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Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi's copper monument on Liberty Island combines French-American political symbolism, ambitious nineteenth-century engineering and commanding harbor views.

The National Museum of Immigration occupies Ellis Island's restored Main Building, interpreting federal processing, migration journeys and the people who passed through the station.

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Central Park is Manhattan's 843-acre landscaped civic ground, where Olmsted and Vaux joined meadows, woodland, lakes, formal architecture and separated circulation routes.

The Empire State Building combines a landmarked Art Deco tower and restored interior with museum galleries and observatories on the 86th and 102nd floors.

Times Square is the intensely illuminated Midtown junction where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue, combining pedestrian plazas, theaters, media façades and constant street activity.

The Met Fifth Avenue is an encyclopedic art museum whose galleries range from ancient Egypt and the Islamic world to European painting, arms and armor, and American art.

The Brooklyn Bridge joins Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn Heights through granite Gothic towers, steel cables and an elevated pedestrian promenade above the East River.

Prospect Park is Olmsted and Vaux's major Brooklyn landscape, joining Long Meadow, wooded ravines, a lake, formal entrances and cultural institutions within 585 acres.

The Brooklyn Museum is a major encyclopedic institution beside Prospect Park, known for Egyptian holdings, African and American art, decorative arts and socially engaged exhibitions.

DUMBO's waterfront combines converted industrial streets, framed Manhattan Bridge views and Brooklyn Bridge Park's piers along the East River beneath two landmark crossings.

Luna Park is Coney Island's seasonal seaside amusement park, combining the landmark wooden Cyclone, the modern Thunderbolt, family rides and the historic boardwalk setting.

Flushing Meadows Corona Park is Queens' great World's Fair landscape, centered on the Unisphere and surrounded by museums, sports venues, lakes and surviving fair structures.

Astoria's Museum of the Moving Image explores film, television and digital media through production technology, playable games, screenings and the Jim Henson Exhibition.

Gantry Plaza State Park converts Long Island City's industrial East River edge into piers, lawns and promenades beneath restored rail-float gantries facing Midtown.

Queens Botanical Garden is a 39-acre Flushing landscape whose rose, herb, bee and native-plant collections are integrated with water-sensitive, environmentally focused design.

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MoMA PS1 presents experimental contemporary art inside a converted 1892 public school in Long Island City, preserving classrooms as flexible spaces for changing installations.

Yankee Stadium is the Bronx home of the New York Yankees, combining a modern 2009 ballpark with Monument Park, a team museum and architectural references to the original stadium.

The Bronx Zoo is the Wildlife Conservation Society's 265-acre flagship, where historic architecture and large habitat-based exhibits hold a globally varied animal collection.

The New York Botanical Garden is a 250-acre Bronx institution combining living collections, the Haupt Conservatory, the old-growth Thain Family Forest and plant science research.

Arthur Avenue and Belmont form the Bronx's Little Italy, a compact commercial district of specialist food shops, bakeries, restaurants and the indoor Arthur Avenue Retail Market.

Wave Hill is a 28-acre public garden and cultural center on a Riverdale ridge, combining intimate horticultural rooms, historic estate houses and Hudson–Palisades views.

The city-operated Staten Island Ferry crosses 5.2 miles of New York Harbor between Whitehall and St. George, functioning as free public transit with expansive maritime views.

Snug Harbor is an 83-acre Staten Island cultural campus where Greek Revival sailors' homes, museums, performance spaces and varied botanical gardens share one landscape.

The Staten Island Greenbelt protects roughly 2,800 acres of connected forest, wetlands, ponds and ridges, with a trail system crossing the borough's central uplands.