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An aerial view of the Manhattan Bridge. Manhattan, New York City.
The maze of cars and pedestrians traversing the Brooklyn Bridge crosses over the FDR Drive, which passes underneath its Manha...
The Brooklyn Bridge has a clearance at its center of 135 feet above the East River. New York City.
In 1884, showman P.T. Barnum herded 21 elephants across the Brooklyn Bridge; today 150,000 cars and thousands of pedestrians ...
Immediately after the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks, we see the American flag waving high on top of the Brooklyn Bridge. New Y...
The Manhattan Bridge is one of two suspension bridges in New York that carry both vehicular and rail traffic; four subway tra...
The solidity of the Brooklyn Bridge's towers makes its suspension cables seem almost delicate by comparison. Manhattan, New ...
The Manhattan Bridge has a two-dimensional profile to its towers, as compared to the rigid, three-dimensional towers on the B...
Pier 17 is at the heart of New York's 19th-century seaport, and now holds three floors of shops and restaurants, as well as b...
The fleet at the South Street Seaport Museum includes three historic ships that are open to the public: the Peking, the Wavet...
The Brooklyn Bridge leads from Brooklyn to lower Manhattan, where some of New York's oldest structures can be found alongside...
Buildings along the East River in Lower Manhattan were built on land that used to be water, using fill from construction site...
The New York rooftops are often home to hanging gardens or, as in this case, children's playgrounds. Manhattan, New York City.
The Gothic wonder of the white terracotta-clad Woolworth Building (right) appears pink in the sunlight and is a more ornate c...
A replica of a World War 1 Sopwith Camel biplane is poised for a flight of fancy atop 77 Water Street, in the insurance distr...
The hexagonal New York County Courthouse was modeled after a Corinthian temple, with a circular center linked to each of the ...
The area around City Hall, equidistant to the Hudson and the East Rivers, is America's second largest administrative complex ...
The US Courthouse (left) was the last of noted designer Cass Gilbert's New York buildings, with a temple-like base topped by ...
Built a quarter-century apart, the designs of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges are radically different. Manhattan, New Yor...
The Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge carry not only cars, but also pedestrians and bicyclists; subways run across the...
Peter Stuyvesant, New Amsterdam's first governor, built his estate along this stretch of the East River; today, Stuyvesant To...
The four red-brick apartment towers of Waterside Plaza are built on a platform over the East River. On the southern tip is th...
An aerial view of Lower Manhattan, looking west. Image includes Confucius Plaza and the Manhattan Bridge Colonnade.
The 44-story Confucius Plaza, a subsidized housing cooperative in Chinatown, rises above the colonnade leading to the Manhatt...
The East River, where shipping thrived from the 18th to the 20th centuries, is now the eastern border of the financial distri...
The Williamsburg Bridge entrance cuts through the Baruch Houses, Manhattan's largest housing project, and follows Delancy Str...
South Street Seaport, on the East River, recreates the days when downtown New York was a bustling shipping center. Manhattan...
An aerial view of the Manhattan Bridge in New York City, with the borough of Manhattan in the background.
An aerial view of the East Side of Lower Manhattan, (entrance to Manhattan Bridge, bottom right corner).
An aerial view of the Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York City.
Since the begining of the 19th century, Washington Square Park has been one of the city's cultural hubs and the meeting place...
Union Square Park has had a varied history, serving once as a Potter's Field, a parade ground and a public gallows, as well a...
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, hosts many outdoor recreational events, including open-air dancing on the front plaza...
Features of the Marcus Garvey Park, in addition to its pool and playgrounds, include an amphitheater and a landmark cast-iron...
Northeast of Central Park is the Marcus Garvey Memorial Park in Harlem, named for a black nationalist leader prominent in the...
Ever resourceful, given its limited open space, New York even has a 28-acre state park, Riverbank State Park, rising 69 feet ...
A view of the East River and the East River Park looking north towards midtown. Manhattan, New York City.
An aerial view of a soccer field in East River Park. Manhattan, New York City.
Once an area of factories, tenements and slaughterhouses, the East River Park now offers a riverside promenade alongside a ru...
A view of the Hudson River and Chelsea Piers with Manhattan in background.
Chelsea Piers, on the Hudson River, has found new uses for a once-forgotten waterfront, including golf. Manhattan, New York ...
The 550-acre Hudson River Park has revived abandoned and neglected piers, creating the largest open space project in Manhatta...
Barges in the East River get sunrise views of Carl Schurz Park and the Upper East Side. Manhattan, New York City.
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Highway wraps around Carl Schurz Park, along the East River. Manhattan, New York City.
Gracie Mansion, the residence of New York's mayor, is located in Carl Schurz Park on the Upper East Side. Manhattan, New Yor...
Columbus Circle is a major traffic hub and gateway to Central Park; the monument in the center is dedicated to Christopher Co...
The Time Warner Center anchors the western corner of Columbus Circle, dwarfing the elegantly scaled buildings of Central Park...
Long the tallest building on Central Park South, Hampshire House Hotel's two chimneys are barely two meters taller than the r...
A main entrance to Central Park is at Columbus Circle (lower right), the crossroads of Broadway, Central Park West, Central p...
A peek around the corner of 9 West 57th St. reveals a hint of Central Park. Manhattan, New York City.