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- Travel: New York - Broadway
Along Broadway in Manhattan there are more things to do and see on one street than in many large cities. This long avenue runs north-south, mostly, and its deviations are appropriate to its role in the life of New York. For, Broadway is home to business, theater, dining, shops and a host of famous buildings.
- Travel: New York - Central Park
Completed in 1873, Central Park is among the world's great urban innovations. Bound by 5th and 8th avenues on the east and west respectively, and from 59th Street on the south, 110th Street on the north, these 843 acres encompass a lot to see and do.
- Travel: New York - Fifth Avenue
The center of Manhattan in a dozen ways, Fifth Avenue bisects the city from below 23rd Street to the north end of Central Park and beyond.
- Travel: New York - Guggenheim Museum
Few museum buildings can justifiably claim to be works of art in their own right. Frank Lloyd Wright's Solomon R. Guggenheim museum of modern art is in that sparsely populated class.
- Travel: New York - Madison Avenue
Beginning the day at Madison Square Park, on Madison and 23rd is just about the most peaceful start possible in this beehive of a city. Tree-lined, two centuries old, and surrounded by a quiet neighborhood, the five-acre park makes for the perfect place to have an outdoor brunch.
- Travel: New York - Manhattan - Quick Overview
Manhattan, 'Capital' of New York City
- Travel: New York - New York City - Quick Overview
Nearly 40 million tourists from around the world visit New York City every year. What they find is a bustling metropolis, dense with museums, parks, theaters, shops, famous buildings and inhabitants as diverse as themselves.
- Travel: New York - Park Avenue
Park Avenue through the 1930s was known as 'the street where the rich people lived'. To have an apartment there was 'to have arrived'. When you arrive you'll see fewer apartments and a new kind of 'rich people' - multi-national corporate headquarters.
- Travel: New York - Rockefeller Center
Welcome to the 'city within a city' - Rockefeller Center. Begun in the 1930s, partially as an antidote to the effects of the Depression, the 19 building complex sits on 11 acres between 48th and 52nd Streets and between 5th and 6th Avenues.
- Travel: New York - The Empire State Building
The Empire State Building in mid-town Manhattan has justifiably been called the eighth wonder of the world. No longer the tallest building in the world, it remains one of the largest office buildings and is currently the tallest in New York at 102 stories.
- Travel: New York - Times Square
The heart of New York City in so many ways, this neon-lit district is the Las Vegas of Manhattan. For nearly twenty years, apart from Broadway shows, the area was almost unbearable owing to the seedy inhabitants and shops. No more.
- Travel: New York - Wall Street Area
New Yorkers are famous for many things, not least of which is a sense of irony. One more instance of that can be found in the fact that Wall Street, by which most people really mean the New York Stock Exchange, isn't located on the street called Wall at all. It's actually at 20 Broad Street.
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