IrishCentral's top 20 secret Irish landmarks in New York - PHOTOS

Fun story! I would like to correct the founding date for Fordham University. It's 1841 not 1851. Archbishop Hughes opened the doors in 1841 and the Jesuits took over in 1847. Thanks!

Thank you all for looking at this. If I'd known the editor was so liberal, I'd have included: Grant's Tomb “Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1871.— Honorary member. General Grant's life is so well known to every American that it would be superfluous to give a sketch of it here, but it might be of interest to state that his mother, Hannah Simpson, was a native of Ireland, and the daughter of Matthew Simpson, a respectable farmer of Golan, Parish of Ardstraw, County Tyrone, Ireland, who emigrated with his young family to America, and settled on a farm in Bucks co., Pa. One of the sons of Matthew Simpson, and brother of General Grant's mother, was the father of the late Bishop Simpson. President Grant attended the Anniversary Dinner of the Society on March 17, 1871, and was elected an honorary member at the June meeting, 1871.” -- History Friendly Sons of St. Patrick Grand Army Plaza, Manhattan W.T. Sherman Statue Sherman lived at 71st for many years. He was raised by and married into an Irish family that helped found Notre Dame. The Long Island Railroad Surveyed by George Gordon Meade, Union army commander at Gettysburg, child of an old Irish family that bankrolled Washington at Valley Forge. Meade's reputation suffered because of his ethnic roots and father's religion, and because some like Sickles promoted their own reputations.

How did Gettysburg, Pennsylvania get into this story?

i met farley at child's where he'd come of a sunday for breakfast - next door was the waldorf astoria whose doorman would tell of farley's facility with names - recalling names of those whom he'd meet and the names of their family members. Awesome human.

Saying the empire state building is an irish landmark is a little stretch

After serving a stint in the then Diocese of Boston, Bishop James Healey was appointed bishop of Portland, Maine. Bishop Healey not only was the first African-American bishop, he also was the first Roman Catholic bishop of Maine, which previously had been under Boston's jursisdiction.