New-York Historical Society
The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It presents exhibitions, public programs, and research that explore the history of New York and the nation. The New-York Historical Society Museum & Library has been at its present location since 1908. The granite building was designed by York & Sawyer in a classic Roman Eclectic style. The building is a designated New York City landmark. A renovation, completed in November 2011, made the building more accessible to the public, provided space for an interactive children's museum, and facilitated access to its collections.
New-York Historical Society
New-York Historical Society
Re-enactment of loyalist colonial troops guarding the Society building from George Washington's Rebels
Asher B. Durand, Pastoral Landscape, 1861
Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)
Eighth Avenue is a major north–south avenue on the west side of Manhattan in New York City, carrying northbound traffic below 59th Street. It is one of the original avenues of the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 to run the length of Manhattan, though today the name changes twice: At 59th Street/Columbus Circle, it becomes Central Park West, where it forms the western boundary of Central Park, and north of 110th Street/Frederick Douglass Circle, it is known as Frederick Douglass Boulevard before merging onto Harlem River Drive north of 155th Street.
Facing north on Eighth Avenue from 32nd Street
Hearst Tower at West 57th Street and Eighth Avenue
The American Museum of Natural History at 200 Central Park West
Housing cooperatives on Central Park West: The San Remo (far right), The Langham (center-right), The Dakota (center-left), and The Majestic (far left)