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The apartments along Central Park West, with their dramatic towers and turrets, tend to be more flamboyant than the more seda...
The northwest neighborhoods of Manhattan include parks, row houses, wide thoroughfares and views of the Hudson River.
The George Washington Bridge links New Jersey to the Washington Heights neighborhood and upper Manhattan, New York City.
The tiny "Little Red Lighthouse" made famous in a children's book, is tucked under the base of the George Washington Bridge.
City University, in Harlem, with its landmark Neo-Gothic architecture, is the oldest free public educational institution in t...
Before the age of the skyscraper, densely packed row houses, no more than four or five stories tall, were the order of the da...
From the Solow Building on 57th Street (bottom left) to the Empire State Building on 34th Street, midtown Manhattan, is as ar...
Rooftops in New York City are used for everything from mechanical equipment and water-tanks to elegant gardens and patios.
The scale of buildings on the Upper West Side is more modest than the skyscraper jungle of Midtown. Manhattan, New York City.
An aerial view of the Morningside Heights neighborhood. Manhattan, New York City.
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the most visited museums in Manhattan, New York City.
The west side is sandwiched between two of New York's most famous parks, Central and Riverside. Manhattan, New York City.
An aerial view of the American Museum of Natural History. Manhattan, New York City.
An aerial view of Columbia University. Manhattan, New York City.
The Empire State Building was inaugurated on May 1st, 1931 when the President of the USA, Herbert Hoover, turned on the light...
Fifth Avenue, New York's east/west dividing line, shines with luxury stores along its exclusive retail corridor from 34th to...
The late-20th century building boom in midtown produced landmark skyscrapers: (from left to right) 712 Fifth Avenue, the Gene...
The Chrysler Building lights up the surrounding landscape of Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
Pyramids are a recurrent theme in New York architecture, from the post-modern Zeckendorf Towers to the pinnacle of the Metrop...
42nd St has some of New York's most distinctive architecture: (from left to right) the Brutalist MetLife Building, the Art De...
This spectacular view of Manhattan shows the powerful upward thrust that has characterized the city since the early 20th cent...
Midtown, along the East River, is a modernist vision, with the Secretariat of the United Nations, Citigroup Center and Trump ...
The distinctive pyramidal roof of 10 East 40th Street (center) and the low-lying New York Public Library (left) stand out ami...
Though no longer a prime manufacturing center, the Garment District is still the heart of the New York fashion world. Manhat...
Below 34th Street, the size and scale of buildings shifts dramatically. Manhattan, New York City.
Upper East Side high-rise developers and tenants prize that elusive commodity: a room with with a view of the East River. Ma...
One of the most elegant and stately hotels on the Upper East Side, the 75-year-old Carlyle, rises above exclusive residences ...
Tile work and setbacks to maximize light and openness distinguished Art Deco architecture in Manhattan, New York City.
The elaborate ornamentation seen during the Art Deco period fell from favor during the latter 20th century, but made a comeba...
The small hemispheric cupola shown in the center of the photo is part of the Islamic Cultural Center, the first mosque to be ...
From above the buildings of midtown look like a child's box of blocks. Manhattan, New York City.
The Empire State Building, with its 102 floors, is the heart of midtown, between Fifth Avenue and Broadway on 34th Street. M...
From above the buildings of midtown look like a child's box of blocks. Manhattan, New York City.
The four pyramids atop Union Square's Zeckendorf Towers echo the four urns on the Consolidated Edison Building's Irving Plaza...
Across 34th Street, east of the Empire State Building, the New York University Medical Center and Belleview Hospital overlook...
Looking south down Lexington Avenue, the grid pattern with its north/south thoroughfares makes order out of the mass of high-...
The 102-story Empire State Building and the 77-story Chrysler Building, here perfectly aligned, are Art Deco icons in Manhatt...
With an octagonal pinnacle some say is too small for its massive base, the New York Life Insurance Building at Madison Square...
The rose-colored granite of the General Electric Tower on Lexington Avenue complements the verdigris towers of the Waldorf As...
The Flatiron Building, which is situated on the southeast corner of Madison Square Park, where Broadway and Fifth Avenue cros...
Two major examples of Art Deco architecture built in the early 20th-Century, the Lincoln Building and 295 Madison Avenue flau...
The Brutalist bulk of the MetLife Building overpowers the gothic-arched Lincoln Building across 42nd Sreet. Manhattan, New Y...
An aerial view of midtown Manhattan around Baruch College.
The gold-spired New York Life Building and the clocktower of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, modeled after the camp...
The bottom part of the photo shows the south edge of Madison Square Park, the former site of Madison Square Garden, with the ...
The spires of the New York Life and Metropolitan Life Towes rise above Madison Square Park, near the Flatiron District. Manh...
Tucked between Art Deco and Post-Modern buildings is the dramatic white facade of Baruch College's Vertical Campus. Manhatta...
A rooftop garden in Murray Hill is the perfect place for an after-work refreshment. Manhattan, New York City.
Looking south, towards Murray Hill and downtown Manhattan, the scale of buildings decreases. New York City.
The low-rise buildings of Murray Hill and Kips Bay give way to the skyscrapers of Midtown. Manhattan, New York City.