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Union Square is one of the most important and most crowded epicenters in New York City. It was named because it marked the place where Bowery and Broadway met, making it one of the most important intersections in the world during the 19th Century. Union Square park has long been a site of... more

The 79th street Boat Basin, otherwise known as the Croton Aqueduct, was a large and complex water distribution system constructed for New York City between 1837 and 1842. At the time, New York was struggling to preserve its fresh water systems. The city was rapidly expanding, and as the city grew... more

An Art Deco city-within-a-city, Rockefeller Center exemplifies the dream of New York as a sleek commercial metropolis. The largest privately owned business-and-entertainment center in the world, this dazzling 19-building complex is a glamorous commercial address, an upscale shopping center, and the... more

Straus Square was one of many accidentally-created plazas which, in the decades before the building of Central Park, served as New York's de facto public space. Originally known as Rutgers Square, the plaza was a veritable hotbed of political activity -- pamphleteering, speechifying -- for the... more

A small, gated nineteenth century enclave in the heart of mallishly twenty-first-century Murray Hill, Sniffen Court is perhaps most famous as the setting of the album cover for The Doors' Strange Days. One of only a handful of preserved antebellum streets and narrows in Manhattan proper, Sniffen... more

A small patch of garden cut into shape by Barrow Street, West Fourth Street, and Christopher Place, Sheridan Square was an unexceptional traffic triangle, dull and concrete, until 1981, when community leaders took up the cause of beautification, and, with the help of the city in the form of small... more