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The Mmuseumm was founded by Alex Kalman [3] [4] and the Safdie brothers. [5] [6] It curates its content and locations by "seasons", reflective of its original summer hours, [7] and has called two locations home on Cortlandt Alley between Franklin Street and White Street, sometimes known as Mmuseumm Alley. [8]
Manhattan: A large tulip tree that grew to the height of 165 feet and a girth of 20 feet. The tree died 1932, at the estimated age of 220 years old. Some saw the tree as a last remaining link to the Wecquaesgeek who lived amongst the tree at Shorakapok. [50] A small monument now stands where the tree once grew. [50] Stuyvesant Pear Tree: Pear tree
Children's Museum of Manhattan: Upper West Side Manhattan Children's China Institute: Upper East Side Manhattan Art Asian and Asian-American Galleries with exhibits about traditional Chinese paintings, calligraphy, Chinese folk arts, textiles, and architecture City Island Nautical Museum: City Island: Bronx History American and NY history
Tulip tree under which legend says that Native Americans sold Manhattan to Peter Minuit in 1626. The park's Shorakapok Preserve was formerly the site of a "Great Tulip Tree", a Liriodendron tulipifera considered the largest tree on Manhattan, as well as one of the oldest, and was championed and restored by Parks Commissioner Charles B. Stover. [10]
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. [5] Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library.
The exhibition, "Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature," will include a reforestation effort that involves planting 100 native trees in Elysian Park and five at the Kuruvungna Village Springs in West ...
The Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals are a series of exhibition halls at the American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. The halls opened on June 12, 2021, as a complete redesign of their predecessors, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Gems and Minerals and Morgan Memorial Hall ...
The boundaries are West 118th and West 124th Streets, Fifth Avenue, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue). [2] "Doctor's Row" comprises the nearby stretch of West 122nd Street, Mount Morris Park West and Malcolm X Boulevard; one of the doctors of "Doctor's Row" was the father of the composer Richard Rodgers.