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   Statue of Liberty

   France's gift of 1886, forty-six metres of copper over Eiffel's iron frame, on an island that was a quarantine station. Crown tickets go months ahead and the pedestal is the practical alternative; the free Staten Island ferry passes close enough for the silhouette.

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   Empire State Building

   A hundred and two floors put up in four hundred and ten days during the Depression, and the tallest building in the world for forty years. The open-air deck on the eighty-sixth floor is the one worth paying for; the enclosed one on the hundred and second adds height and glass.

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   Metropolitan Museum of Art

   Two million objects across five thousand years, and the largest art museum in the Americas. The Egyptian temple of Dendur stands complete in a glass hall, and the roof garden opens in summer; admission is pay-what-you-wish only for New York State residents and for students from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

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   Central Park

   Three hundred and forty-one hectares laid out by Olmsted and Vaux from 1858, and the first landscaped public park in the United States. Seneca Village, a settled community of free Black landowners, was cleared to make room for it — a fact the park acknowledged only recently.

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   Chrysler Building

   An art deco spire of 1930, three hundred and nineteen metres, whose builders assembled the top secretly inside the shaft and raised it in ninety minutes to beat a rival tower. Its eagles are modelled on Chrysler radiator caps, and the lobby is the finest room of its date in the city.

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   One World Trade Center

   The tower that replaced the World Trade Center, opened in 2014, and at five hundred and forty-one metres — one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six feet, chosen deliberately — the tallest building in the western hemisphere. The observatory occupies its top three floors.

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   Times Square

   The junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue, named when the New York Times moved here in 1904, and now among the busiest pedestrian spaces on earth. The ball has dropped on New Year's Eve since 1907, and the TKTS booth on the steps sells same-day theatre tickets at a discount.

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   Museum of Modern Art

   The museum that decided modern art was a subject, holding Van Gogh's Starry Night and Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon. Its 2019 expansion added a third more space and rehung everything by date rather than medium, which caused the intended argument.

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   Broadway theatre

   The forty-one professional theatres of five hundred seats or more in the Midtown theatre district, only four of which actually stand on Broadway. A show there is the definition of having made it in American theatre, and the Tony Awards exist to say which.

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    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

    Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral of 1959, opened six months after he died and sixteen years after he was commissioned. The design is meant to be walked downward from the top, which curators have resented ever since, since it means seeing the exhibition backwards.

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   Trump Tower

   A fifty-eight-storey tower of 1983 on Fifth Avenue whose floors are numbered up to sixty-eight. Its pink marble atrium is a privately owned public space, granted extra height in exchange for keeping it open — a bargain the city has had to enforce.

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   Greenwich Village

   The quarter where the Manhattan grid breaks down into diagonal streets, and the address of bohemian New York for a century. The Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, where the riots of June 1969 began, is now a national monument.

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   New Amsterdam

   The Dutch settlement founded in 1624 at the tip of Manhattan, traded to England in 1664 in exchange for a sugar colony in Surinam. Its defensive palisade became Wall Street, and the crooked lanes of the financial district are its street plan.

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   7 World Trade Center

   The forty-seven-storey tower that stood north of the twin towers, collapsed on the afternoon of 11 September 2001 after burning unfought for seven hours, and was the first part of the complex rebuilt, in 2006. Its base is a windowless concrete substation.

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   SoHo

   A district of cast-iron loft buildings put up for light manufacturing in the 1860s and 70s, and the largest concentration of that architecture anywhere. Artists moved into the empty floors in the 1960s; the galleries have since been replaced by flagship stores.

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   Woolworth Building

   A Gothic tower of 1913, two hundred and forty-one metres, the tallest building in the world until 1930 and paid for in cash by a man who sold nothing above ten cents. Its mosaic lobby, nicknamed the Cathedral of Commerce, is shown on booked tours.

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   National September 11 Memorial & Museum

   Two square voids in the footprints of the towers, each with the largest man-made waterfall in North America falling into a further void at the centre. The two thousand nine hundred and eighty-three names round the rims are grouped by where people were and who they were with.

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   Tribeca

   The triangle below Canal Street, converted from warehouses to lofts and then to some of the most expensive housing in New York. Its film festival was founded in 2002 specifically to bring people back downtown after the attacks.

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   American Museum of Natural History

   Thirty-four million specimens on the west side of Central Park, including the ninety-four-foot blue whale model hanging over the ocean hall and the largest collection of dinosaur fossils on display anywhere. The Rose Center's planetarium sits in a glass cube beside it.

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    High Line

    Two and a third kilometres of elevated freight viaduct of 1934, abandoned in 1980, saved from demolition by two neighbours and opened as a park in stages from 2009. Its planting reproduces the self-seeded meadow that grew on the derelict tracks.

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