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The Queens Museum is located in the New York City Pavilion at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, [4] designed by architect Aymar Embury II for the 1939 World's Fair. [4] [5] The fair was first announced in 1935, [6] and engineering consultant J. Franklin Bell drew up preliminary plans for the fairground the next year, including a structure for the New York City government. [7]
New York Jazz Museum in Manhattan; New York City Police Museum; New York Tattoo Museum in Staten Island; Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, closed in 2015; Ripley's Believe It or Not!, midtown Manhattan, 2007-2021; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex, opened in SoHo in 2008, closed in 2010; Sony Wonder Technology Lab, closed in 2016
Times Square, in Manhattan Following is an alphabetical list of notable buildings, sites and monuments located in New York City in the United States. The borough is indicated in parentheses. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2012) American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan) Rose Center for Earth and Space America's Response Monument (Manhattan) Apollo ...
Museum of the City of New York: Museum Mile: Manhattan: Multiple: Art and local history National September 11 Memorial & Museum: Financial District: Manhattan: Memorial: Memorial and museum dedicated to victims of 9/11 attacks New-York Historical Society: Upper West Side: Manhattan: History: History of New York and the United States Statue of ...
All five boroughs of New York came into existence with the creation of modern New York City in 1898, when New York County (then including the Bronx), Kings County, Richmond County, and part of Queens County were consolidated within one municipal government under a new city charter. All former municipalities within the newly consolidated city ...
February 23, 2016 (54th & 56th Aves. on 111th St. Flushing: Combination of two old Coney Island carousels for World's Fair is one of few fairground attractions left from it
The Homestead has been interpreted to the Victorian era, [8] although it has included a wide range of exhibits since its dedication as a museum. A World War II exhibit focused on events in Queens during the war, including newspaper clippings and advertisements. [5] There was also an exhibit on slavery and its impact in Queens and on Long Island ...
Queens Village Veterans Plaza [61] Ridgewood Veterans Triangle; Sergeant Colyer Square [62] Sohncke Square [63] Steinmann Triangle [64] Triangle 54 (memorial flagpole) Veterans Park (New York City)|Veterans Park [65] (Broad Channel) Veterans Square [66] Wellbrook Triangle [67] Winfield War Memorial [68] William F. Moore Park [69]