Headquarters of the United Nations and Related Topics

New York City

Most populous city in the United States.

New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it "New York"

Fort George and the City of New York c. 1731. Royal Navy ships of the line are seen guarding what would become New York Harbor.

Columbia University was founded by royal charter in 1754 under the name of King's College.

The Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the American Revolution, took place in Brooklyn in 1776.

Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.

The current 5 boroughs of Greater New York as they appeared in 1814. Bronx was in Westchester County, Queens County included modern Nassau County, Kings County had 6 towns, one of which was Brooklyn, New York City is shown by hatching in southern New York County on the island of Manhattan, and Richmond County on Staten Island.

A construction worker atop the Empire State Building as it was being built in 1930. The Chrysler Building is behind him.

Manhattan's Little Italy, Lower East Side, circa 1900

The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement

United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

The core of the New York City metropolitan area, with Manhattan Island at its center

Lower and Midtown Manhattan, as seen by a SkySat satellite in 2017

Central Park in Winter by Raymond Speers, in Munsey's Magazine, February 1900

Flushing Meadows–Corona Park was used in both the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fair, with the Unisphere as the centerpiece of the latter and which remains today.

The Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island in New York Harbor is a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity.

View of The Pond and Midtown Manhattan from the Gapstow Bridge in Central Park, one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, in 2019

California sea lions play at the Bronx Zoo, the world's largest metropolitan zoo.

A map of racial distribution in New York, 2010 U.S. census. Each dot is 25 people:

The landmark Neo-Gothic Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral, Midtown Manhattan

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish residents in Brooklyn. Brooklyn has the largest Jewish community in the United States, with approximately 600,000 individuals.

The Islamic Cultural Center of New York in Upper Manhattan was the first mosque built in New York City.

Ganesh Temple in Flushing, Queens, is the oldest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere.

The New York Stock Exchange, by a significant margin the world's largest stock exchange per market capitalization of its listed companies, at US$23.1 trillion as of April 2018. Pictured is the exchange's building on Wall Street.

The Deutsche Bank Center as viewed from Central Park West

Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a media center. It also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million.

Rockefeller Center is home to NBC Studios.

Times Square Studios, home of Good Morning America

Butler Library at Columbia University, described as one of the most beautiful college libraries in the United States

The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of both New York University (NYU) and its Greenwich Village neighborhood

New York-Presbyterian Hospital, affiliated with Columbia University and Cornell University, the largest hospital and largest private employer in New York City and one of the world's busiest

The New York Police Department (NYPD) is the largest police force in the United States.

Police officers of New York Police Department (NYPD)

The Fire Department of New York (FDNY) is the largest municipal fire department in the United States.

The Stephen A. Schwarzman Headquarters Building of the New York Public Library, at 5th Avenue and 42nd Street

The fast-paced streets of New York City, January 2020

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, part of Museum Mile, is one of the largest museums in the world.

Smorgasburg opened in 2011 as an open-air food market and is part of the Brooklyn Flea.

As of 2012, the city had about 6,000 hybrid taxis (shown) in service, the largest number of any city in North America.

New York City Hall is the oldest City Hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions.

The New York County Courthouse houses the New York Supreme Court and other offices.

Eric Adams, the current and 110th Mayor of New York City

New York City is home to the two busiest train stations in the U.S., including Grand Central Terminal.

The New York City Subway is the world's largest rapid transit system by number of stations.

The Port Authority Bus Terminal, the world's busiest bus station, at 8th Avenue and 42nd Street

John F. Kennedy Airport in Queens, the busiest international air passenger gateway to the United States

The Staten Island Ferry shuttles commuters between Manhattan and Staten Island.

Yellow medallion taxicabs are widely recognized icons of the city.

8th Avenue, looking northward ("uptown"). Most streets and avenues in Manhattan's grid plan incorporate a one-way traffic configuration.

The George Washington Bridge, connecting Upper Manhattan (background) from Fort Lee, New Jersey across the Hudson River, is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge.

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The Grand Concourse in the Bronx, foreground, with Manhattan in the background in February 2018

St. George, Staten Island as seen from the Staten Island Ferry, the world's busiest passenger-only ferry system, shuttling passengers between Manhattan and Staten Island

Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, an established safe haven for global investors, and is sometimes described as the capital of the world.

United Nations General Assembly

One of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN.

Methodist Central Hall, London, the location of the first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in 1946.

Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad addressing the United Nations General Assembly on 25 September 2003

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev addresses the 64th session of the UN General Assembly on 24 September 2009

Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero addressing the General Assembly in New York, 20 September 2005

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff delivers the opening speech at the 66th Session of the General Assembly on 21 September 2011, marking the first time a woman opened a United Nations session

The United Nations General Assembly building

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev addressing the UN General Assembly in December 1988

The General Assembly meets under its president or the UN secretary-general in annual sessions at UN headquarters in New York City; the main part of these meetings generally runs from September to part of January until all issues are addressed (which is often before the next session starts).

Manhattan

Most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

Pieter Schaghen's 1626 letter saying Manhattan was purchased for 60 guilders.

The Castello Plan showing the Dutch city of New Amsterdam in 1660, at the southern tip of Manhattan

Washington's statue in front of Federal Hall on Wall Street, where in 1789 he was sworn in as first U.S. president

Manhattan in 1873. The Brooklyn Bridge was under construction from 1870 until 1883

The "Sanitary & Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York", commonly known as the Viele Map, was created by Egbert Ludovicus Viele in 1865

Manhattan personified, early 20th century

V-J Day in Times Square in Times Square, 1945

Flooding on Avenue C caused by Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012

Satellite image of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson River to the west, the Harlem River to the north, the East River to the east, and New York Harbor to the south, with rectangular Central Park prominently visible. Roosevelt Island, in the East River, belongs to Manhattan.

Location of Manhattan (red) within New York City (remainder yellow)

Manhattan schist outcropping in Central Park

Liberty Island is an exclave of Manhattan, of New York City, and of New York State, that is surrounded by New Jersey waters

The Empire State Building in the foreground looking southward from the top of Rockefeller Center, with One World Trade Center in the background, at sunset. The Midtown South Community Council acts as a civic caretaker for much of the neighborhood between the skyscrapers of Midtown and Lower Manhattan.

The Estonian House, the main center of Estonian culture amongst Estonian Americans

A. T. Stewart in 1870, 9th Street, Manhattan

Many tall buildings have setbacks on their facade due to the 1916 Zoning Resolution. This is exemplified at Park Avenue and 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan.

The Financial District of Lower Manhattan, seen from Brooklyn

The Flatiron District is the center and birthplace of Silicon Alley

Times Square is the hub of the Broadway theater district and a major cultural venue in Manhattan, it also has one of the highest annual attendance rates of any tourist attraction in the world, estimated at 50 million

The New York Times headquarters, 620 Eighth Avenue

Butler Library at Columbia University, with its notable architectural design

New York Public Library Main Branch at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue

The scene at Manhattan's 2015 LGBT Pride March. The annual event rivals the sister São Paulo event as the world's largest pride parade, attracting tens of thousands of participants and millions of sidewalk spectators each June.

Madison Square Garden is home to the Rangers and Knicks, and hosts some Liberty games

A slum tour through the Five Points in an 1885 sketch

At the time of its construction, London Terrace in Chelsea was the largest apartment building in the world

Grand Central Terminal is a National Historic Landmark.

Ferries departing Battery Park City and helicopters flying above Manhattan

The Staten Island Ferry, seen from the Battery, crosses Upper New York Bay, providing free public transportation between Staten Island and Manhattan.

The Brooklyn Bridge to the right and the Manhattan Bridge towards the left, are two of the three bridges that connect Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn over the East River.

Eighth Avenue, looking northward ("Uptown"), in the rain; most streets and avenues in Manhattan's grid plan incorporate a one-way traffic configuration

Tourists looking westward at sunset to observe the July 12, 2016 Manhattanhenge

Ferry service departing Battery Park City towards New Jersey, see from Paulus Hook

Manhattan has been described as the cultural, financial, media, and entertainment capital of the world, is considered a safe haven for global real estate investors, and hosts the United Nations headquarters.

United Nations

Intergovernmental organization whose purpose is to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

1943 sketch by Franklin Roosevelt of the UN original three branches: The Four Policemen, an executive branch, and an international assembly of forty UN member states

The UN in 1945: founding members in light blue, protectorates and territories of the founding members in dark blue

Dag Hammarskjöld was a particularly active secretary-general from 1953 until his death in 1961.

Kofi Annan, secretary-general from 1997 to 2006

Flags of member nations at the United Nations Headquarters, seen in 2007

Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet general secretary, addressing the UN General Assembly in December 1988

Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, demonstrates a vial with alleged Iraq chemical weapon probes to the UN Security Council on Iraq war hearings, 5 February 2003

Current secretary-general, António Guterres

The ICJ ruled that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 did not violate international law.

Under Sukarno, Indonesia became the first and only country to leave the United Nations.

A Nepalese soldier on a peacekeeping deployment providing security at a rice distribution site in Haiti during 2010

The UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus was established in 1974 following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

Eleanor Roosevelt with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1949

Three former directors of the Global Smallpox Eradication Programme reading the news that smallpox has been globally eradicated in 1980

In Jordan, UNHCR remains responsible for the Syrian refugees and the Zaatari refugee camp.

The 2001 Nobel Peace Prize to the UN—diploma in the lobby of the UN Headquarters in New York City

Marking of the UN's 70th anniversary – Budapest, 2015

The UN is headquartered on international territory in New York City, and has other main offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna, and The Hague (home to the International Court of Justice).

Wallace Harrison

American architect.

The Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, seen from Lincoln Center Plaza

Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City

Among Harrison's most noted projects are the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Empire State Plaza in Albany; he also served as Director of Planning on the United Nations complex, which was built on slaughter-house property contributed by the Rockefeller family (the Rockefellers owned the Tudor City Apartments across First Avenue).

Turtle Bay, Manhattan

Neighborhood in New York City, on the east side of Midtown Manhattan.

Tudor City is at Turtle Bay's southern edge.

The United Nations Headquarters is located in Turtle Bay; pictured is the United Nations Secretariat Building.

The German mission to the United Nations

303 East 51st Street apartment building under construction

The neighborhood is the site of the headquarters of the United Nations and the Chrysler Building.

Socony–Mobil Building, New York City, 1956

Harrison & Abramovitz

American architectural firm based in New York and active from 1941 through 1976.

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, 1951 This picture is of the current Museum, not the 1951 museum.

CIA Original Headquarters Building at Langley, Virginia, 1961

Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 1962

Assembly Hall, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, 1963

Spingold Theater Center, Brandeis University, 1965

Main Place Tower, Buffalo, New York, 1969

The firm's first significant project was the United Nations headquarters in New York City (1947–52).

Looking south down 1st Avenue from the Roosevelt Island Tramway

First Avenue (Manhattan)

North-south thoroughfare on the East Side of the New York City borough of Manhattan, running from Houston Street northbound to 127th Street.

Looking south on First Avenue from 13th Street during the demolition of the Second Avenue El in September 1942

United Nations headquarters at First Avenue and 42nd Street

Between 42nd and 47th streets, the avenue runs past United Nations Headquarters.

Oscar Niemeyer

Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture.

Ministry of Education and Health, Rio de Janeiro

São Francisco de Assis Church, Belo Horizonte City, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Headquarters of the Banco Mineiro da Produção, Belo Horizonte

Palácio da Agricultura, current MAC USP, showing the V shaped pilotis

Califórnia Building (Edifício Califórnia), São Paulo

Model of the Museum of Modern Art in Caracas

Ministries Esplanade with several of Niemeyer's buildings: the National Congress, the Cathedral, the National Museum and the National Library, Brasília, D.F., 2006

The National Congress of Brazil, Brasília

Cathedral of Brasília, hyperboloid structure

Palácio do Planalto, the official workplace of the President of Brazil

Itamaraty Palace, the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil

Oscar Niemeyer with Polish architect Jerzy Swiech.

Mural honoring Niemeyer in São Paulo, Brazil.

The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, Brazil

Oscar Niemeyer Museum (NovoMuseu), Curitiba, Brazil

Brazilian National Museum, Brasília, Brazil

Estação Cabo Branco, João Pessoa, Brazil

Oscar Niemeyer International Cultural Centre, Asturias, Spain

Oscar Niemeyer Auditorium, Ravello, Italy

Niemeyer was best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a planned city that became Brazil's capital in 1960, as well as his collaboration with other architects on the headquarters of the United Nations in New York.

Robert Moses

American public official who worked mainly in the New York metropolitan area.

Part of the Triborough Bridge (left) with Astoria Park and its pool in the center

The headquarters of the United Nations in New York City, viewed from the East River. The Secretariat Building is on the left and the General Assembly building is the low structure to the right of the tower. This set of buildings straddles the FDR Drive, another of Moses's creations.

View of the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair as seen from the observation towers of the New York State pavilion. The Fair's symbol, the Unisphere, is the central image.

A 1964 Parks Department map showing numerous Robert Moses projects, including several highways that went unbuilt or were only partially completed.

Depiction of Moses at Fordham University, Lincoln Center

Moses led the construction of New York campuses for the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs and helped persuade the United Nations to locate its headquarters in Manhattan instead of Philadelphia.