DUMBO
Washington St & Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
DUMBO stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, a name the residents invented in the nineteen seventies specifically because it sounded stupid.
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.
One World Observatory
285 Fulton Street, New York, NY 10007
One World Observatory sits atop One World Trade Center — the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 541 metres (1,776 feet, a deliberate reference to the year of American independence), built on the site of the Twin Towers destroyed on September 11, 2001.
Staten Island Ferry
Whitehall Terminal, 4 Whitehall St, New York, NY 10004
The best view of the Statue of Liberty costs nothing.
Statue of Liberty
New York, United States
The Statue of Liberty is the most recognisable monument in America — a 93-metre copper colossus designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi with a structural skeleton engineered by Gustave Eiffel, gifted by France in 1886 to celebrate the centennial of American independence and the shared values of liberty and democracy.
Vessel (Hudson Yards)
20 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001
Hudson Yards is the most expensive private real estate development in American history — twenty-five billion dollars spent building a neighbourhood from scratch on a platform over an active rail yard on Manhattan's far West Side.
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