Category: New York Trip

#travelwithgdp Fact: Migration can be extremely dangerous for birds, and many don’t often make it back to their starting point. Sometimes natural occurrences […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: Just below the building’s frieze, Lowell placed a quote from George Washington concerning justice (see in the picture). The quote comes […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: Since 1908, Central Park has appeared in over 240 feature films, thereby making it the most filmed public park in the […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: One World Trade Center (formally known as the Freedom Tower) as seen through the glass ceiling of the mall.

#travelwithgdp Fact: Times Square functions as a town square, but is not geometrically a square; it is closer in shape to a bowtie, […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: The colonial Dutch Director-General of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, ordered construction of the first wharf on the Manhattan bank of the […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: The September 11 Museum was dedicated on May 15, 2014, and opened to the public on May 21. Its collection includes […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: Brightly adorned with billboards and advertisements, Times Square is sometimes referred to as “The Crossroads of the World”, “The Center of […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: Tower Optical Company, Inc. is a small, Norwalk, Connecticut-based company which has manufactured the large, silver-colored devices that are used in […]

#travelwithgdp Fact: The One World Center’s architect is David Childs, whose firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) also designed the Burj Khalifa and […]