• Castle Clinton National Monument
  More than a dozen forts were built to defend New York Harbor at the time of the War of 1812. The Southwest Battery was constructed on the rocks off the tip of Manhattan Island between 1808 and 1811. Although fully armed and staffed, the fort never had occasion to fire upon an enemy. In 1817, the fort was renamed Castle Clinton in honor of DeWitt Clinton, Mayor of New York City. Located at Battery Park, New York.
  
  
• City Parks Foundation
  City Parks Foundation's Arts in the Parks brings acclaimed children's performers to parks and playgrounds throughout the five boroughs of New York City.
  
  
• Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
  The furnished home of Eleanor Roosevelt ("Val-Kill Cottage"), Rose Garden, Cutting Garden. An introductory film is shown in the Playhouse. The Stone Cottage, also on the grounds, is operated as a conference center by Eleanor Roosevelt's Val-Kill Inc. a not-for-profit organization. Located at Dutchess County in the Hudson River Valley of southeastern New York.
  
  
• Federal Hall National Memorial
  The corner of Wall and Broad Streets was the site of New York City's 18th century City Hall. It was the seat of New York's colonial government and the meeting place of the Stamp Act Congress which assembled in October, 1765, to protest "taxation without representation".
  
  
• Fire Island National Seashore
  Ocean washed beaches, dunes, maritime forests, the Fire Island Light Station and the nearby William Floyd Estate, make this park a blend of recreation, natural and cultural resources. Located only one hour east of New York City, the park is a world apart from the bustling communities surrounding it. The 32-mile-long seashore contains natural features such as the Otis Pike Wilderness Area, the only federal wilderness in New York, and the Sunken Forest, a 300-year-old holly forest.
  
  
• Fort Stanwix National Monument
  Built in 1758 to guard a strategic portage along a major transportation route, Fort Stanwix stands today as an inspiration to the people of the world. Fort Stanwix guarded the centuries old Oneida Carrying Place. This strategic Iroquois Confederacy portage in upstate New York bridged the waterways between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes. Located in downtown Rome, New York.
  
  
• Gateway National Recreation Area
  At the entrance to the New York/New Jersey estuary, two arms of land stretch across the water forming a natural gateway to the nation's greatest port. It is from this "gate" that the Gateway National Recreation Area takes its name. Established on October 27, 1972 as America's first urban national park, Gateway provides recreational opportunities for residents and visitors in the Eastern United States' most densely populated area.
  
  
• General Grant National Memorial
  General Grant National Memorial, popularly known as Grant's Tomb, is the final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant and his wife Julia Dent Grant. Designed by architect John Duncan, the granite and marble tomb was completed in 1897 and is the largest mausoleum in North America. Located at Riverside Drive and 122nd Street in New York City, New York.
  
  
• Hamilton Grange National Memorial
  At the end of the eighteenth century, Hamilton commissioned architect John McComb to design a Federal style house in upper Manhattan. Completed in 1802, The Grange, named after the Hamilton family's ancestral home in Scotland, served as his home for only two years. On July 11, 1804, Hamilton was fatally wounded in a duel with his political rival Aaron Burr. Located at 287 Convent Avenue between West 141st and West 142nd Streets, New York City, New York.
  
  
• Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
  The furnished Home of FDR ("Springwood"), Rose Garden and Gravesite, Ice House, and Stables, maintained and operated by the National Park Service. The FDR Presidential Museum (and Library), maintained and operated by the National Archives and Records Administration. Located at Dutchess County in the Hudson River Valley of southeastern New York.
  
  
• Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
  Martin Van Buren National Historic Site is found in Kinderhook, New York. The Eighth President of the United States, Martin Van Buren purchased the estate in 1839 during his Presidency. Martin Van Buren was born in Kinderhook in 1782, the last year of the American Revolution. He lived until July 1862, sixteen months into the American Civil War. During the seventy-nine years of his life, he was instrumental in the establishment of many of the political practices and party politics which saw the new nation from its inception to its trial by ordeal.
  
  
• New York - Saratoga National Historic Park
  Site of the first significant American military victory during the Revolution, the Battles of Saratoga rank among the fifteen most decisive battles in world history. Here in 1777 American forces met, defeated and forced a major British army to surrender, an event which led France to recognize the independence of the United States and enter the war as a decisive military ally of the struggling Americans. The park now comprises three separate units, the 4 square mile Battlefield in Stillwater, New York, the General Philip Schuyler House eight miles north in Schuylerville and the Saratoga Monument in the nearby village of Victory. The park now comprises three separate units, the 4 square mile Battlefield in Stillwater, New York, the General Philip Schuyler House eight miles north in Schuylerville and the Saratoga Monument in the nearby village of Victory.
  
  
• New York State Parks
  Detailed information about everything New York State has to offer at the best state park system in the nation.
  
  
• Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
  Sagamore Hill was the home of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, from 1886 until his death on January 6, 1919. Used as the "Summer White House" from 1902 to 1908, it was the focus of national attention during his presidency. At other times, it was simply the home of a rather amazing fellow. Located at Long Island, New York.
  
  
• Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site
  In 1665, the families of Dissenters (nonmembers of the Church of England) in the new settlement which came to be known as Eastchester established rules and regulations to govern their community. It was agreed to hire a Congregational minister to preach to them every other week. This agreement marked the beginning of Saint Paul's Church, although it was known only as the Church at Eastchester for the next 130 years. Located in Mount Vernon, New York.
  
  
• Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
  This site was the home of Theodore Roosevelt for the first fourteen years of his life. The building on the site is a 1923 reconstruction of the house in which Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858.Located at 28 East 20th Street between Broadway and Park Avenue South, New York City, New York.
  
  
• Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
  Roosevelt was inaugurated as our 26th president in the Library of the Ansley Wilcox home, in Buffalo, New York. The unusual circumstances surrounding the inauguration resulted in this being the first swearing-in to take place in a city that was not the capital, and had never been the capital, of the United States.
  
  
• Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River
  Authorized on November 10, 1978, as a part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River stretches 73.4 miles (118.3 km) along the New York-Pennsylvania border. The longest free-flowing river in the Northeast, it includes riffles and Class I and II rapids between placid pools and eddies.
  
  
• Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
  The furnished home of Frederick Vanderbilt; Visitor Center with exhibits and bookstore. The grounds feature breathtaking views of the Hudson River and distant Catskill Mountains. Located at Dutchess County in the Hudson River Valley of southeastern New York.
  
  
• Women's Rights National Historical Park
  Located in Seneca Falls, New York, the park commemorates the First Women's Rights Convention and the early leaders of the women's rights movement in the United States. Historic sites included in the park boundaries: 1840's Greek Revival home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organizer and leader of the women's rights movement, the Wesleyan Chapel, site of the First Women's Rights Convention, Declaration Park with a 100 foot waterwall engraved with the Declaration of Sentiments and the names of the signers of Declaration, and the M'Clintock house, home of MaryAnn and Thomas M'Clintock, site where the Declaration was drafted.
  
  

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