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Turtle Bay is a neighborhood in New York City, on the east side of Midtown Manhattan.It extends from roughly 43rd Street to 53rd Street, and eastward from Lexington Avenue to the East River's western branch (facing Roosevelt Island).
Upper Manhattan is the most northern region of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its southern boundary has been variously defined, but some of the most common usages are 96th Street, the northern boundary of Central Park ( 110th Street ), 125th Street, or 155th Street. [citation needed] The term Uptown can refer to Upper Manhattan, but is ...
1676. Broad Street is a north–south street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Originally the Broad Canal in New Amsterdam, it stretches from today's South Street to Wall Street . The canal drew its water from the East River, [1] and was infilled in 1676 after numerous fruit and vegetable vendors made it difficult ...
January 12: New York City Victory Parade of 1946. May 20: a United States Army Air Forces C-45 Beechcraft airplane crashed into the 58th floor on the north side of 40 Wall Street killing 5. [104] June 25: Fire destroys the St. George terminal of the Staten Island Ferry, killing 3 and injuring 280.
MTA New York City Bus: Operator: New York City Transit Authority: Garage: Manhattanville Depot: Vehicle: Orion VII NG HEV Nova Bus LFS HEV New Flyer Xcelsior XDE40: Began service: 1859 (train) 1935 (bus) 1948 (current alignment) Route; Locale: Manhattan, New York, U.S. Start: West Village – Abingdon Square: Via: Tenth (Amsterdam) Avenue ...
Backed by John Jacob Astor and other wealthy New Yorkers, he built The Rotunda. Widely regarded as the city's first art museum, [4] [5] [1] it operated on a commercial footing. [3] The building was designed on the model of The Pantheon in Rome. It was fifty-six feet (17 m) in diameter, crowned with a thirty-foot (9.1 m) dome.
The highest natural point in Manhattan; in the inset is the stone marker seen in the lower right of the larger image. Bennett Park, also known as James Gordon Bennett Park, is a 1.8-acre (0.73 ha) public park in New York City, named for James Gordon Bennett, Sr., [1] the newspaper publisher who launched the New York Herald in 1835.
