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History · New York City

New York City has 1,039 places on the National Register, 116 of them National Historic Landmarks

Among the most historic 1% of U.S. towns · #27 of 758 in New York State. What drives it

Dated to 1624 (Wikidata), with 38% of its homes built before 1940 and 170 historic districts holding 35,819 contributing buildings. Below: 132 old photos and papers, maps from 1947 on, the census since 1790, and every listing on the Register.

1624founded
1,039on the National Register
38%homes built before 1940
132old photos & papers
99famous people
From New York City’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How New York City began, and where its name came from

When was New York City founded?

1624

New York City dates its founding to 1624 (Wikidata). It appears in the first U.S. census, 1790.

First census: 33,131 in 17902020 census: 8,804,190402 years

How did New York City get its name?

In 1664, New York was named in honor of the Duke of York (later King James II of England).

How historic is New York City?

A+

Among the most historic 1% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: Wikidata. First post office: 1775. Name: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.The full story ↓
History grade

What drives New York City’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, New York City is among the most historic 1% of U.S. towns, #27 of 758 in New York State. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its age ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.

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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of New York City’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Among the top 1%
NewerOlder
New York State towns of 2,500+ (758)Ahead of 97%

Among the 400 U.S. cities of 100,000 or more, New York City ranks #19 on History.

New York State towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical New York State town has 12.3 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so New York City’s 42.2 sits above most of its state (66% of New York State towns have fewer) while its 35,819 historic buildings are more than any other U.S. town’s.

NoteThe founding year comes from Wikidata alone; no second source gives 1624.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would still be A+. The pre-1940 share (±0.2 points) is firm at this size. A citywide figure averages neighborhoods that differ a lot.

Founding year: Wikidata (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about New York City’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · By decade

New York City, decade by decade

22 decades in the archive, from the 1660s to the 1990s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1990s1 item
On the National Register

1,039 listings protect 35,819 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. 116 are National Historic Landmarks, the highest tier. Boundary changes and added documentation are counted with their listing.

places listed
1,039
National Historic Landmarks
116
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
historic buildings protected
35,819
each building in a district counts
first listed
1966
Brooklyn Bridge
Castle Clinton National Monument, built 1946Federal Hall National Memorial, built 1842General Grant National Memorial, built 1897Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island and Liberty Island, built 1924Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, built 1923New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, built 1849Schermerhorn Row BlockJohn Street Building No. 170-176, built 1840Boathouse on the Lullwater of the Lake in Prospect Park, built 1904Battery Weed, built 1861Firehouse, Engine Company 31, built 1895Grecian Shelter, built 1905Old Brooklyn Fire HeadquartersBlackwell House, built 1796Chapel of the Good Shepherd, built 1888City Hospital, built 1832Firehouse, Engine Company 33Flushing Town Hall, built 1862Lighthouse, built 1872Octagon, TheRainey Memorial Gates, built 1934Smallpox Hospital, built 1856Strecker Memorial LaboratoryWilliam H. Moore House, built 1900Madison Avenue Facade of the Squadron A Armory, built 1895Bialystoker Synagogue, built 1826Church of the Holy Apostles, built 1848Kingsland Homestead, built 1973J. P. Morgan & Co. BuildingSt.-Marks-In-The-BoweryAdmiral's House, built 1843Block House, TheFlatbush Town Hall, built 1875James Watson HouseSt. James Church, built 1837Castle Williams, built 1807Municipal Building, built 1914South Street SeaportCharles Street House at No. 131, built 1834High Bridge Aqueduct and Water Tower, built 2015Hunterfly Road Historic District, built 1838Smith, Abigail Adams, Museum, built 1799Kreuzer-Pelton House, built 1722U.S. General Post Office, built 191475 Murray Street Building, built 1865Jumel Terrace Historic DistrictGovernor's HouseChurch of the Transfiguration and Rectory, built 1849John Street Methodist Church, built 1841Charlton-King-Vandam Historic DistrictE. V. Haughwout Building, built 1857New Dorp Light, built 1856Hunters Point Historic DistrictSniffen Court Historic DistrictFort Jay, built 1794Henderson Place Historic DistrictFulton Ferry DistrictSalmagundi Club, built 1871Fort Tompkins Quadrangle, built 1861Federal Office Building, built 1894Federal Building and Post Office, built 1891Judson Memorial Church, Campanile, and Judson HallSt. Mark's Historic District, built 1795Association Residence Nursing Home, built 1881Archibald Gracie Mansion, built 1799City Pier A, built 1886Villard HousesSt. Nicholas Historic DistrictErasmus Hall AcademyStuyvesant Heights Historic DistrictBillou-Stillwell-Perine House, built 1662Cobble Hill Historic DistrictHarlem Fire Watchtower, built 1856American Museum of Natural History, built 1869Fort SchuylerEdward Mooney House, built 1789LaGrange TerraceMetropolitan Savings Bank, built 1867Municipal Ferry Pier, built 1909Vander Ende-Onderdonk House SiteLewis G. Morris House, built 1914Fraunces Tavern BlockNew York Cancer Hospital, built 1884Neville HouseHouse at 51 Market St.Old New York Evening Post BuildingPoppenhusen Institute, built 1868Brooklyn Museum, built 1897William E. Dodge House, built 1863Old St. Patrick's Cathedral Complex, built 1809John Bowne House, built 1661Devinne Press Building, built 1886Litchfield VillaJames B. Duke Mansion, built 1912Chelsea Historic DistrictEmmanuel Baptist Church, built 1887Hotel ChelseaApthorp ApartmentsValentine-Varian House, built 1758Radio City Music Hall, built 1932WavertreeParamount Studios Complex, built 1921John Rankin House, built 1840South Street Seaport Historic DistrictGilsey Hotel, built 1871Fort Tryon Park and the Cloisters, built 1935Queensboro BridgeDunbar ApartmentsJeffrey's Hook Lighthouse, built 1921Greenwich Village Historic DistrictAndrew S. Norwood House, built 2007Ottendorfer Public Library and Stuyvesant Polyclinic HospitalCornell Farmhouse, built 1750Flatlands Dutch Reformed Church, built 1660Hall of Fame ComplexFirst Houses, built 1936Harlem River HousesAlwyn Court ApartmentsBuilding at 376-380 Lafayette StreetAssociation of the Bar of the City of New YorkHouse at 37 East 4th StreetPark Avenue HousesAnsonia Hotel, built 1904Brooklyn Borough HallNew Amsterdam Theater, built 1903State Street HousesGramercy Park Historic DistrictSt. Andrew's Episcopal ChurchEast 78th Street Houses, built 1861Mott Haven Historic DistrictEast 80th Street HousesChurch of the Immaculate Conception and Clergy HousesDr. Samuel MacKenzie Elliott House, built 1850Former Police Headquarters Building, built 1909Harvard Club of New York CityRoosevelt, Sara Delano, Memorial House, built 1907Bowling Green Fence and Park, built 1733Marble Collegiate Reformed Church, built 1980New Utrecht Reformed Church and Buildings, built 1677Sea and Land Church, built 1819St. Monica's Church, built 1957St. Thomas Church and Parish House, built 1913Williamsburgh Savings Bank, built 1875Floyd Bennett Field Historic District, built 1928Knickerbocker HotelMiller Army Air Field Historic DistrictChurch of the Transfiguration, built 1801Claremont Stables, built 1892First Reformed Church, built 1858Harlem Courthouse, built 1893Kings County Savings Bank, built 1867Mariner's Temple, built 1845Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, built 1916St. Ann's Church Complex, built 1840University ClubChurch of the Holy Communion and Buildings, built 1844First Shearith Israel Graveyard, built 1682Garibaldi Memorial, built 1840Public School 39, built 1876Bailey House, built 1888Belnord Apartments, built 1908Bouwerie Lane Theater, built 1874Bowery Savings BankBuilding at 85 Leonard StreetChanin BuildingHanson Place Seventh Day Adventist Church, built 1860Moore-McMillen House, built 1818New York, Westchester and Boston Railroad Administration BuildingOld Colony Club, built 1903Old Grolier ClubPublic Baths, built 1908Reformed Church of Newtown Complex, built 1832Schinasi House, built 1907St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church and Rectory, built 1886St. Jean Baptiste Church and Rectory, built 1913St. Peter's Roman Catholic ChurchUnion Theological Seminary, built 1836No. 8 Thomas Street Building, built 1875American Fine Arts SocietyAtlantic Avenue Control HouseBattery Park Control HouseBronx Central Annex-U.S. Post OfficeBuilding at 45 East 66th StreetChurch of Notre Dame and RectoryControl House on 72nd StreetFederal Reserve Bank of New YorkGertrude Rhinelander Waldo Mansion, built 1898McGolrick, Monsignor, Park and Shelter PavilionMott Avenue Control HouseNew York Public Library, 115th Street Branch, built 1908Scribner BuildingSeguine House, built 1838St. Augustine's Chapel, built 1829Twentythird Regiment Armory, built 1895West End Collegiate Church and Collegiate SchoolAmerican Radiator Building, built 1924Edgewater Village Hall and Tappen ParkLescaze House, built 1934Municipal Asphalt Plant, built 1941Audubon Terrace Historic DistrictHoly Trinity Church, St. Christopher House and Parsonage, built 1897Isaac L. Rice MansionFonthill Castle and the Administration Building of the College of Mount St. Vincent, built 1852Chapel of the Intercession Complex and Trinity CemeteryChurch of St. Ignatius Loyola ComplexPoe CottageParachute JumpNew York City Marble Cemetery, built 1831New York Marble Cemetery, built 1830Old Gravesend CemeteryPublic School 35Houses at 83 and 85 Sullivan StreetPark Slope Historic DistrictSt. Paul's Memorial Church and RectoryJacob Riis Park Historic District, built 1912New York Public Library, Hamilton Grange Branch, built 1907Coney Island Fire Station Pumping Station, built 1937Public School 15Public School 65K, built 1870Public School 111 and Public School 9 Annex, built 1867Boy's High School, built 1892Bronx Borough Courthouse, built 1914Former Emigrant Industrial Savings BankLaTourette House83rd Precinct Police Station and Stable68th Police Precinct Station House and Stable, built 1892Baker, George F., Jr. and Sr., HousesBrighton Heights Reformed Church, built 1866Church Missions HouseGage and Tollner Restaurant, built 1875House at 175 Belden StreetHouses at 146-156 East 89th StreetHouses at 26, 28 and 30 Jones StreetJames F. D. Lanier Residence, built 1903Knox BuildingLamb's Club, built 1905New York Presbyterian Church, built 1885Park Plaza Apartments, built 1931William B. Cronyn House, built 1856Former New York Life Insurance Company BuildingCandler BuildingChurch of the Incarnation and Parish House, built 1865House at 203 East 29 StreetMarine Air TerminalAdelaide L. T. Douglas HouseCentury Association Building, built 1891New York Public Library, built 1902William Goadby Loew House, built 1931East 73rd Street Historic DistrictAppellate Division Courthouse of New York StateCaleb T. Ward Mansion, built 1835Civic ClubSt. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, built 1891Houses at 326, 328 and 330 East 18th StreetSt. James' Episcopal Church and Parish HouseRiverdale Presbyterian Church Complex52nd Police Precinct Station House and Stable, built 1906Apartment at 1261 Madison Avenue, built 1901Astral Apartments, built 1885Casa ItalinaDaniel LeRoy HouseEdgehill Church of Spuyten Duyvil, built 1889Felix M. Warburg Mansion, built 1909First Police Precinct Station House, built 1999Gouverneur Hospital, built 1885Houses at 120 and 122 East 92nd StreetHouses at 437-459 West 24th StreetKnickerbocker Field ClubKreischer House, built 1885Langston Hughes House, built 1869Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt House, built 1930New York County Lawyers Association Building, built 1930Peter Houseman HouseRKO Keith's TheaterRobbins & Appleton Building, built 1880St. Alban's Episcopal Church, built 1865Woodrow Methodist Church, built 1842Beacon Theater and Hotel, built 1929Friends Meetinghouse and School, built 1857Public School 71K, built 1889South Bushwick Reformed Protestant Dutch Church Complex, built 1852South Congregational Church, built 1851Spaulding, Henry F., Coachman's House, built 1880Central Park West Historic DistrictHouses at 311 and 313 East 58th StreetHouses at 364 and 390 Van Duzer StreetStoothoff-Baxter-Kouwenhaven House, built 1747Public School 108, built 1895Public School 157House at 5910 Amboy Road, built 1840New York School of Applied Design, built 1909Trinity Chapel Complex, built 1855Eighth Regiment Armory, built 1917Fourteenth Ward Industrial SchoolLincoln Club, built 1889Hotel GerardScott-Edwards House, built 173048th Police Precinct StationJamaica Savings BankNew Lots Reformed Church and Cemetery, built 1824Studio ApartmentsHouse at 17 West 16th StreetHouse at 203 Prince Street, built 1834Smith, Fleming, Warehouse, built 1891Barbara Rutherford Hatch HouseStephen Van Rensselar House, built 1816Albemarle-Kenmore Terraces Historic DistrictHouses at 208-218 East 78th StreetJohn S. Rogers HouseMacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District, built 1844Racquet and Tennis Club BuildingProspect Park South Historic DistrictPuck BuildingSt. Mary's Episcopal ChurchJames Brown HousePark East Synagogue, Congregation Zichron Ephraim, built 1890DeLamar Mansion, built 1905Manhattan Bridge, built 1910Society for the Lying-In HospitalRiverside Park and Drive, built 1874Bronx County Courthouse, built 1931Central Savings BankChrist Church Complex, built 1866DoriltonFlatbush Dutch Reformed Church ComplexGrace Episcopal Church Complex, built 1734Houses at 647, 651-53 Fifth Avenue and 4 East 52nd StreetJamaica Chamber of Commerce BuildingKurtz, J., and Sons Store Building, built 1931Lincoln Building, built 1887Ocean ParkwayPomander Walk District, built 1921Public School 11Red House, built 1903Robert Colgate House, built 1860St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church, built 1887Steinway House, built 1858Wave Hill, built 1843Building at 361 Broadway, built 1881Cary Building, built 1857Grand Hotel, built 1868IRT Broadway Line ViaductLiberty TowerMorris High School Historic District, built 1874New England Congregational Church and RectoryOffice Building and U.S. Light-House Depot ComplexProspect Heights Historic District, built 1865Sunnyslope, built 1859Allen-Beville House, built 1850Croton Aqueduct Gate House, built 1884Odd Fellows Hall, built 1848Washington BridgeU.S. Army Military Ocean TerminalBoerum Hill Historic District, built 1845Carroll Gardens Historic DistrictEastern ParkwayFort Greene Historic DistrictGreenpoint Historic DistrictHamilton Park Community HousesLong Island City Courthouse ComplexLongwood Historic DistrictSt. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery Complex68th Avenue-64th Place Historic District75th Avenue-61st Street Historic DistrictCentral Avenue Historic District, built 1916Central Ridgewood Historic DistrictCooper Avenue Row Historic DistrictCornelia-Putnam Historic District, built 1907Cypress Avenue East Historic District, built 1900Ditmas Park Historic DistrictForest-Norman Historic District, built 1908Fresh Pond-Traffic Historic District, built 1917Grove-Linden-St. John's Historic District, built 1908Hamilton Heights Historic DistrictMadison-Putnam-60th Place Historic District, built 1900Seneca Avenue East Historic District, built 1905Seneca-Onderdonk-Woodward Historic District, built 1911Stockholm-DeKalb-Hart Historic District, built 1905Summerfield Street Row Historic District, built 1912Willoughby-Suydam Historic DistrictWoodbine-Palmetto-Gates Historic District, built 1908Lever HouseCornelius Van Wyck House, built 1735Rockwood Chocolate Factory Historic DistrictStaten Island Borough Hall and Richmond County CourthousePublic School 7High Pumping StationApollo Theater, built 1914Lent Homestead and CemeterySt. Cecilia's Church and Convent, built 1873Level ClubFort Tilden Historic District, built 1917Weir Greenhouse, built 1895St. Vincent Ferrer Church and PrioryBuildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling PlaceCollege of the City of New YorkFilm Center BuildingJOHN A. LYNCH (ferryboat)Mecca Temple, built 1922Rowhouses at 322-344 East 69th StreetUpper East Side Historic District, built 1862Webster HotelPublic School 17Sofia Warehouse, built 1930Gardiner-Tyler House, built 1835Sidewalk Clock at 161-11 Jamaica Avenue, New York, NYSidewalk Clock at 200 5th Avenue, ManhattanSidewalk Clock at 522 5th Avenue, ManhattanMerchants Refrigerating Company WarehouseClinton Hill Historic DistrictWest 67th Street Artists' Colony Historic DistrictSaint Mark's Historic District, built 1795Lefferts-Laidlaw House, built 1840Public Bath No. 7Minton's Playhouse, built 1938Yiddish Art TheatreFort Totten Officers' Club, built 1870Christodora HouseFeuchtwanger StableWestchester HouseIsaac T. Hopper HouseClinton Hill South Historic DistrictCity and Suburban Homes Company's First Avenue Estate Historic DistrictUnited Workers CooperativesUniversity Settlement House, built 1886R & S BuildingSage, Russell, Sage Memorial ChurchPublic School 9Grand Concourse Historic DistrictUS Courthouse, built 1936Sunset Park Historic District, built 1936US Post Office-Far RockawayUS Post Office-Flatbush StationUS Post Office-Flushing MainUS Post Office-Forest Hills StationUS Post Office-Jackson Heights StationUS Post Office-Jamaica MainUS Post Office-KensingtonUS Post Office-Metropolitan StationUS Post Office-Morrisania, built 1936US Post Office-Parkville StationUS Post Office-Canal Street StationUS Post Office-Church Street Station, built 1937US Post Office-Cooper StationUS Post Office-Inwood StationUS Post Office-Knickerbocker StationUS Post Office-Lenox Hill StationUS Post Office-Long Island CityUS Post Office-Madison Square StationUS Post Office-Old Chelsea StationCongregation B'nai Jeshurun Synagogue and Community HouseLucy Drexel Dahlgren HouseAtlantic Avenue Tunnel, built 1844Duke Residence, built 1901Mount Morris Bank, built 1884St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal ChurchResidences at 5-15 West 54th StreetLa Casina, built 1934Church of St. Mary the Virgin ComplexVerdi, Giuseppe, Monument, built 1906International Mercantile Marine Company BuildingCyclone Roller CoasterChurch of St. Paul the ApostleManhattan Avenue-West 120th-123rd Streets Historic DistrictAndrews United Methodist Church, built 1893Flushing High School, built 1875MACHIGONNE (ferry)Osborne Apartments, built 1885Hendrick I. Lott House, built 1720Charlie Parker ResidenceEighth Avenue (14th Regiment) Armory, built 1895City and Suburban Homes Company's York Avenue Estate and Shively Sanitary Tenements Historic DistrictFort Washington Avenue ArmoryFlushing ArmoryZion-St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran ChurchTimes Square HotelRenaissance Apartments, built 1892Baptist TempleDelta Psi, Alpha ChapterW. O. DECKER (tugboat), built 1930St. Michael's ChurchCentury Building, built 1881Cypress Hills National Cemetery, built 1862Sullivan, Ed, Theater, built 1927First Romanian-American Congregation Synagogue, built 1889Old First Reformed ChurchBroad Exchange BuildingEmpire Building, built 1898Jackson Heights Historic DistrictFRYING PAN SHOALS LIGHTSHIP NO. 115 (lightship)Prince George HotelInternational HouseKeeper's House at Williamsbridge Reservoir, built 1890St. James Church, built 1735American Bank Note Company Building, built 1908Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue, built 2017Insurance Company of North America Building, built 1932Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue, built 1927St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, built 1903New York Savings BankHubbard House, built 1835JOHN J. HARVEY (fireboat)Manhattan Company Building, built 1930Douglaston Hill Historic DistrictFiremen's HallFirst Hungarian Reformed Church, built 1916Jerome Park ReservoirLower East Side Historic DistrictNew York Evening Post BuildingPublic School 109Church of St. Andrew (Episcopal), built 1872Hertlein and Schlatter Silk Trimmings FactoryNew Utrecht Reformed Church Complex, built 1677Bohemian Hall and ParkCasa Amadeo, antigua Casa HernandezCuyler Presbyterian ChurchGermania Life Insurance Company Building, built 1911St. Matthew's Episcopal ChurchBroadway Synagogue, OldBrooklyn Public Library-Central BuildingCongregation Tifereth IsraelLisanti ChapelProspect CemeteryTrinity ChapelLong Island Motor ParkwaySugar Hill Historic DistrictBuilding at 19 Rector St., built 1930Senator Street Historic DistrictStanton Street ShulCalvary Presbyterian ChurchCongregation Tifereth Israel, built 1911ADMIRAL DEWEY (tugboat)Church of the ResurrectionWest 147th-149th Streets Historic District, built 189469th Street Transfer BridgeBank of New York BuildingPublic School 66Wallace Building, built 1894Bank of the Metropolis, built 1902Brooks and Hewitt HallsMilbank, Brinckerhoff, and Fiske HallsStudents' HallDecker BuildingCorbin Building, built 1889Fred F. French BuildingGeneral Electric Building, built 1931German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. MarkMagen David Synagogue, built 1920Building at 315-325 West 36th StreetChrist Church New Brighton (Episcopal), built 1904Rieger's, C., Sons FactoryForest Park Carousel, built 1903St. Walburga's AcademyPier 57Maple Grove Cemetery110th Street-Cathedral Parkway Subway Station (IRT)116th Street-Columbia University Subway Station (IRT)33rd Street Subway Station (IRT)59th Street-Columbus Circle Subway Station (IRT)72nd Street Subway Station (IRT)79th Street Subway Station (IRT)Astor Place Subway Station (IRT)Atlantic Avenue Subway Station (IRT and BMT)Beverley Road Subway Station (BRT pre-Dual System)Borough Hall Subway Station (IRT)City Hall Subway Station (IRT)Dyckman Street Subway Station (IRT)Jackson Avenue Subway Station (IRT)Prospect Avenue Subway Station (IRT)Times Square-42nd Street Subway StationWall Street Subway Station (IRT)Main Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT), built 1928Biltmore Theater, built 1925William Schickel HouseLILAC, United States Lighthouse TenderAmerican Thread Building, built 1896Ivey Delph ApartmentsLook Building, built 1950Seville HotelWilliams, R.C., WarehouseBuilding at 304 Park Avenue SouthPratt Institute Historic District, built 1887145th Street Subway Station (IRT)168th Street Subway Station (IRT)181st Street Subway Station (IND)181st Street Subway Station (IRT)190th Street Subway Station (IND)242nd Street-Van Cortlandt Park Station (IRT), built 190828th Street Subway Station (IRT)45th Road-Court House Square Station (Dual System IRT)86th Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT)Chambers Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT), built 1932West 28th Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT)West 4th Street Subway Station (IND), built 1932Westchester Square Station (Dual System IRT)Actors TempleBuilding at 210 East 68th StreetChurch of the Holy InnocentsHotel Theresa, built 1913Queens County Savings Bank14th Street-Union Square Subway Station (IRT; Dual System BMT), built 19044th Avenue Station (IND)9th Avenue Station (Dual System BRT)Avenue U Station (Dual System BRT)Bay Parkway Station (Dual System BRT)Beaver BuildingBrooklyn Bridge-City Hall Subway Station (IRT), built 1914Chambers Street Subway Station (Dual System BMT), built 1914Elmhurst Avenue Subway Station (IND)New Urecht Avenue Station (Dual System BRT)Substation #401, built 1901Wilson Avenue Subway Station (Dual System BMT)Woodlawan Station (Dual System IRT)15th Street-Prospect Park Subway Station (IND)Ocean Parkway Station (Dual System BRT)Douglaston Historic DistrictTownhouses at 352 and 353 Riverside Dr.Fulton-Nassau Historic DistrictSeaview HospitalTrans World Airlines Flight Center, built 1962Sheffield Farms StableGreenwich Savings Bank, built 1924Park Row Building, built 1899Wall and Hanover BuildingStaten Island Light, built 1912207th Street Yard-Signal Service Building and Tower BCentral IND SubstationConcourse Yard SubstationConey Island Yard Electric Motor Repair ShopJoralemon Street TunnelSubstation 13Substation 17Substation 219Substation 235Substation 409Substation 42Substation 7, built 1902Seagram Building, built 1958Brooklyn Academy of MusicBroadway-Flushing Historic DistrictBuilding at 254-260 Canal StreetEast Midwood Jewish Center, built 1929Immanuel Congregational ChurchLee, Higginson & Company Bank Building, built 1929Joost Van Nuyse House, built 1744James A. Jr. Burden House and Kahn, Otto H., HouseGrace Episcopal ChurchOrchard Shoal Light Station, Old, built 1893Macmillan Building, built 1925West Bank Light Station, built 1901Saint Benedict Joseph Labre ParishWest Street Building, built 1907Gansevoort Market Historic DistrictHouse at 20 West 16th St.St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran Church, built 1923Houses at 216-264 Ovington Ave.Austin, Nichols and Company WarehouseTemple Emanu-ElChrist Evangelical English Lutheran ChurchEngineering Societies' Building and Engineers' Club75th Police Precinct Station House, built 1886Evergreens CemeteryHouse at 49 East 80th StreetVan Tassell and Kearney Horse Auction MartFraunces TavernSt. George's Church, built 1854House at 146 East 38th St.Trinity Lutheran ChurchSt. Philip's Church, built 1911Garment Center Historic DistrictNew York Congregational Home for the AgedGeneral Society of Mechanics and TradesmenSHEARWATER (schooner)Congregation Beth AbrahamNew York Telephone Company Building, built 1927Park and Tilford Building240 Central Park South, built 1940Industrial Complex at 221 McKibbin StreetBeth El Jewish Center of Flatbush, built 1927Jacques Marchais Center of Tibetan Art, built 1947Brooklyn Trust Company Building, built 1916Emerson, TheTrinity Lutheran Church of ManhattanAstoria Center of IsraelFree Synagogue of FlushingTremont Baptist Church, built 1912Rego Park Jewish Center1964-1965 New York World's Fair New York State PavilionKol Israel SynagogueShaari Zedek SynagogueWestbethChurch-in-the-Gardens, TheCongregational Church of the EvangelOcean Parkway Jewish Center, built 1924Fort Washington Presbyterian Church, built 1914Chinatown and Little Italy Historic DistrictJewish Center of Kings HighwayKingsway Jewish CenterYoung Israel of FlatbushParkway TheatreElmendorf Reformed ChurchTemple Beth El of Borough Park, built 1902Building at 133 East 80th StreetPark Avenue Historic DistrictSaint Luke's Episcopal ChurchLouis A. and Laura Stirn House, built 2008Dollar Savings Bank, built 1890Wallabout Historic DistrictEleventh Street Methodist Episcopal ChurchWest End Presbyterian Church and Parish HouseRiverdale-Spuyten Duyvil-Kingsbridge Memorial Bell TowerBoardman-Mitchell House, built 1848St. Stephen's Methodist Church, built 1898Parkway VillageHotel AlbertWallabout Industrial Historic DistrictLoew's Kings Theatre, built 1929St. Matthias Roman Catholic Church ComplexOld Stone House of Brooklyn, The, built 1934MARY A. WHALEN (tanker)Riverside Church, built 1927First Battery ArmoryStorehouse No. 2, U.S. Navy Fleet Supply BaseThe Bowery Historic DistrictWomen's National Republican Club, built 1921ENTERPRISE (space shuttle)Fire Hook and Ladder Company No. 14Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic DistrictFirst Presbyterian Church of NewtownJewish Center of Coney Island, The, built 1930Kismet TempleNew York Bible Society, built 1873North Presbyterian ChurchRockaway Courthouse, built 1931St. Anselm's Roman Catholic Church and School, built 1918Temple of Israel Synagogue, built 1922Sohmer and Company Piano FactoryCrown Heights North Historic District, built 1942Brooklyn Navy Yard Historic District, built 1801Building at 116 John Street, built 1931Building at One Pendleton Place, built 1860Nassau Brewing CompanyBenevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge Number 878Chevra Linas Hazedek Synagogue of Harlem and the Bronx, built 1932Congregation Shaare Zedek of HarlemCrotona Play CenterWilliamsbridge Oval Park, built 1934Union Temple of Brooklyn, built 1929Manhattan Beach Jewish Center, built 1952Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge 79, built 1914Congregation Chevra Linath HazedeckGreenwood Baptist ChurchHudson View Gardens1964-1965 New York World's Fair CarouselB and B CarouselMaster BuildingJulius' Bar, built 1867Beth Olam CemeteryCalvary Methodist Episcopal ChurchHudson Theatre, built 1903Offerman BuildingP.S. 186Reformed Church of MelroseCongregation Ohab Zedek, built 1907Caffe Cino, built 1958Holy Cross African Orthodox Pro-CathedralLefferts Manor Historic DistrictSpear and Company FactoryGreenacre Park, built 1971Old Town of Flushing Burial GroundSaxe Embroidery Company BuildingEarl Hall, built 1900Wilbraham, TheImmanuel Union ChurchColumbus Monument, built 1892Triboro Hospital for Tuberculosis, built 1941Richmond Hill Historic DistrictGeorge Washington Hotel, built 1930St. Luke's Hospital, built 1850James Baldwin ResidenceBay Ridge Reformed ChurchNew York Public Library, Fort Washington BranchLoew’s Kameo TheaterWilliamsburg Houses, built 1938Mary McLeod Bethune GardensFort Wadsworth, built 1663Lithuanian Alliance of America, built 1886West Harlem Historic DistrictBuilding at 821 Broadway, built 1906St. Peter's Church, built 1977First National City BankMount Morris Park Historic DistrictCasemate Fort, Whiting QuadrangleNew Brighton Village Hall, built 1868Office of the RegisterWest 76th Street Historic DistrictRiverside-West 105th Street Historic DistrictProspect Park, built 1867Stuyvesant Square Historic DistrictApartment Buildings at 131-135 East 66th Street and 130-134 East 67th StreetTurtle Bay Gardens Historic DistrictStables at 167, 169 and 171 West 89th StreetMcFarlane-Bredt HouseWest 73rd-74th Street Historic DistrictPoillon-Seguine-Britton HouseRiverside Drive-West 80th-81st Streets Historic DistrictSunnyside Gardens Historic DistrictSidewalk Clock at 1501 3rd Avenue, ManhattanSidewalk Clock at 519 3rd Avenue, ManhattanSidewalk Clock at 783 5th Avenue, ManhattanSutton Place Historic DistrictTudor City Historic DistrictMetropolitan Life Home Office ComplexHouses at 1026-1028 Fifth Ave.Building at 21 West Street, built 1931Prospect HallBay Ridge United Methodist ChurchStone Street Historic DistrictDUMBO Industrial DistrictOur Lady of Mount Carmel GrottoFather Francis D. Duffy Statue and Duffy Square, built 1930Wyckoff-Snediker Family CemeteryHarlem Savings BankTwo Bridges Historic DistrictMurray Hill Historic DistrictTreadwell Farm Historic DistrictBleecker Street Subway Station (IRT)Simpson Street Subway Station and Substation #18 (IRT)Reformed Church on Staten IslandMorris Park StationConcourse Yard Entry BuildingsConey Island Yard GatehouseWall Street Historic DistrictSaitta House, built 1899Port Morris Ferry BridgesSouth Village Historic DistrictAnsche Chesed SynagogueWest 114th Street Historic DistrictColony Arcade BuildingCIRCLE LINE X (sightseeing vessel)Sylvan Grove CemeteryBayard Rustin ResidenceRichmond Terrace CemeteriesFort Independence Historic DistrictSilver Lake CemeteryHarlem African Burial GroundLANAI (yacht)RIdgewood ReservoirFirst African Methodist Episcopal Church: BethelFirst Reformed Church of College PointGerman Evangelical Lutheran St. John's ChurchEast Harlem Historic District32nd Police Precinct Station House ComplexDorrance Brooks Square Historic DistrictFourth Avenue Methodist Episcopal ChurchLewis Avenue Congregational ChurchNational Headquarters, March on Washington for Jobs and FreedomRugby Congregational ChurchConrad Voelcker HouseHolyrood Protestant Episcopal ChurchV. Santini, Inc. WarehouseOlmsted, Frederick Law, Sr., FarmhouseRow Houses at 854-858 West End Avenue and 254 West 102nd StreetThe Church of the Heavenly Rest and the Chapel of the Beloved DiscipleBuilding at 240 BroadwayLorraine Hansberry HouseWomen’s Liberation CenterChevra Torah Anshei RadishkowitzSt. Stephen’s Mission Church ComplexMoslem MosqueVanderbilt Family Cemetery and MausoleumSt. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal ChurchRidgewood Fresh Pond Road-Myrtle Avenue Historic DistrictLillian Wald HouseNorth Main and West Water Commercial Historic DistrictKent ManorPaddy’s Market Historic DistrictHunts Point Rail StationBrooklyn VA Hospital Historic DistrictBoulevard HousesFiorentino PlazaJohn James Audubon HousesEnglish Evangelical Lutheran Church of the ReformationProspect Lefferts Gardens Historic DistrictTemple Israel of the City of New YorkBuilding at 287 BroadwayCentral Harlem North Historic DistrictTalmud Torah Atereth IsraelWilliam Ulmer Brewery ComplexThree Arts Club, built 1903Metro North PlazaEdenwald HousesManhattanville HousesCasita Rincón CriolloAudubon Park Historic DistrictBoston Road PlazaBoston-Secor HousesMiddletown Plaza28th Police Precinct Station HouseDollar Savings BankGaylord White HousesWest Brighton PlazaLouise Terrace-Colonial Road Historic DistrictDominican Historic DistrictHotel MartiniqueTemple Israel Reform CongregationEastchester HousesMarcus Garvey ParkChurch of St. Edward the MartyrRichmond Town Historic DistrictStuyvesant Gardens ICorsi HousesMorris Park Senior Citizens HomeE. Robert Moore HousesJackie Robinson HousesMessiah Lutheran ChurchSt. Paul's Methodist Episcopal ChurchBrooklyn Gardens Apartments (Navy Yard)East 152nd Street-Courtlandt Avenue HousesMott Haven Health CenterUnitarian Church of the RedeemerRichard Mott HouseFulton Park PlazaBay View HousesSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, built 1905★Brooklyn Bridge★Brooklyn Heights Historic District★Carnegie Hall, built 1891★Central Park, built 1856★Chester A. Arthur House★City Hall, built 1812★Conference House, built 1675★Cooper Union, built 1859★Hamilton Grange National Memorial, built 1962★Morris-Jumel Mansion, built 1765★New York Public Library, built 1897★New York Public Library and Bryant Park★Old Merchant's House★Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims★Pupin Physics Laboratories, Columbia University★St. Paul's Chapel, built 1766★The Players, built 1845★Voorlezer's House, built 1695★Andrew Carnegie Mansion★Pierpont Morgan Library, built 1924★Woolworth Building, built 1912★New York Botanical Gardens, built 1891★Frederick Van Cortlandt House★Old Quaker Meetinghouse★Pieter Wyckoff House★William Dyckman House, built 1783★Elizabeth Alice Austen House-Clear Comfort, built 1690★Central Synagogue, built 1872★New York Cotton Exchange★Surrogate's Court★U.S. Customhouse★Sailors' Snug Harbor National Register District, built 1833★Dakota Apartments★Hamilton Fish House, built 1804★Third Judicial District Courthouse, built 1877★Alfred E. Smith House, built 1880★Chamber of Commerce Building, built 1901★Gen. Winfield Scott House★Quarters A★Grace Church and Dependencies★Founder's Hall, The Rockefeller University★Henry Street Settlement and Neighborhood Playhouse, built 1893★Tweed Courthouse, built 1872★King Manor, built 1806★Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead, built 1766★Bartow-Pell Mansion and Carriage House, built 1836★Grand Central Terminal, built 1913★Seventh Regiment Armory, built 1880★Bell Telephone Laboratories★Matthew Henson Residence★Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington House, built 1915★James Weldon Johnson House★John Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson House, built 1912★Louis Armstrong House, built 1910★New York Amsterdam News Building, built 1916★Ralph Bunche House, built 1927★Samuel J. Tilden House, built 1840★Will Marion Cook House★Bayard-Condict Building★Chrysler Building, built 1930★Claude McKay Residence, built 1932★Paul Robeson Home, built 1914★St. George's Episcopal Church, built 1856★St. Patrick's Cathedral, built 1858★Trinity Church and Graveyard, built 1698★Lorillard Snuff Mill★American Stock Exchange★Equitable Building, built 1915★Harry F. Sinclair House, built 1948★Macy, R. H., and Company Store, built 1901★Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, built 1909★National City Bank★New York Life Building, built 1928★New York Stock Exchange, built 1903★Stewart, A. T., Company Store, built 1846★Tiffany and Company Building★Plaza Hotel, built 1907★Flatiron Building, built 1902★Eldridge Street Synagogue, built 1887★McGraw-Hill Building, built 1931★St. Bartholomew's Church and Community House★Town Hall, built 1921★New York Yacht Club, built 1899★Daily News Building★Empire State Building, built 1931★AMBROSE (lightship)★LETTIE G. HOWARD (schooner)★Governors Island★United Charities Building Complex★USS INTREPID (aircraft carrier)★Metropolitan Museum of Art, built 1872★Church of the Ascension (Protestant Episcopal)★Holy Trinity Church (Protestant Episcopal)★Low Memorial Library, Columbia University★Rockefeller Center★USS Edson (Dd-946)★Brooklyn Historical Society★Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, built 1901★New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture★Tenement Building at 97 Orchard Street, built 1988★African Burial Ground, built 2006★Sanger, Margaret, Clinic★Holland Tunnel, built 1927★69th Regiment Armory★Green-Wood Cemetery, built 1838★Union Square★Stonewall★Philosophy Hall★Guggenheim, Solomon R., Museum, built 1937★The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library Building, built 1914★Woodlawn Cemetery, built 1863★Farragut, Admiral David Glasgow, Gravesite★Hispanic Society of America Complex, built 1904★University Heights Campus (Bronx Community College of The City University of New York), built 1957★Soho Historic District★
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Greek Revival69
Romanesque Revival63
Italianate55
Art Deco53
Italian Renaissance51
Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals46
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Cooper UnionBuilding · listed 1966Hamilton Grange National MemorialBuilding · listed 1966Morris-Jumel MansionBuilding · listed 1966New York Public LibraryBuilding · listed 1966New York Public Library and Bryant ParkBuilding · listed 1966Old Merchant's HouseBuilding · listed 1966Plymouth Church of the PilgrimsBuilding · listed 1966Pupin Physics Laboratories, Columbia UniversityBuilding · listed 1966St. Paul's ChapelBuilding · listed 1966The PlayersBuilding · listed 1966Voorlezer's HouseBuilding · listed 1966Andrew Carnegie MansionBuilding · listed 1966Pierpont Morgan LibraryBuilding · listed 1966Woolworth BuildingBuilding · listed 1966New York Botanical GardensDistrict · listed 1967Frederick Van Cortlandt HouseBuilding · listed 1967Old Quaker MeetinghouseBuilding · listed 1967Pieter Wyckoff HouseBuilding · listed 1967William Dyckman HouseBuilding · listed 1967Elizabeth Alice Austen House-Clear ComfortBuilding · listed 1970Central SynagogueBuilding · listed 1970New York Cotton ExchangeBuilding · listed 1972Surrogate's CourtBuilding · listed 1972U.S. CustomhouseBuilding · listed 1972Sailors' Snug Harbor National Register DistrictDistrict · listed 1972Dakota ApartmentsBuilding · listed 1972Hamilton Fish HouseBuilding · listed 1972Third Judicial District CourthouseBuilding · listed 1972Alfred E. Smith HouseBuilding · listed 1972Chamber of Commerce BuildingBuilding · listed 1973Gen. Winfield Scott HouseBuilding · listed 1973Quarters ABuilding · listed 1974Grace Church and DependenciesBuilding · listed 1974Founder's Hall, The Rockefeller UniversityBuilding · listed 1974Henry Street Settlement and Neighborhood PlayhouseBuilding · listed 1974Tweed CourthouseBuilding · listed 1974King ManorBuilding · listed 1974Wyckoff-Bennett HomesteadBuilding · listed 1974Bartow-Pell Mansion and Carriage HouseBuilding · listed 1974Grand Central TerminalBuilding · listed 1975Seventh Regiment ArmoryBuilding · listed 1975Bell Telephone LaboratoriesBuilding · listed 1975Matthew Henson ResidenceBuilding · listed 1975Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington HouseBuilding · listed 1976James Weldon Johnson HouseBuilding · listed 1976John Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson HouseBuilding · listed 1976Louis Armstrong HouseBuilding · listed 1976New York Amsterdam News BuildingBuilding · listed 1976Ralph Bunche HouseBuilding · listed 1976Samuel J. Tilden HouseBuilding · listed 1976Will Marion Cook HouseBuilding · listed 1976Bayard-Condict BuildingBuilding · listed 1976Chrysler BuildingBuilding · listed 1976Claude McKay ResidenceBuilding · listed 1976Paul Robeson HomeBuilding · listed 1976St. George's Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 1976St. Patrick's CathedralBuilding · listed 1976Trinity Church and GraveyardBuilding · listed 1976Lorillard Snuff MillBuilding · listed 1977American Stock ExchangeBuilding · listed 1978Equitable BuildingBuilding · listed 1978Harry F. Sinclair HouseBuilding · listed 1978Macy, R. H., and Company StoreBuilding · listed 1978Metropolitan Life Insurance CompanyBuilding · listed 1978National City BankBuilding · listed 1978New York Life BuildingBuilding · listed 1978New York Stock ExchangeBuilding · listed 1978Stewart, A. T., Company StoreBuilding · listed 1978Tiffany and Company BuildingBuilding · listed 1978Plaza HotelDistrict · listed 1978Flatiron BuildingBuilding · listed 1979Eldridge Street SynagogueBuilding · listed 1980McGraw-Hill BuildingBuilding · listed 1980St. Bartholomew's Church and Community HouseBuilding · listed 1980Town HallBuilding · listed 1980New York Yacht ClubBuilding · listed 1982Daily News BuildingBuilding · listed 1982Empire State BuildingBuilding · listed 1982AMBROSE (lightship)Structure · listed 1984LETTIE G. HOWARD (schooner)Structure · listed 1984Governors IslandDistrict · listed 1985United Charities Building ComplexBuilding · listed 1985USS INTREPID (aircraft carrier)Structure · listed 1986Metropolitan Museum of ArtBuilding · listed 1986Church of the Ascension (Protestant Episcopal)Building · listed 1987Holy Trinity Church (Protestant Episcopal)Building · listed 1987Low Memorial Library, Columbia UniversityBuilding · listed 1987Rockefeller CenterBuilding · listed 1987USS Edson (Dd-946)Structure · listed 1990Brooklyn Historical SocietyBuilding · listed 1991Triangle Shirtwaist FactoryBuilding · listed 1991New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and SculptureBuilding · listed 1992Tenement Building at 97 Orchard StreetBuilding · listed 1992African Burial GroundSite · listed 1993Sanger, Margaret, ClinicBuilding · listed 1993Holland TunnelStructure · listed 199369th Regiment ArmoryBuilding · listed 1994Green-Wood CemeteryDistrict · listed 1997Union SquareSite · listed 1997StonewallBuilding · listed 1999Philosophy HallBuilding · listed 2003Guggenheim, Solomon R., MuseumBuilding · listed 2005The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library BuildingBuilding · listed 2008Woodlawn CemeteryDistrict · listed 2011Farragut, Admiral David Glasgow, GravesiteSite · listed 2012Hispanic Society of America ComplexDistrict · listed 2012University Heights Campus (Bronx Community College of The City University of New York)District · listed 2012Castle Clinton National MonumentStructure · listed 1966Federal Hall National MemorialBuilding · listed 1966General Grant National MemorialBuilding · listed 1966Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island and Liberty IslandDistrict · listed 1966Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic SiteBuilding · listed 1966New York Shakespeare Festival Public TheaterBuilding · listed 1970Schermerhorn Row BlockDistrict · listed 1971John Street Building No. 170-176Building · listed 1971Boathouse on the Lullwater of the Lake in Prospect ParkBuilding · listed 1972Battery WeedBuilding · listed 1972Firehouse, Engine Company 31Building · listed 1972Grecian ShelterStructure · listed 1972Old Brooklyn Fire HeadquartersBuilding · listed 1972Blackwell HouseBuilding · listed 1972Chapel of the Good ShepherdBuilding · listed 1972City HospitalBuilding · listed 1972Firehouse, Engine Company 33Building · listed 1972Flushing Town HallBuilding · listed 1972LighthouseStructure · listed 1972Octagon, TheBuilding · listed 1972Rainey Memorial GatesStructure · listed 1972Smallpox HospitalBuilding · listed 1972Strecker Memorial LaboratoryBuilding · listed 1972William H. Moore HouseBuilding · listed 1972Madison Avenue Facade of the Squadron A ArmoryStructure · listed 1972Bialystoker SynagogueBuilding · listed 1972Church of the Holy ApostlesBuilding · listed 1972Kingsland HomesteadBuilding · listed 1972J. P. Morgan & Co. BuildingBuilding · listed 1972St.-Marks-In-The-BoweryBuilding · listed 1972Admiral's HouseBuilding · listed 1972Block House, TheBuilding · listed 1972Flatbush Town HallBuilding · listed 1972James Watson HouseBuilding · listed 1972St. James ChurchBuilding · listed 1972Castle WilliamsBuilding · listed 1972Municipal BuildingBuilding · listed 1972South Street SeaportDistrict · listed 1972Charles Street House at No. 131Building · listed 1972High Bridge Aqueduct and Water TowerStructure · listed 1972Hunterfly Road Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1972Smith, Abigail Adams, MuseumBuilding · listed 1973Kreuzer-Pelton HouseBuilding · listed 1973U.S. General Post OfficeBuilding · listed 197375 Murray Street BuildingBuilding · listed 1973Jumel Terrace Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1973Governor's HouseBuilding · listed 1973Church of the Transfiguration and RectoryBuilding · listed 1973John Street Methodist ChurchBuilding · listed 1973Charlton-King-Vandam Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1973E. V. Haughwout BuildingBuilding · listed 1973New Dorp LightBuilding · listed 1973Hunters Point Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1973Sniffen Court Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1973Fort JayStructure · listed 1974Henderson Place Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1974Fulton Ferry DistrictDistrict · listed 1974Salmagundi ClubBuilding · listed 1974Fort Tompkins QuadrangleBuilding · listed 1974Federal Office BuildingBuilding · listed 1974Federal Building and Post OfficeBuilding · listed 1974Judson Memorial Church, Campanile, and Judson HallBuilding · listed 1974St. Mark's Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1974Association Residence Nursing HomeBuilding · listed 1975Archibald Gracie MansionBuilding · listed 1975City Pier AStructure · listed 1975Villard HousesBuilding · listed 1975St. Nicholas Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1975Erasmus Hall AcademyBuilding · listed 1975Stuyvesant Heights Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1975Billou-Stillwell-Perine HouseBuilding · listed 1976Cobble Hill Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1976Harlem Fire WatchtowerStructure · listed 1976American Museum of Natural HistoryBuilding · listed 1976Fort SchuylerDistrict · listed 1976Edward Mooney HouseBuilding · listed 1976LaGrange TerraceBuilding · listed 1976Metropolitan Savings BankBuilding · listed 1976Municipal Ferry PierBuilding · listed 1976Vander Ende-Onderdonk House SiteSite · listed 1977Lewis G. Morris HouseBuilding · listed 1977Fraunces Tavern BlockDistrict · listed 1977New York Cancer HospitalBuilding · listed 1977Neville HouseBuilding · listed 1977House at 51 Market St.Building · listed 1977Old New York Evening Post BuildingBuilding · listed 1977Poppenhusen InstituteBuilding · listed 1977Brooklyn MuseumBuilding · listed 1977William E. Dodge HouseBuilding · listed 1977Old St. Patrick's Cathedral ComplexDistrict · listed 1977John Bowne HouseBuilding · listed 1977Devinne Press BuildingBuilding · listed 1977Litchfield VillaBuilding · listed 1977James B. Duke MansionBuilding · listed 1977Chelsea Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1977Emmanuel Baptist ChurchBuilding · listed 1977Hotel ChelseaBuilding · listed 1977Apthorp ApartmentsBuilding · listed 1978Valentine-Varian HouseBuilding · listed 1978Radio City Music HallBuilding · listed 1978WavertreeStructure · listed 1978Paramount Studios ComplexDistrict · listed 1978John Rankin HouseBuilding · listed 1978South Street Seaport Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1978Gilsey HotelBuilding · listed 1978Fort Tryon Park and the CloistersDistrict · listed 1978Queensboro BridgeStructure · listed 1978Dunbar ApartmentsBuilding · listed 1979Jeffrey's Hook LighthouseStructure · listed 1979Greenwich Village Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1979Andrew S. Norwood HouseBuilding · listed 1979Ottendorfer Public Library and Stuyvesant Polyclinic HospitalBuilding · listed 1979Cornell FarmhouseBuilding · listed 1979Flatlands Dutch Reformed ChurchBuilding · listed 1979Hall of Fame ComplexBuilding · listed 1979First HousesBuilding · listed 1979Harlem River HousesBuilding · listed 1979Alwyn Court ApartmentsBuilding · listed 1979Building at 376-380 Lafayette StreetBuilding · listed 1979Association of the Bar of the City of New YorkBuilding · listed 1980House at 37 East 4th StreetBuilding · listed 1980Park Avenue HousesBuilding · listed 1980Ansonia HotelBuilding · listed 1980Brooklyn Borough HallBuilding · listed 1980New Amsterdam TheaterBuilding · listed 1980State Street HousesDistrict · listed 1980Gramercy Park Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1980St. Andrew's Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 1980East 78th Street HousesBuilding · listed 1980Mott Haven Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1980East 80th Street HousesBuilding · listed 1980Church of the Immaculate Conception and Clergy HousesBuilding · listed 1980Dr. Samuel MacKenzie Elliott HouseBuilding · listed 1980Former Police Headquarters BuildingBuilding · listed 1980Harvard Club of New York CityBuilding · listed 1980Roosevelt, Sara Delano, Memorial HouseBuilding · listed 1980Bowling Green Fence and ParkSite · listed 1980Marble Collegiate Reformed ChurchBuilding · listed 1980New Utrecht Reformed Church and BuildingsBuilding · listed 1980Sea and Land ChurchBuilding · listed 1980St. Monica's ChurchBuilding · listed 1980St. Thomas Church and Parish HouseBuilding · listed 1980Williamsburgh Savings BankBuilding · listed 1980Floyd Bennett Field Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1980Knickerbocker HotelBuilding · listed 1980Miller Army Air Field Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1980Church of the TransfigurationBuilding · listed 1980Claremont StablesBuilding · listed 1980First Reformed ChurchBuilding · listed 1980Harlem CourthouseBuilding · listed 1980Kings County Savings BankBuilding · listed 1980Mariner's TempleBuilding · listed 1980Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our LordBuilding · listed 1980St. Ann's Church ComplexBuilding · listed 1980University ClubBuilding · listed 1980Church of the Holy Communion and BuildingsBuilding · listed 1980First Shearith Israel GraveyardSite · listed 1980Garibaldi MemorialBuilding · listed 1980Public School 39Building · listed 1980Bailey HouseBuilding · listed 1980Belnord ApartmentsBuilding · listed 1980Bouwerie Lane TheaterBuilding · listed 1980Bowery Savings BankBuilding · listed 1980Building at 85 Leonard StreetBuilding · listed 1980Chanin BuildingBuilding · listed 1980Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist ChurchBuilding · listed 1980Moore-McMillen HouseBuilding · listed 1980New York, Westchester and Boston Railroad Administration BuildingBuilding · listed 1980Old Colony ClubBuilding · listed 1980Old Grolier ClubBuilding · listed 1980Public BathsBuilding · listed 1980Reformed Church of Newtown ComplexBuilding · listed 1980Schinasi HouseBuilding · listed 1980St. Bartholomew's Protestant Episcopal Church and RectoryBuilding · listed 1980St. Jean Baptiste Church and RectoryBuilding · listed 1980St. Peter's Roman Catholic ChurchBuilding · listed 1980Union Theological SeminaryBuilding · listed 1980No. 8 Thomas Street BuildingBuilding · listed 1980American Fine Arts SocietyBuilding · listed 1980Atlantic Avenue Control HouseBuilding · listed 1980Battery Park Control HouseBuilding · listed 1980Bronx Central Annex-U.S. Post OfficeBuilding · listed 1980Building at 45 East 66th StreetBuilding · listed 1980Church of Notre Dame and RectoryBuilding · listed 1980Control House on 72nd StreetBuilding · listed 1980Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkBuilding · listed 1980Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo MansionBuilding · listed 1980McGolrick, Monsignor, Park and Shelter PavilionStructure · listed 1980Mott Avenue Control HouseBuilding · listed 1980New York Public Library, 115th Street BranchBuilding · listed 1980Scribner BuildingBuilding · listed 1980Seguine HouseBuilding · listed 1980St. Augustine's ChapelBuilding · listed 1980Twentythird Regiment ArmoryBuilding · listed 1980West End Collegiate Church and Collegiate SchoolBuilding · listed 1980American Radiator BuildingBuilding · listed 1980Edgewater Village Hall and Tappen ParkBuilding · listed 1980Lescaze HouseBuilding · listed 1980Municipal Asphalt PlantBuilding · listed 1980Audubon Terrace Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1980Holy Trinity Church, St. Christopher House and ParsonageBuilding · listed 1980Isaac L. Rice MansionBuilding · listed 1980Fonthill Castle and the Administration Building of the College of Mount St. VincentBuilding · listed 1980Chapel of the Intercession Complex and Trinity CemeteryBuilding · listed 1980Church of St. Ignatius Loyola ComplexBuilding · listed 1980Poe CottageBuilding · listed 1980Parachute JumpStructure · listed 1980New York City Marble CemeterySite · listed 1980New York Marble CemeterySite · listed 1980Old Gravesend CemeterySite · listed 1980Public School 35Building · listed 1980Houses at 83 and 85 Sullivan StreetBuilding · listed 1980Park Slope Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1980St. Paul's Memorial Church and RectoryBuilding · listed 1980Jacob Riis Park Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1981New York Public Library, Hamilton Grange BranchBuilding · listed 1981Coney Island Fire Station Pumping StationBuilding · listed 1981Public School 15Building · listed 1981Public School 65KBuilding · listed 1981Public School 111 and Public School 9 AnnexBuilding · listed 1981Boy's High SchoolBuilding · listed 1982Bronx Borough CourthouseBuilding · listed 1982Former Emigrant Industrial Savings BankBuilding · listed 1982LaTourette HouseBuilding · listed 198283rd Precinct Police Station and StableBuilding · listed 198268th Police Precinct Station House and StableBuilding · listed 1982Baker, George F., Jr. and Sr., HousesBuilding · listed 1982Brighton Heights Reformed ChurchBuilding · listed 1982Church Missions HouseBuilding · listed 1982Gage and Tollner RestaurantBuilding · listed 1982House at 175 Belden StreetBuilding · listed 1982Houses at 146-156 East 89th StreetBuilding · listed 1982Houses at 26, 28 and 30 Jones StreetBuilding · listed 1982James F. D. Lanier ResidenceBuilding · listed 1982Knox BuildingBuilding · listed 1982Lamb's ClubBuilding · listed 1982New York Presbyterian ChurchBuilding · listed 1982Park Plaza ApartmentsBuilding · listed 1982William B. Cronyn HouseBuilding · listed 1982Former New York Life Insurance Company BuildingBuilding · listed 1982Candler BuildingBuilding · listed 1982Church of the Incarnation and Parish HouseBuilding · listed 1982House at 203 East 29 StreetBuilding · listed 1982Marine Air TerminalBuilding · listed 1982Adelaide L. T. Douglas HouseBuilding · listed 1982Century Association BuildingBuilding · listed 1982New York Public LibraryBuilding · listed 1982William Goadby Loew HouseBuilding · listed 1982East 73rd Street Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1982Appellate Division Courthouse of New York StateBuilding · listed 1982Caleb T. Ward MansionBuilding · listed 1982Civic ClubBuilding · listed 1982St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 1982Houses at 326, 328 and 330 East 18th StreetBuilding · listed 1982St. James' Episcopal Church and Parish HouseBuilding · listed 1982Riverdale Presbyterian Church ComplexBuilding · listed 198252nd Police Precinct Station House and StableBuilding · listed 1982Apartment at 1261 Madison AvenueBuilding · listed 1982Astral ApartmentsBuilding · listed 1982Casa ItalinaBuilding · listed 1982Daniel LeRoy HouseBuilding · listed 1982Edgehill Church of Spuyten DuyvilBuilding · listed 1982Felix M. Warburg MansionBuilding · listed 1982First Police Precinct Station HouseBuilding · listed 1982Gouverneur HospitalBuilding · listed 1982Houses at 120 and 122 East 92nd StreetBuilding · listed 1982Houses at 437-459 West 24th StreetBuilding · listed 1982Knickerbocker Field ClubBuilding · listed 1982Kreischer HouseBuilding · listed 1982Langston Hughes HouseBuilding · listed 1982Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt HouseBuilding · listed 1982New York County Lawyers Association BuildingBuilding · listed 1982Peter Houseman HouseBuilding · listed 1982RKO Keith's TheaterBuilding · listed 1982Robbins & Appleton BuildingBuilding · listed 1982St. Alban's Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 1982Woodrow Methodist ChurchBuilding · listed 1982Beacon Theater and HotelBuilding · listed 1982Friends Meetinghouse and SchoolBuilding · listed 1982Public School 71KBuilding · listed 1982South Bushwick Reformed Protestant Dutch Church ComplexBuilding · listed 1982South Congregational ChurchBuilding · listed 1982Spaulding, Henry F., Coachman's HouseBuilding · listed 1982Central Park West Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1982Houses at 311 and 313 East 58th StreetBuilding · listed 1982Houses at 364 and 390 Van Duzer StreetBuilding · listed 1982Stoothoff-Baxter-Kouwenhaven HouseBuilding · listed 1982Public School 108Building · listed 1982Public School 157Building · listed 1982House at 5910 Amboy RoadBuilding · listed 1982New York School of Applied DesignBuilding · listed 1982Trinity Chapel ComplexBuilding · listed 1982Eighth Regiment ArmoryBuilding · listed 1982Fourteenth Ward Industrial SchoolBuilding · listed 1983Lincoln ClubBuilding · listed 1983Hotel GerardBuilding · listed 1983Scott-Edwards HouseBuilding · listed 198348th Police Precinct StationBuilding · listed 1983Jamaica Savings BankBuilding · listed 1983New Lots Reformed Church and CemeteryBuilding · listed 1983Studio ApartmentsBuilding · listed 1983House at 17 West 16th StreetBuilding · listed 1983House at 203 Prince StreetBuilding · listed 1983Smith, Fleming, WarehouseBuilding · listed 1983Barbara Rutherford Hatch HouseBuilding · listed 1983Stephen Van Rensselar HouseBuilding · listed 1983Albemarle-Kenmore Terraces Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Houses at 208-218 East 78th StreetBuilding · listed 1983John S. Rogers HouseBuilding · listed 1983MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Racquet and Tennis Club BuildingBuilding · listed 1983Prospect Park South Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Puck BuildingBuilding · listed 1983St. Mary's Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 1983James Brown HouseBuilding · listed 1983Park East Synagogue, Congregation Zichron EphraimBuilding · listed 1983DeLamar MansionBuilding · listed 1983Manhattan BridgeStructure · listed 1983Society for the Lying-In HospitalBuilding · listed 1983Riverside Park and DriveSite · listed 1983Bronx County CourthouseBuilding · listed 1983Central Savings BankBuilding · listed 1983Christ Church ComplexBuilding · listed 1983DoriltonBuilding · listed 1983Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church ComplexBuilding · listed 1983Grace Episcopal Church ComplexBuilding · listed 1983Houses at 647, 651-53 Fifth Avenue and 4 East 52nd StreetBuilding · listed 1983Jamaica Chamber of Commerce BuildingBuilding · listed 1983Kurtz, J., and Sons Store BuildingBuilding · listed 1983Lincoln BuildingBuilding · listed 1983Ocean ParkwayStructure · listed 1983Pomander Walk DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Public School 11Building · listed 1983Red HouseBuilding · listed 1983Robert Colgate HouseBuilding · listed 1983St. George's Protestant Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 1983Steinway HouseBuilding · listed 1983Wave HillBuilding · listed 1983Building at 361 BroadwayBuilding · listed 1983Cary BuildingBuilding · listed 1983Grand HotelBuilding · listed 1983IRT Broadway Line ViaductStructure · listed 1983Liberty TowerBuilding · listed 1983Morris High School Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983New England Congregational Church and RectoryBuilding · listed 1983Office Building and U.S. Light-House Depot ComplexBuilding · listed 1983Prospect Heights Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983SunnyslopeBuilding · listed 1983Allen-Beville HouseBuilding · listed 1983Croton Aqueduct Gate HouseBuilding · listed 1983Odd Fellows HallBuilding · listed 1983Washington BridgeStructure · listed 1983U.S. Army Military Ocean TerminalBuilding · listed 1983Boerum Hill Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Carroll Gardens Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Eastern ParkwayStructure · listed 1983Fort Greene Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Greenpoint Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Hamilton Park Community HousesBuilding · listed 1983Long Island City Courthouse ComplexBuilding · listed 1983Longwood Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983St. Peter's Church, Chapel and Cemetery ComplexBuilding · listed 198368th Avenue-64th Place Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 198375th Avenue-61st Street Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Central Avenue Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Central Ridgewood Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Cooper Avenue Row Historic DistrictBuilding · listed 1983Cornelia-Putnam Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Cypress Avenue East Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Ditmas Park Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Forest-Norman Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Fresh Pond-Traffic Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Grove-Linden-St. John's Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Hamilton Heights Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Madison-Putnam-60th Place Historic DistrictBuilding · listed 1983Seneca Avenue East Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Seneca-Onderdonk-Woodward Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Stockholm-DeKalb-Hart Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Summerfield Street Row Historic DistrictBuilding · listed 1983Willoughby-Suydam Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Woodbine-Palmetto-Gates Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Lever HouseBuilding · listed 1983Cornelius Van Wyck HouseBuilding · listed 1983Rockwood Chocolate Factory Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Staten Island Borough Hall and Richmond County CourthouseBuilding · listed 1983Public School 7Building · listed 1983High Pumping StationBuilding · listed 1983Apollo TheaterBuilding · listed 1983Lent Homestead and CemeteryBuilding · listed 1984St. Cecilia's Church and ConventBuilding · listed 1984Level ClubBuilding · listed 1984Fort Tilden Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1984Weir GreenhouseBuilding · listed 1984St. Vincent Ferrer Church and PrioryBuilding · listed 1984Buildings at 375-379 Flatbush Avenue and 185-187 Sterling PlaceBuilding · listed 1984College of the City of New YorkBuilding · listed 1984Film Center BuildingBuilding · listed 1984JOHN A. LYNCH (ferryboat)Structure · listed 1984Mecca TempleBuilding · listed 1984Rowhouses at 322-344 East 69th StreetDistrict · listed 1984Upper East Side Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1984Webster HotelBuilding · listed 1984Public School 17Building · listed 1984Sofia WarehouseBuilding · listed 1984Gardiner-Tyler HouseBuilding · listed 1984Sidewalk Clock at 161-11 Jamaica Avenue, New York, NYObject · listed 1985Sidewalk Clock at 200 5th Avenue, ManhattanObject · listed 1985Sidewalk Clock at 522 5th Avenue, ManhattanObject · listed 1985Merchants Refrigerating Company WarehouseBuilding · listed 1985Clinton Hill Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1985West 67th Street Artists' Colony Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1985Saint Mark's Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1985Lefferts-Laidlaw HouseBuilding · listed 1985Public Bath No. 7Building · listed 1985Minton's PlayhouseBuilding · listed 1985Yiddish Art TheatreBuilding · listed 1985Fort Totten Officers' ClubBuilding · listed 1986Christodora HouseBuilding · listed 1986Feuchtwanger StableBuilding · listed 1986Westchester HouseBuilding · listed 1986Isaac T. Hopper HouseBuilding · listed 1986Clinton Hill South Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1986City and Suburban Homes Company's First Avenue Estate Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1986United Workers CooperativesBuilding · listed 1986University Settlement HouseBuilding · listed 1986R & S BuildingBuilding · listed 1986Sage, Russell, Sage Memorial ChurchBuilding · listed 1986Public School 9Building · listed 1987Grand Concourse Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1987US CourthouseBuilding · listed 1987Sunset Park Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1988US Post Office-Far RockawayBuilding · listed 1988US Post Office-Flatbush StationBuilding · listed 1988US Post Office-Flushing MainBuilding · listed 1988US Post Office-Forest Hills StationBuilding · listed 1988US Post Office-Jackson Heights StationBuilding · listed 1988US Post Office-Jamaica MainBuilding · listed 1988US Post Office-KensingtonBuilding · listed 1988US Post Office-Metropolitan StationBuilding · listed 1988US Post Office-MorrisaniaBuilding · listed 1988US Post Office-Parkville StationBuilding · listed 1988US Post Office-Canal Street StationBuilding · listed 1989US Post Office-Church Street StationBuilding · listed 1989US Post Office-Cooper StationBuilding · listed 1989US Post Office-Inwood StationBuilding · listed 1989US Post Office-Knickerbocker StationBuilding · listed 1989US Post Office-Lenox Hill StationBuilding · listed 1989US Post Office-Long Island CityBuilding · listed 1989US Post Office-Madison Square StationBuilding · listed 1989US Post Office-Old Chelsea StationBuilding · listed 1989Congregation B'nai Jeshurun Synagogue and Community HouseBuilding · listed 1989Lucy Drexel Dahlgren HouseBuilding · listed 1989Atlantic Avenue TunnelStructure · listed 1989Duke ResidenceBuilding · listed 1989Mount Morris BankBuilding · listed 1989St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 1989Residences at 5-15 West 54th StreetDistrict · listed 1990La CasinaBuilding · listed 1990Church of St. Mary the Virgin ComplexBuilding · listed 1990Verdi, Giuseppe, MonumentObject · listed 1990International Mercantile Marine Company BuildingBuilding · listed 1991Cyclone Roller CoasterStructure · listed 1991Church of St. Paul the ApostleBuilding · listed 1991Manhattan Avenue-West 120th-123rd Streets Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1992Andrews United Methodist ChurchBuilding · listed 1992Flushing High SchoolBuilding · listed 1992MACHIGONNE (ferry)Structure · listed 1992Osborne ApartmentsBuilding · listed 1993Hendrick I. Lott HouseBuilding · listed 1994Charlie Parker ResidenceBuilding · listed 1994Eighth Avenue (14th Regiment) ArmoryBuilding · listed 1994City and Suburban Homes Company's York Avenue Estate and Shively Sanitary Tenements Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1994Fort Washington Avenue ArmoryBuilding · listed 1995Flushing ArmoryBuilding · listed 1995Zion-St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran ChurchBuilding · listed 1995Times Square HotelBuilding · listed 1995Renaissance ApartmentsBuilding · listed 1995Baptist TempleBuilding · listed 1995Delta Psi, Alpha ChapterBuilding · listed 1996W. O. DECKER (tugboat)Structure · listed 1996St. Michael's ChurchBuilding · listed 1996Century BuildingBuilding · listed 1997Cypress Hills National CemeterySite · listed 1997Sullivan, Ed, TheaterBuilding · listed 1997First Romanian-American Congregation SynagogueBuilding · listed 1998Old First Reformed ChurchBuilding · listed 1998Broad Exchange BuildingBuilding · listed 1998Empire BuildingBuilding · listed 1998Jackson Heights Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1999FRYING PAN SHOALS LIGHTSHIP NO. 115 (lightship)Structure · listed 1999Prince George HotelBuilding · listed 1999International HouseBuilding · listed 1999Keeper's House at Williamsbridge ReservoirBuilding · listed 1999St. James ChurchBuilding · listed 1999American Bank Note Company BuildingBuilding · listed 1999Beth Hamedrash Hagodol SynagogueBuilding · listed 1999Insurance Company of North America BuildingBuilding · listed 1999Kehila Kedosha Janina SynagogueBuilding · listed 1999St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 1999New York Savings BankBuilding · listed 2000Hubbard HouseBuilding · listed 2000JOHN J. HARVEY (fireboat)Structure · listed 2000Manhattan Company BuildingBuilding · listed 2000Douglaston Hill Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2000Firemen's HallBuilding · listed 2000First Hungarian Reformed ChurchBuilding · listed 2000Jerome Park ReservoirDistrict · listed 2000Lower East Side Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2000New York Evening Post BuildingBuilding · listed 2000Public School 109Building · listed 2000Church of St. Andrew (Episcopal)Building · listed 2000Hertlein and Schlatter Silk Trimmings FactoryBuilding · listed 2001New Utrecht Reformed Church ComplexSite · listed 2001Bohemian Hall and ParkBuilding · listed 2001Casa Amadeo, antigua Casa HernandezBuilding · listed 2001Cuyler Presbyterian ChurchBuilding · listed 2001Germania Life Insurance Company BuildingBuilding · listed 2001St. Matthew's Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 2001Broadway Synagogue, OldBuilding · listed 2002Brooklyn Public Library-Central BuildingBuilding · listed 2002Congregation Tifereth IsraelBuilding · listed 2002Lisanti ChapelBuilding · listed 2002Prospect CemeterySite · listed 2002Trinity ChapelBuilding · listed 2002Long Island Motor ParkwayDistrict · listed 2002Sugar Hill Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2002Building at 19 Rector St.District · listed 2002Senator Street Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2002Stanton Street ShulBuilding · listed 2002Calvary Presbyterian ChurchBuilding · listed 2002Congregation Tifereth IsraelBuilding · listed 2002ADMIRAL DEWEY (tugboat)Structure · listed 2002Church of the ResurrectionBuilding · listed 2003West 147th-149th Streets Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 200369th Street Transfer BridgeStructure · listed 2003Bank of New York BuildingBuilding · listed 2003Public School 66Building · listed 2003Wallace BuildingBuilding · listed 2003Bank of the MetropolisBuilding · listed 2003Brooks and Hewitt HallsBuilding · listed 2003Milbank, Brinckerhoff, and Fiske HallsBuilding · listed 2003Students' HallBuilding · listed 2003Decker BuildingBuilding · listed 2003Corbin BuildingBuilding · listed 2003Fred F. French BuildingBuilding · listed 2004General Electric BuildingBuilding · listed 2004German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. MarkBuilding · listed 2004Magen David SynagogueBuilding · listed 2004Building at 315-325 West 36th StreetBuilding · listed 2004Christ Church New Brighton (Episcopal)Building · listed 2004Rieger's, C., Sons FactoryBuilding · listed 2004Forest Park CarouselStructure · listed 2004St. Walburga's AcademyBuilding · listed 2004Pier 57Structure · listed 2004Maple Grove CemeteryDistrict · listed 2004110th Street-Cathedral Parkway Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 2004116th Street-Columbia University Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 200433rd Street Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 200459th Street-Columbus Circle Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 200472nd Street Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 200479th Street Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 2004Astor Place Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 2004Atlantic Avenue Subway Station (IRT and BMT)Structure · listed 2004Beverley Road Subway Station (BRT pre-Dual System)Structure · listed 2004Borough Hall Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 2004City Hall Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 2004Dyckman Street Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 2004Jackson Avenue Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 2004Prospect Avenue Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 2004Times Square-42nd Street Subway StationStructure · listed 2004Wall Street Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 2004Main Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT)Structure · listed 2004Biltmore TheaterBuilding · listed 2004William Schickel HouseBuilding · listed 2004LILAC, United States Lighthouse TenderStructure · listed 2005American Thread BuildingBuilding · listed 2005Ivey Delph ApartmentsBuilding · listed 2005Look BuildingBuilding · listed 2005Seville HotelBuilding · listed 2005Williams, R.C., WarehouseBuilding · listed 2005Building at 304 Park Avenue SouthBuilding · listed 2005Pratt Institute Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2005145th Street Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 2005168th Street Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 2005181st Street Subway Station (IND)Structure · listed 2005181st Street Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 2005190th Street Subway Station (IND)Structure · listed 2005242nd Street-Van Cortlandt Park Station (IRT)Structure · listed 200528th Street Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 200545th Road-Court House Square Station (Dual System IRT)Structure · listed 200586th Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT)Structure · listed 2005Chambers Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT)Structure · listed 2005West 28th Street Subway Station (Dual System IRT)Structure · listed 2005West 4th Street Subway Station (IND)Structure · listed 2005Westchester Square Station (Dual System IRT)Structure · listed 2005Actors TempleBuilding · listed 2005Building at 210 East 68th StreetBuilding · listed 2005Church of the Holy InnocentsBuilding · listed 2005Hotel TheresaBuilding · listed 2005Queens County Savings BankBuilding · listed 200514th Street-Union Square Subway Station (IRT; Dual System BMT)Structure · listed 20054th Avenue Station (IND)Structure · listed 20059th Avenue Station (Dual System BRT)Structure · listed 2005Avenue U Station (Dual System BRT)Structure · listed 2005Bay Parkway Station (Dual System BRT)Structure · listed 2005Beaver BuildingBuilding · listed 2005Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 2005Chambers Street Subway Station (Dual System BMT)Structure · listed 2005Elmhurst Avenue Subway Station (IND)Structure · listed 2005New Urecht Avenue Station (Dual System BRT)Structure · listed 2005Substation #401Structure · listed 2005Wilson Avenue Subway Station (Dual System BMT)Structure · listed 2005Woodlawan Station (Dual System IRT)Structure · listed 200515th Street-Prospect Park Subway Station (IND)Structure · listed 2005Ocean Parkway Station (Dual System BRT)Structure · listed 2005Douglaston Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2005Townhouses at 352 and 353 Riverside Dr.Building · listed 2005Fulton-Nassau Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2005Seaview HospitalDistrict · listed 2005Trans World Airlines Flight CenterBuilding · listed 2005Sheffield Farms StableBuilding · listed 2005Greenwich Savings BankBuilding · listed 2005Park Row BuildingBuilding · listed 2005Wall and Hanover BuildingBuilding · listed 2005Staten Island LightStructure · listed 2005207th Street Yard-Signal Service Building and Tower BStructure · listed 2006Central IND SubstationStructure · listed 2006Concourse Yard SubstationStructure · listed 2006Coney Island Yard Electric Motor Repair ShopStructure · listed 2006Joralemon Street TunnelStructure · listed 2006Substation 13Structure · listed 2006Substation 17Structure · listed 2006Substation 219Structure · listed 2006Substation 235Structure · listed 2006Substation 409Structure · listed 2006Substation 42Structure · listed 2006Substation 7Structure · listed 2006Seagram BuildingBuilding · listed 2006Brooklyn Academy of MusicBuilding · listed 2006Broadway-Flushing Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2006Building at 254-260 Canal StreetBuilding · listed 2006East Midwood Jewish CenterBuilding · listed 2006Immanuel Congregational ChurchBuilding · listed 2006Lee, Higginson & Company Bank BuildingBuilding · listed 2006Joost Van Nuyse HouseBuilding · listed 2006James A. Jr. Burden House and Kahn, Otto H., HouseBuilding · listed 2006Grace Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 2006Orchard Shoal Light Station, OldStructure · listed 2006Macmillan BuildingBuilding · listed 2006West Bank Light StationBuilding · listed 2007Saint Benedict Joseph Labre ParishBuilding · listed 2007West Street BuildingBuilding · listed 2007Gansevoort Market Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2007House at 20 West 16th St.Building · listed 2007St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran ChurchBuilding · listed 2007Houses at 216-264 Ovington Ave.District · listed 2007Austin, Nichols and Company WarehouseBuilding · listed 2007Temple Emanu-ElBuilding · listed 2007Christ Evangelical English Lutheran ChurchBuilding · listed 2007Engineering Societies' Building and Engineers' ClubBuilding · listed 200775th Police Precinct Station HouseBuilding · listed 2007Evergreens CemeterySite · listed 2007House at 49 East 80th StreetBuilding · listed 2007Van Tassell and Kearney Horse Auction MartBuilding · listed 2007Fraunces TavernBuilding · listed 2008St. George's ChurchBuilding · listed 2008House at 146 East 38th St.Building · listed 2008Trinity Lutheran ChurchBuilding · listed 2008St. Philip's ChurchBuilding · listed 2008Garment Center Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2008New York Congregational Home for the AgedBuilding · listed 2008General Society of Mechanics and TradesmenBuilding · listed 2008SHEARWATER (schooner)Structure · listed 2009Congregation Beth AbrahamBuilding · listed 2009New York Telephone Company BuildingBuilding · listed 2009Park and Tilford BuildingBuilding · listed 2009240 Central Park SouthBuilding · listed 2009Industrial Complex at 221 McKibbin StreetBuilding · listed 2009Beth El Jewish Center of FlatbushBuilding · listed 2009Jacques Marchais Center of Tibetan ArtBuilding · listed 2009Brooklyn Trust Company BuildingBuilding · listed 2009Emerson, TheBuilding · listed 2009Trinity Lutheran Church of ManhattanBuilding · listed 2009Astoria Center of IsraelBuilding · listed 2009Free Synagogue of FlushingBuilding · listed 2009Tremont Baptist ChurchBuilding · listed 2009Rego Park Jewish CenterBuilding · listed 20091964-1965 New York World's Fair New York State PavilionBuilding · listed 2009Kol Israel SynagogueBuilding · listed 2009Shaari Zedek SynagogueBuilding · listed 2009WestbethBuilding · listed 2009Church-in-the-Gardens, TheBuilding · listed 2009Congregational Church of the EvangelBuilding · listed 2009Ocean Parkway Jewish CenterBuilding · listed 2009Fort Washington Presbyterian ChurchBuilding · listed 2010Chinatown and Little Italy Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2010Jewish Center of Kings HighwayBuilding · listed 2010Kingsway Jewish CenterBuilding · listed 2010Young Israel of FlatbushBuilding · listed 2010Parkway TheatreBuilding · listed 2010Elmendorf Reformed ChurchBuilding · listed 2010Temple Beth El of Borough ParkBuilding · listed 2010Building at 133 East 80th StreetBuilding · listed 2010Park Avenue Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2010Saint Luke's Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 2010Louis A. and Laura Stirn HouseBuilding · listed 2010Dollar Savings BankBuilding · listed 2011Wallabout Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2011Eleventh Street Methodist Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 2011West End Presbyterian Church and Parish HouseBuilding · listed 2011Riverdale-Spuyten Duyvil-Kingsbridge Memorial Bell TowerStructure · listed 2012Boardman-Mitchell HouseBuilding · listed 2012St. Stephen's Methodist ChurchBuilding · listed 2012Parkway VillageDistrict · listed 2012Hotel AlbertBuilding · listed 2012Wallabout Industrial Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2012Loew's Kings TheatreBuilding · listed 2012St. Matthias Roman Catholic Church ComplexBuilding · listed 2012Old Stone House of Brooklyn, TheBuilding · listed 2012MARY A. WHALEN (tanker)Structure · listed 2012Riverside ChurchBuilding · listed 2012First Battery ArmoryBuilding · listed 2013Storehouse No. 2, U.S. Navy Fleet Supply BaseBuilding · listed 2013The Bowery Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2013Women's National Republican ClubBuilding · listed 2013ENTERPRISE (space shuttle)Structure · listed 2013Fire Hook and Ladder Company No. 14Building · listed 2013Far Rockaway Beach Bungalow Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2013First Presbyterian Church of NewtownBuilding · listed 2013Jewish Center of Coney Island, TheBuilding · listed 2013Kismet TempleBuilding · listed 2013New York Bible SocietyBuilding · listed 2014North Presbyterian ChurchBuilding · listed 2014Rockaway CourthouseBuilding · listed 2014St. Anselm's Roman Catholic Church and SchoolBuilding · listed 2014Temple of Israel SynagogueBuilding · listed 2014Sohmer and Company Piano FactoryBuilding · listed 2014Crown Heights North Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2014Brooklyn Navy Yard Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2014Building at 116 John StreetBuilding · listed 2014Building at One Pendleton PlaceBuilding · listed 2014Nassau Brewing CompanyBuilding · listed 2014Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Lodge Number 878Building · listed 2014Chevra Linas Hazedek Synagogue of Harlem and the BronxBuilding · listed 2014Congregation Shaare Zedek of HarlemBuilding · listed 2015Crotona Play CenterBuilding · listed 2015Williamsbridge Oval ParkDistrict · listed 2015Union Temple of BrooklynBuilding · listed 2015Manhattan Beach Jewish CenterBuilding · listed 2015Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge 79Structure · listed 2015Congregation Chevra Linath HazedeckBuilding · listed 2016Greenwood Baptist ChurchBuilding · listed 2016Hudson View GardensDistrict · listed 20161964-1965 New York World's Fair CarouselStructure · listed 2016B and B CarouselStructure · listed 2016Master BuildingBuilding · listed 2016Julius' BarBuilding · listed 2016Beth Olam CemeterySite · listed 2016Calvary Methodist Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 2016Hudson TheatreBuilding · listed 2016United States Appraisers StoreBuilding · listed 2017Offerman BuildingBuilding · listed 2017P.S. 186Building · listed 2017Reformed Church of MelroseBuilding · listed 2017Congregation Ohab ZedekBuilding · listed 2017Caffe CinoBuilding · listed 2017Holy Cross African Orthodox Pro-CathedralBuilding · listed 2017Lefferts Manor Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2017Spear and Company FactoryBuilding · listed 2017Greenacre ParkSite · listed 2018Old Town of Flushing Burial GroundSite · listed 2018Saxe Embroidery Company BuildingBuilding · listed 2018Earl HallBuilding · listed 2018Wilbraham, TheBuilding · listed 2018Immanuel Union ChurchBuilding · listed 2018Columbus MonumentObject · listed 2018Triboro Hospital for TuberculosisBuilding · listed 2019Richmond Hill Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2019George Washington HotelBuilding · listed 2019St. Luke's HospitalBuilding · listed 2019James Baldwin ResidenceBuilding · listed 2019Bay Ridge Reformed ChurchBuilding · listed 2020New York Public Library, Fort Washington BranchBuilding · listed 2020Loew’s Kameo TheaterBuilding · listed 2021Williamsburg HousesDistrict · listed 2021Mary McLeod Bethune GardensBuilding · listed 2022Fort WadsworthDistrict · listed 2022Lithuanian Alliance of AmericaBuilding · listed 2022West Harlem Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2022Building at 821 BroadwayBuilding · listed 2024St. Peter's ChurchBuilding · listed 2025Soho Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1978First National City BankBuilding · listed 1972Mount Morris Park Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1973Casemate Fort, Whiting QuadrangleBuilding · listed 1974New Brighton Village HallBuilding · listed 1978Office of the RegisterBuilding · listed 1980West 76th Street Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1980Riverside-West 105th Street Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1980Prospect ParkDistrict · listed 1980Stuyvesant Square Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1980Apartment Buildings at 131-135 East 66th Street and 130-134 East 67th StreetBuilding · listed 1982Astor Row HousesPlace · listed 1982Turtle Bay Gardens Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Stables at 167, 169 and 171 West 89th StreetBuilding · listed 1983McFarlane-Bredt HouseBuilding · listed 1983West 73rd-74th Street Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1983Poillon-Seguine-Britton HouseBuilding · listed 1984Riverside Drive-West 80th-81st Streets Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1984Sunnyside Gardens Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1984Sidewalk Clock at 1501 3rd Avenue, ManhattanObject · listed 1985Sidewalk Clock at 519 3rd Avenue, ManhattanObject · listed 1985Sidewalk Clock at 783 5th Avenue, ManhattanObject · listed 1985Sutton Place Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1985Tudor City Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1986Metropolitan Life Home Office ComplexDistrict · listed 1996Houses at 1026-1028 Fifth Ave.District · listed 1999Building at 21 West StreetBuilding · listed 1999Prospect HallBuilding · listed 1999Bay Ridge United Methodist ChurchBuilding · listed 1999Stone Street Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1999DUMBO Industrial DistrictDistrict · listed 2000Our Lady of Mount Carmel GrottoDistrict · listed 2000Father Francis D. Duffy Statue and Duffy SquareObject · listed 2001Wyckoff-Snediker Family CemeterySite · listed 2001Harlem Savings BankBuilding · listed 2003Two Bridges Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2003Murray Hill Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2003Treadwell Farm Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2004Bleecker Street Subway Station (IRT)Structure · listed 2004Simpson Street Subway Station and Substation #18 (IRT)Structure · listed 2004Reformed Church on Staten IslandBuilding · listed 2005Morris Park StationStructure · listed 2005Concourse Yard Entry BuildingsStructure · listed 2006Coney Island Yard GatehouseStructure · listed 2006Wall Street Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2007Saitta HouseBuilding · listed 2007Port Morris Ferry BridgesStructure · listed 2014South Village Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2014Ansche Chesed SynagogueBuilding · listed 2014West 114th Street Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2014Colony Arcade BuildingBuilding · listed 2014CIRCLE LINE X (sightseeing vessel)Structure · listed 2014Sylvan Grove CemeterySite · listed 2015Bayard Rustin ResidenceBuilding · listed 2016Richmond Terrace CemeteriesSite · listed 2016Fort Independence Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2016Silver Lake CemeterySite · listed 2017Harlem African Burial GroundSite · listed 2018LANAI (yacht)Structure · listed 2018RIdgewood ReservoirDistrict · listed 2018First African Methodist Episcopal Church: BethelDistrict · listed 2018First Reformed Church of College PointDistrict · listed 2018German Evangelical Lutheran St. John's ChurchDistrict · listed 2019East Harlem Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 201932nd Police Precinct Station House ComplexBuilding · listed 2019Dorrance Brooks Square Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2019Fourth Avenue Methodist Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 2019Lewis Avenue Congregational ChurchBuilding · listed 2020National Headquarters, March on Washington for Jobs and FreedomBuilding · listed 2020Rugby Congregational ChurchBuilding · listed 2020Conrad Voelcker HouseBuilding · listed 2020Holyrood Protestant Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 2020V. Santini, Inc. WarehouseBuilding · listed 2020Olmsted, Frederick Law, Sr., FarmhouseBuilding · listed 2020Row Houses at 854-858 West End Avenue and 254 West 102nd StreetDistrict · listed 2021The Church of the Heavenly Rest and the Chapel of the Beloved DiscipleBuilding · listed 2021Building at 240 BroadwayBuilding · listed 2021Lorraine Hansberry HouseBuilding · listed 2021Women’s Liberation CenterBuilding · listed 2021Chevra Torah Anshei RadishkowitzBuilding · listed 2021St. Stephen’s Mission Church ComplexDistrict · listed 2021Moslem MosqueBuilding · listed 2021Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and MausoleumSite · listed 2021St. Peter’s Protestant Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 2021Ridgewood Fresh Pond Road-Myrtle Avenue Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2022Lillian Wald HouseBuilding · listed 2022North Main and West Water Commercial Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2022Kent ManorDistrict · listed 2022Paddy’s Market Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2022Hunts Point Rail StationBuilding · listed 2022Brooklyn VA Hospital Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2022Boulevard HousesDistrict · listed 2022Fiorentino PlazaDistrict · listed 2022John James Audubon HousesBuilding · listed 2022English Evangelical Lutheran Church of the ReformationBuilding · listed 2023Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2023Temple Israel of the City of New YorkBuilding · listed 2023Building at 287 BroadwayBuilding · listed 2024Central Harlem North Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2024Talmud Torah Atereth IsraelBuilding · listed 2024William Ulmer Brewery ComplexDistrict · listed 2024Three Arts ClubBuilding · listed 2024Metro North PlazaDistrict · listed 2024Edenwald HousesDistrict · listed 2024Manhattanville HousesDistrict · listed 2024Casita Rincón CriolloBuilding · listed 2024Audubon Park Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2024Boston Road PlazaBuilding · listed 2024Boston-Secor HousesDistrict · listed 2024Middletown PlazaBuilding · listed 202428th Police Precinct Station HouseBuilding · listed 2024Dollar Savings BankBuilding · listed 2024Gaylord White HousesBuilding · listed 2024West Brighton PlazaDistrict · listed 2024Louise Terrace-Colonial Road Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2025Dominican Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2025Hotel MartiniqueBuilding · listed 2025Temple Israel Reform CongregationBuilding · listed 2025Eastchester HousesDistrict · listed 2025Marcus Garvey ParkDistrict · listed 2025Church of St. Edward the MartyrBuilding · listed 2025Richmond Town Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2025Stuyvesant Gardens IDistrict · listed 2025Corsi HousesBuilding · listed 2025Morris Park Senior Citizens HomeBuilding · listed 2025E. Robert Moore HousesBuilding · listed 2025Jackie Robinson HousesBuilding · listed 2025Messiah Lutheran ChurchBuilding · listed 2025St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal ChurchBuilding · listed 2025Brooklyn Gardens Apartments (Navy Yard)Building · listed 2025East 152nd Street-Courtlandt Avenue HousesBuilding · listed 2026Mott Haven Health CenterBuilding · listed 2026Unitarian Church of the RedeemerBuilding · listed 2026Richard Mott HouseBuilding · listed 2026Fulton Park PlazaBuilding · listed 2026Bay View HousesDistrict · listed 2026

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

The story

How New York City came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of New York City.

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In the pre-Columbian era, the area of present-day New York City was inhabited by Algonquians, including Munsee-speaking Lenape. The homeland of the Lenape, known as Lenapehoking, included the present-day areas of Staten Island, Manhattan, the Bronx, the western portion of Long Island (including Brooklyn and Queens), and the Lower Hudson Valley.

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From the old history books

What they wrote about New York City in 1891

Passages that mention New York City, cut from the printed page as they were published.

This was soon superseded by the present mammoth works at Sag Harbor. The Fahys Watch Case Co. was incorporated in ISSl, under the laws of the state of New York, and operates salesrooms at New York, Chicago, Cincinnati and San Franciso. The leading specialties of the company are tlie " Monarch," a f…
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This was soon superseded by the present mammoth works at Sag Harbor. The Fahys Watch Case Co. was incorporated in ISSl, under the laws of the state of New York, and operates salesrooms at New York, Chicago, Cincinnati and San Franciso. The leading specialties of the company are tlie " Monarch," a fourteen-karat filled case, and the " Montank," a ten-karat case; both of wliich are equal in all essential features to the solid gold cases.

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is apparent when their macliines break down, speedily need repairs or prove inadequate to the work demanded of them. There are some old estabhshed houses, however, that have achieved a solid reputation for the superiority of their pumps and full}- live up to it. Such a house is that of the Geo. F. …
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is apparent when their macliines break down, speedily need repairs or prove inadequate to the work demanded of them. There are some old estabhshed houses, however, that have achieved a solid reputation for the superiority of their pumps and full}- live up to it. Such a house is that of the Geo. F. Blake Manufacturing Co., proprietors and builders of Blake's Improved Steam pumps and pumping engines, with works at East Cambridge, Mass., and salesrooms at New York, Boston and Philadelphia. Founded upon a substantial basis of skill, energy and integrity, this business has had a remarkable growth, and the company is one of the best illustrations of industrial progress iu the state. The New York office was opened in 187:3, and is eligibly located at Nos. 95 and 97 Liberty Street. Here is at all times displayed a large and complete stock of those superior specialties which have made the name of Blake famous the world over. Special attention is called to the many new and valuable improvements that have been introduced by this company, including their improved noiseless and

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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Timeline

New York City, 1624 to 1943

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 17th century
  2. 1624
    FoundingNew York City is established
  3. 1660In the archiveNieuw Amsterdam ofte nue Nieuw Iorx opt't Eylant Man (titel op object), NG-28
  4. 1674In the archiveAllard -Totius Neobelgii Nova et Accuratissima Tabula (Detail)
  5. 18th century
  6. 1717In the archiveGezichten op het eiland Amsterdam, RP-P-1904-636
  7. 1726In the archiveInwoners van Nieuw Amsterdam, 1726 Nieu Amsterdam at New York (titel op object) Les Force…
  8. 1771In the archiveBalthasar Friedrich Leizelt - Destruction of the Royal Statue in New York - Google Art Pr…
  9. 1775Post officeThe New York post office opens
  10. 1783In the archiveFort George, New York. Evacuation 24 November 1783 (maritime journal of Robert Raymond) 0…
  11. 1791Post officeThe King's Bridge post office opens
  12. 1794Post officeThe Jamaica post office opens
  13. 19th century
  14. 1812BuiltCity Hall is built
  15. 1829Post officeThe King's Bridge post office closes
  16. 1856BuiltCentral Park is built
  17. 1891BuiltCarnegie Hall is built
  18. 1899Born hereHumphrey Bogart is born here
  19. 20th century
  20. 1905BuiltSchomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is built
  21. 1937Born hereJane Fonda is born here
  22. 1943Born hereRobert De Niro is born here
On the map

New York City on the map, 1947 to 1981

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of New York City. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

New York City on the 1947 USGS mapNew York City on the 1955 USGS mapNew York City on the 1967 USGS mapNew York City on the 1981 USGS map1947Jersey City sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of New York City.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Mose and Lize
Retake this viewMose and Lize, 1848

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on New York City’s page.

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People over time

New York City, census by census

01,000,0002,000,0003,000,0004,000,0005,000,0006,000,0007,000,0008,000,0009,000,000180018501900195020008,804,190

Grew from 33,131 people in 1790 to 8,804,190 in 2020, more than tenfold.

24 censuses, 1790–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on New York City’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

99 famous people were born in New York City

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

New York City’s post office has been open since 1775. 95 other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

New York
1775–today
King's Bridge
1791–1829
Jamaica
1794–today
Queens
1794–1805
Brooklyn
1803–today
Harlem
1808–1863
Flatbush
1814–1894
Richmond
1822–1921
Rossville
1824–1917
Tompkinsville
1825–1917
17701900today
Hamlets and corners on the map
AdelphiAmalgamated DwellingsAnnadaleArlingtonArrocharArverneAstoriaBath BeachBattery Park CityBay RidgeBay TerraceBaychesterBaysideBayswaterBedford ParkBedford-StuyvesantBeechhurstBellaireBelle HarborBelmontBensonhurstBergen BeachBlissvilleBloomfield
Gone or out of use
Academy of MusicschoolAcademy TheatrebuildingAce TheatrebuildingAcme TheaterbuildingAcme TheatrebuildingAlba TheaterbuildingAlbemarle TheaterbuildingAlben TheatrebuildingAlexander Avenue Baptist ChurchchurchAlhambra TheatrebuildingAll Hallows SchoolschoolAllerton TheatrebuildingAlpine TheatrebuildingAmbassador TheatrebuildingAmboy Street ShulchurchAmerican Bank Note CompanybuildingAmerican Horse ExchangebuildingAmerican Museumbuilding
93family graveyards and cemeteries inside New York City
AcaciaAhawith ChesedB'nai Jeshurum and Shereth IsraelBaron HirschBaysideBeth ElBethel MethodistBlazing StarCanarsieCedar GroveCemetery of the Holy CrossCharlestonCypress HillsCypress Hills NationalFairviewFirst CalvaryFirst Shearith IsraelFlushingFountainFrederick Douglass Memorial ParkGeneral Grant National Memorial ParkGrace Episcopal ChurchyardGravesendGreen - WoodHungarianKnollwood ParkKnollwood ParkLawrenceLinden Hill JewishLinden Hill United MethodistLutheran All FaithsMachpelahMaple GroveMerrellMethodistMontefioreMoravianMost Holy TrinityMount CarmelMount HopeMount JudahMount LebanonMount MarysMount NebohMount OlivetMount RichmondMount ZionNew CalvaryNew York City MarbleNew York MarbleOcean ViewOld New UtrechtOld Saint Raymond'sOld West Farms SoldiersPauperPelhamPotters FieldProspectProspectQuakerRossville AME ZionSailors Snug HarborSaint AnnsSaint JohnSaint JosephsSaint LukesSaint MarysSaint MarysSaint Michael'sSaint Monica'sSaint Paul's ChurchSaint Peter'sSaint PetersSaint RaymondSalem FieldSecond Cemetery of Congregation Shearith IsraelSilver LakeSilver MountSpringfieldStatenSylvan GroveThe EvergreensThird Cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese SynagogueTrinity ChurchTrinity Church Cemetery and MausoleumUnion FieldUnited HebrewVanderbiltWashingtonWoodlandWoodlawnWyckoff Snediker FamilyZion Episcopal
See all 93

Acacia Cemetery · Ahawith Chesed Cemetery · B'nai Jeshurum and Shereth Israel Cemetery · Baron Hirsch Cemetery · Bayside Cemetery · Beth El Cemetery · Bethel Methodist Cemetery · Blazing Star Burial Ground · Canarsie Cemetery · Cedar Grove Cemetery · Cemetery of the Holy Cross · Charleston Cemetery · Cypress Hills Cemetery · Cypress Hills National Cemetery · Fairview Cemetery · First Calvary Cemetery · First Shearith Israel Graveyard · Flushing Cemetery · Fountain Cemetery · Frederick Douglass Memorial Park · General Grant National Memorial Park · Grace Episcopal Churchyard · Gravesend Cemetery · Green - Wood Cemetery · Hungarian Cemetery · Knollwood Park Cemetery · Knollwood Park Cemetery · Lawrence Cemetery · Linden Hill Jewish Cemetery · Linden Hill United Methodist Cemetery · Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery · Machpelah Cemetery · Maple Grove Cemetery · Merrell Cemetery · Methodist Cemetery · Montefiore Cemetery · Moravian Cemetery · Most Holy Trinity Cemetery · Mount Carmel Cemetery · Mount Hope Cemetery · Mount Judah Cemetery · Mount Lebanon Cemetery · Mount Marys Cemetery · Mount Neboh Cemetery · Mount Olivet Cemetery · Mount Richmond Cemetery · Mount Zion Cemetery · New Calvary Cemetery · New York City Marble Cemetery · New York Marble Cemetery · Ocean View Cemetery · Old New Utrecht Cemetery · Old Saint Raymond's Cemetery · Old West Farms Soldiers Cemetery · Pauper Burial Ground · Pelham Cemetery · Potters Field Burial Ground · Prospect Cemetery · Prospect Cemetery · Quaker Cemetery · Rossville AME Zion Cemetery · Sailors Snug Harbor Cemetery · Saint Anns Cemetery · Saint John Cemetery · Saint Josephs Cemetery · Saint Lukes Cemetery · Saint Marys Cemetery · Saint Marys Cemetery · Saint Michael's Cemetery · Saint Monica's Cemetery · Saint Paul's Church Cemetery · Saint Peter's Cemetery · Saint Peters Cemetery · Saint Raymond Cemetery · Salem Field Cemetery · Second Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel · Silver Lake Cemetery · Silver Mount Cemetery · Springfield Cemetery · Staten Cemetery · Sylvan Grove Cemetery · The Evergreens Cemetery · Third Cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue · Trinity Church Cemetery · Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum · Union Field Cemetery · United Hebrew Cemetery · Vanderbilt Cemetery · Washington Cemetery · Woodland Cemetery · Woodlawn Cemetery · Wyckoff Snediker Family Cemetery · Zion Episcopal Cemetery

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

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History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Questions about New York City’s history

What year was New York City founded?

In 1624, according to Wikidata. New York City’s post office opened in 1775, and the first U.S. census counted 33,131 people here in 1790.

How does New York City rank for history?

New York City is among the most historic 1% of U.S. towns, #27 of 758 in New York State. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

What is on the National Register in New York City?

1,039 listings, 116 of them National Historic Landmarks: 727 buildings, among them the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (a National Historic Landmark since 2016), 172 historic districts with 34,099 contributing buildings, 23 sites, 110 structures, and 9 objects. 35,819 historic buildings in all.

How old are the homes in New York City?

38% of New York City’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate), against a typical 27% for a New York State town; the median home was built in 1952.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

From Wikimedia Commons (117), the Library of Congress (36), Wikidata (18), the National Register of Historic Places (1042), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.