Memorials in Manhattan

It memorializes America’s initial military response to the terrorist attacks on our country on September 11, 2001.

A small piece of Scotland sits in a park in Lower Manhattan.

A Manhattan tombstone honors a popular 19th-century heroine, now long forgotten.

A touching tribute to the "Queen of Soul."

A remnant of the original World Trade Center complex continues to serve as a commuter gateway.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

Monument to a forgotten NYC disaster that claimed the lives of 1,000.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.