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Secrets New York City
 This guide draws on the knowledge and familiarity of its resident author, naturally a New York expert.
Highlights include the quintessential Village bookstore, vintage saloons, a cinematic tour of Brooklyn, a celebrity deli, and a Hasidic dairy
bar above the city’s most famous diamond exchange. Also revealed are New York’s best-kept secrets, from a dockside fish restaurant where the
famous rub elbows with fishermen, to the American Museum of Natural History as seen through the eyes of Holden Caulfield. Contributions from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
Michael Cunningham, neurologist Oliver Sacks, journalist Anna Quindlen, folksinger Pete Seeger, and dozens of other luminaries are also included.
Beautiful comprehensive maps keyed to entries, a subtle "nonguidebook" look, and two ribbon markers make this a unique traveler's companion.
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that range from luxury hotels to budget hotels. New York Cityis an incredible city, from it's famous Statue of Liberty to it's gritty style.Full
of galleries, hotels, museums, restaurants, wander throughCentral Park & at night partyin it's nightclubs. If you can figure out the subway
system, travel around New York City & visit it’s shops, zoo or catch a cab.It is impossible not to enjoy absorbing the unique New York atmosphere
in the self proclaimed Capital of the World. New York City is a city like no other, with a unique atmosphere & busy yet friendly feel.
 New York is a city is known for itsskyline, its world-class museums
and performing-arts companies, as well as its status as the capital of finance, fashion, art, publishing, broadcasting, theater, and advertising.
Visit the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, the United Nations, Broadway or shop 'till you drop at Macy's, Bloomingdale's and the thousands
of stores in this magnificent metropolis.
 
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Manhattan
in the Midst
New York Convention
and Visitors Bureau
810 Seventh Avenue, between 52nd and 53rd Streets
Tel: (212) 484 1222. Fax: (212) 246 6310.
Website: www.nycvisit.com
Opening hours: 0830-1800 Mon-Fri, 0900-1700 Sat and Sun.
Passes
City Pass (tel: (707) 256 0490; website: www.citypass.net/ny ) offers a combined ticket
to selected New York attractions – the Met, the MoMA, American Museum of Natural History, Intrepid Sea-Air-Space
Museum and the Empire State Building Observatory.
The Statue of Liberty
The ultimate symbol of the American Dream, Lady Liberty – who stands majestically over New York Harbour – is probably the
most famous landmark in America. The Statue was donated to the United States by the people of France, in 1886, to commemorate the alliance
of the two countries during the American Revolution. It was the first sight of the New World to be seen by the 12 million immigrants who passed
through Ellis Island. Visitors can climb the statue or take the lift and the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, located at the base of
the statue documents the history of the immigration station that operated from 1892 to 1954.
New York Harbour
Tel: (212) 363 3200.
Transport: Circle Line Statue of Liberty Ferry (tel: (212) 269 5755) from South Ferry at Battery Park to Liberty and Ellis islands (costing
US$8). The free 24-hour Staten Island Ferry (tel: (718) 815 2628) from Battery Park.
Opening hours: Daily 0930-1700.
Admission: Free.
Brooklyn Bridge
Dubbed the eighth wonder of the world, when it was completed in 1883, Brooklyn Bridge remains a masterful feat of engineering.
The world’s first steel wire suspension bridge links Manhattan to Brooklyn, over the East River. The mile-long wooden promenade offers
stunning views of the city.
Park Row
Transport: Subway 4, 5 or 6 to Brooklyn Bridge or City Hall.
Opening hours: Daily 24 hours.
Admission: Free.
Empire State Building
Immortalised in celluloid by Hollywood – from King Kong and Fay Wray to Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan – this stunning skyscraper
is now once again the city’s tallest building. Completed in 1931, the 102-storey Empire State Building is a wonderful example
of period architecture and the observatories on the 86th and 102nd floors offer magical and spectacular views of the city.
Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
Tel: (212) 736 3100. Fax: (212) 947 1360.
Website: www.esbnyc.com
Transport: Subway B, D or F to 34th Street.
Opening hours: Daily 0930-2400.
Admission: US$9.
Rockefeller Center
Built in 1932-40, the Rockefeller Center is a masterpiece of urban design. The best approach is from the Channel Gardens
, opposite Saks on Fifth Avenue – a popular lunchtime haunt flanked with shops and services – to arrive at the focal point of
the complex, the sunken plaza, used as an ice rink in winter and an open-air restaurant in summer. Behind this, the sumptuous GE building
dominates the scene with its Art Deco ambience inside and out. The Rockefeller Center is home to NBC, Radio City Music Hall and Christie's
Auction House. NBC tours, lasting one and a half hours, are available and points of interest include the Today Show studio, the skating rink,
the Prometheus and Atlas statues and the Channel Gardens.
Fifth Avenue, 47th to 52nd Streets
Tel: (212) 332 6868 or (212) 664 7174, to reserve a tour.
Website: www.rockefellercenter.com
Transport: Subway B, D, F, N, Q, R, 1 and 9 to Rockefeller Center.
Opening hours: Mon-Sun 0930-1630 (tours run every half an hour) Admission: Adults US$10.00.
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) houses the most important modern art collection in the USA, covering a variety of media
from the late 19th and 20th centuries, with impressive touring exhibitions. The museum is currently is the midst of a massive regeneration
project that will add much needed extra exhibition space by 2005, however, is limiting what can be displayed in the meantime.
11 West 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Street
Tel: (212) 708 9400.
Website: www.moma.org
Transport: Subway E or F to Fifth Avenue or 53rd Street.
Opening hours: Sat-Tues and Thurs 1030-1745, Fri 1030-2030.
Admission: US$12.
Soloman R Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim Museum – a seven-storey conical building designed by US master architect Frank Lloyd Wright – is worth
visiting if only for the building alone. Inside, it features an acclaimed collection of late 19th- and 20th-century art works, as well as touring
exhibitions. There is also another Guggenheim in Soho.
1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street
Tel: (212) 423 3500.
Website: www.guggenheim.org
Transport: Subway 4, 5 or 6 to 86th Street.
Opening hours: Sun-Wed 0900-1800, Fri and Sat 0900-2000.
Admission: US$15, concessions available.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Home to more than two million works of art spanning five millennia, ‘the Met ’ is a cherished New York institution. It
is the largest art museum in the western hemisphere and its collections are outstanding.
1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street
Tel: (212) 535 7710.
Website: www.metmuseum.org
Transport: Subway 4, 5 or 6 to 86th Street.
Opening hours: Tues-Sun 0930-1715, Fri and Sat 0930-2045.
Admission: US$10 is suggested.
 Central Park
New York’s famous playground, Central Park, in the centre of Manhattan, is a magnificent garden and a sanctuary from the city.
Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it opened in 1876 and now offers numerous recreational and cultural outlets. The Belvedere
Castle – a stone castle built on Vista Rock in the middle of the park – offers excellent views from its lookout, while the Shakespeare
Garden, located behind the castle, contains flowers and herbs mentioned in the Bard’s plays. The Central Park Conservancy Tour
offers various free walking tours of the park. The park also has a theatre and sports facilities, including tennis courts, ice rinks and lakes,
in addition to the celebrated Central Park Zoo/Wildlife Conservation Center. Considered to be one of the world’s most appealing
small zoos, it features a 2.2-hectare (5.5-acre) animal garden. The beautifully landscaped Central Garden and Sea Lion Pool is
flanked on three sides by a glass-roofed colonnade, making it accessible even in wet weather.
From 59th Street to 110th Street
Tel: (212) 360 2727 (Central Park Conservancy Tour) or 861 6030 (Central Park Zoo/Wildlife Conservation Center).
Website: www.centralparknyc.org
Transport: Subway N or R to Fifth Avenue; or 4, 5 or 6 to 59th Street.
Opening hours: Daily 1000-1630.
Admission: Free.
Bus Tours
Gray Line New York Tours (tel: (212) 397 2620; website: www.graylinenewyork.com
) offers closed and open-top double-decker bus tours, calling at numerous stops around the city in a two- to three-hour loop. The Essential
New York Tour offers a 50-stop hop-off hop-on tour of Manhattan. Gray Line also offers tours of Harlem and Brooklyn.
Boat Tours
Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises (tel: (212) 563 3200; website: www.circleline.com
) is the only cruise line that circles Manhattan Island, with a three-hour narrated Full Island Cruise, departing from Pier 83 on 42nd Street
on the Hudson River. Other options include the two-hour Semi-Circle Cruise, or the evening two-hour Harbor Lights Cruise. At both Pier 83 and
Pier 16, South Street Seaport, adventurers can take a spin on the ‘Beast’ for a 30-minute thrill ride, costing US$18.
 Other Tours
Gray Line New York Tours (tel: (212) 397 2600; website: www.graylinenewyork.com
) conducts 24 different sightseeing trips by different modes of transport. The ten-minute helicopter tour, A Bird’s Eye View, allows visitors
to see the Empire State Building, the Chrysler and Central Park from above. Helicopter flights depart from the West 30th Street heliport.
Scene on TV Tours (tel: (212) 410 9830; website: www.sceneontv.com) operates
bus tours of the sites of America’s top TV shows, including Friends, Seinfeld and Law & Order. The company
now also offers new Sex and the City and Sopranos tours. The two-and-a-half-hour Sex and the City tour includes 40 sites
from the series, departing from in front of the Pulitzer Foundation on Fifth Avenue, Saturday 1430. Booking is essential.
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