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There are tens of thousands of officially-designated landmarks in New York City, and today, the Landmarks Preservation Commission launched a fun new tool that lets you explore all of those ...
Today the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted to designate eight items as New York City landmarks. The designees—churches, residences, and one lighthouse—were part of Backlog 95, the ...
The Skyscraper Museum has debuted a new web project that takes the city’s Heritage Trails, a mid-1990s project that explored the history of lower Manhattan’s public landmarks, and converted it ...
1916 Redrawing of The Castello Plan, map of 1660 New Amsterdam via Wikimedia Commons. One of New York City’s largest landmarks is the street grid of Lower Manhattan, a remnant of Dutch New ...
Interactive story map on the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission page. Image via NYCLPC November 6, 2017 marks a century since women were granted the right to vote in New York state. To ...
The map was drawn by Joseph Colton, who one of the most prominent map publishers in New York City, with a career spanning three decades from the 1830s to the 1850s.
NEW YORK (PIX11) – New York City has the most Instagrammable landmarks in the United States, according to a study by Bonus Finder. “When it comes to the most Instagrammed landmarks in America ...