Coney Island is a peninsular residential neighborhood, beach, and leisure/entertainment destination on the Atlantic Ocean in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. The site was formerly an outer barrier island, but became partially connected to the mainland by land fill.
Population: 60,000
Latitude: 40° 34' 40.37" N
Longitude: -73° 59' 38.51" W
One57, formerly known as Carnegie 57, is a 75-story (marketed as 90-story) skyscraper at 157 West 57th Street in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Upon completion in 2014, it stood at 1,005 feet (306 m) tall, making it the talles…
The Port Authority Bus Terminal (PABT) is the main gateway for interstate buses into Manhattan in New York City. It is owned and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ).
Area code 917 is a telephone area code for all of the five boroughs of New York City (Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx).
Trump Tower is a 68-story mixed-use skyscraper located at 725 Fifth Avenue, at the corner of East 56th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was developed by Donald Trump and the Equitable Life Assurance Company, it is now just developed an…
Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York.
Alphabet City is a neighborhood located within the East Village in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its name comes from Avenues A, B, C, and D, the only avenues in Manhattan to have single-letter names. It is bordered by Houston Street to the…
World Trade Center is a terminal station in Lower Manhattan built for PATH service. It was originally opened on July 19, 1909, as the Hudson Terminal, but was torn down and rebuilt as the original World Trade Center station, which opened in 1971. Fo…
Crown Heights is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The main thoroughfare through this neighborhood is Eastern Parkway, a tree-lined boulevard designed by Frederick Law Olmsted extending 2 miles (3.2 kilo…
North American area codes 718, 347, and 929 are New York City telephone area codes in the boroughs of the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, as well as the Marble Hill section of Manhattan.
Charging Bull, which is sometimes referred to as the Wall Street Bull or the Bowling Green Bull, is a bronze sculpture, originally guerilla art, by Arturo Di Modica that stands in Bowling Green Park in the Financial District in Manhattan, New York C…
American Airlines Flight 1 was a domestic, scheduled passenger flight from New York International (Idlewild) Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport), to Los Angeles International Airport. On March 1, 1962, the plane – having just taken o…
Jackson Heights is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Queens.
The Meatpacking District is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan which runs roughly from West 14th Street south to Gansevoort Street, and from the Hudson River east to Hudson Street, although recently it is sometimes considered t…
The Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge – because its Manhattan end is located between 59th and 60th Streets – and officially titled the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City that …
Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, lies west of the lower Hudson River and New York City.
The New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) is that part of the government of New York City that manages the city's public school system. The City School District of the City of New York (New York City public schools) is the largest school sy…
Bergdorf Goodman is a luxury goods department store based on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City.
Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, often referred to as Flushing Meadows Park, or simply Flushing Meadows, is a public park in New York City. Located in the borough of Queens, it is between I-678 (Van Wyck Expressway) and the Grand Central Parkway, and s…