Monuments in New York State

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

A pair of 19th-century granite markers symbolically record where the state boundaries of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania intersect.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

This monument pays tribute to the city’s contribution to basketball history.

A monument to a Polish general who fought the American Revolution and became the "Father of the American Cavalry."

A monument honoring those who died in the Great Famine of Ireland.

West Point’s only monument to a woman veteran stands above an empty grave.

This memorial in the Adirondack wilderness honors the accidental death of a Scottish entrepreneur.

This beautiful Brooklyn monument over a crypt memorializes a grim and largely unknown story from the American Revolution.

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

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

The humble fort that saved Washington.