Museum of the City of New York

The Museum of the City of New York is a history and art museum in , New York City. It was founded by Henry Collins Brown in 1923 to preserve and present the history of New York City and its people.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Manhattan, New York City
  • Also known as: “MCNY”
  • Address: 1220 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10029
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Central Park and El Museo del Barrio.

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A vast green swath of open space in the heart of , is a district in its own right, neatly separating the from the , stretching from Midtown at the southern end to at the north.

Museum
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, often known simply as El Museo, is a at 1230 in , New York City. It is located near the northern end of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile, immediately north of the Museum of the City of New York.

Hospital
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Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States. It is located on the of in New York City, on the eastern border of , stretching along Madison and Fifth Avenues, between East 98th Street and East 103rd Street. is situated 1,100 feet south of Museum of the City of New York.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Harlem and Manhattan Valley.

Neighborhood
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, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, and formerly Italian Harlem, is a neighborhood of in , north of the and bounded by 96th Street to the south, to the west, and the and to the east and north.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in the northern part of the of in . It is bounded by West 110th Street to the north, Central Park West to the east, West 96th Street to the south, and Broadway to the west.

Quarter
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is a in , New York City. It is bounded roughly by the on the west; the and 155th Street on the north; on the east; and 110th Street on the south.

Museum of the City of New York

Latitude
40.79251° or 40° 47′ 33″ north
Longitude
-73.95191° or 73° 57′ 7″ west
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
Height
95 feet (29 metres)
Open location code
87G8Q2VX+26
Open­Street­Map ID
way 271220752
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6342708
Wiki­data ID
Q1321141
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“Museum of the City of New York” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف مدينة نيو يورك”
  • Arabic: “متحف مدينة نيويورك”
  • Chinese: “紐約城市博物館”
  • Chinese: “纽约市博物馆”
  • Czech: “Museum of the City of New York”
  • Czech: “Muzeum města New York”
  • Dutch: “Museum of the City of New York”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف مدينه نيويورك”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo de la Urbo Novjorko”
  • Finnish: “Museum of the City of New York”
  • French: “musée de la ville de New York”
  • French: “Musée de la ville de New York”
  • German: “Museum of the City of New York”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון העיר ניו יורק”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Kota New York”
  • Italian: “Museum of the City of New York”
  • Japanese: “ニューヨーク市博物館”
  • Japanese: “ニューヨーク市立博物館”
  • Korean: “뉴욕 박물관”
  • Korean: “뉴욕 시 박물관”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Museum of the City of New York”
  • Norwegian: “Museum of the City of New York”
  • Persian: “موزه شهر نیویورک”
  • Romanian: “MCNY”
  • Romanian: “Museum of the City of New York”
  • Romanian: “Muzeul orașului New York”
  • Russian: “Музей города Нью-Йорка”
  • Spanish: “Museo de la Ciudad de Nueva York”

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