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City walls of Ahmedabad 1866. The Historic City of Ahmadabad or Old Ahmedabad, the walled city of Ahmedabad in India, was founded by Ahmad Shah I of the Gujarat Sultanate in 1411. It remained the capital of the state of Gujarat for six centuries and later became the important political and commercial centre of Gujarat.
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission was created following the preservation fight and subsequent demolition of Pennsylvania Station. New York City's right to limit owners' ability to convert landmarked buildings was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978.
New York Central Building: March 31, 1987: New York House and School of Industry: October 2, 1990: New York Life Building: October 24, 2000: New York Public Library Main Branch: January 11, 1967: New York Public Library, Muhlenberg Branch: January 30, 2001: New York Savings Bank: June 8, 1988: New York Times Building (Times Annex)
The New York City borough of Manhattan contains numerous smaller islands in addition to the main island of Manhattan. [2] Three of these islands, Ellis Island, Governors Island, and Liberty Island, are located in Upper New York Bay, [3]: 9 though jurisdiction of Ellis Island is shared with neighboring Jersey City, New Jersey, and Liberty Island is an exclave of Manhattan within New Jersey.
Location of New York County in New York. There are 586 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in New York County, New York, which consists of Manhattan Island, the Marble Hill neighborhood on the mainland north of the Harlem River Ship Canal, and adjacent smaller islands around it.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places between 59th and 110th Streets in Manhattan. For properties and districts in other parts of Manhattan and the other islands of New York County, see National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan. The locations of ...
Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York (William Sloane House) 686 Park Avenue November 10, 1970: Oliver Gould Jennings House: 7 East 72nd Street January 11, 1977: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: 1071 Fifth Avenue August 14, 1990: Junior League of the City of New York (Vincent Astor House)
The earliest surviving map of the area now known as New York City is the Manatus Map, depicting what is now Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey in the early days of New Amsterdam. [7] The Dutch colony was mapped by cartographers working for the Dutch Republic. New Netherland had a position of surveyor general.