On the exterior of the Bryant Park Place building, there is a commemorative plaque for the former location of The Engineer's Club. Nikola Tesla was a member of this club, and is mentioned in the same line as Thomas Edison, Charles Lindbergh, and H.H. Westinghouse.

It was in the Engineers Club that Tesla had the formal dinner reception preceding the ceremony where he received the Edison Medal on May 18, 1917. It must have been quite ironic for Tesla to be given an award named for a man who had lied to and cheated him...

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On February 26, 1994, the corner of W 40th St and 6th Ave (Avenue of the Americas) in NYC was dedicated as Nikola Tesla Corner. Tesla lived in Manhattan for sixty years, and operated several labs in the area while making his wonderful machines.

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Tesla lived at this location, the former Gerlach Hotel (later renamed The Radio Wave Bulding), and completed a number of his radio experiments here. A commemorative plaque was placed on the exterior in 1977 to honor his work.

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Originally designed in 1899 by Tesla, the Wardenclyffe Laboratory and Tower was constructed at this location in 1901. Funded by a group of wealthy industrialists, the stated purpose of the facility was to provide wireless communication through the 187-foot tower.

Tesla's ulterior motive to was to construct a facility that could transmit wireless electrical energy. According to the story, investor J.P. Morgan (who had contributed $150,000 to the construction of Wardenclyffe) withdrew from the project when he couldn't foresee a way to meter and charge people for energy consumption.

Tesla kept Wardenclyffe afloat for years with a series of manufactures (like the Tesla coil and the Tesla turbine), but failings on the business end of the project led the facility to be foreclosed on in 1915. The tower was blown up with dynamite in 1917 so that German submarines couldn't use it as a landmark.

Today, the remnants of the Wardenclyffe still stand, but are privately owned and near sale.

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In 1899, Tesla moved his research lab from Manhattan to Colorado Springs, Colorado at a location near Foote Ave. and Kiowa St. He was attempting high-frequency, high-voltage experiments, and told reporters that he was sending wireless telegraphs from Pike's Peak to Paris.

Through his experiments, he also deduced that the resonant frequency of the Earth was approximately 8 hertz (Hz), later called Schumann resonance. It was also in Colorado Springs that Tesla claimed to be receiving extraterrestrial radio waves from Venus or Mars.

Tesla left Colorado Springs in January of 1900, and his laboratory was dismantled and sold to pay his debts in 1905.

A fictionalized Colorado Springs-era Tesla (played by David Bowie) appears in the 2006 film, The Prestige.

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