NY01 New York City Skyline, New York City, NY  Know as "The Big Apple" New York is a city of over 7 million people, covering 301 square m,iles and is the financial and cultural center of the world.

NY02 Ellis Island, New York Bay, NY  Ellis Island opened in 1892.  This small island became the "gateway to America" for millions of immigrants.  It is estimated that four in ten Americans can trace their family roots back through Ellis Island.  After 1924, immigration slowed and it was eventually closed in 1954.  Today Ellis Island is a historical museum and monument of America's cultural heritage.

NY03 Thumbelina Cottage, Chautauqua, NY.   This cottage was built in 1873 when Reverend A.D.Noron of South Cleveland, Ohio obtained a ninety-nine-year lease on the lot.  After the Civil War, old-fashioned religious camp meetings were organized and permanent summer resorts began to spring up.  Chautauqua was one of the most famous Methodist-Episcopal summer communities.  Summer classes offering instruction in religious and secular subjects are organized and taught there.

NY04 E.B.Hall House, Wellsville, NY.   In 1852, a young man came to Wellville and opened a drugstore.  This man was Edwin Bradford Hall, the descendant of a family whose roots trace back to the Plymouth Colony.  Hall was an amateur paleontologist, who gathered fossil sponges for nearly fifty years.  He is best known for discovering a previously unclassified species, today known as Dictyophyton halli.  Here in Wellville, Hall built his home.  The Pink House, as the Hall house is known, is believed to have been inspired by the Italian villas in the Lake Como region of Italy.  A receipt from the architects, Henry Seale & Son, showes that Hall paid $125.oo for plans, elevation, specifications and working drawings for a "dwelling house."

NY05 Miller Bell Tower, Chautauqua, NY.   The Chautauqua Institution was founded in 1874 as a vacation school for Sunday school teachers by Ohio manufacturer, Lewis Miller, and the Reverend John H.Vincent, a Methodist minister from Pennsylvania.  The Institution's religion program continues to be ecumenical in spirit and practice, presenting leaders of many religious faiths from this country and abroad.  This lake-side Victorian village in Western New York is a place where an abundance of music, dance, and the visual arts find their own forms of expression.  The Miller Bell Tower was erected in 1911 to commerate founder, Lewis Miller.

NY06 Batcheller Mansion Inn, Saratoga Springs, NY.   This elegant Victorian was built in 1873 by George S.Batcheller.  That same year Batcheller was elected to the New York State Assembly, and soon after entertained President Ulysses S.Grant in his new home.  Designed by architects Nichols and Hacott of Albany, the Batcheller Mansion is a flamboyant French Rennaissance style Queen Anne.  It's noteworthy as the first private home in the United States to have its design patented.  Today the mansion is operated as a Bed and Breakfast.  Guests can admire much of the original detail and craftsmanship in this remarkable home.

NY07 Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, NY.   Was the home of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.  He lived there from 1886 to 1919.  During his presidency, from 1902 to 1908, this home was known as the "Summer white House" and became the focus of national attention.
Sagamore Hill is preserved as it was during Roosevelt's lifetime by the National Park Service.  The home is designated as a National Historic site and attracts 67,000 visitors annually.

NY08 Heart of the City - World Trade Center, New York City, NY.   Completed in 1972 and 1973, these two towers forever changed the landscape of New York City.  Constructed on six acres of landfill, the foundation of each tower extended more than 70 feet below ground level to rest on solid bedrock.
The two towers were unable to survive the effects of a direct hit by two hijacked commercial jetliners during terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.  On this day, the landscape of America was forever changed and a renewed spirit of unity and patriotism swept the nation as we watched the events of this day unfold.