This week in NYC history, an angry mob dethrones a statue of King George III after the Declaration of Independence is read in NYC for the first time.
Historic Battery Park was where the early immigrants landed in NYC and today, the 23-acre The Battery is the largest public open space in Downtown NYC
Bowling Green, the oldest public park in New York City, also contains the city's oldest fence, dating back to pre-revolutionary days in the 1730s.
Bowling Green subway station has an amazing series of "rooftopping" photographs of New York City by Navid Baraty, who took these photos high above the streets
In a fitting twist of fate, the site currently occupied by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian was where Fort Amsterdam was located in NYC