Internationally acclaimed poet and
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
lived here from August 1958 to March 1961.
His signal poem Howl (1956) helped launch
The Beat Generation.
Kaddish (1961), a . . . — — Map (db m105140) HM
Carmen Pabon, Mother of Loisaida, Puerto Rican community activist, gardener, poet and actress, founded this garden as an urban sanctuary for children, local artists, Nuyorican poets and the elderly. Carmen helped thousands to create a better life . . . — — Map (db m241352) 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
The Firemen’s Garden on East Eighth Street between Avenues C and D honors the memory of all New York City firefighters who were killed in the line of duty. The site pays homage in particular to the memory of Martin R. Celic (1952-1977), a young . . . — — Map (db m145373) HM
In memory of
General Milan R. Stefanik
Astronomer – Soldier
Czecho-Slovak patriot
Born – Ju(ly) 1, 1880
Died – May 4, 1919
Dedicated by
Slovak Welfare Club (TATRA)
May 3, 1942 — — Map (db m163600) WM
This site is a public garden which is maintained by neighborhood volunteers through GreenThumb. Founded in 1978, GreenThumb helps local residents transform vacant properties into attractive green spaces. If you want to join this garden, call (212) . . . — — Map (db m241343) HM
This site is a public garden which is maintained by neighborhood volunteers through GreenThumb. Founded in 1978, GreenThumb helps local residents transform vacant properties into attractive green spaces. If you want to join this garden, call (212) . . . — — Map (db m241438) HM
Harry Hopkins, one of the most influential non-elected officials in American history, became a Settlement House worker in 1912 at Christodora, where his exposure to the struggles of new immigrants helped shape his thinking about social reform. . . . — — Map (db m145733) HM
What was here before?
This was once the site of the original three-story Public School 126. The outdated structure was demolished in the 1930s, and the memorial park was built. An updated PS 126 ow stands on Catherine Street.
How did . . . — — Map (db m241341) HM
1843 – 1968
Jubilee Year
commemorating
125th Anniversary
of
Most Holy Redeemer Church
Sept. 28, 1968
Most. Rev. Terrence J. Cooke
Archbishop of New York — — Map (db m145846) HM
La Plaza Cultural is situated in Lenapehoking, homeland of the Lenape diaspora, and historically a gathering and trading place for many diverse Native peoples, who continue to live and work on this island.
We respectfully acknowledge and . . . — — Map (db m241345) HM
Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, lived here at 414 East 10th St. in the 1940s with his wife Martha.
Lead Belly played the 12-string guitar and was one of the most influential musicians of all time. He was born in Mooringsport, . . . — — Map (db m241348) HM
Let us brace our hearts to fresh endurance,
Let us adjust our minds to action, energetic, righteous;
Let us uplift our consciousness by faith invisible
for the nation cannot perish that had a soul so great, so immortal! . . . — — Map (db m145734) HM
Most Holy Redeemer Church
designated
Pilgrimage Shrine
in honor of
Our Mother of Perpetual Help
Centennial Year – 1966
✞ Francis Cardinal Spellman
Archbishop of New York — — Map (db m145845) HM
Samuel Sullivan “Sunset” Cox (1824–1889) was born in Zanesville, Ohio, and served his home state as a Democratic Congressional representative from 1857 to 1865 before being unseated. After moving to New York in 1866, Cox served . . . — — Map (db m145348) HM
Dedicated in 1906, this fountain serves as a reminder of those who died aboard the excursion steamer General Slocum on June 15, 1904. Prior to September 11, 2001, the burning of the General Slocum had the highest death toll of any disaster in New . . . — — Map (db m145736) HM
Dating to 1888, this neo-classical fountain was the gift of the wealthy San Francisco dentist, businessman, and temperance crusader Henry D. Cogswell (1820–1900).
Cogswell was born in Tolland, Connecticut in 1820, the son of an architect . . . — — Map (db m145253) HM
This park honors Daniel D. Tompkins (1774–1825), who served as Governor of New York from 1807 to 1817 and as Vice President of the United States under James Monroe (1758-1831) from 1817 to 1825. Peter Stuyvesant (1610–1672), director . . . — — Map (db m145224) HM
This monument erected on
Admiral George Dewey Promenade
to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of
the Battle of Manila Bay
May 1, 1898
United Spanish War Veterans
Naval Academy Association of New York
Sons of the Revolution in . . . — — Map (db m127046) WM
Dedicated to all Merchant Mariners who have served America from the Revolutionary War through present day. In the prosecution of war and in pursuit of peaceful commerce, unrecognized thousands have lost their lives at sea. Their sacrifices have . . . — — Map (db m29281) HM
Commissioned by the American Merchant Mariners’ Memorial, Inc., this memorial was conceived in 1976. In 1988, after an extensive competition, the artist Marisol Escobar (1930-2016), known as Marisol, was chosen to develop her design. Situated . . . — — Map (db m233775) HM
In spring 2006, during the South Ferry excavation in the Battery, four sections of a colonial era wall were identified by archaeologists. Although each of the four sections exhibited unique features, they are all likely part of the same wall, . . . — — Map (db m20306) HM
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
[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
Base of Memorial centerpiece, front:
1941 * * * * 1945 Erected by the United States of America in proud and grateful remembrance of her sons who gave their lives in her service and who sleep in the American coastal waters of the Atlantic . . . — — Map (db m29208) HM
Tribute to
Emma Lazarus
Poet Patriot
author of The New Colossus,
the sonnet inscribed on the Statue of Liberty
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
with conquering limbs astride from land to land . . . — — Map (db m29387) HM
The site of some of New York's greatest events during the eighteenth century, the original Federal Hall was this country's first Capitol under the Constitution. On April 30, 1789 George Washington was sworn in here as the first President of the . . . — — Map (db m207510) HM
In April 1524 the Florentine-born navigator Verrazzano led the French caravel La Dauphine to the discovery of the Harbor of New York and named these shores Angouleme in honor of Francis I King of France — — Map (db m127196) HM
Rising to an imposing 150 feet from a bluff overlooking the Hudson River, this monument to General Grant is the largest mausoleum in America. Constructed of over 8,000 tons of granite, the great tomb was built to honor the Civil War general who . . . — — Map (db m207520) HM
New Pier 1 was designed by General George B. Mc Clellan (of Civil War Fame), first Engineer-in-Chief of the Department of Docks. It was constructed between 1872 and 1877 as part of a larger maritime complex that included a wharf and boat landing. . . . — — Map (db m127121) HM
Pier A, a designated New York City landmark, was constructed by the Department of Docks' third Engineer-in-Chief, George S. Greene Jr. between 1884 and 1886.
The pier's two-story building served as the headquarters of the Department of Docks . . . — — Map (db m114673) HM
This map, dated 1695, shows a wall with batteries built to the south and west of Fort George, located at the tip of Manhattan. It was likely constructed of wood and stone. Additional works were added throughout the early to mid-18th century. The . . . — — Map (db m29319) HM
When the Beatles arrived in New York City in 1964 they were met by 3,000 screaming fans. Jenny Lind, "The Swedish Nightingale", was met on the dock by 30,000 fans. But who is Jenny Lind?
Joanna Marie Lind was born in Stockholm Sweden October . . . — — Map (db m207515) HM
Order of September 18, 1814 – “The force employed will be 2 gunners and 8 matrosses (artillerists) to each gun. To every section or chamber of 2 guns a non-commissioned officer” . . . — — Map (db m20308) HM
Edison's Laboratory and Home
West Orange, New Jersey
This site features Thomas A. Edison's home, laboratories, and library. Edison developed the practical phonograph and the movie camera here.
Eleanor Roosevelt's . . . — — Map (db m207517) HM
This monument in Battery Park north of Castle Clinton, honors military personnel who served in the Korean Conflict (1950-1953). The memorial, dedicated in 1991, was designed by Welsh-born artist Mac Adams (b. 1943) and is notable as one of the first . . . — — Map (db m33600) WM
This monument honors military personnel who served in the Korean War (1950-1953). The memorial, dedicated in 1991, was designed by Welsh-born artist Mac Adams (b.1943) and is notable as one of the first Korean War memorials erected in the United . . . — — Map (db m198609) HM WM
[North Marker Plaque :]
In World War II, 1,100 Norwegian ships served the Allied cause by hauling supplies between U.S. ports and the war theaters abroad. A sizeable part of the Allied forces were supplied by ships flying the Norwegian . . . — — Map (db m29309) HM
Statue of Liberty
Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, sculptor
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, engineer
Richard Morris Hunt, architect of base, 1871-86
Ellis Island
Boring and Tilton, architects
Ellis Island and the Statue . . . — — Map (db m132034) HM
Dedicated to the people of all nations who entered America through Castle Gardens. In memory of Samuel Rudin 1896 ---------- 1975 Whose parents arrived in America in 1883 — — Map (db m20300) HM
In 1790 the Common Council of the City of New York authorized the removal of stone and soil from Fort George and the Grand Battery to fill in the pier line along the Battery. Beginning in 1808, the defenses of the city were extended out into the . . . — — Map (db m148098) HM
A Field Guide of New York Harbor
New York Harbor extends from its dramatic gateway at The Narrows, a turbulent channel separating Staten Island from Brooklyn, to the Battery at Manhattan’s southern-most tip. One of the world’s great natural . . . — — Map (db m134149) HM
Left: A Floating Metropolis
A plan to create a new residential and commercial neighborhood on the site of the decaying Hudson River piers was first proposed in the early 1960s. Battery Park City is a remarkable technological achievement. To . . . — — Map (db m145913) HM
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Battery Park City Parks and Authority employees tirelessly assisted in the clean-up of Battery Park City, revitalizing our parks and restoring our neighborhood to the refuge it is today. We dedicate this oasis . . . — — Map (db m232546) HM
1524: Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano (sic), on an expedition sponsored by the French crown, sails into New York Harbor. He records his discovery but never sets foot on land.
1600
1609: Englishman Henry Hudson, backed by the Dutch East . . . — — Map (db m134183) HM
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
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
Left: Ferries, Tugs and Tall Ships
Not so long ago, New Yorkers travelling overseas left from passenger terminals located on Manhattan’s west side piers. Steamship lines owned their own terminals, and the arrivals and departures of great . . . — — Map (db m134089) HM
As one of the most famous and respected black abolitionist leaders of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass inspired many people through his courage and determination.
Frederick Bailey was born a slave in February 1818 on Holmes Hill Farm in . . . — — Map (db m168927) HM
Maria Francesca Xavier Cabrini, known as Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American who worked tirelessly to improve the lives of orphans, immigrants and other disadvantaged New Yorkers. In 1889, she arrived in New York on a mission to help Italian . . . — — Map (db m198659) HM
Dedicated by Governor • Dedicado por el Gobernador
Andrew M. Cuomo March • Marzo 2021
Segundo Cardona, FAIA, Archetect • Arquitecto
Antonio Martorell, Artist • Artista
On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria, the strongest hurricane to . . . — — Map (db m235466) HM
On September 11 2001, our beloved and brave children witnessed the best and worst of humanity. We honor the heroic and compassionate principals, teachers and staff of PS and IS 89 who brought them to safety, of both body and spirit.
With profound . . . — — Map (db m132232) HM
This dog run is named in honor of PAPD K-9 Sirius #17. He was a four year old yellow Labrador Retriever who served as an explosives detector canine for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Sirius lost his life during the World Trade . . . — — Map (db m128900) HM WM
The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Park
Vice President of the United States 1974-1977
Governor of the State of New York 1959-1973
“There is nothing wrong with American that courage, commitment, and love cannot conquer. There is nothing . . . — — Map (db m132488) HM
Rosario Candela (1890-1953), one of the most prolific and respected residential architects of his era, designed 755 West End Avenue in 1925. Mr. Candela's buildings are known for their well-planned interiors and dignified facades, ornamented with . . . — — Map (db m242773) HM
The Firemen’s Memorial (1913) in Riverside Park is one of the most impressive monuments in New York City. The monument was designed by H. Van Buren Magonigle (1867-1935) and its sculptures are attributed to Attilio Piccirilli (1866-1945). . . . — — Map (db m54004) HM
To the heroic dead of the Fire Department < Back of Monument : > To the men of the Fire Department of the City of New York who died at the call of duty Soldiers in a war that never ends This memorial is dedicated by the people of a . . . — — Map (db m54005) HM
This bronze equestrian sculpture of military officer, educator, journalist, and public servant Franz Sigel (1824-1902) is by the distinguished sculptor Karl Bitter (1867-1915). Sigel is also honored with a park named for him, which is . . . — — Map (db m53973) HM
George Gershwin - composer and Ira Gershwin - lyricist created many memorable works here.
102 and 103 Streets Block Association
June 19, 1982 — — Map (db m97257) HM
A humanist writer and philosopher whose guiding principle was “To Think What We Are Doing,” Hannah Arendt though boldly about our shared political world. Born in Hanover, Germany in 1906, Arendt studied under Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers. . . . — — Map (db m222354) HM
This site is the childhood home of
Humphrey DeForest Bogart
1899 - 1957
Mr Bogart lived at this site from the time he was born until 1923. During a film career that spanned nearly 30 years and 75 films, Mr Bogart became not only a . . . — — Map (db m18319) HM
This commemorative terrace and balustrade, part of the staircase inserted at 97th Street into the 19th-century, rustic perimeter wall enclosing Riverside Park, honors the distinguished architect John Mervin Carrère (1858–1911).
Carrère was . . . — — Map (db m170903) HM
What was here before?
Tenth Avenue above West 59th Street was renamed Amsterdam Avenue in 1890, in an effort by local businesses seeking to boost property values. The new name distanced them from the street's "Death Avenue" moniker in lower . . . — — Map (db m242817) HM
Built between 1899 and 1902, these townhouses are uniformly and elegantly in the French Beaux-Arts style, popular in that period but usually reserved in the United States for large public buildings. Many late 19th century American architects . . . — — Map (db m53998) HM
Shinran Shonin is the founder of the Jodo Shinshu Sect of Buddhism. He developed the doctrine that reveals the one unobstructed way through which we can receive salvation and Buddhahood. This teaching is the torch that lights the way and . . . — — Map (db m53986) HM
This park is named in honor of Isidor and Ida Straus who lost their lives on the Titanic when it hit an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912. Isidor Straus (1854-1912) is remembered for helping to develop R.H. Macy & Co. into the world's largest . . . — — Map (db m242789) HM
Straus Park is named for Isidor Straus and his wife Ida, who died on April 15, 1912 when the S.S. Titanic sank on its maiden voyage from England to America. The ship hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank three hours later. More than 1500 . . . — — Map (db m242809) HM
The great pianist, composer, singer, teacher and the first woman conductor was born in Caracas, Venezuela on December 22, 1853 and died here at "Della Robia" on June 12, 1917 as an American citizen.
A pupil of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Anton . . . — — Map (db m98553) HM
The conductor and composer, lived here from 1904 to 1924. During that time, he organized the Victor Herbert Orchestra, wrote the operettas "Naughty Marietta" and "Sweethearts," advocated the Copyright Law of 1909, and helped to found ASCAP. — — Map (db m98482) HM
A culturally diverse and artistically rich area, home to small, independent businesses contributing to New York City's vibrant life.
Bloomingdale is the historic neighborhood from 96th to 110th Street between Central Park and . . . — — Map (db m242785) HM
You are standing at the former site of the Blossom Restaurant and barber shop shown in Berenice Abbott’s iconic Depression era photograph, one of several Bowery images in her influential Changing New York series.
An Ohio born expatriate . . . — — Map (db m132413) HM
You are standing in front of what was once George Geoghegan’s Saloon, NYC’s most notorious bare knuckle boxing saloon. An Irish-born street-slugger-turned-professional boxer, Geoghegan (pronounced gay-gen), used his fame and earnings from the . . . — — Map (db m132463) HM
In the 1890, this address was headquarters of Tammany Hall’s 3rd Assembly District, headed by “Big Tim” Sullivan – a Five Points-born political powerhouse who dominated NYC politics from 1890 to 1913. Master at swaying public . . . — — Map (db m133644) HM
The New Museum is the former site of the London Theatre, where in 1894 Lotte Gilson (“The Little Magnet”) first sang “The Sidewalks of New York,” an iconic song that encapsulated the feel of Manhattan’s working class neighborhoods.
The London . . . — — Map (db m133318) HM
Established in 1879 by Reverend and Mrs. A.G. Ruliffson, the Bowery Mission was located at 14, 36, 55 and 105 Bowery before moving to 227 Bowery in 1909, an event heralded by a visit and speech by President Taft.
For nearly 140 years, it has . . . — — Map (db m133150) HM
By 1890, it was estimated that 9,000 homeless men, many of them alcoholics or gambling addicts, found lodging in Bowery flophouses. Accommodations could be a person-sized spot to flop on a wooden floor in a large open ward for 5 cents or a wooden . . . — — Map (db m133762) HM
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
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 Museum, and . . . — — Map (db m133593) HM
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
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
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
According to Bernie Faerman, when Faerman Cash Register Company opened at 331 Broome Street (1959) and then relocated to 159 Bowery (1963), the area was “Cash Register Heaven,” with multiple dealerships within just a few blocks. A museum . . . — — Map (db m132822) HM
In 1881, Worth’s Museum and Congress of Living and Intimate Curiosities opened at 101 Bowery. Like other dime museums which lined the Bowery, Worth’s offered a variety of freakish amusements, such as the largest specimen of giant squid in North . . . — — Map (db m132411) HM
Step back for a moment to take in the eclectic design of the elaborate façade drawing on Renaissance Revival and Neo-Classical ornament. The carved limestone storefront that extends to the second story incorporates pilasters with smooth shafts and . . . — — Map (db m132919) HM
Carved from sandstone quarried in Ohio, this impressive Italian Renaissance façade boasts a sophisticated hierarchy of window ornament in the three upper stories, graduating from pealed pediments, to round pediments to flat lintels with projecting . . . — — Map (db m133732) HM
This is the former site of undertakers McGraw and Taylor, where the body of John Brown was secretly prepared for burial. Executed on December 2, 1859, for the raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, the radical abolitionist had tried to ignite an armed . . . — — Map (db m179403) 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
Kehila Kedosha Janina was built in 1926–27 by Greek-speaking Jews from Northwestern Greece and is the only Romaniote synagogue in the Western Hemisphere. The brick-faced facade is embellished with symbolic Hebraic ornaments, including a stone . . . — — Map (db m26879) 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
You are standing at the corporate roots of Hammacher Schlemmer, America’s longest running catalogue for the “man who has everything.” Opening in 1848 at 221 Bowery, it specialized in hard-to-find hardware. Located in the 5-story building . . . — — Map (db m133664) HM
The M’Finda Kalunga Garden is named in memory of an African-American burial ground that was located on nearby Chrystie Street between Rivington and Stanton Streets.
Dutch colonists brought the first enslaved Africans to the New Amsterdam . . . — — Map (db m135368) 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
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