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Name	Category	Location

B. Altman Building/New York Public Library-Science, Industry, and Business Library (SIBL) Be the First to Rate It Map \| In 1906 department-store magnate Benjamin Altman gambled that...	Architectural Sites	Murray Hill

Chrysler Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| A monument to modern times and the mighty automotive industry...	Architectural Sites	Midtown East

Colonnade Row Be the First to Rate It Map \| Marble Corinthian columns front this shabby but grand sweep of...	Architectural Sites	East Village

Daily News Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| One of the city's most unusual lobbies resides in Raymond Hood's...	Architectural Sites	Midtown East

The Dakota Be the First to Rate It Map \| One of the first residences built on the Upper West Side, the...	Architectural Sites	Upper West Side

Flatiron Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| When completed in 1902, the Fuller Building, as it was originally...	Architectural Sites	Flatiron District

GE Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| Rising up on the Rockefeller Plaza's west side is the 70-story...	Architectural Sites	Midtown West

Grand Central Terminal Member Rating: 4.9 Map \| Grand Central is not only the world's largest (76 acres) and...	Architectural Sites	Midtown East

Haughwout Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| Perhaps best known for what's no longer inside -- the world's...	Architectural Sites	SoHo

King of Greene Street Be the First to Rate It Map \| This five-story Renaissance-style 1873 building has a magnificent...	Architectural Sites	SoHo

Little Singer Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| Ernest Flagg's 1904 masterpiece reveals the final flower of the...	Architectural Sites	SoHo

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower Be the First to Rate It Map \| When it was added in 1909, the 700-foot tower resembling the...	Architectural Sites	Flatiron District

New York City Police Headquarters Be the First to Rate It Map \| Seen in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, this magnificent...	Architectural Sites	Little Italy

New York Life Insurance Company Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| Cass Gilbert, better known for the Woolworth Building, capped...	Architectural Sites	Flatiron District

New York Public Library (NYPL) Humanities and Social Sciences Library Member Rating: 5.0 Map \| This 1911 masterpiece of beaux arts design is one of the great...	Architectural Sites	Midtown West

Queen of Greene Street Be the First to Rate It Map \| The regal grace of this 1873 cast-iron beauty is exemplified...	Architectural Sites	SoHo

Rockefeller Center Be the First to Rate It Map \| If Times Square is New York's crossroads, Rockefeller Center...	Architectural Sites	Midtown West

The Row Be the First to Rate It Map \| Built from 1833 through 1837, this series of beautifully preserved...	Architectural Sites	Greenwich Village

Sculpture for Living Be the First to Rate It Map \| A few steps down from the Public Theater near Cooper Union sits...	Architectural Sites	East Village

Seagram Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a pioneer of modern architecture, built...	Architectural Sites	Midtown East

Sony Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| Designed by Philip Johnson in 1984, the Sony Building's rose-granite...	Architectural Sites	Midtown East

St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church Be the First to Rate It Map \| With a copper dome and three ostentatious religious murals on...	Architectural Sites	East Village

Strivers' Row Be the First to Rate It Map \| Some of the few remaining private service alleys that once ran...	Architectural Sites	Harlem

United Nations Headquarters Member Rating: 4.6 Map \| Officially an "international zone," not part of the United States...	Architectural Sites	Midtown East

University Club Be the First to Rate It Map \| Among the best surviving works of McKim, Mead & White, New...	Architectural Sites	Midtown West

Woolworth Building Be the First to Rate It Map \| Until 40 Wall Street stole the title in 1930, the 792-foot Woolworth...	Architectural Sites	Lower Manhattan

World Trade Center site Be the First to Rate It Map \| On September 11, 2001, terrorist hijackers steered two commercial...	Architectural Sites, Memorials / Monuments	Lower Manhattan

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