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The Lady of Liberty, a gift to the U.S. from the people of France in 1886, holds her torch aloft on her perch on Liberty Isla...
The New York Life Insurance Building. Manhattan, New York City.
Though it is no longer possible to climb to the torch of the Statue of Liberty, her crown is accessible for those willing to ...
With a face said to have been modeled after the mother of her sculptor, Frederic Bartholdi, the Statue of Liberty wears a cro...
Stuyvesant High School (lower right) is one of Manhattan's most competitive public schools.
Power and high finance are concentrated in Wall Street and the surrounding areas. From left to right it is possible to recog...
The gaping 16-acre space left after the destruction of the World Trade Center is a visible sign of dramatic impact of the ter...
Rockefeller Park sits at the northwestern corner of Battery Park City, a 90-acre planned community of apartments, parks, offi...
Ever resourceful, New Yorkers have created land where once there was river; Battery Park City, with grassy lawns and a riverf...
An aerial view of Civic Center in Lower Manhattan. The Municipal Building is in the center. The U.S. Courthouse, with a pyr...
An aerial view of Lower Manhattan, New York City. (Verizon building in lower right corner)
A big neon sign advertises CNN, the television network that has come to symbolize New York and the United States around the w...
Thanks to a solid foundation of granite bedrock, lower Manhattan can accommodate the jumble of skyscrapers at its tip, though...
Chase Manhattan Building, One Liberty Plaza, the Morgan Bank and the World Financial Center buildings surround 40 Wall Street...
The AIG Building and the Trump Building were the second-generation of Financial District skyscrapers. Manhattan, New York City.
An aerial view of Ellis Island, where between 1890 and 1954, 12 million immigrants were processed after arriving on ships. T...
A ferry departs from the south tip of Manhattan, New York City.
A ferry leaving the southwest tip of Lower Manhattan, heading for Liberty Island, located in New York Harbor.
St. Paul's Chapel is the oldest church in Manhattan and pre-dates the American Revolution. It has survived fires, wars and t...
The distinctive copper roof tops of the four World Financial Center Towers include a dome, a solid pyramid, a cut pyramid and...
The low-slung modern Borough of Manhattan Community College is perpendicular to the North Esplanade of Battery Park City. Ma...
The former U.S. Customs House, a u-shaped building just below Bowling Green, is now the home of the National Museum of the Am...
The Cesar Pelli-designed domed tower of 2 World Financial Center is home to Merrill Lynch, and is part of a complex of office...
The ferry at the southern tip of the island is free of charge and has carried commuters to and from Manhattan and Staten Isla...
Once a rural hamlet, Greenwich Village retains its low-rise character, though wedged between the skyscrapers of midtown and d...
New York University buildings and dorms dominate much of Greenwich Village surrounding Washington Square. Manhattan, New Yor...
The Archives, a luxury condominium and office complex, was once the U.S. Federal Archives Building. Across Christopher Stree...
In addition to charming cobblestone streets and historic townhouses, Greenwich Village is also one of the greener areas of Ne...
The Victorian Gothic Jefferson Market, on Sixth Avenue at West 10th Street, was once a courthouse and is now a public library...
Greenwich Village is one of the few places in Manhattan that does not conform to the grid pattern, with streets and alleys th...
The tip of the island is where New York began; its area has increased since the Dutch first settled here, thanks to landfill ...
The Museum of Jewish Heritage is a living memorial to the Holocaust, located at the southern end of Battery Park City. Its s...
Pier 40, at West Houston Street and the Hudson River, houses the Pier Park and Playground Association, as well as fields for ...
Abandoned and derelict twenty years ago, the Hudson riverfront has been reborn as a vital and and exciting place to live and ...
Chelsea, once home to stately townhouses and later to longshoremen, now rivals Shoho as a center for art galleries expensive ...
London Terrace, with 1665 units filling an entire block at West 23rd Street and Tenth Avenue, was the largest apartment build...
The High Line, a 1.5 mile, abandoned elevated railway that runs from West 34th Street through the now-trendy Meatpacking Dist...
Architect Philip Johnson's last residential commission, the Urban Glass House (center foreground), at Spring and Washington, ...
Tucked between Greenwich Village and the East Village, the newly designated neighborhoods of Noho and Nolita are populated by...
A view of Tribeca: cars loop around the exit leading from the Holland Tunnel at the convergence of Hudson Street and Canal. ...
Hanging gardens create areas of greenery in the Manhattan sky. New York City.
The Jacob Javits Convention Center was designed by I.M. Pei and built in 1986. Manhattan, New York City.
The Jacob Javits Convention Center is the centerpiece of major reconstruction on Manhattan's west side. New York City.
The attack and collapse of the World Trade Towers - which once soared above the World Financial Center - left a gaping hole i...
The Financial District is located at the southern end of Manhattan, New York City.
The solid granite buttresses of the Brooklyn Bridge and the graceful blue-tinted towers of the Manhattan Bridge link burgeoni...
A sightseeing cruiser approaches the Manhattan Bridge, topped by four decorative spheres on each of its towers. New York City.
Though eclipsed in fame by its older neighbor, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge is the busiest of the East River cro...
The Manhattan Bridge carries seven lanes of roadways and four subway tracks, as well as pedestrians and cyclists. New York C...
The pylons of Manhattan Bridge are periodically repainted an attractive bright blue color. Manhattan, New York City.