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A member's-only club for the kind of folks who wear their elitism like a badge of honor, the Harvard Club occupies two adjacent lots on West 44th street, a peculiar, haphazardly-built structure designed in several stages by the eminent architectural firm McKim Mead, and White. First organized in... more

Part school, part museum, part library and research center, part public platform and event space, the International Center of Photography is a diverse cultural institution, richly endowed and deftly steered, which can now lay legitimate claim to the status suggested by its ambitious name. Founded... more

The Queens Botanical Garden occupies thirty-nine acres of land at the northeast section of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Although it originated during the 1939 World’s Fair it did not open at its current location until 1963. The Garden receives over 300,000 visitors annually and aims to provide... more

While the exhibitions in the Queens Museum of Art are fascinating and educational, the building that houses the museum, the New York City Building, has a vast history and is equally fascinating. The building was originally constructed to contain the New York City Pavilion which exhibited displays... more

Most famously known as the dumping ground referred to as the “Valley of Ashes” in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is now a 1,255 acre park that straddles Flushing and Corona, New York and is currently Queens’s largest park. The radical transformation... more

The Bronx Museum was founded in 1971 by a group of local residents to bring the visual arts to the Bronx. It has remained the only fine art museum in the Bronx. The museum’s permanent galleries showcase contemporary art by artists of African, Asian, and Latin American descent. The museum has been... more