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There are nine National Monuments, National Memorials or National Historic Sites in New York City (all but the Statue of Liberty and Castle Clinton are also National Historic Landmarks): African Burial Ground National Monument, declared February 27, 2006. Governors Island National Monument, declared January 19, 2001.
December 9, 1997. Union Square is a historic intersection and surrounding neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, United States, located where Broadway and the former Bowery Road – now Fourth Avenue [4] – came together in the early 19th century. Its name denotes that "here was the union of the two principal thoroughfares of the island".
September 9, 2003. The Meatpacking District is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan that runs from West 14th Street south to Gansevoort Street, and from the Hudson River east to Hudson Street. [2] [3] [4] The Meatpacking Business Improvement District along with signage in the area, extend these borders farther north to West ...
Sugar Hill is a National Historic District in the Harlem and Hamilton Heights neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City, [3] bounded by West 155th Street to the north, West 145th Street to the south, Edgecombe Avenue to the east, and Amsterdam Avenue to the west. [4] The equivalent New York City Historic Districts are: The Federal district was ...
Ward's Point. Weeping Beech (Queens) Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) Wyckoff House. Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead. Categories: National Historic Landmarks in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in New York City. Historic sites in New York City.
The West Village is a neighborhood in the western section of the larger Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City. [1] The West Village is bounded by the Hudson River to the west and 14th Street to the north. The eastern boundary is variously cited as Greenwich Avenue, Seventh Avenue, or Sixth Avenue, while the southern ...
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), formed in 1965, is the New York City governmental commission that administers the city's Landmarks Preservation Law. Since its founding, it has designated over a thousand landmarks, classified into four categories: individual landmarks, interior landmarks, scenic landmarks, and historic ...
This category includes official landmarks designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, where the designation applies to at least part of a building or structure's interior, as described in the LPC website. Such sites are marked on the LPC's map of the city.