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HENRY HUDSON PARKWAY AMSTERDAM HARLEM
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H u d s o n R i v e r St. John the Divine EIGHTH 116TH STREET MALCOLM X BLVD AVENUE AVENUE
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Cathedral of
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Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum
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A masterpiece of architecture by Frank
CENTRAL
UPPER CENTRAL PARK WEST 110TH STREET PARK Lloyd Wright, this unique building contains
PARK
WEST SIDE AVENUE a fine collection of 19th- and 20th-century
86TH STREET
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of Natural History
CENTRAL PARK WEST
Museum
AMSTERDAM COLUMBUS CENTRAL AVENUE Metropolitan Empire
State Building
Museum of Art
This is one of
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MIDTOWN WEST PARK AVENUE EAST SIDE America’s tallest
buildings and a
AND THE THEATER 57TH ST FIFTH AVENUE AVENUE 86TH ST symbol of New
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PARK 72ND STREET York City. Built in
48TH STREET
Rockefeller Museum of THIRD the 1930s, it has
Center Modern Art SECOND since attracted
42ND STREET
AVENUE AVENUE SQUARE AVE St. Patrick's FIRST more than 110
TIMES
34TH ST
Cathedral
AVENUE
MIDTOWN
CHELSEA AVENUE SIXTH Grand million visitors
(see pp132–3).
TENTH Central 48TH ST
NINTH EIGHTH Empire State 42ND STREET
Building
SEVENTH FIFTH AVENUE UN
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Headquarters
GRAMERCY
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GREENWICH BROADWAY PARK 23RD ST AVENUE AVENUE
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H u d s o n R i v e r TRIBECA BROADWAY WASHINGTON STREET THIRD VILLAGE United Nations (UN)
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VARICK ST
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HOUSTON
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New York is
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the headquarters of
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DELANCEY ST
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LOWER BROADWAY LOWER EAST the global organization
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set up to preserve
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world peace and
EAST BROADWAY
MANHATTAN AND security (see pp156–9).
Ellis THE CIVIC CENTER T VIADUCT
Island SOUTH STREE Brooklyn
Bridge
E a s t R i v e r
Statue of
Liberty
Governors
Island JAY ST BROOKL Y N QUEENS EXP
COLUMBIA ST Brooklyn Bridge
This bridge spans the East
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River between Manhattan and
RICHARDS ST SMITH ST Brooklyn. Built in 1883, it was The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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ATLANTIC AVE
BROOKLYN
the largest suspension bridge
3rd ST FULTON ST and the first to be constructed With a stunning collection of artifacts dating from prehistoric times to the
of steel (see pp232–5). present, this is one of the world’s greatest museums (see pp186–93).
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