9 Dark History Landmarks in New York City
9 landmarks with verified facts and stories
9/11 Memorial
180 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10007
The two reflecting pools sit in the exact footprints of the Twin Towers.
African Burial Ground
290 Broadway, New York, NY 10007
Beneath Broadway, near City Hall, lie the remains of an estimated fifteen thousand free and enslaved Africans.
Brooklyn Bridge
New York, United States
The Brooklyn Bridge killed its creator before the first cable was strung.
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.
Empire State Building
20 W 34th St, New York, NY 10001
On July twenty-eighth, nineteen forty-five, a B-25 Mitchell bomber flew into the seventy-eighth floor of this building.
Green-Wood Cemetery
500 25th St, Brooklyn, New York, 11232, United States
By the eighteen sixties, more people visited Green-Wood Cemetery each year than any attraction in America except Niagara Falls.
Smallpox Hospital Ruins
New York, United States
On the southern tip of Roosevelt Island — a narrow strip of land in the East River between Manhattan and Queens — stand the Gothic Revival ruins of a hospital built to quarantine smallpox patients from the rest of New York City.
St. Patrick's Old Cathedral
263 Mulberry St, New York, NY 10012
This is not the famous St.
Washington Square Park
New York, United States
You are standing on top of twenty thousand bodies.
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