# NEW YORKERS by MLow > A living painted census of New York City by the artist MLow: 7,541 characters across 19 eras, every one with a story and a place, a walkable 3D museum of 111 New York rooms, and a reading room of sourced New York history. Every New Yorker gets a portrait. Even the villains. Dynamic tokens on ERC-7160. The claim (mint) date is recommended for October 8, 2026 and not yet signed. The census is art, not a survey of real residents and not an investment product. Quote with attribution to NEW YORKERS by MLow. Images are copyright MLow. ## Start here - [For bots and AI agents](https://n3wyorkers.com/agents.html): the canonical facts, endpoints, how to cite - [Census summary JSON](https://n3wyorkers.com/api/census.json): counts, eras, families, boroughs - [Every piece JSON](https://n3wyorkers.com/api/pieces.json): 7,541 records - [Museum rooms JSON](https://n3wyorkers.com/api/rooms.json): 111 rooms with sourced history - [Articles JSON](https://n3wyorkers.com/api/articles.json): the reading room, full text with sources - [Full text for LLMs](https://n3wyorkers.com/llms-full.txt) - [Print catalogue feeds](https://n3wyorkers.com/feeds/catalog.json): the same data as [Google Merchant](https://n3wyorkers.com/feeds/google-merchant.xml) and [Meta catalog](https://n3wyorkers.com/feeds/meta-catalog.csv) ## The site - [Home](https://n3wyorkers.com/) - [The Census](https://n3wyorkers.com/census.html): every record in 3D and a gallery - [The Atlas](https://n3wyorkers.com/map.html): every piece on the map of the five boroughs - [The Museum](https://n3wyorkers.com/museum.html): 111 walkable rooms; #room=random spins the slot machine - [The FAQ](https://n3wyorkers.com/faq.html): the idea, the lore, the eras and sets, the traits, the release, what you own - [The Reading Room](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn.html): sourced New York history - [Prints](https://n3wyorkers.com/shipping.html): NEW YORKERS prints are not released yet, and MLow's other print catalogue is a separate body of work - [The allowlist](https://n3wyorkers.com/whitelist.html): put your name down for the census release - [Get Counted](https://n3wyorkers.com/counted.html): the quiz, the Resident card, the nomination form - [The Count](https://n3wyorkers.com/count.html): the countdown - [Press](https://n3wyorkers.com/press.html) - [Brand](https://n3wyorkers.com/brand.html) ## The reading room - [The Consolidation of 1898](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/consolidation-1898.html): How Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island became one city on January 1, 1898, and what the merger changed. - [The Subway Opens, 1904](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/the-subway-1904.html): The IRT opened on October 27, 1904 with a nickel fare; how three systems became one in 1940 and how the map came to be. - [The Brooklyn Bridge, 1883](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/brooklyn-bridge-1883.html): The Roeblings, the caissons, the opening day of May 24, 1883, and what the first East River bridge did to Brooklyn. - [The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/liberty-and-ellis-island.html): The gift from France, Bartholdi and Eiffel, Emma Lazarus, and the immigration station that processed about 12 million people from 1892 to 1954. - [Grand Central Terminal, 1913](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/grand-central-1913.html): Electrification, air rights, the painted sky on the concourse ceiling, and the 1978 Supreme Court case that kept Grand Central standing. - [Central Park and the Greensward Plan](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/central-park-greensward.html): Olmsted and Vaux's 1858 plan, the village it displaced, Bethesda Terrace, Belvedere Castle and the Conservancy that rebuilt the park. - [The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/triangle-fire-1911.html): The fire of March 25, 1911 killed 146 garment workers in the Asch Building and drove the laws that remade the American workplace. - [The Harlem Renaissance and the Apollo](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/harlem-renaissance-apollo.html): The Great Migration made Harlem, the writers and musicians of the 1920s made it famous, and Amateur Night at the Apollo has run since 1934. - [The Birth of Hip Hop, 1973](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/birth-of-hip-hop-1973.html): A back to school party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue on August 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc, and the four elements that grew from the Bronx. - [Coney Island](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/coney-island.html): Steeplechase, Luna Park and Dreamland, the Wonder Wheel of 1920, the boardwalk of 1923, the Cyclone of 1927 and Nathan's nickel hot dog. - [The Blackout of July 13, 1977](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/blackout-1977.html): What happened when New York lost power on July 13, 1977, the looting and fires that followed, and how the 1965 and 2003 blackouts differed. - [Stonewall, June 28, 1969](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/stonewall-1969.html): The Stonewall Inn, the police raid of June 28, 1969, the nights that followed, the first march in 1970, and the National Monument of 2016. - [The Bodega and the Corner Store](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/the-bodega.html): Where the word bodega came from, the Puerto Rican, Dominican and Yemeni owners who built the corner store, the cat, and why nobody agrees how many there are. - [The Staten Island Ferry and the Harbor](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/staten-island-ferry.html): The ferry's route, the fare that went from a nickel to free in 1997, the Verrazzano bridge, and what the harbor was to the city. - [The Race to the Sky, 1930 to 1931](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/race-to-the-sky-1930.html): The Woolworth Building, the 1916 zoning law, the Chrysler Building's secret spire, and the Empire State Building's 13 month climb to the top of the world. - [Times Square and the Ball Drop](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/times-square-ball-drop.html): Longacre Square, the New York Times tower of 1904, the first ball on December 31, 1907, the decline, and the remake of the 1990s. - [Counting New York](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/counting-new-york.html): The decennial census from 1790 to 2020, the 2020 figure of 8,804,190, what the count decides, the undercount, and how a painted census differs. - [Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/jane-jacobs-and-robert-moses.html): The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the Lower Manhattan Expressway fight, the Cross Bronx Expressway, and what each of them built. - [Before the City: Lenape, Mannahatta, New Amsterdam](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/before-the-city-lenape-new-amsterdam.html): The Lenape and Mannahatta, what the 1626 purchase documents actually say, New Amsterdam from 1624 to 1664, and the wall that named Wall Street. - [The High Line and the Rewilded City](https://n3wyorkers.com/learn/high-line-rewilded-city.html): The West Side freight line, Friends of the High Line, the park's opening on June 9, 2009, Hudson Yards and the Vessel, and Little Island in 2021. ## The eras - Era I The Originals (numbers 1 to 766): The founding census. Legends, neighbors, places, villains. The city assembled its cast. - Era II The Eye Flower Era (numbers 767 to 816): The flowers arrive. The city starts visibly watching. Myth enters the frame: the Rat King is crowned, the Trash Mountain rises. - Era III The City Expands (numbers 817 to 966): The heroes and lost trades. The city remembers who built it and who keeps it alive at 4am. - Era IV The Brand Batch (numbers 967 to 1166): Protection and community arrive as symbols. The evil eye starts watching from every frame. Number 1000, The Subway Samaritan, states the whole thesis: strangers save strangers here. - Era V The Masterworks (numbers 1167 to 1466): Every character gets its own color story and its own decisive moment. The collection learns chiaroscuro and grief and joy: the Oath Ceremony, the Orange Sky, the Angel of the Waters. - Era VI The Mythos (numbers 1467 to 1866): The origin stories, the illusions, the hidden city. The world explains itself. Love arcs pay off. The Rat King marries the Pigeon Queen and the kingdoms of above and below unite. - Era VII The Deep City (numbers 1867 to 2266): The collection swallows the calendar and the clock: the Hours, the Months, the Moons, the Decades, the Lines, the Tarot. History enters: the Boatlift, the Miracle on the Hudson. The chapter closes with the Curtain Call, and then refuses to close. - Era VIII The Fabric (numbers 2267 to 2666): The Second Glance wedding, the 56 card Minor Arcana, all 59 community boards, and the Guarantor, the devil number villain who earns a second look. - Era IX The Bloom (numbers 2667 to 3066): The Painter waters a blank canvas and the whole city goes trippy. Harbor Lights, the Scents of New York, Street Games, and the Full Bloom at 3000 when every eye flower opens at once. - Era X The Look (numbers 3067 to 3466): After the Bloom went citywide the city started dressing for the flowers. The Houses, the Diaspora Blocks, the Uniforms, the Landmark Crowns, the Soles. Self presentation as love, armor and survival. - Era XI The Waking (numbers 3467 to 3966): The eye flowers open in things that were never alive. Traffic cones, turnstiles, griddles, screens and church bells wake up and discover they were watching all along. - Era XII The Arrival (numbers 3967 to 4366): Time coupes land on the Brooklyn Bridge, androids wear cashmere, and the city absorbs whatever arrives, the way it always has. - Era XIII The Deep City (numbers 4367 to 4766): Cast iron facades step down from their buildings. The buried, structural, stacked New York comes forward with its ghosts and its craft. - Era XIV The Second Skin (numbers 4767 to 4966): An augmented layer painted over the real city. The Watchers, new ways to move, the Gadget Bazaar, the Melting Pot Protocols, Viral, the Icons Awake, Mystery and Illusion. - Era XV The City That Answers Back (numbers 4967 to 5466): Infrastructure with opinions. The grid asks for a minute, the traffic light waits, the water main remembers the creek. The city finally answers, and the census closes on The Answer at 5466. - Era XVI The Twenty Houses (numbers 5491 to 6490): One thousand New Yorkers built as people who can walk out of the frame: a name, a want, a flaw, a signature. Twenty houses of fifty, each a working world with its own thesis. The Seam, the Lease, the Feed, the Care, the Hands, the Inheritance. - Era XVII The Ten Rooms (numbers 6491 to 6990): Five hundred New Yorkers inside the institutions the city is defined by. The appetizing counter, the red sauce room, the slice, the stool, the list, the oyster bar, four in the morning, the cart, last call, and the small badly lit room where the culture got made. - Era XVIII The MLow Show (numbers 6991 to 7490): Five hundred New Yorkers from crypto art culture in ten houses, opening with an homage to every guest of The MLow Show. The green room, the mint, the vault, the trash block, the machine studio, the painter's floor, the lens, the depth stage, the chain and the degen floor. The honoree is named in the title and never painted. - Era XIX The Trait Layer (numbers 7491 to 7990): Five hundred New Yorkers of the ninety seconds, the number, the second face, the rule, the open tab, the vanishing, the hanging, the twelve words, the thirty hour day and the long record. Each carries one of thirty one painted traits, worn the way the city wears everything: as a fact. ## The rooms - [The Bowery](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bowery.html): Lower Manhattan. Manhattan's oldest road began as a Lenape trail and a Dutch farm lane. - [Below the city](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/subway.html): The Subway. The first train left City Hall on October 27, 1904, and the system never closed. - [Above the park](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/met.html): The Met Roof Garden. The Met's roof has hosted one artist's commission each season since 1987. - [Across the river](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/brooklyn.html): Brooklyn Waterfront. The park under the bridge was working shipping piers until 2010. - [Electric crossroads](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/times.html): Times Square. It was Longacre Square until a newspaper moved in and the city renamed it in 1904. - [The harbor crossing](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/ferry.html): Staten Island Ferry. The city has run the boats since 1905, and the ride has been free since 1997. - [The living city](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/botanical.html): New York Botanical Garden. The glass conservatory opened in 1902, modeled on the Palm House at Kew. - [Arrivals / departures](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/penn.html): Penn / Moynihan Train Hall. The trusses over the hall once held up a mail sorting room. - [Under the stars](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/grand.html): Grand Central Terminal. The zodiac on the ceiling is painted backward, and it has been since 1913. - [The city, rewilded](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/highline.html): The High Line. Freight trains ran here until 1980. The park opened in 2009. - [At the edge of it all](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/coney.html): Coney Island. The boardwalk opened in 1923. The Wonder Wheel had already turned for three years. - [The painted threshold](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bethesda.html): Bethesda Arcade. The tile ceiling is the only Minton tile ceiling in the world. - [White ribs, infinite city](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/oculus.html): The Oculus. The skylight along the spine opens once a year, on September 11. - [Endless ascent](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/guggenheim.html): The Guggenheim Spiral. Wright died six months before his spiral opened in 1959. - [City of stories](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/library.html): Nypl Rose Reading Room. The reading room is nearly two blocks long under a painted sky. - [After the applause](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/apollo.html): The Apollo. Ella Fitzgerald won Amateur Night here in 1934 at age 17. - [The boroughs in orbit](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/unisphere.html): Flushing Meadows. The steel globe stands 140 feet tall on the ground of two World's Fairs. - [Suspended New York](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/tram.html): Roosevelt Island Tram. Built in 1976 as a stopgap until the subway came. The subway came. The tram stayed. - [The quiet city](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/cloisters.html): The Cloisters. Rockefeller bought the cliffs across the river so the view would never change. - [The dry dock cathedral](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/navyyard.html): Brooklyn Navy Yard. The USS Missouri was built here. The war ended on its deck. - [The harbor observatory](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/governors.html): Governors Island Hills. The island was sold to New York for one dollar in 2003. - [The crown and the lobby](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/chrysler.html): The Chrysler Building. The spire went up in secret and made it the tallest building on earth for eleven months. - [The prow](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/flatiron.html): The Flatiron. At its point the building is about six feet wide. - [Bottom of the ninth](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bleachers.html): The Bronx Ballpark. Babe Ruth hit the first home run here on opening day, 1923. - [Take a number](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/deli.html): The Appetizing Counter. Appetizing is fish and dairy. Deli is meat. Kosher law made them two shops. - [Under the arch](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/washington.html): Washington Square. The lawn covers a potter's field. The arch came later, in 1895. - [The Lullwater](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/boathouse.html): Prospect Park Boathouse. Olmsted and Vaux called Prospect Park their best work, better than Central Park. - [The colonnade](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/halloffame.html): Hall Of Fame For Great Americans. The first hall of fame in the country is a colonnade of 98 bronze heads in the Bronx. - [Departures, 1962](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/twa.html): Twa Flight Center. Saarinen's terminal opened in 1962, a year after he died. - [The sailors' rest](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/snug.html): Snug Harbor. A home for old sailors, opened 1833, with five Greek temples facing the harbor. - [Ice under the towers](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/wollman.html): Wollman Rink. New Yorkers skated on the Pond here for ninety years before the rink opened in 1950. - [The bend](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/doyers.html): Doyers Street. The bend was called the Bloody Angle. Nom Wah has served dim sum on it since 1920. - [The parlour floor](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/strivers.html): Strivers' Row. Built in 1891 for buyers who never came. Harlem's strivers filled it after 1919. - [Seventy floors up](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/rock.html): Top Of The Rock. The deck was styled after an ocean liner in 1933, then closed for nineteen years. - [The garden court](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/frick.html): The Frick. The Garden Court was the carriage court until the house became a museum in 1935. - [The tall ship](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/seaport.html): South Street Seaport. The fish market ran on this cobbled street for 183 years. - [The climb](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/vessel.html): Hudson Yards. 154 flights of stairs that lead nowhere, opened over the rail yards in 2019. - [The tulips](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/littleisland.html): Little Island. Titanic survivors landed at this pier. Now it holds a park on 132 concrete tulips. - [The unfinished nave](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/cathedral.html): St. John The Divine. Begun in 1892, still unfinished, and one of the largest churches on earth. - [The elevated](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/queensboro.html): Queensboro Plaza. Two subway companies once shared these elevated tracks. Now three lines meet here. - [The roof](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bushwick.html): A Bushwick Rooftop. The walls below have been repainted every year since 2011. - [The ride](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/cyclone.html): The Cyclone. A wooden coaster from 1927 with an 85 foot first drop, and still running. - [Between the cables](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/brooklynbridge.html): The Brooklyn Bridge. Emily Roebling ran the site for a decade while her husband watched from a window. - [The city on a table](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/panorama.html): The Queens Museum. Every building in the city in miniature, made for the 1964 fair. The UN met here first. - [The climb to the crown](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/liberty.html): Liberty Island. Eiffel built the iron inside her. The crown has 25 windows. - [Under the tile vaults](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/oysterbar.html): Grand Central Oyster Bar. Whisper into one corner of the arch outside and it lands in the opposite corner. - [Three tiers of books](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/morgan.html): The Morgan Library. Three tiers of walnut shelves, built for one banker, opened to everyone in 1924. - [The great stage](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/radiocity.html): Radio City Music Hall. The arches over the stage are a sunrise, and they have been since 1932. - [The cathedral of commerce](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/woolworth.html): The Woolworth Building. Woolworth paid cash for the tallest building in the world in 1913. - [The canyon](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/wallstreet.html): Wall Street. A wall, a tree, a handshake in 1792, and a stock exchange. - [The plaza at eight](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/lincolncenter.html): Lincoln Center. The chandeliers rise into the ceiling before every performance. - [The castle on the rock](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/belvedere.html): Belvedere Castle. The castle had no purpose but the view. Since 1919 it has also read the weather. - [The aqueduct walk](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/highbridge.html): The High Bridge. The city's oldest bridge carried water, not people, and it opened in 1848. - [The market hall](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/arthuravenue.html): Arthur Avenue. La Guardia moved the pushcarts indoors in 1940. The stalls are still there. - [The pergola over the river](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/wavehill.html): Wave Hill. Mark Twain rented this house. Toscanini lived here. The city got it in 1960. - [The gantries](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/gantry.html): Gantry Plaza. The gantries lifted railcars onto barges. The Pepsi sign came from the plant next door. - [Surf at the end of the A](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/rockaway.html): Rockaway Beach. The only beaches in New York City where surfing is allowed, at the end of the A. - [The gothic gate](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/greenwood.html): Green-Wood Cemetery. Wild parrots nest in the gate of a cemetery founded in 1838. - [The refinery](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/domino.html): Domino Park. A sugar refinery that once led the world, kept as a park on the Williamsburg shore. - [The ships in the marsh](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/boatgraveyard.html): The Arthur Kill. Tugs and ferries left to rust in the marsh on Staten Island's western shore. - [The flight deck](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/intrepid.html): The Intrepid. A carrier that took kamikaze hits in 1944 and now holds a space shuttle. - [Live from New York](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/studio8h.html): Studio 8H. Toscanini's radio studio became the home of Saturday Night Live in 1975. - [The horseshoe](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/carnegie.html): Carnegie Hall. Tchaikovsky conducted on opening night in 1891. - [The wedge downstairs](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/vanguard.html): The Village Vanguard. A basement wedge that has held jazz since 1935. - [The court](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/rucker.html): Rucker Park. A Parks worker's 1950 tournament made a Harlem court famous. - [The rec room](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/sedgwick.html): 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. A 1973 rec room party in the Bronx started hip hop. - [The night before the parade](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/balloons.html): Central Park West. The night before Thanksgiving, the balloons lie under nets beside the museum. - [Christopher Street](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/stonewall.html): Sheridan Square. The 1969 uprising here became the first national monument to LGBTQ history. - [The feast on Mulberry](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/sangennaro.html): The Feast Of San Gennaro. Neapolitan immigrants started the Mulberry Street feast in 1926. - [The lobby of the hotel](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/chelseahotel.html): The Chelsea Hotel. Residents paid in paintings, and the lobby still shows them. - [Eighteen miles of books](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/strand.html): The Strand. The last survivor of Fourth Avenue's Book Row, open since 1927. - [The courtyard and the mosaic](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/dakota.html): The Dakota. An 1884 apartment fortress and the mosaic across the street. - [The world's most famous arena](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/garden.html): Madison Square Garden. Built over Penn Station in 1968, it has hosted the Knicks ever since. - [The temple by the window](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/dendur.html): The Temple Of Dendur. A Roman era Egyptian temple given to the United States in 1965. - [The garden on 54th](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/moma.html): The Sculpture Garden. Philip Johnson's 1953 court named for a MoMA founder. - [The terraces over the High Line](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/whitney.html): The Whitney. Founded by a sculptor in 1930, moved to the end of the High Line in 2015. - [The registry room](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/ellis.html): Ellis Island. Twelve million people came through this hall between 1892 and 1954. - [Mile one](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/marathon.html): The Verrazzano. Fifty thousand runners cross the bridge in the first mile. - [Sixth Avenue after dark](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/halloween.html): The Village Halloween Parade. A puppeteer's neighborhood walk in 1973 became a parade of a million. - [The parkway on Labor Day](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/easternparkway.html): Grand Army Plaza. Olmsted's first parkway carries the Caribbean carnival every Labor Day. - [The sun down 42nd](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/manhattanhenge.html): Manhattanhenge. Twice a year the sunset lines up with the 1811 street grid. - [The Great Hall](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/metgreathall.html): The Met. Hunt's 1902 hall of three domes, with flowers paid for by a bequest. - [The Engelhard Court](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/metamerican.html): The Met. A Wall Street bank front from 1824 stands inside a glass court. - [The skylit suite](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/meteuropean.html): The Met. Five Vermeers hang under skylights rebuilt in 2023. - [Under the whale](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/oceanlife.html): Natural History. A 94 foot whale has hung here since 1969. - [The sphere in the cube](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/rosecenter.html): The Rose Center. An 87 foot sphere in a glass cube, opened in 2000. - [The atrium](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/momaatrium.html): Moma. Three women founded it in 1929; the atrium came in 2004. - [The stacked boxes](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/newmuseum.html): The New Museum. Seven stacked boxes on the Bowery, opened in 2007. - [The gold room](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/neuegalerie.html): Neue Galerie. Klimt's gold portrait hangs in a 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion. - [The Carnegie garden](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/cooperhewitt.html): Cooper Hewitt. Andrew Carnegie's mansion, a design museum since 1976. - [The inverted ziggurat](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/breuer.html): The Breuer. Breuer's 1966 granite ziggurat has housed three museums and an auction house. - [The Warburg mansion](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/jewishmuseum.html): The Jewish Museum. The Warburg mansion of 1908 has held the museum since 1947. - [The spiral stair](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/rubin.html): The Rubin. Himalayan art on a spiral stair inherited from Barneys. - [The shell rolls out](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/theshed.html): The Shed. The building's shell rolls out on rails to make a hall. - [The drill hall](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/armory.html): Park Avenue Armory. Tiffany rooms and a drill hall of 55,000 square feet, built 1881. - [The rotunda at Bowling Green](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/customhouse.html): The Custom House. Cass Gilbert's 1907 rotunda, painted by Reginald Marsh in 1937. - [The lollipop building](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/mad.html): Museum Of Arts And Design. The lollipop building at Columbus Circle, reclad in 2008. - [The terracotta court](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/hispanicsociety.html): The Hispanic Society. Goya and Sorolla in a terracotta court on 155th Street since 1908. - [The new building on 125th](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/studiomuseum.html): The Studio Museum In Harlem. Founded in 1968, in its first purpose built home since 2025. - [The courtyard on Fifth](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/elmuseo.html): El Museo Del Barrio. Born in East Harlem in 1969, with camels on Fifth Avenue every January. - [The city's museum](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/mcny.html): Museum Of The City Of New York. The city's own museum, in a Georgian building since 1932. - [The oldest museum in the city](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/nyhistorical.html): New-York Historical Society. The city's oldest museum, founded in 1804. - [The long light](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/diachelsea.html): Dia Chelsea. Dia came to West 22nd Street in 1987, before the galleries followed. - [Thursday openings on 24th](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/chelseablock.html): West 24Th Street. Former garages turned into the city's densest run of galleries. - [The mission house](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/fotografiska.html): Fotografiska. A photography museum in an 1894 mission house. - [The old school](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/ps1.html): Moma Ps1. An 1892 public school turned into galleries in 1976. - [The stone garden](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/noguchi.html): The Noguchi Museum. A sculptor built his own museum around a garden in 1985. - [Sculpture on the river](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/socrates.html): Socrates Sculpture Park. Artists cleared a dump on the East River in 1986 and made a park. - [The Beaux-Arts Court](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/brooklynmuseum.html): The Brooklyn Museum. McKim, Mead and White's 1897 palace on Eastern Parkway. - [The ironworks in Red Hook](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/pioneerworks.html): Pioneer Works. An 1866 iron works in Red Hook, an art center since 2012. - [The Concourse museum](https://n3wyorkers.com/rooms/bronxmuseum.html): The Bronx Museum Of The Arts. A free museum on the Grand Concourse since 1982.