New York City

10. United Nations Headquarters

9. Parks (other than Central Park, which is below)

• • • Highline Park
    • Battery Park (Men In Black) and the Skyscraper Museum
    • Bowling Green – Charging Bull
    • Union Square Park – Greenmarket farmers market
    • Prospect Park (Brooklyn)
    • Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and Queens Night Market (Queens)
    • Washington Square Park
    • Columbus Circle
    • Snug Harbor (Staten Island)
    • Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Brooklyn)
    • Coney Island (Brooklyn)
    • Bronx Zoo (Bronx)

8. Famous Places in Movies

• • • Firehouse Hook and Ladder Company 8 (Ghostbusters)
    • New York Public Library (Ghostbusters)
    • New York County Courthouse (Miracle on 34th Street)
    • Macy’s Herald Square (Miracle on 34th Street)
    • New York Daily News Building (Superman: The Movie)
    • St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Daredevil)
    • Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (Men In Black)
    • Grand Central Terminal (Men In Black, Superman: The Movie, and North By Northwest)
    • City Hall Subway Station (permanently closed – model for lair of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
    • West 167 Street steeps between Shakespeare and Anderson Avenues (Joker)
    • Tiffany’s – Fifth Avenue (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
    • 52nd Street and Lexington Avenue (Marilyn Monroe grate in The Seven Year Itch)

7. Neighborhoods & Districts

• • • Battery Park City & New York Harbor
      1. Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island
      2. Castle Clinton National Monument
      3. Governors Island National Monument
      4. Battery Park – Esplanade
      5. Staten Island Ferry – Whitehall Terminal
      6. Brooklyn Battery Tunnel Ventilation Building
      7. The Skyscraper Museum
      8. Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
    • Financial District
      1. One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower) – 9/11 Memorial Pools
      2. Federal Hall National Memorial & 40 Wall Street Building
      3. Woolworth Building
      4. Bowling Green – Charging Bull
      5. Trinity Church – Alexander Hamilton’s Gravesite
      6. Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House & National Museum of the American Indian
      7. New York Stock Exchange – Fearless Girl
      8. South Street Seaport & Stone Street
    • Civic Center
      1. New York City Hall – Benjamin Franklin Statue
      2. Tweed Courthouse
      3. New York County Courthouse
      4. Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse
      5. 1 Police Plaza – NYPD HQ
      6. African Burial Ground National Monument
      7. Thomas Paine Park – Foley Square
      8. Mmuseumm
    • Chinatown
      1. Chinatown NY Sign
      2. Mahayana Temple
      3. Kamwo Meridian Herbs
      4. New Kam Man Supermarket
      5. Nom Wah Tea Parlor
      6. Jing Fong Chinatown Restaurant
      7. Joe’s Shanghai Restaurant
      8. Museum of Chinese In America
    • Tribeca & SoHo
    • Little Italy  & Nolita
    • Dumbo & Brooklyn Heights
    • Greenwich Village
    • Flatiron District
    • Midtown
    • Hell’s Kitchen
    • Harlem

6. Museums

• • • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings World Heritage Site)
    • Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
    • Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
    • American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium
    • National 9/11 Memorial & Museum
    • The Met Cloisters
    • Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
    • Frick Collection
    • Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
    • New-York Historical Society
    • New York City Fire Museum
    • The Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology (not too far from Mood Fabrics)

5. Bridges and Waterfront

• • • Brooklyn Bridge (World Heritage Tentative List)
    • Staten Island Ferry
    • South Street Seaport
    • Queensboro Bridge and Roosevelt Island Tramway
    • George Washington Bridge and The Little Red Lighthouse
    • Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
    • Manhattan Bridge
    • Williamsburg Bridge
    • Robert F. Kennedy/Triborough Bridge
    • Kosciuszko Bridge
    • Henry Hudson Bridge
    • Bronx-Whitestone Bridge

4. Times Square and Broadway

• • • Times Square
    • Carnegie Hall
    • Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
      1. New York Philharmonic
      2. Metropolitan Opera House
      3. Lincoln Center Bandshell
      4. Vivian Beaumont Theatre (My Fair Lady)
      5. New York City Ballet
    • Ed Sullivan Theater (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert)
    • Radio City Music Hall
    • Apollo Theater
    • Richard Rodgers Theatre (Hamilton)
    • New Amsterdam Theatre (Aladdin)
    • Lyric Theatre (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)
    • Winter Garden Theatre (School of Rock)
    • Majestic Theatre (The Phantom of the Opera)
    • Minskoff Theatre (The Lion King)

3. Central Park (World Heritage Tentative List)

• • • Bethesda Terrace – Stairs and Fountain (Mid-Park at 72nd Street – Avengers and Doctor Who S7-E4 “The Angels Take Manhattan”)
    • Bow Bridge (Mid-Park at 74th Street – Highlander and Doctor Who S7-E4 “The Angels Take Manhattan”)
    • The Mall and Literary Walk (Kramer vs Kramer and Hackers)
    • Central Park Carousel (Mid-Park at 65th Street)
    • Alexander Hamilton Monument
    • Sheep Meadow (West Side from 66th to 69th Streets)
    • Tavern on the Green (Ghostbusters)
    • Naumburg Bandshell (Mid-Park from 66th to 72nd Streets)
    • The Loeb Boathouse (The Manchurian Candidate)
    • Central Park Model Boat Sailing
    • 55 Central Park West (“Spook Central” in Ghostbusters)
    • Plaza Hotel (North By Northwest, The Great Gatsby, and Crocodile Dundee)

2. National Park Units

• • • Statue of Liberty (a World Heritage Site) (part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument)
    • Ellis Island (World Heritage Tentative List) (part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument)
    • African Burial Ground National Monument
    • Castle Clinton National Monument
    • Governors Island National Monument
    • Stonewall National Monument
    • Federal Hall National Memorial
    • Grant’s Tomb – General Grant National Memorial
    • Hamilton Grange National Memorial
    • Lower East Side Tenement Museum National Historic Site
    • Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
    • Gateway National Recreation Area (NPS)

1. Skyline

• • • One World Trade Center (Freedom Tower), Financial District – 1,776′; 2014; 6th-tallest building in the world; tallest building in Western Hemisphere
    • Central Park Tower (Nordstrom Tower), Billionaires’ Row – 1,550′; 2020
    • Steinway Tower (111 West 57th Street), Billionaires’ Row – 1,428′; 2020 (world’s most slender skyscraper)
    • One Vanderbilt, Midtown East – 1,401′; 2021
    • 432 Park Avenue, Midtown East – 1,396′; 2015
    • 30 Hudson Yards, Chelsea – 1,268′; 2019
    • Empire State Building, Midtown South – 1,250′; 1931; tallest in the world: 1931-1972
    • Chrysler Building, Midtown East – 1,046′; 1930; tallest in the world: 1930-1931
    • 40 Wall Street, Financial District (originally Bank of Manhattan Trust Building; currently the Trump Building, which is different than Trump Tower) – 927′; 1930; tallest in the world: April-May 1930
    • 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Midtown  – 850′; 1933  (includes FAO Schwarz toy store with the Big Piano)
    • Woolworth Building, Financial District – 792′; 1913; tallest in the world: 1913-1930
    • Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower (Met Life Tower), Midtown East – 700′; 1909; tallest in the world: 1909-1913
    • Honorable mention: Flatiron Building, Flatiron District – 285′; 1902 (Spider-Man‘s Daily Bugle building)