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The heart of New York's transportation system, Grand Central Terminal showcases civic glamour -- on a scale unrivalled this side of the Atlantic -- and the heady romance of a bygone era dominated by train cars, impulsive travel, and surprise send-offs. The main concourse here is undeniably one of... more

More than 12 million people passed through the immigration station on nearby Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954. The main building now houses a remarkable museum of immigration, where visitors can pass, as their forebears might have, through the various examination and registration rooms of the... more

A graceful, slim suspension bridge (like the Williamsburg Bridge on a diet), the Manhattan Bridge spans the East River just north of the Brooklyn Bridge, joining the busy, ever-beating heart of Manhattan's Chinatown with the spacious, under-commerced DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn--a once-anonymous... more

A Tinker Toy structure spanning New York's two chief hipster havens, the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. When the bridge was built in 1903, only the glorious, comparatively gothic Brooklyn Bridge crossed the East River, and Williamsburg was a kind of luxury retreat for the city's... more

The Carroll Street Bridge is one of the most unique bridges in New York, if not the entire United States. The bridge was constructed in 1889 by Brooklyn Department of City Works and has remained virtually unchanged ever since. It is the oldest operating retractile bridge in the United States and... more

This is where New York comes to read. A literary cathedral erected on the site of New York's first open reservoir, the majestic Beaux-Arts-style Public Library at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue is one of the world's five greatest public research institutions and a spectacular monument of the... more