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January 19, 2024. Col. Oliver Hazard Payne Estate is a historic 60-acre (24 ha) estate, also known as Omega and Wiltwick, [2] located on the west bank of the Hudson River at Esopus in Ulster County, New York, United States. The estate features a 42,000-square-foot (3,900 m 2) Beaux Arts -style Mediterranean palazzo with an open courtyard.
Madame Tussauds New York (UK / təˈsɔːdz /, US / tuːˈsoʊz /; the family themselves pronounce it / ˈtuːsoʊ /) is a tourist attraction located on 42nd Street in the Times Square neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Madame Tussauds was founded by the wax sculptor, Marie Tussaud, and is now operated by the United Kingdom ...
April 11, 1980 [ 2 ] Designated NYCL. October 18, 1988 [ 1 ] The Knickerbocker Hotel is a hotel at Times Square, on the southeastern corner of Broadway and 42nd Street, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Built by John Jacob Astor IV, the hostelry was designed in 1901 and opened in 1906.
A remnant of the Croton distribution reservoir, seen at the foundation of the South Court in 2014. The consolidation of the Astor and Lenox Libraries into the New York Public Library in 1895, [10] [11] along with a large bequest from Samuel J. Tilden and a donation of $5.2 million from Andrew Carnegie, [12] allowed for the creation of an enormous library system. [13]
St. John's University is a private Catholic university in Queens, New York City. It was founded in 1870 by the Congregation of the Mission (C.M., the Vincentian Fathers) with a mission to provide the youth of New York with a Catholic university education. [ 4 ] Originally located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, the flagship campus was ...
Number of rooms. 240. The Hotel Claridge was a 16-story building on Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, at the southeast corner of Broadway and 44th Street. Originally known as the Hotel Rector, it was built of brick in the Beaux-arts style in 1910–1911. The 14-story building had 240 guest rooms and 216,000 square feet of space. [1]
U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Times Square Hotel in 2008. Show map of New York City Show map of New York Show map of the United States Show all. Location. 255 West 43rd Street, New York, New York. Coordinates. 40°45′28″N 73°59′20″W / 40.75778°N 73.98889°W / 40.75778; -73.98889. Area.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is a presidential library in Hyde Park, New York. Located on the grounds of Springwood, the Roosevelt family estate, it holds the records of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States (1933–1945). The library was built under the President's personal direction in ...