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Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island ( 212-363-3200; www.nps.gov/stli), In 1865, a group of French intellectuals began scheming about a 100th birthday present for the United States, celebrating liberty. Eduoard ...more
Once a dock where oystermen shucked their daily catch, Pearl St. is now one of the richest streets in the world. Wall St., the cornerstone of the district and the financial universe, once served as the ...more
New York City’s center of government is located immediately north of its financial district. Courthouses, municipal buildings, and federal buildings revolve around City Hall. Sights are listed roughly ...more
New York City Fire Museum, 278 Spring St. (www.nycfiremuseum.org), Housed in a renovated 1904 stone firehouse, the museum displays impressive fire-fighting memorabilia, like a hand-pulled truck from George ...more
TriBeCa’s story follows a classic Manhattan trajectory—once an industrial wasteland, it was made hip when a real estate developer coined its acronym title (“Triangle Below Canal Street”) in 1970 ...more
The colorful, vibrant mosaic of Chinatown is sight enough for most tourists, and there are plenty of cheap restaurants and eclectic ultra-discount shops to last you a few days. Explore a bit further, though ...more
The Lower East Side was once the most densely settled area in New York, with 240,000 people crammed into one square mile. The Irish, fleeing famine-stricken Ireland in the mid-1800s, were the first to ...more
Washington Square Park, Between MacDougall St., Washingston Sq. N., Washington Sq. E., and Washington Sq. S. The heart of Greenwich Village is always packed—with tourists snapping photos of the Washington ...more
TomPkins Square Park, Between Ave. A and B, and E. 7th and 10th St. (www.nycgovparks.org/parks), With beautiful, gated gardens and tons of playgrounds, this park is filled with people sunbathing, reading ...more
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, 7th Ave., at 27th St. (www.fitnyc.edu/museum), The Museum at FIT provides a free history of fashion and textiles. The collection includes dresses from ...more
You can think of the area around Union Sq., Gramercy Park, and Madison Square Park as a museum in itself. A center of New York culture and upper-class residential life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ...more
Murray Hill is so named because Robert Murray, a rich man of Revolutionary times, made his country home close to the present-day intersection of 37th St. and Park Ave. The upper crust of the late 19th ...more
Midtown West holds some of the sights that first come to mind for people when they think of New York City: Times Square, Broadway, The Empire State Building, Madison Square Garden, and so on. Although ...more
Garment District, West 30s, between Broadway and 8th Ave. This neighborhood may be home to big-name designers like Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, the likes of whom are honored by the circular plaques on ...more
Hell's Kitchen, 30th to 59th St., between 8th Ave. and the Hudson River Hell's Kitchen was once an Irish Mafia hotspot infamous for general sketchiness. The neighborhood has become much safer and hipper ...more
International Center of Photography, 1133 Ave. of the Americas at 43rd St. (www.icp.org), The center hosts exhibitions focused on both the history of the medium and the work of contemporary artists. Curators ...more
New York Public Library, 42nd St. and 5th Ave. (www.nypl.org), You may recognize the lions (named “Patience” and “Fortitude”) that valiantly guard the entrance to this marble temple of learning ...more
Named after an 18th-century farm, the Turtle Bay neighborhood hosts the United Nations and its population of diplomats and bureaucrats. The area houses some of New York’s more peaceful parks, which ...more
Central Park, 59th to 110th St., 5th Ave. to Central Park W. ( 212-310-6600; www.centralparknyc.org), The Central Park Conservancy, which runs the park and offers public programs, has five visitor centers ...more
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave., at 82nd St. (www.metmuseum.org), The Met is not only a world-class museum—it's essentially several world-class museums rolled into one. The medieval galleries ...more
Lincoln Center, Columbus Ave., between 62nd and 66th St. (www.lincolncenter.org), Across 65th St. is the Juilliard School, notable for both its prestige and its prevalence in pop culture. No other performing ...more
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Ave., between 110th and 113th St. (www.stjohndivine.org), The largest cathedral in the world, the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine is not your average ...more
Apollo Theater, 253 W. 125th St. (www.apollotheater.org), The Apollo has been synonymous with black entertainment for decades; a list of the ultra-famous performers who graced its stage would far exceed ...more
Even hillier than Brooklyn’s Park Slope, Washington Heights and its several parks form one of the greenest neighborhoods in the five boroughs. Some buildings peer down hundreds of feet at their next-door ...more
Once known as “Welfare Island,” this land was long used to contain New York's unwanted and forgotten—an asylum, a smallpox hospital, and a prison all shared the very limited space here throughout ...more
At every stage in New York's 400-year history, Lower Manhattan has been at the center of the action. You can see layers upon layers of history wherever you go. If you pay a visit to Wall Street in the ...more
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