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Victorian Gardens was a seasonal traditional-style amusement park that set up at Wollman Rink in Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, from spring through fall each year. [ 1 ] Description
The Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden is a museum at 149-19 38th Avenue in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Queens in New York City.In addition to preserving a German immigrant family's 1890s home and garden, the Voelker Orth Museum engages audiences through the arts, education, nature, horticulture and local history by offering house tours, temporary exhibitions ...
Dutch Colonial house built in 1735, one of New York City's few remaining Dutch Colonial houses. [95] Also on the National Register of Historic Places, [18] and overlaid by the Douglaston Historic District; Voelker Orth Museum Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden: Voelker Orth Museum Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden
The Conservatory Garden is a formal garden near the northeastern corner of Central Park in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Comprising 6 acres (24,000 m 2), it is the only formal garden in Central Park. Conservatory Garden takes its name from a conservatory that stood on the site from 1898 to 1935.
Ditmas Park is a historic district in the neighborhood of Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York City.The traditional boundaries of Ditmas Park, including Ditmas Park West, are Ocean Avenue and greater Flatbush to the east, Dorchester Road and the Prospect Park South neighborhood to the north, Coney Island Avenue and the Kensington neighborhood to the west, and Newkirk Avenue to the south. [2]
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City.Established in 1891, it is located on a 250-acre (100 ha) site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a greenhouse containing several habitats; and the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, which contains one of the world's largest collections of ...
The historical atlas of New York City: A visual celebration of 400 years of New York City's history (Macmillan, 2005) Jackson, Kenneth D. Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd ed. 2010); a massive compendium of authoritative short articles; Laster, Margaret R., and Chelsea Bruner, eds. New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age (2018)
Notable buildings in the district include the Flatiron Building, one of the oldest of the original New York skyscrapers. To the east, at 1 Madison Avenue, is the Met Life Tower , built in 1909 and at 700 feet (210 m) was the tallest building in the world until 1913, when the Woolworth Building was completed.