The Chrysler Building is an art deco masterpiece designed by William Van Alen and built between 1928 and 1930. The Chrysler Corporation moved out in the mid-1950s, but the building retains its name and many automotive details: gargoyles shaped like car-hood ornaments sprout from the building's upper stories.
Location: 405 Lexington Ave. at 42nd St.
Chrysler
The Empire State Building opened in 1931 after only 13 months of construction and was world’s tallest building for many years, now ranking third. Ever since the 1976 American bicentennial celebration, the top 30 stories have been spotlighted at night with seasonal colors.
Location: 5th Ave. & 34th St.
Empire State
This 1911 masterpiece was designed by Carrère and Hastings and is one of the great research institutions in the world, with 6 million books, 12 million manuscripts, and 2.8 million pictures. The grand entrance is at 5th Avenue just south of 42nd Street, where two marble lions guard a flagstone plaza.
Location: 5th Ave & 42nd St
New York Public Library
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the city's supreme cultural institutions and the largest art museum in the western hemisphere. Its collection of nearly 3 million works of art from all over the world includes objects from the Paleolithic era to modern times.
Location: 5th Ave & 82nd St.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Billions of dollars trade hands in this neoclassical temple with its facade of Corinthian columns
Location: 11 Wall St.
Stock Exchange
The doors of 200 Park Ave. opened in
1963 and it was known as "The Pan Am Building".
In 1981 the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company purchased the building and
renamed it. The two largest single letters weigh about 4,000 pounds
each and the MetLife logos measure 22 X 22 feet!
Location: 200 Park Ave
Met Life
The Gothic Roman Catholic Cathedral of New York is one of the city's largest (seating approximately 2,400) and most striking churches. It is dedicated to the patron saint of the Irish.
Location: 5th Ave. & 50th St.
Saint Patrick's Cathedral
This Anglican parish with its rose-colored Gothic chapel and graveyard stood as the tallest building in New York for part of the 19th century. On both sides of the church there is cemetery that dates back more than 300 years and currently makes a popular place for Wall Street workers to escape for lunch.
Location: Broadway & Wall St.
Trinity Church
The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine is the largest Gothic Cathedral in the world. Its construction began in 1892 and it is still undergoing permanent changes and additions.
Location: 112th St. & Amsterdam
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
Considered the oldest remaining skyscraper in New York, the Flatiron Building is 285 feet tall.
The Flatiron's most interesting feature is its shape. The apex of the building is just six feet wide, and expands into a limestone wedge adorned with Gothic and Renaissance details of Greek faces and terra cotta flowers.
Location: 5th Ave. & 23rd St.
Flatiron
The Dakota building was the place John Lennon called home for the latter part of his life. It is the place where he devoted all his attention to raising his son Sean and also where he was murdered in 1980. Yoko Ono still resides in the building
Location:
Central Park West and West 72nd St
Dakota