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CultureStatue of LibertyThe Statue of Liberty is a colossal 46-metre-tall copper sculpture on Liberty Island, in New York Harbor.LeisureEmpire State BuildingArt Deco skyscraper of 102 floors opened in 1931 and designed by the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, on Fifth…CultureNew York Stock ExchangeHome of the New York Stock Exchange at 11 Wall Street, on the corner with Broad Street.CultureMetropolitan Museum of Art (the Met)Museum founded in 1870 and located on Fifth Avenue, next to Central Park, with a collection spanning some…NatureCentral ParkCentral Park is a vast 843-acre urban park in Manhattan, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux…CultureWall StreetWall Street is an eight-block street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, running between Broadway…CultureBrooklyn BridgeSuspension bridge over the East River linking Manhattan and Brooklyn, opened in 1883.CultureChrysler BuildingArt Deco skyscraper, 319 metres tall, completed in 1930 and designed by architect William Van Alen, at 42nd…LeisureOne World Trade Center (One World Observatory)Skyscraper 541 metres tall, 1,776 feet in tribute to the year of independence, completed in 2014 on the site…LeisureTimes SquareIntersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue between 42nd and 47th Streets, in the heart of the Broadway…CultureMoMA (Museum of Modern Art)Museum of modern and contemporary art opened in 1929 and located at 11 West 53rd Street, in Midtown.LeisureBroadwayBroadway gives its name to the circuit of large commercial theatres in the Theater District, in Midtown…CultureHarlemNeighbourhood in northern Manhattan, the centre of African American culture in the United States and the…CultureGuggenheim MuseumBuilding designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and opened in 1959 on Fifth Avenue at 89th Street, opposite Central…CultureNew York Public LibraryThe library's main building, on Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, is a Beaux-Arts work by the architects Carrère…CultureAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryMuseum founded in 1869 on Central Park West, between 77th and 81st Streets, with more than thirty million…LeisureMadison Square GardenMultipurpose arena in Manhattan, known as “the Garden”, built in 1968 above Pennsylvania Station.CultureFifth AvenueFifth Avenue is one of Manhattan's main thoroughfares and serves as the dividing line between the east and…CultureCarnegie HallConcert hall at 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, opened in 1891 thanks to the industrialist Andrew Carnegie…CultureFlatiron BuildingA 22-storey building about 87 metres tall, completed in 1902 to a design by Daniel Burnham, at the junction…CultureUnited Nations HeadquartersUN headquarters, on the banks of the East River, in the Turtle Bay neighbourhood of Manhattan.LeisureRockefeller CenterComplex of Art Deco skyscrapers in Midtown Manhattan, built in the 1930s on the initiative of John D.CultureBrooklyn MuseumOne of the great art museums of the United States, opened in 1897 in a Beaux-Arts building on Eastern…CultureWoolworth BuildingNeo-Gothic skyscraper in Lower Manhattan designed by Cass Gilbert and opened in 1913 for the F. W.LeisureManhattan BridgeSuspension bridge over the East River opened in 1909, linking Canal Street in Manhattan with Brooklyn.CultureSt. Patrick's CathedralNeo-Gothic Catholic cathedral on Fifth Avenue, opposite Rockefeller Center.LeisureRoosevelt Island TramwayUrban cable car opened in 1976 that links Manhattan, from Second Avenue at 59th Street, with Roosevelt Island…CultureLincoln CenterPerforming arts complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side, opened in phases from the early 1960s.NatureFlushing Meadows-Corona ParkLarge park in Queens that hosted the New York World's Fairs of 1939 and 1964.Culture9/11 Memorial and MuseumSite in Lower Manhattan dedicated to the victims of the attacks of 11 September 2001 and the 1993 attack on…LeisureWilliamsburg BridgeSuspension bridge from 1903 crossing the East River between the Lower East Side of Manhattan and the…CultureMadison AvenueMadison Avenue is a north-south, one-way (northbound) street in Manhattan, running from Madison Square Park…CultureStonewall InnBar at 53 Christopher Street, in Greenwich Village. In June 1969 the Stonewall riots took place there, a…LeisureThe BatteryPark at the southern tip of Manhattan, next to New York Bay. It is home to Castle Clinton, a circular fort…Food & drinkChinatownNeighbourhood in Lower Manhattan with one of the largest concentrations of Chinese population outside Asia.NatureMadison SquareMadison Square Park is a 2.5-hectare public park in Manhattan, bounded by Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue, 23rd…LeisureQueensboro BridgeSteel cantilever bridge opened in 1909, linking Manhattan, at 59th Street, with Long Island City in Queens.CultureTrinity ChurchNeo-Gothic Episcopal church that closes off Wall Street at its junction with Broadway.CultureRadio City Music HallPerformance theatre inside Rockefeller Center, opened in 1932 and regarded as a jewel of Art Deco, with…CultureFederal HallNeoclassical building with Doric columns at 26 Wall Street, run by the National Park Service.CultureWhitney MuseumMuseum of 20th- and 21st-century American art founded in 1930 by the sculptor and patron Gertrude Vanderbilt…CulturePark AvenuePark Avenue is a wide New York avenue running north–south through Manhattan, with a 140-foot-wide stretch…CultureThe Frick CollectionMuseum housed in the mansion that the industrialist Henry Clay Frick had built on Fifth Avenue, next to…LeisureHigh LineElevated park built on a former freight railway line in western Manhattan, with its first section opened in…NatureProspect Park526-acre park in Brooklyn designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who also designed Central Park…LeisureUnion SquarePublic square south of Midtown, between Greenwich Village and Gramercy, with a 19th-century equestrian statue…LeisureWashington Square ParkPark in the heart of Greenwich Village, next to New York University.LeisureCiti FieldBaseball stadium of the New York Mets, opened in 2009 in the borough of Queens, beside Flushing Meadows Park.CultureLexington AvenueLexington Avenue is a one-way street running 110 blocks from 131st Street East to Gramercy Park, passing…CultureNew York City HallNew York's City Hall, completed in 1812, is the seat of the mayor and the City Council.CultureThe Morgan Library & MuseumComplex at 36th Street and Madison Avenue that began as the private library of financier J. P.CultureColumbus CircleLarge roundabout at the south-west corner of Central Park, where Eighth Avenue, Broadway and Central Park…CultureIntrepid Sea, Air & Space MuseumMuseum housed in the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid, which served in the Second World War and in Vietnam…CultureTin Pan AlleyTin Pan Alley is a historic site in Manhattan's flower district, specifically on West 28th Street between…NatureGramercy ParkRectangular park in Manhattan laid out in 1831 by the developer Samuel Ruggles, around which a residential…CultureSixth AvenueSixth Avenue, officially Avenue of the Americas, runs through Manhattan from Tribeca to Central Park South.CultureWall Street BullBronze sculpture by the Sicilian artist Arturo Di Modica, installed without permission in 1989 in front of…CultureGrand Central TerminalBeaux-Arts railway station opened in 1913 in Midtown Manhattan.LeisureStaten Island FerryFree ferry service linking the Whitehall terminal, in southern Manhattan, with St.CultureCathedral of St John the DivineAn Episcopal cathedral in Morningside Heights, on Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street.CultureCooper UnionEducational institution founded by the industrialist Peter Cooper, on Astor Place in Lower Manhattan.NatureGovernors IslandIsland in New York Bay, a few minutes by ferry from Manhattan and Brooklyn, which was a military base for…CultureSeventh AvenueSeventh Avenue is one of Manhattan's main thoroughfares, with a history dating back to the Commissioners'…NatureCentral Park ZooA small zoo at the south-eastern end of Central Park in Manhattan, run by the Wildlife Conservation Society.CultureThe CloistersBranch of the Metropolitan Museum devoted to medieval art and architecture, opened in 1938 in Fort Tryon…LeisureBryant ParkMidtown Manhattan park between 40th and 42nd Streets, next to New York's main public library, with a central…NatureBrooklyn Botanic GardenGarden of about 52 acres opened in 1910, next to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum.LeisureEdge (30 Hudson Yards)Open-air viewing deck on the 100th floor of the 30 Hudson Yards skyscraper, in Hudson Yards, west of Midtown.LeisureYankee StadiumBaseball stadium of the New York Yankees in the Bronx, opened in 2009 next to the site of the old 1923…CultureNew MuseumMuseum devoted exclusively to contemporary art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker.LeisurePennsylvania StationPennsylvania Station, known as Penn Station, is an underground rail complex in Midtown Manhattan that serves…CultureGrant's TombNational monument in Riverside Park, at 122nd Street, housing the sarcophagi of Ulysses S.CultureGreen-Wood CemeteryCemetery founded in 1838 in Brooklyn, in the Sunset Park neighbourhood, with some 478 acres of hills, lakes…CultureGrand Army Plaza (Manhattan)Square at the south-eastern corner of Central Park, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Central Park South.CultureQueens MuseumAn art museum in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, in Queens, housed in the New York City Building from the 1939…CultureMuseum of the City of New YorkMuseum founded in 1923 that tells the history of New York from its Dutch origins to the present, with models…CultureNew York Hall of ScienceAn interactive science museum in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, in Queens.CultureCentral SynagogueCentral Synagogue, a Reform temple in Moorish Revival style on Lexington Avenue, in Midtown Manhattan.LeisureApollo TheaterHistoric theatre on 125th Street in Harlem, opened as a variety hall and, from the 1930s, one of the great…Food & drinkKatz's DelicatessenJewish delicatessen on Houston Street in the Lower East Side, open since 1888.NatureFort Tryon ParkA park of about 27 hectares in northern Manhattan, on a hill overlooking the Hudson River.CultureBethesda Terrace and FountainMonumental terrace in the heart of Central Park, designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould and opened in…CultureHigh BridgeA stone arch bridge from 1848 that forms part of the old Croton Aqueduct and crosses the Harlem River between…NatureBrooklyn Bridge ParkPark along the East River, in Brooklyn, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, built on former harbour…CultureNew York City CenterPerformance venue at 131 West 55th Street, in Midtown. It opened in 1924 as a Shriners' temple and keeps its…NatureQueens ZooA zoo in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, in Queens, run by the Wildlife Conservation Society.LeisureWollman RinkIce skating rink at the southern end of Central Park, opened in 1949 and rebuilt in 1986.CultureTenement MuseumMuseum on the Lower East Side, on Orchard Street, housed in 19th-century tenement buildings where immigrant…CultureChicago The Musical Ambassador TheaterThe Ambassador Theatre is a Broadway theatre with a rich history dating back to 1921. Designed by Herbert J.LeisurePalace TheatreA Broadway theatre on 47th Street at Broadway, beside Times Square, opened in 1913.NatureRandalls and Wards IslandsTwo islands joined in the East River, between Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, turned into an urban park.CultureLyceum TheatreBroadway theatre opened in 1903 at 149 West 45th Street, with a Beaux-Arts façade and an ornate interior.Food & drinkChelsea MarketCovered food market in a former industrial building of the Nabisco factory, where Oreo cookies were made.LeisureConey Island CycloneWooden roller coaster opened in 1927 on Coney Island, Brooklyn, next to the boardwalk and the beach.CultureIrving PlazaIrving Plaza is a ballroom-style concert venue at 17 Irving Place, next to Union Square, in Manhattan.CultureMoynihan Train HallMoynihan Train Hall occupies part of the James A. Farley Building, a Beaux-Arts structure on the block…NatureAstoria ParkQueens park on the bank of the East River, in the Astoria neighbourhood.Food & drinkPete's TavernPete's Tavern is a historic bar and restaurant in the Gramercy Park neighbourhood of Manhattan.CultureUnited PalaceA former cinema, Loew's 175th Street Theatre, opened in 1930 in Washington Heights, at Broadway and 175th…Food & drinkSmorgasburgOpen-air food market held on weekends in season in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, beside the East River, with the…LeisureBirdlandJazz club in Midtown, on West 44th Street, heir to the original Birdland that opened on Broadway in 1949 and…LeisureBlue NoteJazz club in Greenwich Village, on West 3rd Street, open since 1981.LeisureDUMBOBrooklyn neighbourhood whose name is an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.LeisureEllen's Stardust Diner1950s-themed diner on Broadway, next to Times Square, opened in the 1980s.Food & drinkGrand Central Oyster BarSeafood restaurant housed in the lower level of Grand Central Terminal since 1913.Food & drinkJoe's Pizza (Carmine Street)Pizzeria on Carmine Street, in Greenwich Village, founded in 1975 by Joe Pozzuoli.Food & drinkJunior's (Brooklyn)A diner-style restaurant on Flatbush Avenue, in downtown Brooklyn, open since 1950.Food & drinkKeens SteakhouseSteakhouse in Midtown, on West 36th Street, which opened in 1885 in the old theatre district.Food & drinkLevain BakeryBakery on the Upper West Side, in a half-basement on West 74th Street, open since the 1990s and famous for…Food & drinkLittle ItalyLower Manhattan neighbourhood formed by Italian immigrants in the late 19th century, centred on Mulberry…Food & drinkLombardi'sPizzeria on Spring Street, between Little Italy and Nolita, which presents itself as the first pizzeria in…Food & drinkMagnolia Bakery (Bleecker Street)Bakery in the West Village opened in 1996 and known for its buttercream cupcakes and its banana pudding.Food & drinkMcSorley's Old Ale HouseEast Village tavern dating from 1854 that boasts of being one of the oldest bars in the city.Food & drinkPeter Luger Steak HouseSteakhouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, open since 1887 and one of the most famous in New York.Food & drinkRuss & DaughtersJewish 'appetizing' shop on the Lower East Side founded in 1914, specialising in smoked salmon, herring…Food & drinkSerendipity 3Dessert venue on East 60th Street, in the Upper East Side, open since 1954.CultureSoHoLower Manhattan neighbourhood whose name means South of Houston Street.LeisureSummit One VanderbiltObservation deck opened in 2021 at the top of the One Vanderbilt skyscraper, next to Grand Central Terminal…LeisureVillage VanguardJazz club in Greenwich Village opened in 1935 in a basement on Seventh Avenue South.
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Frequently asked questions
What to see in New York in one day?
If you only have one day, start with the essentials: Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, New York Stock Exchange, Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) and Central Park.
What can you see for free in New York?
No entry fee: Central Park, Wall Street, Fifth Avenue, Madison Avenue, Madison Square and Park Avenue.
Are there hiking trails near New York?
Yes, one waymarked trail: Hudson Valley Greenway Trail (The Battery, NYC to Inwood) (22.0 km · +103 m · 5 h 45 min · Moderate).