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Central Park is an 843-acre (341 ha) landscaped park in the middle of Manhattan, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux after their Greensward Plan of 1858 and completed in 1876. Its meadows, lakes, woodland paths and bridges, the Ramble, the Reservoir and Bethesda Terrace lie between the Upper West Side and the Upper East Side.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is an art museum on Fifth Avenue at 89th Street, founded in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting. Its building by Frank Lloyd Wright, completed in 1959, wraps a spiral ramp around a skylit rotunda. The collection spans Impressionist, early modern and contemporary art, including the Thannhauser Collection.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is the Smithsonian Institution's design museum, housed in the Andrew Carnegie Mansion of 1902 on Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile. Founded in 1897 by the Hewitt sisters, it collects historic and contemporary design, from textiles and wallpaper to furniture, posters and digital work, and has a garden.

The Museum of the City of New York tells the history of the city and its people through exhibitions, photographs, costumes and objects. It was founded in 1923 and moved in 1930 into a neo-Georgian brick building by Joseph H. Freedlander on Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, facing Central Park at the northern end of Museum Mile.