Bernard Museum Of Judaica
Six centuries and over 250 pieces of fine Judaica are represented in the Bernard Museum, depicting Jewish art, history and culture from all over the world. The permanent exhibition explores the history of the Congregatio... museumstuff.com
Ellis Island Immigration Museum
From 1892 to 1924 some 16 million immigrants first set foot in the New World here. Today their descendants account for almost 40 percent of the U.S. population. Originally a 3-acre island, the site was expanded over the yea... nyc-arts.org
Center For Jewish History
The Center for Jewish History is home to the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The collectio... nyc-arts.org
Ukrainian Museum
The Ukrainian Museum preserves and interprets art and artifacts relating to the history and culture of this Eastern European nation. The museum's collection is divided into the areas of folk art, fine art and historical arc... nyc-arts.org
The Little Red Lighthouse
The Little Red Lighthouse stopped being used as a functional lighthouse long ago, but over the years this 40-foot-high structure has become a beacon of another kind. Located underneath the George Washington Bridge along this tr... hmdb.org
369th Infantry Regiment Memorial
This monument honors the legendary 369th Infantry Regiment known as the Harlem Hellfighters. The black granite obelisk is a replica of a 1997 memorial that stands in Sechault in Northern France, where the 369th soldiers disting... hmdb.org
Simon Bolivar Statue
One of a trio of bronze equestrian sculptures representing Latin American leaders, the Simon Bolivar statue commemorates a military general and advocate of Pan-Americanism. Bolivar (1783-1840) is credited with the liberation fr... hmdb.org
The Dutch And Governors Island
The Dutch East India Company commissioned Henry Hudson to identify a northwest passage to the Indies. As a part of that effort, Hudson entered New York Bay on September 11, 1609 in his vessel The Half Moon and sailed up the riv... hmdb.org
Lewis H. Latimer House
Self-educated, Lewis H. Latimer was an African American inventor who made significant contributions toward the invention of the light bulb. He resided here from 1903 until his death in 1988. The Lewis H. Latimer House ... heritagesites.com
Foley Square Before 1600
[ Marker #1 ] For thousands of years this land was inhabited by the Lenape people. They belonged to tribes or clans symbolized by the wolf, the turtle or the turkey. These three animals also represented the three key elements o... hmdb.org
Castle Clinton
This sandstone fort was built in 1811 as one of five forts erected to defend New York Harbor. The fort originally stood on a small island that was linked to Manhattan by a 200-foot wooden causeway and drawbridge. In the 1850s, ... hmdb.org
Beavers Path
BEAVER?S PATH Location: Battery Place at Greenwich Street Dutch Name: Bever Straet Here, on a sandyshore, Lenape Indians beached their canoes to trade beaver and otter pelts for Dutch cloth, kettles, and metal tools. To the Len... hmdb.org
Alexander Hamilton U.s. Custom House / National Museum Of The...
Before the income tax was invented, the duty levied on imported goods financed almost the entire cost of America?s federal government and as much as 80 per cent of that duty came through the Port of New York, making the New Yor... hmdb.org
Plymouth Church Of The Pilgrims
The congregation of Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims hired Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) as their first minister, approving of his abolitionist sentiments. Beecher protested the Fugitive Slave Laws of 1850, exhorting his congre... hmdb.org
Brooklyn Heights Historic District
Brooklyn Heights, with its elegant promenade and dramatic view of Manhattan, is one of the most uniformly preserved 19th century residential districts in New York City. It was developed soon after 1814, when Robert Fulton's fir... hmdb.org
Savoy Ballroom
SAVOY Here once stood the legendary Savoy Ballroom a hothouse for the development of jazz in the Swing Era. Visually dazzling and spacious, the Savoy nightly featured the finest jazz bands in the nation, and its house bands inc... hmdb.org
Middens And Reefs
Oyster Middens, or piles of discarded shells, once littered the landscape of Manhattan and its neighboring shores, a testament to the astonishing abundance of the indigenous European Oyster, Crassostrea virginica. Archaeologist... hmdb.org
Weeksville Heritage Center
Weeksville Heritage Center is a historic museum that preserves the history of the free and intentional 19th-century African-American community of Weeksville, Brooklyn. It also creates and inspires innovative, contemporary u... nyc-arts.org