The Skyscraper Museum is devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future. The Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence.

European garden treatises, noted that the term &ldquo;bowling green&rdquo; denoted several, interrelated meanings: a sunken, generally round, turfed&nbsp;lawn; a close-cropped playing field for bowls; and a recessed turfed area in the midst of a&nbsp;parterre&nbsp;or&nbsp;grove. In America before 1850, the term &ldquo;bowling green&rdquo; encompassed each of these three definitions, often in combination, and was applied to both public and private spaces. As a resolution by the New York Common Council in 1733 suggests, the bowling green&rsquo;s ornamental and recreational functions often were inseparable. Museum of the City of New York

Ten Tallest Buildings in 1900 in NYC

 Historian and lawyer James Kaplan details the life of Mordecai Noah, one of the first Jewish Americans to serve in the US government. In the 1820s, Noah one of the leaders of Tammany Hall, which was once located on Park Row, then called Chatham Street. 

Space now occupied by the Potter Building

Ten Tallest Buildings in 1900 in NYC

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