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Toys R Us giant ferris wheel
in side the multi-story toy
store in Times Square
in side the multi-story toy
store in Times Square
Times Square, center
of theater, music and
dance
of theater, music and
dance
New York City Walking
The first walk starts on the Great White Way once
you descend from the Empire State Building and
head north for a half-mile on Broadway through the
heart of the Theater District. The New York Times
Newspaper, winner of 79 Pulitzers, built its
headquarters a hundred years ago at the merge of
Broadway and Seventh Avenue: Times Square.
Music, dance, and theater rule this once gritty
intersection This slice of New York City nightlife
recently struggled through rebirth as a gleaming
family entertainment center. Good lodging nearby
particularly the moderately priced Milford Hotel will
put you in the heart of the entertainment district.
Not just Good Morning America broadcasting live
each morning while a sidewalk audience of cell
phone-junkies peers through picture windows, or
David Letterman romping through this
neighborhood torturing Rupert G. during his
evening show from the Ed Sullivan Theater, Times
Square is the ESPN Zone Sports Bar hosting every
rabid fans fantasy: big screen TV game coverage
throughout, even in the lavatories; it is the
Broadway City Arcade featuring not just for kids
virtual reality, and it is the gigantic windows at
Toys-R-Us welcoming kids with a ride on the indoor
Ferris wheel.
The first walk starts on the Great White Way once
you descend from the Empire State Building and
head north for a half-mile on Broadway through the
heart of the Theater District. The New York Times
Newspaper, winner of 79 Pulitzers, built its
headquarters a hundred years ago at the merge of
Broadway and Seventh Avenue: Times Square.
Music, dance, and theater rule this once gritty
intersection This slice of New York City nightlife
recently struggled through rebirth as a gleaming
family entertainment center. Good lodging nearby
particularly the moderately priced Milford Hotel will
put you in the heart of the entertainment district.
Not just Good Morning America broadcasting live
each morning while a sidewalk audience of cell
phone-junkies peers through picture windows, or
David Letterman romping through this
neighborhood torturing Rupert G. during his
evening show from the Ed Sullivan Theater, Times
Square is the ESPN Zone Sports Bar hosting every
rabid fans fantasy: big screen TV game coverage
throughout, even in the lavatories; it is the
Broadway City Arcade featuring not just for kids
virtual reality, and it is the gigantic windows at
Toys-R-Us welcoming kids with a ride on the indoor
Ferris wheel.
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Intrepid Museum
will open again in
Fall of 2008
will open again in
Fall of 2008
Rockefeller Center's 11-acre Art-Deco
style complex on 5th Avenue and 48th
Street, home of the Radio City Music
Hall and the Rockettes hosts one hour
NBC guided tours of the TV studios
where the Today Show, NBC Sports,
Conan's Late Night, Dateline, Nightly
News, and Saturday Night Live
broadcast.
Three blocks north to West 53rd Street
brings you to the Museum of Modern
Art's Renoir Water Lilies and Van Goh
Sunflowers.
For dining try Oceana on East 54th
Street and Madison lunch: four-star,
elegant.
Four blocks south on Madison you will
find Saint Patrick's Cathedral, built in
1858, its 330-foot spires top the largest
Gothic style cathedral in the country.
The Chrysler Building, New York's
second tallest, looms in art-Deco
extravagance seven blocks south on
Park Avenue not far from the United
Nations Headquarters and its tours of
the complex so often seen in the news.
No longer on US territory, your U. N.
guides will explain in many languages
the work done at the UN to improve the
lives of people around the world.
If you return to Broadway by cab at
dusk you'll see Times Square gleaming
as brightly as day and feel its New
Years Eve excitement again in the
brilliance of multi-story ads and blazing
billboards.
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New York City
Four Walking Tours
New York's Big Apple too big for
walking?
Not when you divide the city into four bite-sized
pieces: Museum Mile in uptown, the Great White Way
in midtown, Fifth Avenue Boutiques in lower midtown,
and the River Walk in lower Manhattan
Views of the city from the 86th floor of the Empire
State Building will show that you can easily halve and
quarter the Big Apple into four simple day-space
chunks during your vacation.
Look north to the mile of museums that cluster along
Central Park while below you shine the lights of
Broadway's Great White Way. To the south, Fifth
Avenue touches the Flatiron and Little Italy, and
further south, the Riverwalk beneath the Brooklyn
Bridge leads to the meeting of the East and Hudson
Rivers at Battery Park and the ferry for the Statue of
Liberty.
walking?
Not when you divide the city into four bite-sized
pieces: Museum Mile in uptown, the Great White Way
in midtown, Fifth Avenue Boutiques in lower midtown,
and the River Walk in lower Manhattan
Views of the city from the 86th floor of the Empire
State Building will show that you can easily halve and
quarter the Big Apple into four simple day-space
chunks during your vacation.
Look north to the mile of museums that cluster along
Central Park while below you shine the lights of
Broadway's Great White Way. To the south, Fifth
Avenue touches the Flatiron and Little Italy, and
further south, the Riverwalk beneath the Brooklyn
Bridge leads to the meeting of the East and Hudson
Rivers at Battery Park and the ferry for the Statue of
Liberty.
Dining is a great
experienced in New York City
because of Italian, Chinese
and many other ethnic
neighborhoods.
experienced in New York City
because of Italian, Chinese
and many other ethnic
neighborhoods.
New York City Dining
Enough glitter, a short cab ride down 7th will
take you to the landmark Carnegie Deli noted
for its Pastrami and Cheesecake. Too Plebian,
take Broadway to the Trump Tower on the
southwest corner of Central Park and end your
day at one of only six New York restaurants
consistently worthy of four stars and a place on
a special New York Times "extraordinary" list:
Jean Georges: French dining in an exquisite
setting.
The next day's walking tour, the Museum Mile,
starts at 843-acre Central Park, designed in
1858 by Fredrick Law Olmstead and Calvert
Vaux. Offering 58 miles of pedestrian, bike, and
rollerblade paths with nature centers, a pond
with Gondola rides, a wildlife center, a
strawberry field memento to John Lennon, a
zoo, and a carousel with 58 hand-carved
horses, the park also offers the Museum Mile:
natural history, photography and art museums
that would take days to explore.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art stands above
all the rest with its Egyptian, Greco-Roman, and
American Art and its extensive collection of
Impressionist and European paintings. Unable
to see the entire two million pieces, take a
romantic afternoon interlude: wine and cheese
on the Met's rooftop patio with a splendid view
of Central Park.
Also on the border of the park, the American
Museum of Natural History and its Hayden
Planetarium, the International Center of
Photography, The Jewish Museum, the Whitney
Museum of American Art, the Frick Museum, the
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and the Frank Lloyd
Wright designed Guggenheim Museum.
Enough glitter, a short cab ride down 7th will
take you to the landmark Carnegie Deli noted
for its Pastrami and Cheesecake. Too Plebian,
take Broadway to the Trump Tower on the
southwest corner of Central Park and end your
day at one of only six New York restaurants
consistently worthy of four stars and a place on
a special New York Times "extraordinary" list:
Jean Georges: French dining in an exquisite
setting.
The next day's walking tour, the Museum Mile,
starts at 843-acre Central Park, designed in
1858 by Fredrick Law Olmstead and Calvert
Vaux. Offering 58 miles of pedestrian, bike, and
rollerblade paths with nature centers, a pond
with Gondola rides, a wildlife center, a
strawberry field memento to John Lennon, a
zoo, and a carousel with 58 hand-carved
horses, the park also offers the Museum Mile:
natural history, photography and art museums
that would take days to explore.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art stands above
all the rest with its Egyptian, Greco-Roman, and
American Art and its extensive collection of
Impressionist and European paintings. Unable
to see the entire two million pieces, take a
romantic afternoon interlude: wine and cheese
on the Met's rooftop patio with a splendid view
of Central Park.
Also on the border of the park, the American
Museum of Natural History and its Hayden
Planetarium, the International Center of
Photography, The Jewish Museum, the Whitney
Museum of American Art, the Frick Museum, the
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and the Frank Lloyd
Wright designed Guggenheim Museum.
Grand Central Station is
one of the busiest places in
New York City
one of the busiest places in
New York City
Photo Courtesy Circle Line
Photo courtesy Circle Line
Photo Rain Rodolph
Guided Tours at the United Nations
building
building
Best Bargain: 45 MPH ride
on Circle Line Tours "The
Beast"
on Circle Line Tours "The
Beast"
New York City Walks