We use a rainy day to travel on the subway line 7 on surface in Queens and visit a museum.
The American Museum of Natural History - is located in Manhattan at 79 Street and Central Park West.
It is one of the most famous museums of natural history in the world. It was founded in 1869 and covers an area of 81 thousand m². Its collection comprises 32 million exhibits which include species of organisms and artifacts, two modern molecular laboratories and one of the largest in the Western Hemisphere libraries of natural history. Museum has an important educational function. It is visited annually by nearly 5 million visitors including many teachers with students and ordinary citizens and tourists from around the world.
Despite the impressive size and the extremely important role of the museum, it did not come to our liking, because those poor animals had to be killed first, so that you couln watch them stuffed and placed in the display cases.
We would prefer, of two evils, watch those exhibits live in the zoo!
The Dakota building located on the northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The building is known as the home of former Beatle John Lennon from 1973 to 1980 as well as the location of his murder. The Dakota is considered to be one of Manhattan's most prestigious and exclusive residential buildings, with apartments generally selling for between $4 million and $30 million.
Probably it was called 'Dakota' because it was so far west and so far north" and the owner was fond of the names of the new western states and territories. High above the 72nd Street entrance, the figure of a Dakota Indian keeps watch.
