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234 West 56th Street |
Midtown |
Manhattan |
Early home of recorded music powerhouse Atlantic Records. |
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770 Eastern Parkway |
Crown Heights |
Brooklyn |
Nerve center of the Chabad Lubavitch Chassidic community |
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Aguilar Branch, New York Public Library |
East Harlem |
Manhattan |
Library named after a Sephardic Jewish author with a strong Spanish language collection |
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Aquinas High School |
East Tremont |
Bronx |
Educating young women since 1923 |
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Art Students League of New York |
Midtown |
Manhattan |
Largest independent art school in the U.S., offering classes for budding and established artists |
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Bank Street College of Education |
Morningside Heights |
Manhattan |
A leader in progressive teacher education for more than 80 years |
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Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help |
Sunset Park |
Brooklyn |
Striking church run by the Redemptorist Fathers |
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Bay Ridge United Methodist (Green) Church (site of) |
Bay Ridge |
Brooklyn |
108-year-old stone church, now demolished |
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Bedford Branch, Brooklyn Public Library |
Crown Heights |
Brooklyn |
The first of the Brooklyn Public Libraries |
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Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation |
Bedford-Stuyvesant |
Brooklyn |
Community development corporation founded in 1967 and still active today |
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Benjamin Franklin High School (former) |
East Harlem |
Manhattan |
East Harlem's first public high school (now Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics) |
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Beth Ahavath Sholom, a.k.a. The Temple (site of) |
Bath Beach |
Brooklyn |
Former synagogue that hosted punk rock concerts in its basement |
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Beth-El Hospital (former, now Brookdale University Hospital & Medical Center) |
Brownsville |
Brooklyn |
Site of a 1962 labor struggle by hospital workers |
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Bialystoker Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing (aka Bialystoker Home for the Aged) |
Lower East Side |
Manhattan |
Threatened historic Lower East Side elder care facility |
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Bowery Mission |
Bowery |
Manhattan |
A gospel rescue mission providing services to men, women and children in need |
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Boys and Girls High School |
Bedford-Stuyvesant |
Brooklyn |
The oldest high school in the city |
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Bridge Street AWME Church |
Bedford-Stuyvesant |
Brooklyn |
The oldest African-American congregation in Brooklyn |
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Bronx Zoo |
Fordham |
Bronx |
Largest metropolitan zoo in the United States, housing over 4,000 animals representing hundreds of species |
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Brooklyn Children's Center |
Crown Heights |
Brooklyn |
Community-based mental health provider for children and adolescents |
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Brooklyn Children's Museum |
Crown Heights |
Brooklyn |
The first museum in the world created specifically for children |
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Brooklyn College |
Flatbush |
Brooklyn |
Since 1930, one of CUNY's foremost institutions |
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Brooklyn Historical Society |
Brooklyn Heights |
Brooklyn |
Museum and library devoted to Brooklyn's history |
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Brooklyn Lyceum (formerly Public Bath #7) |
Park Slope |
Brooklyn |
Once a public bathhouse, now a center for dance, music and theater that includes a gym and a cafe |
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Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library |
Park Slope |
Brooklyn |
This library offers 1.5 million books, magazines, and multimedia materials, an extensive Brooklyn history collection and a Multilingual Center |
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Brooklyn State Hospital, aka Kingsboro Psychiatric Center |
East Flatbush |
Brooklyn |
Historic state psychiatric facility and nursing school |
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Brooklyn Women's Hospital |
Brownsville |
Brooklyn |
Neighborhood hospital |
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Casita Rincón Criollo |
Melrose |
Bronx |
The oldest and largest casita in New York |
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Century Association Building |
Midtown |
Manhattan |
Organization promoting conversation between authors, artists, and amateurs of letters and the fine arts for over 100 years |
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Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association Building (former) |
Chinatown |
Manhattan |
First home of leading Chinatown organization |
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Christ Church New Brighton |
New Brighton |
Staten Island |
First Episcopal congregation of Staten Island |
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Church of the Intercession |
Washington Heights |
Manhattan |
Church founded by J.J. Audubon and designed by Bertram Goodhue |
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Church of the Resurrection (site of) |
East Harlem |
Manhattan |
Ministry that led the revitalization of the Metro North Community area |
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Church of the Transfiguration |
Murray Hill |
Manhattan |
The Little Church Around the Corner |
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Church of the Visitation |
Red Hook |
Brooklyn |
Gothic church building built in 1896 |
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City Center |
Midtown |
Manhattan |
A popular performing arts center |
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Community Church of Douglaston |
Douglaston |
Queens |
A quintessential neighborhood church |
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Concord Baptist Church |
Bedford-Stuyvesant |
Brooklyn |
One of Brooklyn's largest African-American congregations |
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Congregation Ohab Zedek Building (site of) |
Central Harlem |
Manhattan |
Once home to one of the largest and most influential Jewish congregations |
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Cooper Station, US Post Office |
East Village |
Manhattan |
Graciously designed WPA-era post office |
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CUNY Kingsborough Community College |
Manhattan Beach |
Brooklyn |
Brooklyn's only community college |
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Cuyler Presbyterian Church (former) |
Boerum Hill |
Brooklyn |
A center for Mohawk life in New York |
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Dominican Academy |
Upper East Side |
Manhattan |
Girls' school run by the Dominican Sisters of Peace for over 100 years |
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El Camino Outreach Center |
East Harlem |
Manhattan |
A Jewish Socialist headquarters turned social service provider |
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El Museo del Barrio |
East Harlem |
Manhattan |
Art museum focusing on Caribbean and Latin American art and artists |
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Eldridge Street Synagogue |
Chinatown |
Manhattan |
First great synagogue constructed by Eastern European Jews in U.S. |
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Elks Lodge #127 (former site of) |
Central Harlem |
Manhattan |
Where the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters, a black union, was founded in 1925 |
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Elmendorf Reformed Church |
East Harlem |
Manhattan |
Historic church and African burial ground |
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Engine Company 212 |
North Side |
Brooklyn |
Firehouse saved through community efforts |
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Engine Company 324 |
Corona |
Queens |
1939 World's Fair relic converted into a fire house |
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Erasmus Hall Academy (former) |
Flatbush |
Brooklyn |
The oldest school structure in New York |
