Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. Broadway theatre, or a Broadway show, refers to a performance, usually a play or musical, staged in one of the thirty-nine larger professional theatres located in the New York City borough of Manhattan, with 500 seats or more, that often appeal to the mass audience.

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Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street. Built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1890, it is one of the most famous and significant venues for classical as well as popular music in the United States, known not just for its beauty and history but also for its acoustics. Carnegie Hall has its own artistic programming, development, and marketing departments and presents about 100 performances each season; it is also rented out to performing groups.

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Central Park is a large public, urban park in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. With about twenty-five million visitors annually, Central Park is the most visited city park in the United States, and its appearance in many movies and television shows has made it among the most famous city parks in the world. Central Park is bordered on the north by West 110th Street, on the west by Central Park West, on the south by West 59th Street, and on the east by Fifth Avenue. While much of the park looks natural, it is in fact almost entirely landscaped and contains several artificial lakes, extensive walking tracks, two ice-skating rinks, a wildlife sanctuary, and grassy areas used for various sporting pursuits, as well as playgrounds for children. Although often regarded as a kind of oasis of tranquility inside a "city that never sleeps," Central Park was once a very dangerous place — especially after dark — as measured by crime statistics. The park, like most of New York City, is quite safer today, though during prior periods it was the site of numerous muggings and rapes.

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The Chrysler Building is a skyscraper and distinctive symbol of New York City, standing 1,046 feet (319 m) high on the east side of Manhattan at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Originally built for the Chrysler Corporation, the building is presently co-owned by TMW Real Estate and Tishman Speyer Properties. The Chrysler Building was the first structure in the world to surpass the 1,000 foot (305 m) threshold. It was overtaken by the Empire State Building as the tallest building in the world in 1931, and is now the second tallest tower in New York City.

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Clinton, also known as Midtown West and Hell’s Kitchen, is a neighborhood of Manhattan that includes roughly the area between 34th Street and 57th Street, from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River. The neighborhood provides transportation, hospital and warehouse infrastructure support to the Midtown Manhattan business district. Its gritty reputation had, until the early 1990s, depressed real estate prices relative to much of the rest of Manhattan. Throughout its history, Hell's Kitchen has figured prominently in the New York City underworld, especially in Irish-American organized crime circles. Once a bastion of poor and working-class Irish-Americans, over the last three decades of the 20th century and into the new century, Hell's Kitchen has undergone tremendous gentrification due to its proximity to Midtown. However, this has been a long and steady process; indeed, even as long ago as the 1960s, the 1969 edition of the Plan for New York City book authored by the City Planning Commission stated that peoples of modest means were being driven from the area by development pressures due to the Midtown location. Today, a great number of actors have resided in the neighborhood thanks to its proximity to the Broadway theaters and the Actors Studio training school.

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District X is a neighborhood in New York which came from Manhattan's rise of the mutant population, coupled with racism among normal humans, which lead to mutants forming their own community. Although humans lived in this neighborhood as well, they were in a minority. However, the neighborhood was quite poor, with a prominent crime rate and warring mutant gangs. Most of the residents regarded it as a ghetto. During the events of the House of M, it was transformed into a rich, exclusively mutant neighborhood named Mutopia X. When the world was reverted back to normal, however, the residents suffered the 'Decimation', and most of them were stripped of their mutant abilities. The remaining mutants mostly moved to a relocation camp on the grounds of the Xavier Institute. Now the former ghetto is the base of operations for X-Factor Investigations.

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The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. It stood as the world's tallest building for more than forty years, from its completion in 1931 until the construction of the World Trade Center North Tower in 1972. The Empire State Building has been named by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The building and its street floor interior are designated landmarks of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and confirmed by the New York City Board of Estimate. With the World Trade Center destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, it is currently the tallest building in New York City and the second-tallest building in the United States, after the Sears Tower in Chicago.

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ESU resides as the most dominant, and popular, university in New York. It has a very distinct and vast history of famous alumni, including the Fantastic Four. Always accepting applications, it’s arguably the finest university in the whole tri-state area.

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Federal Hall, once located at 26 Wall Street in New York City, was the first capitol of the United States. The building was demolished in the 19th century and replaced by the current structure, the first United States Customs House. The building is now operated by the National Park Service as the Federal Hall National Memorial, a museum that commemorates the earlier structure. The current building is well-known for the bronze statue of George Washington on its front steps, marking the site where he was inaugurated as US President in the former structure.

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The headquarters of the worldwide international spice industry’s financial dealings and executive decisions relating to the company’s domestic and oversea operations and distributions. Fisk Towers was founded by the corporation’s founder and former C.E.O., Wilson Fisk. The enterprise currently has no stance on the allegations on Wilson Fisk’s recent incarceration and claims to organized crime.

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The most prestigious law firm on the American east coast, Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzburg & Holliway (GLKH) is also increasingly renowned for its pioneering superhuman law division. This division is the brainchild of senior partner Holden Holliway, who grew interested in the field after his teenage granddaughter Sasha Martin became the super-criminal Southpaw. The firm itself is headquartered in Timely Plaza, which is equipped with high-tech defenses such as force fields, as well as special devices designed to facilitate interaction with their non-human clients; for instance, rooms custom-designed to simulate various exotic environments. The superhuman law division’s clientele includes a wide range of superhuman, supernatural, extraterrestrial and otherwise non-human beings, as well as various human costumed adventurers and criminals. The firm suffered more serious losses when supervillain Titania attacked GLKH, destroying Timely Plaza before heroine She-Hulk defeated her. Holliway has left under personal leave, appointing the mysterious, coldly efficient Mister Zix to run the superhuman law division at a rebuilt Timely Plaza in his absence. GLKH has now been more recently representing super-criminals along with superheroes, an increasingly lucrative niche since the Constrictor case.

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Grand Central Terminal, often unofficially called Grand Central Station, is a terminal rail station at 15 Vanderbilt Avenue, 42nd Street and Park Avenue, in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Built by the New York Central Railroad, for which it was named, in the heyday of American long-distance passenger trains, it is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms: 44, with 67 tracks along them. They are on two underground levels, with 41 tracks on the upper level and 26 on the lower. It serves commuters traveling on the Metro-North Railroad to Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess counties in New York State, and Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut.

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Located on 42nd Street, Holy Ghost Church is Midtown West’s local residence of public worship and religious service. Originally the building began construction in 1888, Holy Ghost Church opened not to long afterwards—despite a small collapse—and has been a safe sanctuary for all of Manhattan’s local residence since from all walks of life.

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a 16.3 acre complex of buildings in New York City which serves as home for 12 arts organizations: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Juilliard School, Lincoln Center Theater, Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, New York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, School of American Ballet, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. It was built during Robert Moses' program of urban renewal in the 1960s, by a consortium led by, and under the initiative of, John D. Rockefeller 3rd. It was the first gathering of major cultural institutions into a centralized location in a United States city, and is located between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues and between West 62nd and 66th Streets on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from Madison Square, at 23rd Street, to the Madison Avenue Bridge at 138th Street. In doing so, it passes through Midtown, the Upper East Side, including Carnegie Hill, Spanish Harlem, and Harlem. It is named for and arises from Madison Square, which is itself named for James Madison, the fourth President of the United States. Between 57th Street and 85th Street, Madison Avenue is identified as “the fashionable road”. In this area is where most of the very well known fashion designers and upper class hair salons are located.

Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, known colloquially simply as The Garden, has been the name of four arenas in New York City. The current Garden, opened February 14, 1968, is at 7th Avenue between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station. The present arena is informally known to some by the advertising slogan "The World's Most Famous Arena". The arena lends its name to the Madison Square Garden Network, a cable television network that broadcasts most sporting events that are held in the Garden, as well as concerts and entertainment events that have taken place at the venue.

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Clinton’s own local practice, Harvard Law School graduates former district attorney Franklin P. Nelson and senior partner Matthew M. Murdock run a successful law firm. Studying even at New York’s very own Columbia Law School together, Nelson & Murdock have served their community through several troubling events—including the temporary bankruptcy, brief disbarment, and a short-lived partnership with famous and controversial Boston attorney Rosalind “Razor” Sharpe. Nelson & Murdock, although assisting with many pro bono cases, have had several famous clients such as the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and Prince Namor of Atlantis. Nelson & Murdock currently has no comments concerning Mr. Murdock’s current imprisonment and allegations as the masked vigilante, Daredevil.

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New York City Hall is the seat of the government of New York City. The building houses the office of the Mayor of New York City and the chambers of the New York City Council. The building is the oldest City Hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, New York City Hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its rotunda is a designated interior New York City landmark. City Hall is located within the small City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan between Broadway and Park Row.

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The New York City Police Department is the largest police department in the United States, the largest municipal police force in the world, and has the primary responsibility for law enforcement and investigation within the five boroughs of New York City. When created in 1845, it was modeled after London's Metropolitan Police. The NYPD is considered to be the first "modern" style police department in the United States. According to the department, its mission is to "enforce the laws, preserve the peace, reduce fear, and provide for a safe environment." Primarily, this involves preventing and responding to crime. NYPD members are frequently referred to by the nickname New York's Finest. The NYPD is headquartered at One Police Plaza, located on Park Row across the street from City Hall.

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A prominent university hospital in New York City, it is composed of two medical centers, Columbia University Medical Center and the Cornell University Weill Medical Center. New York-Presbyterian Hospital was formed in 1998 with the merger of two large, previously independent hospitals, the New York Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital. NYPH is now the largest private employer in New York City. The two medical schools remain essentially autonomous, though there is increasing cooperation and coordination of clinical, research, and residency training programs. The hospitals, themselves, have merged administrations, with Herb Pardes, M.D., having led the hospital system since the merger. New York-Presbyterian Hospital is one of the most comprehensive university hospitals in the world, with leading specialists in every field of medicine.

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Entrepreneur Wendell Rand and co-founder Harold Meachum established Rand-Meachum Incorporated as foundation for their research and investment enterprise. Since its initial launch, Rand-Meachum Inc—also known as the Rand Corporation—has been a successful multi-million dollar conglomerate ever since. Despite Wendell Rand’s untimely passing and Harold Meachum’s death later on, Rand-Meachum continues to generate financial opportunities and advancements internationally. Though the initial position of C.E.O. for Rand-Meachum defaulted to Harold Meachum’s daughter, Joy Meachum, Wendell Rand’s son, Daniel Rand, inherited the business’s corporate title—while employing Jeryn Hogarth as the company’s attorney and financial advisor over day-to-day operations.

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The office building and household residence of Doctor Leonard Samson. Built solely to help accommodate and further is psychiatric practice, the Samson Building was also designed to fit Doc Samson’s other necessities, such as a highly technologically advanced weight room, personal study, trophy room, and a parking garage dedicated to his modified High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle. Be it through an appointment or not, Doctor Samson is always eager and willing to provide help—whenever, to whomever.

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When occupied, the mansion was originally the Stark family manor. He donated the mansion to the Avengers and had it financed through the charitable Maria Stark Foundation. It served as a place to plan and strategize and a home for Avengers members when they needed it. Sadly, after several onslaughts, it was the Scarlet Witch was responsible for its final destruction. Stark decided that with his dwindling assets, he could no longer afford to maintain the building and it was abandoned in its derelict state, left as a memorial to the Avengers who had died. The Avengers have relocated to Stark Tower, although it is unknown how permanent this move will be. It is located at 890 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City.

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The Bank of New York, sometimes BNY, is a global financial services company operating in four primary business areas: securities servicing, treasury management, investment management, and private banking. The Bank of New York was founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1784, making it the oldest bank in the United States. He wrote the new bank's constitution and became the individual most actively involved in the organization of The Bank of New York, guiding it through its early stages. The bank opened for business at the Walton House in Lower Manhattan on June 9, 1784, only a few months after the departure of British troops from American soil. Though it is not the only Bank in the expanse of New York City, it is the most popular.

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The “Bar With No Name” is an illegal floating haven and retreat that caters to the criminals and fugitives within the supervillain community. Residing in not just one location, but several regions throughout the country, the hideout tends to relocate from area to area to evade detection from the local authorities. It has been, from time to time, exposed to attack by superheroes but generally remains a refuge for supervillains on the run or a tavern for supervillains looking for social comfort.

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The Bugle was founded in 1897 and has been published daily ever since. Tabloid in format like its rival The Daily Planet, the Bugle appears in several editions daily. The publisher of the Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson, began his journalistic career as a reporter for the Bugle while still in high school. Jameson purchased the then-floundering Bugle with inheritance funds and turned the paper into a popular success. Other magazines published from time-to-time include the revived Now Magazine and the now-defunct Woman Magazine. J. Jonah Jameson, Inc. purchased the Goodman Building on 39th Street and Second Avenue in 1968 and moved its entire editorial and publishing facilities there. Now called the Daily Bugle Building, the office complex is forty-six stories tall, and is capped by the Daily Bugle logo in 30-foot letters on the roof. There are loading docks in the rear of the building, reached by a back alley. Three floors are devoted to the editorial office of the Bugle and two sub-basement levels to the printing presses, while the rest of the floors are rented.

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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is the most important of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks of the United States. It is located in New York City, with a secondary office in Buffalo, New York. It is responsible for the Second District of the Federal Reserve System, which encompasses New York state, the 12 northern counties of New Jersey, Fairfield County in Connecticut, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York maintains an underground vault in Manhattan. Reputedly it is the largest gold repository in the world, though this cannot be confirmed as Swiss Banks do not report their gold stocks. In The US The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's stocks are larger even than Fort Knox, it is 80 feet beneath the street and holds approx 5,000 tons of gold bullion; $90 billion worth at 2007 prices. The gold is owned by many foreign nations, central banks and official international organizations. The Federal Reserve Bank does not own the gold but serves as guardian of the precious metal, which it "protects" at no charge as a gesture of good will to other nations. Free tours of the vault are available to the public.

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The public operations of Nightwing Restorations Bail Bondsman services and incorporated. Located in Manhattan’s Chinatown district, Nightwing Restorations’ primary clients include mid-level superhumans or those that associate with superhumans—pledging bail for most criminal defendants where most would not. And with tough clientele comes even tougher bondsman, as Nightwing Restorations employs the Daughters of the Dragon themselves, Mercedes Knight and Colleen Wing.

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A high class strip club, once the famous New York Hellfire Club Mansion, where everyone is welcome without membership. Even mutants. The Hellfire Club worldwide community counts among its members the wealthy, the powerful, and the celebrated from virtually all over the planet. Membership is by invitation only, but such invitations are rarely turned down, for membership in the Hellfire Club is universally regarded as the ultimate status symbol. The Hellfire Club is a thoroughly respectable upper class social organization principally devoted to giving spectacular parties. It is also generally known that these parties serve as a means for members of the social, economic, and political elite to meet unofficially to discuss matters of mutual interest, and to strike political or business deals. But this New York branch of the Hellfire Club, though different from its older days, can still provide exotic entertainment to anyone.

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The New York Public Library (NYPL) is one of the leading public libraries of the world and is one of America's most significant research libraries. It is unusual in that it is composed of a very large circulating public library system combined with a very large non-lending research library system. It is simultaneously one of the largest public library systems in the United States and one of the largest research library systems. It is a privately managed, nonprofit corporation with a public mission, operating with both private and public financing. Its flagship building, on Fifth Ave. running from 40th to 42nd Street in Manhattan, is a National Historic Landmark.

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The Plaza Hotel in New York City is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South in Manhattan. The Plaza was accorded landmark status by New York City's Landmark Commission in 1969 and is, with the Waldorf-Astoria, the only New York City hotel to be designated as a National Historic Landmark. To this day the Plaza is still cherished by many.

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The three-story townhouse residence of Doctor Strange. Built upon the site of pagan sacrifices and Native American rituals, it serves as a focal point for supernatural energies. Among the building’s many oddities is that there seems to be more space inside than there would seem to be from outside. Some corridors form labyrinths, and the arrangement of rooms seems to change by itself. After constructing the house, Doctor Strange cast a permanent, intricate spell of mystical force to protect it. It is located at 1771 Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village.

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Liberty Enlightening the World, known more commonly as the Statue of Liberty, is a colossal statue given to the United States by the Paris based Union Franco-Américaine in 1886, standing at Liberty Island, in the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor as a welcome to all visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans. The copper statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the United States and is a gesture of friendship between the two nations. The statue is 151 feet and one inch tall, with the foundation adding another 154 feet. The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable icons of the U.S. worldwide, and, in a more general sense, represents liberty and escape from oppression. The Statue of Liberty was, from 1886 until the jet age, often one of the first glimpses of the United States for millions of immigrants after ocean voyages from Europe.

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The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel has been housed in two historic landmark buildings of New York City. The present building at 301 Park Avenue in Manhattan is a 47-story, 625 foot Art Deco landmark designed by architects Schultze and Weaver that dates from 1931 and is now part of The Waldorf-Astoria Collection. The modern hotel has three American and classic European restaurants, and a beauty parlor located off the main lobby. Several luxurious boutiques surround the distinctive lobby, which has won awards for its restoration to the original period character. An even more luxurious, virtual "hotel within a hotel" in its upper section is known as The Waldorf Towers operated by Conrad Hotels & Resorts.

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Times Square is the name given to a principal intersection at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Like Red Square in Moscow, Champs-Elysées in Paris, Trafalgar Square in London, or Tiananmen Square in Beijing, Times Square has achieved the status of an iconic world landmark and has become a symbol of its home city. Times Square is principally defined by its lighted and animated advertisements.

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Trinity Church, at 74 Trinity Place in New York City, is a historic full service parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Trinity Church is located at the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street in downtown Manhattan.

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Union Square, also known as Union Square Park, is an important and historic intersection in New York City, located where Broadway and the Bowery came together in the early 19th century. Today it is bounded by 14th Street, Union Square East, 17th Street, and Union Square West. Important thoroughfares which lead away from the park are Broadway, leading both north and south; Fourth Avenue, leading southeast to the Bowery; and Park Avenue South, leading north to Grand Central Terminal. Union Square lies over 14th Street–Union Square, a New York City Subway complex. Union Square is noted for its impressive equestrian statue of George Washington.

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The United Nations Headquarters is a distinctive complex in New York City that has served as the headquarters of the United Nations since its completion in 1950. It is located in the Turtle Bay neighborhood, on the east side of Midtown Manhattan, on spacious grounds overlooking the East River. Though it is in New York City, the land occupied by the United Nations Headquarters is considered "international territory", and its borders are First Avenue west, East 42nd Street south, East 48th Street north and the East River east.[1] FDR Drive passes underneath the Conference Building of the complex. The United Nations Headquarters were constructed in New York City in 1949 and 1950 beside the East River, on seventeen acres of land purchased from the foremost New York real estate developer of the time, William Zeckendorf. This purchase was arranged by Nelson Rockefeller, after an initial offer of placing it on the Rockefeller family estate of Kykuit was rejected as being too isolated from Manhattan. The $8.5million purchase was then funded by his father, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who donated it to the City. The lead architect for the building was the real estate firm of Wallace Harrison, the personal architectural adviser for the family.

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Wall Street is a narrow street in lower Manhattan in New York City, running east from Broadway downhill to the East River. Considered to be the historical heart of the Financial District, it was the first permanent home of the New York Stock Exchange. The phrase "Wall Street" is also used as a metonym to refer to American financial markets and financial institutions as a whole. Most New York financial firms are no longer headquartered on Wall Street, but elsewhere in lower or midtown Manhattan, the outer boroughs of the city, Long Island, Westchester County, Fairfield County, Connecticut, or New Jersey.

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