Rikers Island is New York City’s largest jail facility.  It houses over 15,000 inmates at one time.  It is not used as a long-term hold facility for offenders, but rather it is used to house offenders awaiting trial and those serving sentences of one year or less.  It is located in the East River between Queens and Brooklyn.  The island which the facility sits on is also called Rikers Island is over 413 acres.

Madison Square Garden is located at 7th Avenue between 31st and 33rd streets in Manhattan, New York.  It is the 4th arena in New York to go by this name.  It is also known as MSG, The Garden and “The World’s Most Famous Arena”.  It sits on top of Pennsylvania Station.

The American Museum of Natural History is located at Central Park West at 79th Street in Manahattan, New York.  For over 125 years, the museum has been one of the world’s preeminent science and research institutions, renowned for its collections and exhibitions that illustrate millions of years of the earth’s evolution, from the birth of the planet throught the present day.

Unisphere is a 140-foot high steel globe found in Flushing Meadows park in Queens, New York.  It was built for the 1964/65 World’s Fair.  It was donated by the United States Steel Corporation.  It has been used as a back-drop for many TV shows and movies including Men in Black, The King of Queens and The Amazing Race 1. 

Niagara Falls is a set of three waterfalls located on the Niagara River on the border between Ontario, Canada and New York State.  The three falls are the Horseshoe Falls (Canadian), the American Falls and the small Bridal Veil Falls.  6 million cubic feet of water fall over the falls every minute.  It is the most powerful waterfall in all of North America.

From 1892 to 1954, over twelve million immigrants entered the United States through Ellis Island.  Ellis Island is located in New York Harbor just of the New Jersey coast.  It is within viewing distance of the Statue of Liberty.  The original 3.3 acre island now stands at 27.5 acres through expansion by the use of landfill.

The Flatiron Building in Manhattan is known for its triangular shape.  It is located at the intersection of 23rd Street, 5th Avenue and Broadway.  It faces Madison Square Garden.  The official name of the building is the Fuller Building.

It has appeared in many movies and TV shows including Armageddon, Godzilla, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Hitch, Spin City and Usual Suspects.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is located on the upper east side in Manhattan, NY on 5th Avenue and 89th street.  It opened in 1937 and moved to its current location in 1959.  The building was designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright. 

Yankee Stadium is the home stadium of the New York Yankees, a major league baseball team. Located at East 161st Street and River Avenue in The Bronx, New York City, it originally opened on April 18, 1923. The first night game was played on May 28, 1946. For the 1974-1975 seasons, the Yankees relocated across town to Shea Stadium while Yankee Stadium underwent extensive renovations. It was reopened on April 15, 1976.

The World Trade Center in New York City (sometimes informally referred to as the WTC or the Twin Towers) was a complex of seven buildings, mostly designed by American architect Minoru Yamasaki and developed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It was initiated in 1960 by a Lower Manhattan Association created and chaired by David Rockefeller, who had the original idea of building the Center, with strong backing from the then New York governor, his brother, Nelson Rockefeller. Larry Silverstein held the most recent lease to the complex, the Port Authority having leased it to him in July of 2001  The complex, located in the heart of New York City’s downtown financial district, contained 13.4 million square feet (1.24 million m²) of office space, almost four percent of Manhattan’s entire office inventory.

Best known for its iconic 110-story twin towers, the World Trade Center was beset by a fire on February 13, 1975 and a bombing on February 26, 1993. All of the original buildings in the complex were destroyed in the September 11, 2001, attacks, including 1 WTC, 2 WTC (North and South Towers) and 7 WTC which collapsed; 3 WTC (Marriott Hotel) was crushed by the collapses of 1 WTC and 2 WTC; and 4 WTC, 5 WTC, and 6 WTC were damaged beyond repair and later demolished. In addition, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church (not part of the complex) was destroyed by the collapse of 2 WTC.

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. It stood as the world’s tallest building for more than forty years, from its completion in 1931 until the construction of the World Trade Center North Tower in 1972, and is now once again the tallest building in New York after the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

The Empire State Building has been named by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The building and its street floor interior are designated landmarks of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and confirmed by the New York City Board of Estimate.

Located on a 12 acre island, the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World was a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States and is a universal symbol of freedom and democracy. The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on October 28, 1886, designated as a National Monument in 1924 and restored for her centennial on July 4, 1986.