New York Historical Society
New York Historical Society (102)
Founded in 1804 by great personalities of the city who strove to preserve their history and their stories, the New York Historical Society is the oldest museum in New York and also an enviable research library.
The building which contains its headquarters today is a 1908 work of architects York and Sawyer, built in Neoclassical style. Its various collections contain more than six million works of art, literature, decorative objects and other pieces of great interest to an ordinary day in the life of any New Yorker.
Among them, don't miss the excellent watercolour naturalist John James Audubon illustrating birds of the United States; the archives of the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, creators of the General Post Office, among other notable buildings; one of the most complete collections of Louis Comfort Tiffany lamps; more than half a million photographs of New York ranging from 1850 to today; as well as other items with an intimate historical and social value, such as advertising posters and postcards.
If you are traveling with children you will love the permanent exhibition called Kid City, where you can immerse yourself in the history of urban development in New York with the representation of a West Side street in the early 20th century.
The old museum has been able to reflect the heartbeat of the city that never sleeps.
ALL POINTS OF INTEREST
9-11 (19)
Bowling Green (11)
Central Park (120)
City Hall (23)
Cooper Union Foundation (62)
Empire State Building (73)
GE Building (90)
Ground Zero (18)
Memorial Plaza (145)
Nolita (29)
SoHo (37)
St Patrick's Old Cathedral (30)
Times Square (81)
United Nations (79)
World Trade Centre Transportation Hub (147)
9-11 Memorial (144)
Broadway (67)
Chelsea (50)
Columbia University (131)
Dakota Building (107)
Equitable Life Building (59)
General Post Office (66)
Lincoln Center (99)
Museum Mile (109)
One World Trade Center and One World Observatory (148)
South Street Seaport Historic District (27)
Statue of Liberty (3)
TriBeCa (36)
Wall Street (14)
Battery Park (4)
Brooklyn Bridge (26)
Chinatown (31)
Columbus Circle (97)
E. V. Haughwout Building (39)
Fifth Avenue (69)
Grand Central Terminal (75)
Little Italy (28)
New York Public Library (71)
Radio City Music Hall (89)
St John the Divine Cathedral (130)
The Mall (126)
Trinity Church (13)
Washington Square Park (41)
Bethesda Fountain (123)
Carnegie Hall (96)
Chrysler Building (76)
Con Edison Building (60)
Ellis Island (2)
Flatiron Building (68)
Greenwich Village (40)
Little Singer Building (38)
New York Stock Exchange (16)
Rockefeller Center (88)
St Patrick's Cathedral (87)
The Reservoir (127)
Trump Tower (103)
Woolworth Building (24)
30 Park Place (143)
Astor Place Subway Station (84)
Bryant Park (70)
Central Park Zoo (124)
City Hall Park (22)
Cushman Row (48)
Federal Hall National Memorial (17)
Grace Church (58)
International Building (93)
Marilyn Subway Grate (72)
New York Times Building (138)
Roosvelt Island Tram Way (140)
Stone Street (149)
Temple Emmanu-El (110)
Tiffany & Co. (104)
Wollman Memorial Park (121)
432 Park Avenue (142)
Bank of America Tower (136)
Caffe Reggio (139)
Channel Gardens (92)
Cleopatra's Needle (129)
Daily News Building (77)
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (15)
Groud Zero - Tribute to The Victims (20)
Lower Plaza (91)
New Victory Theater (83)
One57 (141)
St Luke's in the Fields (45)
Strand Book Store (56)
The Ghostbusters Headquarters (150)
Union Square Park (57)
African Burial Ground (25)
Belvedere Castle (122)
Carlyle Hotel (106)
Chelsea Hotel (52)
Conservatory Garden (125)
Duffy Square (82)
Ford Foundation Building (78)
Hearst Tower (135)
Madison Square (65)
New World Trade Center (21)
Riverside Church (132)
St Luke's Place (46)
Strawberry Fields (128)
The High Line Park (47)
Washington Mews (43)
Apollo Theater (133)
Bowling Green Bull (12)
Castle Clinton (6)
Church of Our Lady of the Rosary (7)
Cunard Building (10)
Eldridge Street Synagogue (33)
Fraunces Tavern (9)
Hudson River Park (49)
Maine Memorial (98)
New York by Gehry (8 Spruce Street) (137)
Riverside Park (101)
St Mark's Church in the Bowery (64)
Stuyvesant Street (63)
The Pythian Temple (100)
White Horse Tavern (42)
American Museum of Natural History (108)
DIA Art Foundation (54)
International Center of Photography (85)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (114)
Museum of Jewish Heritage (5)
National September 11 Memorial Museum (146)
Pierpont Morgan Library & Museum (74)
Theodore Roosevelt House (55)
Asia Society and Museum (112)
Forbes Galleries (44)
Jewish Musem (117)
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden (105)
Museum of Modern Art (95)
New Museum of Contemporary Art (35)
Rubin Museum of Art (53)
Villard Mansions (80)
