So many social, cultural, artistic and culinary innovations started in NYC, we hardly know where to start. But we tried.
Winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for drama, this hip-hop musical about founding father Alexander Hamilton chronicles his complicated life.
Celebrity hosts ring in the new year with live music performances and thousands of revelers.
Approximately 32,000 cyclists pedal their way through all five boroughs on a traffic-free, 40-mile course.
Enjoy free classical music concerts across all five boroughs.
The world-famous display of Independence Day fireworks takes place over the Hudson River.
Get access to hundreds of venues not ordinarily open to the public.
Watch (or try to find a way to participate in) the largest marathon in the world.
The world’s most famous parade kicks off the holiday season.
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Download free walking tours of NYC history, including "This Hallowed Ground: Slavery in New York" and "The New York Freedom Trail."
Jazz legend Louis Armstrong's former Queens home now serves as a tribute to his life and legacy.
LGBTQ+-owned and -operated walking tour company inspired by the deep history and invigorating stories of the LGBTQ+ community in NYC and across the globe.
New York Historical Tours provides first class private guided experiences throughout New York City.
The center preserves the history of the free African American communities of Weeksville, Brooklyn.
This historic attraction was the site of a significant conference during the Revolutionary War.
The Tenement Museum is a portrait of immigrant life in 19th- and early 20th-century New York City.
Though few associate NYC with America's federal government, Wall Street is where it all began.
This landmarked farmhouse, built in 1785, is a museum celebrating the history of Queens.
This monument honors the free and enslaved Africans who were buried in Lower Manhattan.
The American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island, an archive of more than 65 million Port of New York passenger arrival records and 900 ship pictures circa 1820–1957, allows you to explore your family’s arrival in America.
The Museum of the City of New York captures the spell the City casts to a T.
Founded in 1863 as the Brooklyn Historical Society, the center preserves the borough's 400-year history.
Part of the Smithsonian, the NMAI displays exhibitions on Native cultures of the western hemisphere.
Preserves and promotes the heritage of this diverse, proud borough, and it runs a research library, historical archive and two museums.
The city's oldest museum explores NYC's fascinating past.
This National Historic Landmark—the last remaining 19th-century estate in the Bronx’s Pelham Bay—is a cultural and educational institution that houses a museum and lush gardens.
History buffs can walk the oak and pine floors of this lovely Bronx building and learn about the history of the borough.