NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

Brooklyn Bridge Park - Pier 6

Brooklyn

Pier 6 adds approximately seven acres of new park, including a 1.6 acre destination playground. A 30-foot wide promenade leading onto the pier features views of lower Manhattan and New York Harbor.

Battery Park City Parks Conservancy

Manhattan

Broadway Theatre

Manhattan

The Broadway Theatre is one of only five playhouses that front the thoroughfare Broadway. It opened in 1924 as B. S. Moss’s Colony, a premiere film house. The most notable film that played there in the early years was Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie, which opened in 1928 and introduced audiences to Mickey Mouse.

Buck's Hollow

Staten Island

Buck's Hollow is part of the Staten Island Greenbelt. It holds rare native persimmon and blue gentian-species.

Bushwick Branch—Brooklyn Public Library

Brooklyn

Mon: 1-8 pm
Tues, Wed & Fri: 10 am-6 pm
Thurs: 1-6 pm
Sat: 10 am-5 pm

The library moved to its present home in a Carnegie library in 1908. A Carnegie library is one built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. By 1919, nearly half of the 3,500 libraries in the United States had been constructed through his grants. For more information, click here.