Wall Street
Wall Street is the narrow street in Lower Manhattan that gave its name to American finance. It runs eight blocks, under 2,000 feet, from Broadway to the East River, between old banks and towers, and its name means the whole financial...
Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is the Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan that most people picture when they think of New York: a tower of pale limestone, 102 stories and 1,250 feet to the roof, with an observatory at the top.
The best...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Met, is the largest art museum in the Americas: a vast building on Fifth Avenue, at the edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, with some 1.5 million works from ancient Egypt to the present day. It...
Times Square
Times Square is the crossroads of Broadway, Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan: a bowtie-shaped plaza blazing with giant screens, crowded with theatergoers and tourists at any hour, and the hub of the Theater District. About 50...
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is the colossal copper woman holding a torch over New York Harbor, on Liberty Island in Upper New York Bay: a gift from the people of France, dedicated in 1886, and long a symbol of welcome for the immigrants who arrived by...
Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center is a complex of Art Deco skyscrapers in Midtown Manhattan, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and 48th and 51st Streets: 19 buildings on 22 acres, with a sunken plaza, an ice rink, a theater, an observation deck and art almost...
Central Park
Central Park is the huge green rectangle in the middle of Manhattan, 843 acres of meadows, lakes, rocks and woods stretching 2.5 miles from 59th Street to 110th Street. It was the first landscaped park in the United States, and one of the most...
Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal is New York's great railway station, at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Opened in 1913, it is a Beaux-Arts landmark with a famous Main Concourse, and a place to see even if you are not catching a...
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is the stone-and-steel suspension bridge that links Manhattan and Brooklyn across the East River. Opened in 1883, it was the first fixed crossing of the river, and today it is one of the most photographed and most walked...
The High Line
The High Line is a park in the sky on Manhattan's West Side: an old elevated freight railway turned into a 2.33-kilometer garden walk, running above the streets from the Meatpacking District through Chelsea to Hudson Yards, with wild-looking...
Stone Street
Stone Street is one of the oldest streets in New York, a short cobbled lane in the Financial District, a few steps from the Wall Street towers. Its two pedestrian blocks are lined with restaurants and bars in 19th-century brick...
Marsha P. Johnson State Park
Marsha P. Johnson State Park is a riverside park on the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn: 4.5 hectares of lawns and paths along the East River, with wide views of the Williamsburg Bridge and the Midtown Manhattan skyline across the...
Grand Ferry Park
Grand Ferry Park is a small waterfront park at the end of Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on the spot where ferries once left for Manhattan. It is a quiet corner of lawn and rocks right on the East River, with a wide view across the water...
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, is the art museum on 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan that made modern art a subject of its own. Its collection of more than 200,000 works runs from the late 19th century to today, and it welcomed over 2.6 million...
McCarren Park
McCarren Park is the big green backyard of north Brooklyn, 15 hectares of lawns and ball fields on the border between Williamsburg and Greenpoint. On warm weekends the grass fills with picnics, sunbathers, dogs and pickup games of softball,...
9/11 Memorial
The 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan remembers the people killed in the attacks of September 11, 2001, and in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. It stands where the Twin Towers stood, in a plaza of oak trees, with a museum...
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park is a long green strip on the Brooklyn side of the East River, built on the old piers of the waterfront. It runs for 1.3 miles from near the Manhattan Bridge to Atlantic Avenue, and offers the best open-air view of the...
City Island
City Island is a small island in the Bronx with the air of a seaside village: about 2.4 kilometers of seafood restaurants, boatyards, yacht clubs and Victorian houses, at the far western end of Long Island Sound, joined to the mainland by a...
One World Observatory
One World Observatory is the observation deck on floors 100 to 102 of One World Trade Center, the tallest building in the United States, in Lower Manhattan: from 386 meters up, the highest vantage point in New York City, the view takes in the...
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is the modern art museum on Fifth Avenue, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, in a white spiral building by Frank Lloyd Wright that is as famous as what hangs inside. Its collection counts around 8,000 works, and the...
Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is the Art Deco skyscraper at 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, in Midtown Manhattan: 319 meters of brick and steel crowned by gleaming steel arches and a needle-thin spire. In 1930 it was, for a few months, the tallest...
SoHo
SoHo, short for South of Houston Street, is the Manhattan neighborhood that runs roughly from Houston to Canal Streets, between West Broadway and Lafayette Street. Today it is known for its fashion boutiques, art galleries, cafés and restaurants,...
Summit One Vanderbilt
Summit One Vanderbilt is the observation deck at the top of One Vanderbilt, the skyscraper next to Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan: more than a viewpoint, it is a sequence of mirrored rooms, glass balconies and an outdoor glass...
Edge
Edge is the observation deck at the top of 30 Hudson Yards, a skyscraper on Manhattan's West Side: a triangular terrace that juts out into the air from the 100th floor, about 335 meters above the street, with glass walls and a glass floor over...
Chinatown
Chinatown is the dense, noisy, fragrant neighborhood of Lower Manhattan between Canal Street, the Bowery and Worth Street, with an estimated 90,000 to 100,000 residents. It is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western...
Bryant Park
Bryant Park is the green rectangle behind the New York Public Library, between 40th and 42nd Streets in Midtown Manhattan: lawns, tall plane trees, café tables and, all around, skyscrapers. It is the favorite lunch break for thousands of office...
Battery Park
Battery Park, officially The Battery, is the green tip of Manhattan, facing New York Harbor: lawns and trees, a promenade by the water, old monuments and ferries leaving for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
The park is bounded by...
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village is the Manhattan neighborhood west of Broadway and south of 14th Street, centered on Washington Square Park and New York University: crooked lanes, brick townhouses, little theaters, jazz and folk clubs, cafés and trees. Locals...
Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn Heights is a leafy Brooklyn neighborhood of 19th-century brownstones on a bluff above the East River, just across from Lower Manhattan. Its quiet tree-lined streets and its riverside promenade make for a fine walk.
The highlight...
Fort Greene
Fort Greene is a Brooklyn neighborhood of tree-lined streets and elegant 19th-century brownstones, between Downtown Brooklyn and the Navy Yard. It is worth the trip for its hilltop park, its houses and the stages of the Brooklyn Academy of...
Nolita
Nolita, short for "North of Little Italy", is a small Manhattan neighborhood between SoHo and the Bowery: a few blocks around Mulberry, Mott and Elizabeth Streets, full of boutiques, cafés and restaurants.
Its landmark is St. Patrick's Old...
Manhattan Community Boathouse
Manhattan Community Boathouse is a volunteer-run kayak club on Pier 96, at West 56th Street in Hudson River Park, that takes the public out on the Hudson in kayaks for free. A short break from the streets, and a chance to see Manhattan from the...
The Red Steps
The Red Steps are a giant red staircase in Times Square, at the north end of the square in Duffy Square: 27 glowing steps of red glass that double as bleachers, built on the roof of the TKTS booth, where Broadway tickets are sold at a...
Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church
St. Malachy's Church is a Gothic Revival Catholic church on West 49th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, in the heart of the Theater District. Known as the "Actors' Chapel", it has been the church of Broadway's performers since the...
The Wall
The Wall is a giant abstract artwork on the side of a building in SoHo, at 599 Broadway on the corner of Houston Street: 42 green aluminum bars bolted onto a periwinkle-blue wall about eight stories high. It is known as the "Gateway to...
Bust of Sylvette
Bust of Sylvette is an 11-meter concrete portrait of a young woman designed by Pablo Picasso, standing in the courtyard of University Village, the NYU apartment towers on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village. It is Picasso on a monumental scale,...
St. Patrick's Cathedral
St. Patrick's Cathedral is New York's great Catholic church, a Gothic Revival cathedral of white marble on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, directly across from Rockefeller Center. It is the seat of the Archbishop of New York, and the largest...
Church of Saint Mary the Virgin
The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin is an Episcopal church in the heart of Times Square, on West 46th Street: a French Gothic limestone front among the theaters and neon, finished in 1895 and known for its solemn liturgy and music.
Inside,...
Gantry Plaza State Park
Gantry Plaza State Park is a riverside park of about 5 hectares in Long Island City, Queens, built on an old dockyard on the East River: from its piers the view takes in the United Nations headquarters and the whole Midtown Manhattan...
Bedford Avenue
Bedford Avenue is the longest street in Brooklyn: 16 kilometers and 132 blocks from Greenpoint in the north to Sheepshead Bay in the south. Following it is a way to see how many different Brooklyns there are.
The best-known stretch is in...