Milton Berle, Zero Mostel and Conan O'Brien. Other residents included Walter Winchell (from 1933-1938),Įlia Kazan (who lived here in the early 1960s), Costello recovered to die here of natural causes in 1973. Resident mobster, was shot in the lobby here by Vincent "The Chin"
Mob boss to be formally executed for his crimes. Meyer Lansky and Louis Buchalter, head of Murder Inc. The Majestic was home to numerous mobsters, including Though the crime happened a year after the building was finished. Legend has it that some of the ransom money is hidden here, Hauptmann was one of the carpenters who worked on the building Probably didn't write "A Visit From Saint Nicholas."ġ15 (block): A twin-towered, 29-story Art Deco apartmentīuilding completed in 1931, designed by developer Irwin Chanin Valley Forge camp bed and the desk where Clement Clarke Moore One of the largest assemblages of Tiffany lamps, Washington's That includes Audubon's watercolors for Birds of America, Its current building, a Beaux Arts landmark, was opened in 1908,ĭesigned by York & Sawyer (who did the Federal Reserve building)Īnd enlarged by Walker & Gillette in 1938. Ingenious conjectures and amusing fables.”Īlbert Gallatin and Hamilton Fish were among its early presidents.
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“history will be nothing more than a well-combined series of Original records and authentic documents,” they declared, In 1804 because, in its founders' words, “Without the aid of Is the park's only double arch, bridging over both the pedestrian walk that used to beġ70 (block): New York's first museum, it was founded The Eaglevale Arch, which connects West 77th Street to Central Park's West Drive, Leads to The Ramble, which still provides some of the best birdwatching in the park? Perhaps it was suggested because this entrance
This name suits the entrance close to the AMNH well, but the name It was moved here in 1981, to be across from the Was placed at the 5th Avenue/59th Street entrance in 1869, on the centennial of This statue, by German sculptor Gustaf Blaeser, He was one of the first scientists to recognize that South America andĪfrica were once joined. Naturalist who explored the Amazon, the Andes and Siberia. Park, as well as bays for seating that give the bridge its name.Īlexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a Prussian Some of the most scenic views of skyscrapers rising over the This bridge over a spur of The Lake features (though not officially completed until 1873).Ī footpath here leads past outcroppings of Manhattan schist (that shiny rock) Trees and shrubs, the park-almost entirely landscaped,ĭespite its naturalistic appearance-opened to visitors in 1859 Of 3 million tons of earth and the planting of 270,000 Public park in the world, with 42 million visitors annually.Īcquired the land in 1853 and held a design contestĬalvert Vaux (rhymes with "Walks"). Ota Benga, a member of the Mbuti people from the Congo, in 1906.Īn 853-acre expanse of green in the middle of Manhattan-larger than The remains were finally returned to Greenland for burial in 1993. Had actually put his skeleton on exhibit. Him into thinking they had buried his father, who died of tuberculosis shortly after arrival in New York, when they In 1897 the museum put on display an Inuit child, Minik, brought back from Greenland by Robert Peary. Malcolm X, The Devil Wears Prada and Wonderstruck. Is the setting for the film Night at the Museum, and also features in Bringing Up Baby, The Hall of Ocean Life features a 94-foot model of a blue whale suspended from the ceiling,Īs well as the diorama that provided the title for the film The Squaid and the Whale. The largest known star sapphire, which was Settled-by the Clackamas people of Oregon, who view it Of a much larger meteorite that hit Greenland 10,000 years ago. The museum displays the largest meteoriteįound in any museum in the world-a 34-ton chunk Anthropo- logical giants Frank Boas and Margaret Mead made the AMNH their home base. Is also famed for its beautiful taxidermy dioramas, many collected and mounted byĬarl Akeley. Roy Chapman Andrews-said to be the inspiration for Indian Jones. Henry Fairfield Osborn (later AMNH president) and The museum boasts the largest collection of fossil mammals and dinosaurs in the world,Ĭollected by legendary paleontologists like Barnum Brown, Serves as an embarrasing memorial to Teddy Roosevelt as Great White Hunter.
Cleaveland Cady on the 77th Street side,Īnd John Russell Pope's Beaux Arts entrance on Central Park West, which also Including the neo-Romanesque castellations of J. The original Victorian Gothic buildingīy Calvert Vaux and Jacob Mould has been absorbed by subsequent The cornerstone for thisīuilding was laid in 1874 by President Grant the museum was opened Founded in 1869 with the backing of Theodore Roosevelt Sr.,