5 landmarks in Manhattan with verified facts and stories most people walk right past.
Chelsea Market
75 9th Ave, Manhattan, New York, 10011, United States
This building used to make Oreos.
City Hall Subway Station
Manhattan, New York, United States
Beneath City Hall is the most beautiful subway station in New York, and it has been closed since nineteen forty-five.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W 53rd St, Manhattan, New York, 10019, United States
MoMA is the most influential modern art museum in the world — the institution that defined what 'modern art' meant for the 20th century and continues to shape the conversation in the 21st.
Stone Street
Stone St, Manhattan, New York, 10004, United States
In sixteen fifty-eight, the residents of Breuers Straet in New Amsterdam were so annoyed by the dust and mud on their street that they petitioned the Dutch colonial government for permission to pave it — at their own expense.
Times Square
Manhattan, New York, United States
Times Square is named after the New York Times, which moved its headquarters to the newly built One Times Square tower in nineteen oh four.
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