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St. Patrick's Cathedral

St. Patrick's Cathedral is the largest decorated Neo-Gothic-style Catholic cathedral in North America. It is the seat of the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and a parish church, located at 50th Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, just across the street from Rockefeller Center.
St. Patrick's Cathedral

Edgar Allan Poe Park Cottage

The last surviving house of the old Fordham village, the cottage-a woodframe farmhouse set on half-acre grounds-has been refurbished and restored by the Bronx Historical Society to represent 1840s New York life and Poe's life at Fordham. Three period rooms, the parlor, bedroom and kitchen are furnished in that period.
Edgar Allan Poe Park Cottage

Apollo Theater

The Apollo Theater in New York City is one of the most famous clubs for popular music in the United States, and certainly the most famous club associated almost exclusively with African-American performers.
Apollo Theater

Beacon Theatre

The Beacon Theatre is an historic New York City theater on upper Broadway in Manhattan. A 2,800-seat, three-tiered concert hall and early movie palace, it was designed by Chicago architect Walter W. Ahlschlager as a forum for vaudeville acts, musical productions, drama, opera, and the then novel talking pictures.
What to see in Beacon Theatre

Trinity Church

Trinity Church, at 74 Trinity Place in New York City, is a historic full service parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Trinity Church is located at the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street in downtown Manhattan.
Trinity Church

Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Kings County, New York, now in Brooklyn. It was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2006 by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Green-Wood Cemetery

Jefferson Market Library

The Jefferson Market Branch, New York Public Library is located at 425 6th Avenue in Greenwich Village, New York City on a triangular plot formed by Greenwich Avenue and West 10th Street. The building was originally built as the Third Judicial District Courthouse between the years 1874-1877 from a design by architects Frederick Clark Withers and Calvert Vaux. Faced with demolition, public outcry led to it's reuse as a branch of the New York Public Library.
Jefferson Market Library

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Historical Sites in NYC, New York, USA