Have you visited our new time machine? Walk by the corner of 157th St & Broadway to see the landscape morph back to 1909 in this lenticular installation from artist @sasdrian, reflecting on our city's rich history and ever-evolving present. Learn more: https://t.co/dKEKTiyU0S
Today is the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip hop and we're taking you back to where it all started. DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy Campbell's party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue overflowed into Cedar Playground, sparking a movement! #HipHop50
A new section of the High Line opens today! Made of two bridges, planted with over 150 trees and shrubs, the elevated pathway – called the Moynihan Connector – links West Midtown to the West Village by extending the @highlinenyc spur 600 feet.
Happy birthday, High Bridge! New York City's oldest bridge turns 175 this month! Join us for the anniversary celebration of this engineering marvel tomorrow, June 6! Learn more at: https://t.co/Jjv6JjWgz3
Last call for cherry blossom lovers: this weekend may be your last chance this season to see NYC's cherry trees before they drop their petals, so get out and savor this pink canopy while you can!🌸
Find cherry trees near you on our tree map: https://t.co/z900pCVSJW
On the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, an annual gathering at its memorial in Riverside Park commemorates Jewish partisans who rose up against their Nazi captors, and the 6 million Jews killed during WWII. Today is the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Every spring, glass eels like this one, arrive at Richmond Creek on Staten Island. They will Iive here until they reach maturity and then travel back downstream into the ocean to spawn where they were born in the Sargasso Sea. Welcome, little eels!
That means the Dr. Ruth Tulips in the Heather Garden at The Cloisters will soon be blooming! Why are they Dr. Ruth Tulips? Because they're short like me.
Grand Central Terminal opened #OTD in 1913! Eight years prior, these pillars were placed in Van Cortlandt Park to test which variety of stone would best survive a NYC winter and be most suited for constructing exterior walls of the future terminal and beloved landmark.