The store that most embodies New York is Saks Fifth Avenue. There’s so much history wrapped up in that brand! And the shoe department is so big, it literally has its own zip code.
Olivia Wolfe, co-owner of American Two Shot, says she could spend the day here. Anybody with an appreciation for antiques and vintage could.
Rie Akuto, budding stylist, loves to browse the eclectic offering at this MPD spot.
Edward Hopper's proximity to the Queensboro Bridge led to the painting of the same title, created in 1913.
Painter Edward Hopper's main studio is still partly intact. The building is now owned by New York University.
Whitney Museum founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney moved here in 1907. At the time, the street also housed artists Daniel Chester French, Charles Hawthorne, and Ernest Lawson, among others.
Whitney Museum founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney established the Whitney Studio Club in 1918 as a meeting space where young artists could create and exhibit their work and socialize. Read more.
This was the first location of the Whitney Museum of American Art. It founded in 1930 after Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's collection of 500+ works by American artists were rejected by the Met. Read more.
This is the site of the Whitney Museum's future building in the Meatpacking District. The Whitney will break ground on the Renzo Piano-designed building in May 2011. Read more.
Designed by Marcel Breuer, the Whitney Museum's current building opened in 1966. Jacqueline Kennedy attended the building on opening day.
In Amazing Spider-Man #121, Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man's girlfriend, was thrown off a bridge by the Green Goblin. Even though the artist drew the Brooklyn Bridge, the story said it was the GW Bridge
In Amazing Spider-Man #121, Gwen Stacy, Spider-Man's girlfriend, was thrown off by the Green Goblin. Even though the story said it was the George Washington Bridge, the artist drew the Brooklyn Bridge
In Spider-Man 2 it looked like Peter Parker lived in a hovel but in reality if you wanted to live where Spider-Man did you'd probably need to take out a loan.
The home to The House of Ideas! NYC Headquarters of Marvel Comics. Keep your eyes peeled for webs.
The home of J. Jonah Jameson and Peter Parker's day job, The Flatiron Building was the home to The Daily Bugle in the most recent Spider-Man movies.
If you listen closely you can hear J. Jonah Jameson yelling at Peter Parker in the building that served as inspiration for the Daily Bugle in the Spider-Man comics from Marvel Comics.
