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Nothing here is calculated. Every tile opens the citywide address search, which reads zoning and land use from PLUTO and districts from Geoclient. Each address was run through that search one at a time and the card’s own answer recorded.
Museums are not zoned as museums. There is no cultural zoning district. The Guggenheim, the Frick and the Cooper Hewitt all sit in R10, the same residential district as the apartment buildings around them. The Museum at FIT is C6-2, ordinary Midtown commercial.
Six sit on joint interest land. The Metropolitan Museum is in Central Park, the Brooklyn Museum and Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park, the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows, Bartow-Pell in Pelham Bay. Those are areas no single community board covers, so the card names the joint interest area instead of a board.
Six addresses were corrected. The culture file lists some museums by intersection or place name, which a geocoder cannot resolve. Where a street address was found, it was accepted only if it geocoded within 250 metres of the museum’s known location. That check matters: a plausible-looking address for one museum resolved two kilometres from the building and was rejected.
Manhattan 85
Eighty-five of the city’s museums sit in Manhattan, most of them on the Upper East Side and in Midtown, where the zoning is residential R10 or commercial C5 and C6 rather than anything cultural.
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Folk Art Museum
American Jewish Historical Society
American Museum of Natural History
American Numismatic Society
American Sephardi Federation / Sephardic House
Americas Society
Anne Frank Center USA
Asia Society
Audubon Terrace
Center For Jewish History
Children's Museum of Manhattan
Children's Museum of the Arts
Cloisters
Cooper Hewitt
Dahesh Museum
Dia Art Foundation
Dia at the Hispanic Society
Drawing Center
Dyckman Farmhouse
East Village History Project
El Museo del Barrio
Fraunces Tavern Museum
Frick Collection
Goethe-Institut New York
Hispanic Society of America Museum
International Center of Photography
Italian American Museum
Jackie Robinson Museum
Jewish Museum
John J. Harvey Fireboat
Lee Young Hee Museum of Korean Culture
Leo Baeck Institute
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
Merchant's House Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mexican Cultural Institute of New York
Morgan Library and Museum
Morris-Jumel Mansion
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden
Municipal Art Society
Museum Of Chinese In America
Museum of American Finance
Museum of American Illustration
Museum of Arts & Design (MAD)
Museum of Biblical Art
Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA)
Museum of Jewish Heritage
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of the City of New York
National Academy Museum
National Museum of the American Indian
National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center
Neue Galerie
New Museum
New York City Fire Museum
New York City Police Museum
New York Tolerance Center
New-York Historical
Nicholas Roerich Museum
Paley Center For Media (formerly Museum Of Television & Radio)
Rose Center for Earth and Space (Hayden Planetarium)
Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall
Rubin Museum of Art
Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
School of Visual Arts Museum
Skyscraper Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Sony Wonder Technology Lab
South Street Seaport Museum
Studio Museum in Harlem
Tenement Museum
The Freakatorium, El Museo Loco
The Jazz Museum in Harlem
The Museum at FIT
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
Ukrainian Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Yeshiva University Museum
Brooklyn 12
Twelve museums, including two in Brooklyn Community Board 6 and two inside Prospect Park, which is joint interest land no single board covers.
Brooklyn Children's Museum
Brooklyn Museum
Center for Brooklyn History
Coney Island Museum
Harbor Defense Museum of Fort Hamilton
Hudson Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge
Lefferts Historic House
Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA)
New York Transit Museum
Old Stone House
The Jewish Children's Museum
Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum
Queens 12
Twelve museums, several of them on former World’s Fair ground in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
Bowne House
King Manor Museum
Kingsland Homestead
LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
MoMA PS1
Museum for African Art
Museum of the Moving Image
New York Hall of Science
Noguchi Museum
Queens Art Museum - Bulova Corporate Center
Queens County Farm Museum
Queens Museum
Bronx 7
Seven museums, from a Riverdale estate zoned for single-family houses to a mansion inside Pelham Bay Park.
Bartow-Pell Mansion
Bronx Historical Society & Musem
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Holocaust Museum & Studies Center
Valentine-Varian House
Van Cortlandt House Museum
Wave Hill
Staten Island 8
Eight museums, several on former estate and farm land, zoned for detached houses.
Alice Austen House Museum
Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
Jacques Marchais Center Museum of Tibetan Art
Noble Maritime Collection
Sandy Ground Historical Society
Seguine Mansion
Staten Island Children's Museum
Staten Island Museum
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Every card is generated live by the citywide address search: zoning and land use from PLUTO, districts from Geoclient. Museum locations from the bkcb6.app culture dataset; each address verified against the card.