There are so many buildings, bridges, and places to love in this city. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel discusses the definitive resource on the architectural history of New York City, The Landmarks of New York: An Illustrated Record of the City's Historic Buildings, Fifth Edition, which documents and illustrates the 1,276 individual landmarks and 102 historic districts that have been given landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission—from colonial farmhouses to Gilded Age mansions to schools and libraries to the city’s soaring skyscrapers.

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