New York City Culture and Sights

Walk towards manhattan! Mighty construction of stone and steel. The lengthy ramp of the Brooklyn Bridge ascends, the oldest bridge over the East River. The plans for the first steel hanging bridge in th...

On the edge of art, the MoMA is one of the greatest modern art museums. The first exhibition in November 1929 was in the Rockefeller's town house at today's location, and was opened with 100 French Imp...

A beautiful monument in itself. In 1871 the railway magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt opened the first railway station here, from which the trains of the private railway line New York Central left for Chicag...

The Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 skyscrapers . It was built by the richest citizen of America, John D. Rockefeller Jr., whom New York also has to thank for Rockefeller University, Fort Tryon Pa...

A symbol of peace and freedom. “Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World” stands on the foundations of a fort built in 1811. The statue, 93m/305ft-high including the foundation and base, is a world-fam...

Founded in 1869, this is the oldest museum in New York. With more than 35 million exhibits it is the largest museum of natural history in the world. The museum is housed in a building complex built in ...

Fifth Avenue has always been New York's most magnificent thoroughfar. because there is no main square, it is also the centre of the city. The big parades start here (Steuben Parade, St Patrick's Day Par...

Smaller than the Empire State building, but classically designed and very recognizeable. . For a whole year the Chrysler Building, which was completed in the year 1930 and with which the car manufacture...

An irreplaceable international collection of visual art. Guggenheim originally collected old masters until the German artist and later museum director Baroness Hilla Rebay introduced him to non-objecti...