Monuments to visit New York

City Hall is New York City Hall, home to the city council, the mayor's offices and various other government departments. The building, built between 1803 and 1812 and restored in 1956, is a prestigious colonial-style building. The steps of this building are famous and popular because of the various events and press conferences that took place there. In the lobby, you can see the trophy won by the New York Yankees in 1996 at the world championships. You can also visit the Governor's Room, an elegant room where various portraits of important men illustrating the history of the United States (Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton...) are displayed. This room was George Washington's office. City Hall Park around the building is a very pleasant green space. In the past, it was a place of public executions. Don't be surprised by the very French influences of architecture, it was the Frenchman Joseph François Mangin (1794-1818) who drew the plans for the building. The vaulted windows and ornaments are inspired by the hexagonal architecture of the time. It is also where many New Yorkers get married here! To say"yes" to New York, you must go to the adjoining building, the Office of the City Clerk - Marriage Bureau, where you will obtain your marriage license for the modest sum of US$35. You can get married the next day. However, it is impossible to choose the time of the ceremony, you will have to go there and wait until it is your turn.

A magnificent example of a Gothic Revival style Art-Deco skyscraper, the building (one of the first in New York City to be classified as a historic monument) erected in 1924 stands its 103 m of black brick crowned with gold above Bryant Park. Renamed the American Standard Building, since 2001 it has housed the Bryant Park Hotel, whose rooms are far from the splendour of the façade. He inspired the painter Georgia O'Keeffe to paint her famous Radiator Building, Night New York (1927).

Built in 1908, it was at the time the most luxurious residential building in New York, and it is still one of the most beautiful. The twelve-story building, Renaissance style, was more or less deserted in the 1930 s, when the neighborhood became malfamed. He obtained the status of historic building in the national register in 1979 and was restored in the 1980 s and 1990 s. It has lost nothing from its superb and remains one of Manhattan's most prominent addresses. It now houses the restaurant Petrossian.

Near the Madison Square. In the past, it was the centre of the music industry in New York: composers, agents, arrangers, publicists, scholars held their offices.

Since 1886, this beautiful house is the seat of a club of actors who count (or included) among its members John Lionel Barrymore, Frank Sinatra, Keith Carradine, Walter Cronkite, Jack Lemmon, Sir Laurence Olivier, Richard Gere…