HM
To Honor
The Brave Men of this block who Loyally
Served their Country in World War II
★Betancourt, Aurelio · ★Corsino, Salvatore · ★Gudz, Peter · ★Holowaty, John · ★Sierko, Vincent · Amanna, Peter · Amanna, Prosper . . . — — Map (db m145112) HM
Anarchist, orator and advocate of free speech and free love, lived here from 1903-1913, and published the radical magazine “Mother Earth.” She was deported to the Soviet Union in 1919. — — Map (db m146415) HM
Dedicated to the memory of Firefighter* Manuel DelValle, Jr., Engine Co. 5, who made the supreme sacrifice while in the performance of duty operating at Manhattan Box 5-5-8087, World Trade Center September 11, 2001
*Posthumously . . . — — Map (db m207562) WM
Dedicated to the memory of Firefighter Raymond Ragucci, Engine Company 5, who bravely served this department protecting life and property in the City of New York in the rescue and recovery efforts at Manhattan Box 5-5-8087, World Trade Center. — — Map (db m207586) WM
Dedicated to the memory of Firefighter Thomas A. Lynn, Engine Company 5, who bravely served this department protecting life and property in the City of New York in the rescue and recovery efforts at Manhattan Box 5-5-8087 World Trade Center — — Map (db m207589) WM
Painter, print-maker, and sculptor Frank Stella lived and worked here from 1978 to 2005, in what was originally a horse auction mart for the city’s elite, and then served as a women’s assembly line training center during World War II. Known . . . — — Map (db m200461) HM
For more than half a century, the Gramercy Gym stood on this site. Legendary boxing trainer and teacher, Cus D'Amato, trained world champions Floyd Patterson and Jose Torres along with countless other boxers who were champions in their own right. . . . — — Map (db m147914) HM
These premises housed the Hebrew Technical Institute Founded in 1884. A non-sectarian school. One of the first technical high schools in the United States. Last graduating class 1939. The school was conceived at a meeting of the United Hebrew . . . — — Map (db m41213) HM
Who lost their lives as a result of a gas explosion that occurred at this site located as 121 Second Avenue on March 26, 2015. This dedication serves as a reminder of the tragedy that left many physically and emotionally wounded and as an . . . — — Map (db m223885) HM
People enslaved by members of the congregations of the Stuyvesant Chapel and St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery
People enslaved by the Dutch West Indies Corporation
A. Francisco •
Gasinte •
R. Antonio •
Diego or Jacob • . . . — — Map (db m241338) HM
Slain while on patrol in the Ninth Precinct
January 27, 1972
They served their country in Vietnam as United States Marines and have given us in death a shining example of racial brotherhood that makes us proud to claim them as members of our . . . — — Map (db m164334) HM
Constructed in 1920, this was the New York headquarters of the International Tailoring Company and its subsidiary, J.T. Taylor & Company. It was one of the world's largest manufacturers of men's custom-made clothing.
From the early to mid-20th . . . — — Map (db m105171) HM
Las fuerzas Francesas que invadieron Mexico fueron derrotadas el 5 de Mayo de 1862 en la Batalla de Puebla. A pesar de ello, tomaron la capital, y Napoleon III impuso al Archduque Austriaco Fernando Maximiliano de Haprburgo como Emperador de . . . — — Map (db m146255) HM
Designed by the architect William Schickel and built in 1883-1884, the Ottendorfer Library was the first building in Manhattan to be erected specifically as a free public lending library. The building combines elements from several late Victorian . . . — — Map (db m145139) HM
A sliver of Manhattan bounded by Houston Street, First Avenue, and Avenue A, Peretz Square marks the spot where the tangled jumble of lower Manhattan meets the regularity of the Commissioners’ Plan street grid.
With the implementation of the . . . — — Map (db m145457) HM
For more than a century, Peter Cooper (1791-1883) – philanthropist, industrialist and inventor – has watched over the park and school that bear his name. Cooper was a native New Yorker and workingman’s son with less than a year of formal . . . — — Map (db m142047) HM
In this Vault lies buried Petrus Stuyvesant late Captain General and Governor in Chief of Amsterdam in New Netherland now called New York and the Dutch West-India Islands, died Feby. A.D. 1672 aged 80 years. — — Map (db m41165) HM
This bust was given to the people of New York in trust of Saint Mark’s-in-the-Bowerie in 1915 by Wilhelmina Queen of the Netherlands --------------- From the Commissie Boek of the States General The States General of the United Netherlands to all . . . — — Map (db m41168) HM
On this corner grew Petrus Stuyvesant's pear tree.
————————
Recalled to Holland in 1664 on his return he brought the pear tree and planted it as his memorial "by which" said he "my name may be . . . — — Map (db m127436) HM
Fans of live rock, folk, and blues music streamed through this entrance during the brief but memorable life of the Fillmore East. The great concert promoter Bill Graham brought The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, and many more . . . — — Map (db m148010) HM
Governor Peter Stuyvesant of legend and history, remembered for surrendering Nieuw Amsterdam to the English in 1664, had his farm, named in Dutch, the “Bouwerie,” in the area. Stuyvesant Street follows the line of the drive to the . . . — — Map (db m132920) HM
This late Georgian (1799) church replaced the chapel Peter Stuyvesant built in 1660 on his Bouwerie or Farm - making this Manhattan’s oldest site used for a place of worship. Not only is the last Dutch Governor-General buried here, but also seven . . . — — Map (db m148017) HM
This early Federal style residence was built for Elizabeth Stuyvesant when she married Major Nicholas Fish, a hero of the Revolutionary War. It was a gift from her father, Petrus Stuyvesant, great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant, and was one of five . . . — — Map (db m148030) HM
In 1884 William Schickel designed this building as a health clinic for the city's German immigrants. It is an ornate version of Italian Renaissance design. the facade is enhanced by sculpted portrait busts of famous physicians and scientists, . . . — — Map (db m145140) HM
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is America’s first free college. Founded by progressive thinker/abolitionist/inventor Peter Cooper, its doors were opened to all, regardless of race, religion, gender or social status.
Its . . . — — Map (db m136713) HM
On this site once stood the Lowe's Commodore Movie Palace, The Fillmore East Theater and The Saint discotheque
Dedicated in celebration of all those who came to watch rock and dance. — — Map (db m124586) HM
This building is named after and located on the site of the Petersfield Farm, the original home of Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New York.
The original structure was built in 1906 by Stuyvesant Fish, a descendant of Peter . . . — — Map (db m106458) HM
The Wells Fargo Community Mural Program is dedicated to creating unique, custom-designed historical artwork that respects the community’s legacy, celebrates its diversity and honors the past upon which the community was founded.
The Wells Fargo . . . — — Map (db m150088) HM
Constructed in the Queen Anne style in 1883, with apartments on the upper floors and the prestigious Gorham Silver Company on the lower floors. One of the first apartment houses as well as one of the first mixed use buildings by the prominent . . . — — Map (db m146557) HM
Journalist who said "Go West, young man!" lived here when he was editor and publisher of the New York Tribune. An outspoken progressive reformer, he championed Western expansion and rights for women and young people. — — Map (db m98663) HM
Theodore Roosevelt was born here October 27, 1858 Birthplace reproduced by the Womans Roosevelt Memorial Association January 6, 1921 — — Map (db m146245) HM
President Theodore Roosevelt was born here on October 27, 1858, and lived here until he was 15. The house, a typical brownstone of the 1840s, was restored in 1923 and opened as a museum. — — Map (db m146246) HM
In 1896, the prolific architectural firm of Neville & Babbe designed and built this carefully-balanced, six-story Neo-Classical apartment building with two eight-room apartments per floor. The building has a rusticated limestone base, brick upper . . . — — Map (db m150554) HM
These three charming Italianate style houses were built in 1852-53 on land which was once part of Governor peter Stuyvesant’s “Bouwerie”, or farm. Cornelia Stuyvesant Ten Broeck (1820-1892) was directly responsible for the development . . . — — Map (db m151071) HM
Cabrini Medical Center remembers our neighbors
and our employee Marc Sullins
who were lost or suffered loss during the
tragic events of September 11, 2001.
We rededicate this institution as a center of
healing and hope pledged always to . . . — — Map (db m151235) WM
Gift of the New York Philharmonic and the Dvořák American Heritage Association to the City of New York 1997.
This bronze statue by Ivan Mestrovic (1883-1962) was commissioned by the Czechoslovak National Council of America and presented to . . . — — Map (db m104413) HM
Augustus Saint-Gaudens was a sculptor born on March 1, 1848 in Dublin. Ireland was in the grip of the Great Potato Famine, and his family immigrated to New York, taking 6-month-old Augustus with them.
Saint-Gaudens’ father, Bernard, was a . . . — — Map (db m151069) HM
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) was the preeminent sculptor of the Gilded Age of American art. He not only created some of the country’s finest landmarks but also helped to foster arts education and the collaboration between artists that . . . — — Map (db m150948) HM
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
Secretary of State in the Cabinet of
President Theodore Roosevelt, 1905-09
Secretary of War, 1899-1904
Senator from New York, 1909-1915
Lived in a house on this site from 1871 to 1878 — — Map (db m47296) HM
36 Gramercy Park East was formerly known as the “Gramercy Park Clubhouse”. The building was designed by James Reily Gordon in the Neo-Gothic style and was completed in 1910. This was the residence of many society figures, writers, . . . — — Map (db m150435) HM
The Gramercy Park Historic District provides an early example of creative town planning. The area was developed in 1831 by Samuel B. Ruggles who laid out lots around New York City’s only surviving private park. Buyers of the lots became joint . . . — — Map (db m150030) HM
New York’s only private park, restricted to the use of residents in the neighborhood, Gramercy Park was planned in 1831 on the model of London’s squares. It is graced by buildings created by the city’s most eminent architects, including Stanford . . . — — Map (db m150301) HM
Actor, who set the standard for gangster roles in movies such as Angels With Dirty Faces and The Public Enemy lived here from 1965 to 1968. Other residents were actress Margaret Hamilton and soprano Emma Thursby.
New York Landmarks . . . — — Map (db m150343) HM
Lincoln Kirstein is widely recognized as one of the founders of the American ballet tradition. With George Balanchine, he created the School of American Ballet in 1934, and served as its President until 1989. Beginning in 1935, he attempted to . . . — — Map (db m98577) HM
Restored 2020, Wood and PlexiGlass
Sept 1, 2022 – March 1, 2023
During the Covid Pandemic, artist Todd Drake found and restored this Peace Pole at the Pennington Friends House. It is shared how as a witness for peace prevailing in our . . . — — Map (db m213282)
The National
Arts Club was
founded in 1898.
Early members include
Robert Henri,
Frederic Remington,
Daniel Chester French,
Woodrow Wilson and
Theodore
Roosevelt. — — Map (db m106670) HM
"At the age of six, I started cycling in Stuyvesant Park. I couldn't have ever dreamed where cycling would later take me in life. At the late-for-competition age of 33, I started competing at . . . — — Map (db m104349) HM
Pete’s Tavern
Est. 1864,
in recognition of its nurturing atmosphere for:
O. Henry, when he wrote The Gift of the Magi
and
Ludwig Bemelmans, when he wrote Madeline
is designated September 25, 1999.
Co-sponsored by: The . . . — — Map (db m149839) HM
Peter’s Field, located between 20th and 21st Streets and First and Second Avenues, is named for two of the city’s most prominent historical figures—Peter Stuyvesant (1610-1672) and Peter Cooper (1791-1905). Nearby Stuyvesant Town, located . . . — — Map (db m151323) HM
In 1899, construction began for the New York Lying In Hospital designed by Robert H. Richardson and donated by J. Pierpoint Morgan. The hospital opened its doors in 1902 and during its early years, sixty percent of all hospital births in Manhattan . . . — — Map (db m140279) HM
Beth Israel Medical Center purchased Manhattan General Hospital in 1964 and established a comprehensive alcohol and drug treatment facility to ease a problem plaguing New York City. Winthrop D. Chamberlin and Barnet L. Liberman purchased the . . . — — Map (db m108508) HM
St. George's was founded in 1749 as the first chapel of Trinity Church and was located at Beekman and Cliff Streets. Peter G. Stuyvesant donated part of his farm in 1846 and construction was immediately begun by a then independent St. George's. . . . — — Map (db m148013) HM
Stuyvesant Square formed part of Peter Stuyvesant’s “Bouwerie” or farm in the 17th century. Designed in 1836, it is a particularly handsome example of a 19th century city square planned to relieve the monotony of the gridiron plan of . . . — — Map (db m150913) HM
Lived in a house on this site
from 1892 until 1895
In memory of his 100th birthday
and for future generations of
free Czechoslovakia, the
grateful government in exile
caused this inscription to be
erected initially on
December . . . — — Map (db m44256) HM
This building, originally two private houses, was remodeled for Samuel J. Tilden in the early 1870's by Calvert Vaux, one of the designers of Central Park. Tilden, Governor of New York, 1874-76, and candidate for the presidency in 1876, resided here . . . — — Map (db m108585) HM
Works by Augustus Saint-Gaudens
which
inspired the decorative details
in
this playground
Due to the costs involved, the images that appear in decorative details in this playground are interpretations of the works by August Saint-Gaudens . . . — — Map (db m151160) HM
Renowned writer Anais Nin operated her printing press here in the 1940s, where she personally helped produce some of her earliest publications, including their artwork and typeface, regarding these as an extension of her creative process. Her work . . . — — Map (db m200493) HM
The landscape gardener lived here from 1872 to 1913. Her 192 commissions include the East Garden (1913) of The White House, and the grounds of Dumbarton Oaks (1922-41), also in Washington, D.C. The niece of the celebrated writer, Edith Wharton, she . . . — — Map (db m98662) HM
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
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
The novelist, playwright, and diarist lived here from 1931-1942, where she wrote Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel, Angels on Toast, and A Time to Be Born. Born in Ohio, she wrote perceptive novels set in small Midwestern towns, . . . — — Map (db m98685) HM
A printmaker, illustrator, and prominent watercolorist, Hopper is renowned for his oil paintings, whose focus on everyday life explores the visualization of human isolation, regret and boredom. His most famous painting, Nighthawks (1942), . . . — — Map (db m148744) HM