Dolan DNA Learning Center, New York City

Name: Dolan DNA Learning Center
Address: New York City, United States

#1925 among attractions in New York City

Museum, Science museum

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The DNA Learning Center is a genetics learning center affiliated with the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. It is the world's first science center devoted entirely to genetics education and offers online education, class field trips, student summer day camps, and teacher training. The DNALC's family of internet sites cover broad topics including basic heredity, genetic disorders, eugenics, the discovery of the structure of DNA, DNA sequencing, cancer, neuroscience, and plant genetics. ()

Coordinates: 40°45'54"N, 73°57'36"W

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Upper Manhattan (Upper East Side)New York City United States

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Dolan DNA Learning Center – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Roosevelt Island Tramway, Society of Illustrators, Jan Hus Church, Asia Society.

0.4 miS
Aerial tramway
Roosevelt Island Tramway, New York City
11 min walk • The Roosevelt Island Tramway is an aerial tramway in New York City that spans the East River and connects Roosevelt Island to the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The tramway is the first commuter aerial tramway in North America, having opened in 1976. Since then, over 26 million passengers have ridden the tram.
~1860 ftW
Museum
Society of Illustrators, New York City
9 min walk • The Society of Illustrators is a professional society based in New York City. It was founded in 1901 to promote the art of illustration and, since 1959, has held an annual exhibition.
0.4 miNE
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Jan Hus Church, New York City
11 min walk • Jan Hus Presbyterian Church is a Christian congregation associated with the Presbyterian Church USA. It is the oldest Czech Presbyterian congregation in the US, having been founded in 1877, and the church building was opened in 1888.
0.4 miNW
Museum, Art museum, History museum
Asia Society, New York City
11 min walk • The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States and around the world.
0.5 miSW
Skyscraper
731 Lexington Avenue, New York City
12 min walk • 731 Lexington Avenue is a 1,345,489 sq ft mixed-use glass skyscraper on Lexington Avenue, on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
~610 ftSE
Church, Romanesque revival architecture
Church of St. John Nepomucene, New York City
3 min walk • The Church of St. John Nepomucene is a Roman Catholic parish located on East 66th Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. The founders of the church were recent immigrants from Slovakia, who began meeting in St. Brigid's Parish at 8th Street and Avenue B in about 1891 and established the Society of St.
~1200 ftSW
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Church of Our Lady of Peace, New York City
6 min walk • The Church of Our Lady of Peace is a historic Roman Catholic parish church of the Archdiocese of New York, located at 239-241 East 62nd Street between Second and Third Avenues in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
~1640 ftS
Museum, History museum, Historical place
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum, New York City
8 min walk • The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, formerly the Abigail Adams Smith Museum, is a historic antebellum residential building at 421 East 61st Street, near the East River, in New York City. It is open to the public as a museum.
0.5 miNW
Street
66th Street, New York City
12 min walk • 66th Street is a crosstown street in the New York City borough of Manhattan with portions on the Upper East Side and Upper West Side connected across Central Park via the 66th Street transverse. West 66th Street is notable for hosting the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts between Broadway and Columbus Avenue.
0.4 miNW
Museum, Art gallery
Americas Society, New York City
11 min walk • The Americas Society is an organization dedicated to education, debate, and dialogue on the Americas. It is located at 680 Park Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and was established by David Rockefeller in 1965.
~1680 ftNW
Museum, Art gallery
Park Avenue Armory, New York City
9 min walk • The Park Avenue Armory Conservancy, generally known as Park Avenue Armory, is a nonprofit cultural institution within the historic Seventh Regiment Armory building located at 643 Park Avenue on New York City's Upper East Side.

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Which popular attractions are close to Dolan DNA Learning Center?

Nearby attractions include Zen Studies Society, New York City (3 min walk), New York Zendo Shobo-Ji, New York City (3 min walk), Lenox Hill, New York City (3 min walk), First Hungarian Reformed Church of New York, New York City (3 min walk).

How to get to Dolan DNA Learning Center by public transport?

The nearest stations to Dolan DNA Learning Center:

Bus

2 Av/E 68 St • Lines: M15, M15-Sbs (2 min walk)
2 Av/E 66 St • Lines: M15 (2 min walk)

Metro

72nd Street • Lines: Q (7 min walk)
68th Street–Hunter College • Lines: <6>, 4, 6 (8 min walk)

Train

Grand Central Terminal (32 min walk)