New York City 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...

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...

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...

The striking triangular shape of the Flatiron Building “Flatiron” gave the building its name. It is New York's first skyscraper in the – then new – steel skeleton construction. The architect D. H. Burn...

Bright lights in the big city. It's hard to imagine another part of the city that so embodies the glitz and glamour associated with New York - at any given time of year, there are at least 30 theater pr...

A somber and emotionally stirring sight. September 2001, the two towers of the World Trade Center were New York's tallest buildings and together with the five side buildings symbolized American financi...