Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City and
coincides with New York County. The island of Manhattan lies at
the mouth of the Hudson River and is surrounded by the Hudson
River to the west, the East River to the east and the Harlem
River to the northeast.
The Borough of Manhattan includes
other smaller islands, including Liberty Island, Roosevelt
Island, U Thant Island (officially Belmont Island), Governors
Island, Randalls Island/Wards Island, and a small piece of the
mainland, Marble Hill. Ellis Island is part Manhattan and part
New Jersey.
Uptown Manhattan is the northern part of Manhattan that is
rarely visited by tourists (north of 59th Street):
Inwood, on
the northernmost tip of Manhattan, features Inwood Park, the
island's last remaining natural forest.
Fort George. Fort
Tryon Park, the highest natural elevation in Manhattan, and The
Cloisters, a medieval outpost of the Metropolitan Museum, are
located here.
The Washington Heights, a lively, mainly
Dominican neighborhood just north of West Harlem.
Hamilton
Heights
Harlem, America's most famous African American
borough, has become increasingly multicultural.
Manhattanville
Morningside Heights - Headquarters of Columbia
University and site of several churches.
Spanish Harlem –
Puerto Rican neighborhood in southeast Harlem.
Randalls Wards
Island
Central Park, with its lawns, trees, and ponds, is
famous as a recreational area and as a venue for concerts. Don't
forget the Central Park Zoo either.
Carnegie Hill - Site of
several important museums.
Due to its proximity to the
Theater District and Columbia University campus, the Upper West
Side has attracted artists and liberal intellectuals for many
decades. The neighborhood has been portrayed in many films and
television series (e.g. Seinfeld). The characteristic picture
includes wonderful residential streets, the facades of the old
apartment hotels on Central Park West and Riverside Drive, the
American Museum of Natural History and Lincoln Center with the
famous Metropolitan Opera House (Met).
Yorkville -
Residential neighborhood in the northeast of the Upper East
Side.
The Upper East Side, primarily a conservative
residential area, remains New York's most popular area. Here are
some of the country's most important art museums, such as the
"Guggenheim", the "Whitney" and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Roosevelt Island - a long strip of land in the East River
between Manhattan and Queens. Politically, the island is counted
as part of Manhattan, but due to its quiet character it does not
really belong to it.
"Midtown Manhattan" is understood in a broader sense as the
middle part of Manhattan, i. H. the section between 14th Street
and 59th Street/Central Park. Midtown is also divided into
several districts, the exact delimitation of which is often not
very clear:
There are two areas in Manhattan where the city
is dramatically built vertically. The younger of these is the
Financial District (see below). The older one - Midtown in the
narrower sense - is located in the southwest of Central Park.
Midtown is home to some of New York's most recognizable symbols,
such as Grand Central Terminal, Rockefeller Center and St.
Patrick's Cathedral.
Turtle Bay - District on the outskirts
of Midtown, the most prominent attraction of which is the UN
headquarters.
Hell's Kitchen – traditional working-class
district whose gentrification (= gentrification: process of
displacement of socially disadvantaged groups from inner-city
quarters) is only progressing slowly despite its proximity to
Midtown. Due to the proximity to Broadway and the comparatively
low rents, many up-and-coming actors have always lived here.
Times Square/Theater District - the part of Manhattan that is
meant when one speaks of "Broadway". Dozens of musical theaters
are dotted around Times Square, the city's most famous
intersection.
Garment District - the historic center of the
American fashion industry with many shopping opportunities.
Murray Hill – Residential area on the outskirts of Midtown with
no special attractions.
The former sleazy neighborhood of
Tenderloin was upgraded in the 1940s and today forms the
southern extension of the skyscraper district of Midtown
(strictly speaking). It's home to top attractions like the
Empire State Building, the New York Public Library and the
world's largest department store, Macy's.
Kips Bay -
Residential neighborhood on the edge of the East River.
Chelsea - This area is popular for its mix of fashion, design,
art and culture, as well as bars and restaurants. On the
outskirts of Chelsea is one of Manhattan's most famous squares:
Union Square.
Flatiron District - bustling small business
district centered around the intersection of 5th Ave & Broadway.
Gramercy - A chic, stylish district with stately residential
streets, gardens and squares, as well as trendy restaurants and
bars.
The neighborhood south of 14th Street is called "downtown"
(going "downtown" means going south).
West Village - today's
very posh western part of Greenwich Village. However, here is
also Christopher Street, the street with many gay bars, which
was the scene of the Stonewall Riots in 1969.
Greenwich
Village - Coffee houses, wine bars and small, artistically
designed houses. The former heart of the Beat movement has seen
a lot of gentrification, but retains its diverse styles and
student population.
East Village - rough and diverse,
increasingly gentrified in recent years, this neighborhood is
east of Broadway. Subcultures tied to the art and punk scenes of
the 1970s and 1980s, and Ukrainian, Jewish, and Hispanic
immigrant communities make it one of Manhattan's most dynamic
areas. The formerly seedy area east of the East Village proper,
known as "Alphabet City" because the avenues were named A
through D, is now included in the East Village.
Lower East
Side. Known as the ghetto of early 20th century Jewish
immigrants, this neighborhood is now experiencing a renaissance
with dozens of bars, clubs and restaurants.
Bowery -
Residential neighborhood with no particular attractions on the
edge of a busy commercial street.
NoLIta ("North of Little
Italy") - chic little yuppie residential area without tourist
highlights.
SoHo - "South of Houston Street" - was still an
artists' district in the 1980s. However, prices have since risen
and the galleries have disappeared. Remained are u. a. a small
museum for modern art and one for comics and cartoons. SoHo is
now a fashionable shopping and entertainment district, home to
many yuppies.
Chinatown retains its atmosphere, especially
around Mott Street and Canal Street. The shrinking Little Italy
still exists on Mulberry Street (and shows off all its energy on
Italian holidays - like September's feast of San Gennaro) but
the surrounding apartment blocks are slowly morphing into, or
becoming, fashionable NoLIta annexed by Chinatown.
TriBeCa -
"Triangle Below Canal Street". With trendy restaurants and
Robert DeNiro's annual film festival (Tribeca Film Festival),
it's popular with the rich and famous.
In the Civic Center
neighborhood you can see City Hall, board the museum ships at
the South Street Seaport, or take a walk across New York's most
famous bridge - the Brooklyn Bridge.
Battery Park City –
Battery Park, the departure point for ferries to Liberty Island
and Ellis Island. Site of Castle Clinton National Monument,
Museum of Jewish Heritage, National Museum of the American
Indian and Skyscraper Museum.
Financial District - New York's
financial district, Wall Street, Ground Zero.
By plane
If you are coming from Europe, we recommend arriving via
one of the following two airports:
John F. Kennedy International
Airport (JFK), on the southern edge of Queens
Newark Liberty
International Airport (EWR), in Newark, New Jersey
From JFK you
can take the Air Train, which connects the airport terminals in the
outer loop and then goes to the Jamaica station. From there, trains run
to Penn Station or Grand Central Terminal. This is recommended if you
don't have too much luggage and/or are on a budget. Taxis into the city
are quite expensive (fixed price: 45 US dollars (USD = $), but are
usually still cheaper than the minibuses or vans provided by many
hotels. There is also a bus that patrols the various terminals and
drives to Grand Central (10 USD per person) (as of 01/2007)
For
all airports close to the city, you should plan at least 1.5 to 2 hours
from the city center just for the journey (an additional two hours for
check-in). This is especially true on the constantly congested Van Wyck
Expressway bound for JFK. If you're arriving by subway, bear in mind
that carrying heavy luggage up the stairs is difficult, as there are no
elevators. If you want to take a taxi at the airport, you should make
sure that you only use official taxis and never accept offers from
private individuals. Otherwise you often have to pay an excessive price
or accept detours. There are also shared taxis that go to the suburbs.
Buses run from downtown to major airports, although buses to Grand
Central Terminal do not stop directly in front of it, but instead stop
at 41st or 40th Street and Park Avenue. Fares are comparable to the
AirTrain (a train to JFK Airport) and there is a bus service at least
once every hour. But especially for flights in the morning, you should
check the bus timetable beforehand and perhaps take a taxi instead.
Information on how to get here is also available here.
By
helicopter
Downtown Manhattan Heliport
Located at Pier 6 across
from Vietnam Veteran Plaza, the heliport is the ideal landing spot for
business travelers and sightseeing flights over New York City. It is
located on the southern tip of Manhattan, north of Staten Ferry Island
and south of the South Street Seaport. The FDR Drive south of the
Brooklyn Bridge starts at the heliport.
Since the heliport is
often used by VIPs or important business people, it is very well
equipped and offers a VIP lounge and a terminal that resembles a normal
airport and even houses a small souvenir shop. From here you can book
flights to/from any of New York's airports and often the helicopter
charter companies have agreements with the major airlines to transport
their passengers directly to/from the airport. This heliport is ideally
located for sightseeing flights, and while these tours aren't exactly
cheap, it's still a great way to get a bird's-eye view of New York.
There are the following providers of charter flights and sightseeing
flights over New York:
HeliNY
Liberty Helicopters
New York
Helicopters
U.S. Helicopters
Helicopter Ride New York
VIP
Heliport
This is on West 30th Street, right on the Hudson.
By
train
The following transit companies serve terminals in Manhattan
with their trains:
Pennsylvania Station (Penn Station) (8th Ave,
between 31st St and 33rd St, in the Chelsea neighborhood) is served by
14 lines of the national railroad company Amtrak. With these trains you
can reach, without having to change trains, e.g. Atlanta, Boston,
Charleston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Miami, New
Orleans, Niagara Falls, Philadelphia, Tampa, Washington DC and the
Canadian cities of Montreal and Toronto.
Metropolitan Transportation
Authority (MTA): A transit company that operates a network of regional
train lines (Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad, Staten Island
Railway) in addition to buses and streetcars. Train stations in
Manhattan:
Penn Station: Connections etc. to Queens and some New
Jersey cities.
Grand Central Station (corner of E 42nd St and Park
Ave, in the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan): Services to northern and
northeastern suburbs and neighboring cities such as Mount Vernon,
Poughkeepsie and New Haven.
Harlem-125th St (corner of E 125th St and
Park Ave, in the Harlem borough of Manhattan): Connections to northern
and northeastern suburbs and neighboring cities.
New Jersey
Transit: Regional transit company in the US state of New Jersey, whose
trains also serve Penn Station. In this way, there are direct
connections, e.g. to Clifton, Elizabeth, Passaic, Paterson, Trenton and
Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark.
Port Authority
Trans-Hudson (PATH): Regional transit company that operates some rail
lines connecting New Jersey with Manhattan. Stops in Manhattan:
World
Trade Center
Christopher St (between Greenwich St and Hudson St)
9th St (corner of 6th Ave)
14th St (corner of 6th Ave)
23rd St
(corner of 6th Ave)
33rd St (corner of 6th Ave)
By car
The
following highways lead to Manhattan:
Interstate Highway 95 (from
Miami, FL, Savannah, GA, Richmond, VA, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, ML
and Newark, NJ via George Washington Bridge, Manhattan and Bronx to New
Rochelle, NY, New Haven, CT, Boston, MA , Portland, ME to New Brunswick,
Canada)
Interstate Highway 495 (from Union City, NJ via Lincoln
Tunnel, Manhattan, Queens-Midtown Tunnel and Queens to Riverhead, Long
Island)
State Route 9A (from Yonkers, NY via Bronx to Manhattan)
See the Mobility section for tips on the sensitive issue of parking in
Manhattan.
By boat
Cruise Ships: The Manhattan Cruise Terminal
is located at Pier 90, approximately at 50th/52nd Street. St. The 50th
St and 59th St (Columbus Circle) metro stations at 8th Ave are about 1
mile away.
Ferries to and from New Jersey: Whitehall Terminal 4 South
St on the southern tip of Manhattan
on foot
It is said that New Yorkers are the only North Americans
who walk their city. However, due to the many road crossings, walking is
time-consuming. Therefore, many New Yorkers only see pedestrian lights
as a recommendation and are happy to cross the traffic light when it is
red.
taxi
New Yorkers either walk, take the subway, or take a
cab. The more than 12,000 Yellow Cabs that serve the city shape the
cityscape of NYC and are accordingly world famous.
Taxis are as
popular as they are hated. Taxis are relatively cheap and (except in
really bad weather) there is always an empty cab available. You simply
stand on the street with your arm raised (like the Statue of Liberty)
and catch the attention of one of the numerous yellow cars rushing by.
Incidentally, the taxi driver may well be less familiar with the area
than the passenger himself. "Yellow Medallion cabs" are the city's
official taxis. You should avoid so-called "gypsy cabs", which are
usually more expensive and possibly not quite as safe.
You only
pay the amount that is displayed on the taximeter and add another 10% to
20% tip on top of that. The price composition can also be viewed on the
website of the City of New York here.
The prices are made up as
follows:
Base price $3.25 plus $0.40 per additional unit:
1/5 mile
(4 blocks)
60 seconds when the taxi is stationary or driving slower
than 20 km/h
Night surcharge of $0.50 between 8pm and 6am
Rush
hour surcharge of $1.00 Mon-Fri 4pm-8pm
$0.50 tax surcharge
Toll
fees, if you were informed about them before driving
Travel
between Manhattan and JFK Airport is a flat rate of $55 (no surcharge)!
subway
If you are a tourist in NYC and are not yet familiar with
the subway, you should use local trains at first if possible. They stop
at every station! There are also express trains, which mostly (but not
always) thunder through the tunnels on the inner of the four tracks. If
you accidentally get on an express, it will carry you – without stopping
– far, far uptown or downtown or even to another part of the city.
The subway is considered very safe today. Nevertheless, the rule
applies: If possible, do not board empty wagons.
An overview of
the route network is available from the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority.
By bus
The transit company that operates the
subways in New York City (MTA) also maintains a dense network of bus
routes. Because most lines strictly follow a single street, bus travel
in Manhattan is very easy, even if you don't have a dedicated bus route
map with you. You pay when you get on the driver, either by MetroCard or
with counted coins; the ride, which includes transfers to other buses or
the subway, costs $2.50. Children who are smaller than 112 cm (usually
only pre-school children are that small) ride for free. As in almost all
American buses, you do not give the coins to the driver, but put them in
the fare box that is set up by the driver. The box cannot accept dollar
bills, nor does it give change. The driver doesn't have a wallet so he
can't be robbed. The MetroCard is also inserted into the box, with the
word MetroCard to the front and the magnetic stripe to the right.
MetroCards are only sold at machines and in local shops.
Once you
have paid the fare, you can use any local bus (express buses excluded)
and subway for two hours. If you pay with the MetroCard, it also serves
as a transfer ticket. If you pay with coins and plan to transfer later,
ask the driver for a transfer, which is a disposable Metrocard that you
use to show you've paid on the connecting bus.
In the street
Not recommended. While you may still be able to control the moving
traffic, the search for a parking space becomes a frustrating and
expensive experience at the latest. This applies above all to working
days.
NYC has Alternate Side Parking Regulations for street
cleaning and traffic flow. On clearly prescribed days/hours of the week,
parking is prohibited on one side of the street, then on the other side
of the street. If you ignore this rule and park your car on the wrong
side of the street at the wrong time, it will be taken away without
further ado.
Experienced New York tourists always ask before
visiting an attraction whether there is a parking lot or an underground
garage. If not, you determine the location of the nearest public car
park. We recommend the car parks of the Central Parking System, where
there are no surprises in terms of costs. The addresses of the branches
can also be found on the website. The characteristic yellow logo of this
provider should be well memorized, because at first glance parking
garages in Manhattan often don't look like parking garages at all, but
more like workshops or private garages. An alternative is the Icon
Parking Systems, which is another car park network (also with a
distinctive logo), whose branches z. T. offer very cheap tariffs. It's
worth comparing. Some independent parking garages act like highwaymen,
charging naïve outsiders fancy rates outrageous even for Manhattan.
Asking an independent parking provider what the rate is doesn't cost
anything, but if the price is too high, don't hesitate to forego it.
Building
Some of the most famous and worth seeing buildings in
Manhattan include:
American Stock Exchange (the stock exchange on
Wall Street), Financial District
Carnegie Hall (Concert Hall),
Midtown
Chrysler Building, Midtown
Empire State Building, Tender
Loin
Flatiron Building, Flatiron District
Grand Central Terminal
(former Central Station), Midtown
Lincoln Center for the Performing
Arts/Metropolitan Opera, Upper West Side
Madison Square Garden
(sports arena), Chelsea
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Midtown
Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum (“The Guggenheim”), Carnegie Hill
the new World
Trade Center, Financial District
Bridges
Hudson River:
George Washington Bridge, Washington
Heights
East River:
Brooklyn Bridge, the city's most beautiful and pedestrian-friendly
bridge, Civic Center
Manhattan Bridge, Chinatown
Williamsburg
Bridge, Lower East Side
Queensboro Bridge, Upper East Side
Triborough Bridge, Harlem
Harlem River:
Willis Avenue Bridge,
Harlem
3rd Avenue Bridge, Harlem
Madison Avenue Bridge, Harlem
145th Street Bridge, Harlem
Macombs Dam Bridge, Harlem
Cross Bronx
Expressway, Washington Heights
Washington Bridge, Washington Heights
W 207th Street Bridge, Inwood
Broadway Bridge, Inwood
Henry Hudson
Bridge, Inwood
Charging Bull, Financial District
Cleopatra's Needle, Central Park
Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island (Ferries depart from Battery Park).
Liberty Island actually belongs to New Jersey.
World Trade Center
Site (the term “Ground Zero”, popular in Germany, is not very common in
the USA), Financial District
Manhattan offers a wealth of world-famous museums, lesser-known
museums and hidden little museums rarely visited by European tourists.
Museum buffs can easily shell out a small fortune for tickets in
Manhattan, so planning your visit is highly recommended. Many museums
offer free entry on certain nights. In some museums there is no entry
fee at all. Commercial art galleries are also free to visit.
For
many Manhattan visitors, purchasing the New York City Pass is worth
considering. This costs $132 (children 12-17 $108) and includes
admission to the following museums and attractions: American Museum of
Natural History, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Empire State Building Observatory,
Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises.
Museums in Manhattan (Overview)
For children
Children's Galleries for Jewish Culture. Chelsea.
Children's Museum of Manhattan. Upper West Side.
Discovery Center.
Central Park.
National Museum of Mathematics, 26th Street. Email:
info@momath.org. Flatiron District.
Art
General Art Museums,
older art
The Cloisters, Fort George
Dahesh Museum, Midtown
The
Frick Collection, Upper East Side
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Upper East Side
20th Century and Present
Chelsea Art Museum,
Chelsea
Guggenheim Museum Soho, SoHo
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA),
Midtown
New Museum, Bowery
The Neue Galerie, Upper East Side
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (“The Guggenheim”), Carnegie Hill
The Whitney Museum of American Art, Upper East Side
Special
topics:
American Folk Art Museum, Midtown
Cooper-Hewitt National
Design Museum, Carnegie Hill
The Jewish Museum of New York, Carnegie
Hill
Museum of Biblical Art, Upper West Side
Museum of Comic and
Cartoon Art (MoCCA), SoHo
The National Academy of Design, Carnegie
Hill
National Museum of Catholic Art and History, Spanish Harlem
Rubin Museum of Art (RMA, art from the Himalayan region), Chelsea
Society of Illustrators, Upper East Side
History, immigration,
minorities
African American Wax Museum of Harlem, Harlem
The
American Numismatic Society, Financial District
Genesis II Museum of
International Black Culture, Harlem
Lower East Side Tenement Museum,
Lower East Side
Merchant's House Museum, East Village
Mount Vernon
Hotel Museum & Garden, Upper East Side
El Museo del Barrio, Spanish
Harlem
Museum of American Financial History, Financial District
Museum of Chinese in the Americas, Chinatown
Museum of Jewish
Heritage, Battery Park City
The Museum of the City of New York,
Spanish Harlem
National Museum of the American Indian, Battery Park
City
New York Historical Society, Upper West Side
Ukrainian
Museum, East Village
Natural sciences, technology, transport
American Museum of Natural History, Upper West Side
Intrepid Sea, Air
& Space Museum, Hell's Kitchen
Museum of TV & Radio, Midtown
Sony
Wonder Technology Lab, Midtown
South Street Seaport Museum, Civic
Center
Other topics
Madame Tussaud's. Times Square.
The
Morgan Library & Museum. tenderloin.
Museum of Sex. tenderloin.
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Harlem.
The New York City Police
Museum. Financial District.
NYC Fire Museum. Edit SoHo.info
Skyscraper Museum. Battery Park City.
Those who visit Manhattan have hardly chosen this destination in an
effort to see something green. The New York Metropolitan Area is mostly
densely built-up over its 17,405 km² total area, and the nearest true
forest (Harrison State Park) is a 1-hour drive from Manhattan. For the
residents of Manhattan, the urban green spaces are a vital necessity and
so you will not only find such famous and garden-architecturally
important parks such as Central Park on this island, but also countless
smaller parks, some of which are marked on the city map, many of which
are well hidden and only visited by locals.
In downtown Manhattan
are Battery Park (Battery Park City), from which the ferries to the
Statue of Liberty depart, City Hall Park (Civic Center) around City
Hall, Columbus Park (Chinatown), populated by Chinese, Tompkins Square
Park ( East Village) and Washington Square Park (Greenwich Village),
which is dominated by a student crowd.
Midtown Manhattan is home
to Union Square (on the outskirts of Chelsea), Gramercy Park (Gramercy),
Madison Square Park, and Bryant Park (both in the Tenderloin).
One of the most important green areas in Uptown Manhattan is the very
quiet Carl Schurz Park (Yorkville).
Hudson River Park stretches
along the entire west bank from downtown to midtown Manhattan. Portions
of this park are still in development. The park is part of the "emerald
green necklace" that the city government wants to put around the entire
waterfront of Manhattan. More of a promenade than a park, it is ideal
for strolling along the water. Open-air film screenings on the piers on
summer nights.
Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan is the highest
point with one of the best views of the city. It's also home to the
Cloisters, a branch of the Metropolitan Museum that houses medieval art
including the famous Unicorn Tapestries.
Riverside Park, one of
Manhattan's most beautiful and longest waterfront parks, is located on
the Upper West Side and overlooks the Hudson River in New Jersey.
Opera
Manhattan has two major opera companies: the Metropolitan
Opera (Met) and the New York City Opera. The former is based in the
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (Upper West Side), the latter has
not had its own house since 2011 due to a lack of money, but performs on
changing stages.
Next door in the Bronx is the Bronx Opera and in
Brooklyn is the Opera Company of Brooklyn. Only the former has its own
venue.
Furthermore, in Manhattan and New York City there are many
medium, small and very small professional ensembles, most of which do
not have their own theaters but perform on changing stages, including:
American Lyric Theater
American Opera Projects (aop)
Center for
Contemporary Opera
Chelsea Opera
dell'Arte Opera Ensemble
Encompass New Opera Theatre
Family Opera Initiative
Gotham Chamber
Opera
New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players
Opera Ebony. The most
traditional Afro-American opera company in the USA.
Opera Noire of
New York
Teatro Grattacielo. Specializing in rarely performed verismo
operas.
Unfortunately, the tiny Amato Opera had to close in 2009.
In their place have come Bleecker Street Opera and Amore Opera.
Opera fans who come to New York in the summer, when the big houses are
closed, can compensate for the season break with either a guided tour of
the Met, or a four-hour trip to Cooperstown, home of the annual
Glimmerglass Festival in July and August is organized, a small summer
program with opera productions of the very finest.
musicals
Each musical has its own theater, 39 in total. Remaining tickets are
sold at a booth in Times Square (not to be missed in the afternoon
because of the long lines) at reasonable prices.
The most
important musicals and their theaters:
Beauty and the Beast,
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 205 West 46th Street. Tel: (212) 3074747. Open:
Tue 7pm, Wed-Fri 8pm, Sat 2pm and 8pm, Sun 1:30pm and 7pm. Price:
$40-110.
Hairspray, Neil Simon Theater, 250 West 52nd Street (between
7th and 8th Avenues). Tel: (212) 3074100. Open: Tue 7pm, Wed 2pm and
8pm, Thu 7pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 2pm and 8pm, Sun 3pm. Price: $5-110.
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Phantom of the Opera, Majestic Theater.
gospel services
Several churches in Harlem allow guests to attend services as a guest.
However, access is strictly limited and tourists usually have to queue
up one block away. After the congregation has taken a seat, the
remaining places are distributed. If you're too far back in line, you're
out of luck.
cinemas
Manhattan is a movie buff's paradise. The
city, itself the subject of countless films, has a large number of
cinemas that present a film program outside of the mainstream. New York
City's cinematic landscape is a welcome exception to the rule that
foreign and independent films are largely inaccessible to American
audiences.
If you're looking for a cinema showing independent,
avant-garde, experimental, foreign, documentaries or old Hollywood
films, the best places to start are in the East Village, Greenwich
Village, Turtle Bay, Upper West Side and Chelsea. There are also a few
such cinemas in TriBeCa, SoHo, Midtown and the Upper East Side. You
don't have to look far for cinemas with a mainstream programme, they can
be found in almost every part of the city. IMAX fans will love the Upper
West Side.
Manhattan has many well-preserved historic movie
palaces, most of which sadly no longer serve as movie theaters. In the
city's largest surviving cinema, the Beacon Theater (Upper West Side),
e.g. B. concerts instead. Others house theatres, churches or conference
centers. However, some traditional cinema palaces have continued to
operate to this day. A visit is particularly worthwhile where the
excitingly decorated main hall has been preserved and not replaced by
multiplex halls (see Midtown, Times Square and Upper West Side).
You can find out which films are currently playing on websites such as
the following:
Google
Citysearch
New York Movies
Other
interesting cinema links:
Cinema Treasures
NYC's Best Movie
Theaters
Offbeat Movie Theaters in NYC
Jogging, cycling,
swimming
Distances: approx. 80 m between two streets. approx. 300 m
between 2 avenues.
Jog
It is known that this can be done in
Central Park. A "lap" is about 10 km.
The banks of the Hudson
River/Riverside Park are less well-known, but at least as beautiful.
From 59th Street north, this is a park with a lot of people, not "danger
seeker ground". Wonderful for jogging between the water and the city. At
96th Street you go to the east side of Hudson Parkhway and then head
north, then a short uphill walk to Grants Tomb at 120th, and if you want
to go the long way back to the water at 125th... 59th to 120th is just
under three miles .
Cycle
Possible in Central Park, but
strictly regulated: Only the ring road is permitted, only
anti-clockwise, like Almabtrieb :-(
Again the Hudson shore from 59th.
It's easy to get up to the Washington Bridge (180th) and further if you
want.
Nice bike tour: rent a bike somewhere in Midtown, then over to
the Hudson and north to Grants Tomb (about 120th) or further, if you
want, then east to Broadway, south, at 116th east through Columbia
University, then on to 110th St/8th Ave = Central Park, from there to
59th in Central Park back again.
Bathe
In summer with the
subway to the Atlantic beach: With the Q-Line z. B. 45 minutes from 34th
St/6th Ave to Ocean Parkway in southern Brooklyn, from there 5 minutes
walk to the beach: big, clean, safe :-)
Miscellaneous
a walk
over the Brooklyn Bridge: The best thing to do is take the subway to
Brooklyn and walk across the bridge towards Manhattan, then you always
have a view of the great skyline. In the summer, at least on the
Manhattan side, it is also safe at night: almost mass migration
Regular events
The Steuben Parade takes place on Fifth Avenue on the
third Saturday of September every year. The parade was founded in 1957
by German-Americans.
The name Manhattan (originally Manna-hata or Mannahatta, but the
spellings Manados, Manahata, Manahtoes, Manhattos are also
authenticated) comes from an Algonquin Indian language, the Lenape, and
means something like "hilly country" or "land of many hills". A group of
the Munsee Indian tribe was called Manhattan (see Lenni Lenape). The
Algonquin were the first inhabitants of Manhattan, with the
Wickquaesgeck inhabiting the north between Harlem Creek and
Manhattanville around 1600, and the Reckgawawanck in the south of the
island. However, both tribes had their main villages on the mainland,
where most of their territory was located. In 1524, the Italian Giovanni
da Verrazzano was the first European to sight the island of Manhattan.
In the 17th century the island was bought from the Indians by Peter
Minuit for goods worth 60 Dutch guilders.
Manhattan was settled
by the Dutch from 1624 (see Nieuw Amsterdam). In 1667, the Netherlands
ceded the island to the English in the Treaty of Breda. In exchange they
received Run, a small Indonesian island, with which they could secure
their spice monopoly for a century. The "Welikia Project" (also
"Mannahatta Project") tries to reconstruct New York City's original
landscape from 400 years ago.
Historical objects
Between Pearl
Street, Water Street, Broad Street and the Coenties Slip stands the
Fraunces Tavern Block, a block listed on April 28, 1977 by the National
Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as a historic building with number
77000957. The first constructions in this block of 16 buildings date
back to around 1719.
At 21 Stuyvesant Street is the Hamilton Fish
House (also known as the Stuyvesant-Fish House or Nicholas and Elizabeth
Stuyvesant Fish House), built in 1803. The home of future New York
Governor Hamilton Fish was listed on July 31, 1972 by the National
Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Monument with number
72001456. It was also registered as a National Historic Landmark (NHL)
on May 15, 1975.
Completed in 1784, the Dyckman House is the only
surviving farmhouse in Manhattan. It is located in the Inwood
neighborhood on the corner of Broadway and 204th Street. The Dutch
Colonial-style home is now a museum and was listed on the National
Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks on December
24, 1967 with number 67000014.
There are four national monuments and
three national memorials in Manhattan. 90 locations have National
Historic Landmark status. A total of 543 structures and sites in the
county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as of
February 17, 2018.
Manhattan is 21.6 kilometers long and between 1.3 and 3.7 kilometers
wide. According to the United States Census Bureau, Manhattan has an
area of 87.5 km², of which 59.5 km² is land and 28.0 km² is water. The
highest natural point is Long Hill, Fort Washington/Bennett Park (184th
Street and Fort Washington Boulevard) at 80.77 m, marked by a plaque.
Manhattan is connected to the mainland and neighboring island to the
east by bridges and tunnels: to the west with New Jersey, to the east
with the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens on Long Island, and to the
northeast with the Bronx. The only direct connection to Staten Island is
the Staten Island Ferry, whose terminal is at Battery Park.
Central Park divides central Manhattan into Upper East Side and Upper
West Side. This is reflected in the street names, which are divided into
East streets (east of 5th Avenue) and West streets (west of 5th Avenue).
Fifth Avenue meets Central Park to the north, which from there is
considered the divider between East and West, and Washington Square Park
to the south. From Washington Square Park, Broadway serves as a dividing
street until the east-west division gradually disappears in the more
convoluted street network at the southern tip.
In addition to the
Upper East Side, there is the Lower East Side on the southern eastern
tip of Manhattan. Originally, the East Village to the north also
belonged to this. The term Lower West Side is not common. However, as a
counterpart to the East Village, there is the West Village. South of the
Upper East and Upper West Side, in addition to the neighborhoods just
mentioned, there are about a dozen other neighborhoods such as SoHo,
Tribeca, Financial District, Gramercy Park, etc.
In Manhattan, uptown means north and downtown means south. For
example, the subway's Uptown Trains travel north to Manhattan and
Downtown Trains travel south. The area between 23rd Street and 59th
Street is called Midtown. Midtown Manhattan is the largest downtown
business and office complex in the United States and extends south to
Chambers Street.
Lower Manhattan or Downtown Manhattan refers to
the lower and southwestern part of the island south of Chambers Street.
It includes the areas of City Hall, the Financial District and the site
of the 2001 destroyed (Ground Zero) and rebuilt World Trade Center and
its immediate vicinity. Lower Manhattan is the fourth largest downtown
business and office complex in the United States.
At the beginning of the 19th century the city grew faster and faster;
new residential areas should be developed. In 1811, the city planners
decided with the Commissioners' Plan to cover the entire island of
Manhattan, of which until then almost only the southern tip was built
up, with a uniform, easy to remember street network (English: grid). The
design of the ingeniously simple street grid (Randel plan) came from
John Randel jr. (1787-1865). Also known as the Manhattan street grid.
The twelve north-south aligned longitudinal streets were given names
with the addition "Avenue". The east-west oriented intersecting streets
were generally given names with increasing numbers going north and the
suffix "Street". They are numbered from the south from Bleecker/Houston
Street with the ordinal numbers from 1st to 193rd in the north at the
height of the Bronx.
5th Avenue divides the east and west cross
streets, with each side having its own distinct from 5th Ave. from
ascending house numbering. For example, the addresses 10 East 42nd
Street and 10 West 42nd Street are two different buildings. Central Park
lies on its north-south axis between 59th Street and 110th Street. 5th
Avenue forms its eastern edge. South of Houston Street the naming was
already done. The other exceptions in the system were the existing
Broadway as the central axis to Central Park, Times Square and the West
(partially 10th, 11th and 12th Avenue) and South Streets and .the FDR
Drive as the easternmost traffic axis.
Manhattan also has a few
east-west oriented streets that serve developmental functions as links
between tunnels or bridges across Manhattan: 36th Street through 40th
Street between the Lincoln and Queens-Midtown Tunnels and the streets
between Canal Street (at the Holland Tunnel ) and the feeders of the
Williamsburg Bridge.
The same applies to the George Washington
Bridge and its continuation in the Cross Bronx Expressway in the north
of the island. Manhattan is only used as a bridge pillar on this side of
the Hudson.
New York is the fashion capital of the USA and people come here from
all over the world to shop. There is a plethora of department stores,
boutiques and specialty shops. Some neighborhoods have more shopping
than most American cities, and they've only become famous for being the
destination of consumers. Everything anyone would ever want to buy can
be found in Manhattan: clothing, computers and accessories, music,
musical instruments, electronics, artwork, sports equipment, all kinds
of groceries and kitchenware.
Shopping districts and malls
shopping miles
In the Midtown district is the shopping street Fifth
Avenue with famous department stores such as Abercrombie & Fitch,
Bergdorf-Goodman, FOA Schwartz and Saks Fifth Avenue.
Madison and
Lexington Avenues in the heart of the hyper-rich Upper East Side.
Madison and Lexington Avenues are the hub of New York's haute couture,
filled with small shops offering outrageously expensive clothing,
accessories and home goods for people who don't need to look at the
price tag. Even if you can't afford to shop there, it's still nice to
stroll through the shops.
Canal Street, the popular contrast to
Madison and Lexington Avenues. The part of Canal Street that lies east
of Broadway on the outskirts of Chinatown is a haven for bargain hunters
and people looking to shop for knock-offs of expensive clothes and
accessories. If you want to impress your friends back home with a Louis
Vuitton bag you bought for $20, you have to go here! Also check out the
shops on Mott Street between Canal and Chatham Square.
SoHo. Once an
artists' colony in a rather seedy part of town, SoHo is now a premier
shopping destination, especially on weekends when the sidewalks on West
Broadway, Prince Street and Broadway become almost impassable.
NoLIta. NoLIta (North of Little Italy), first derided as a neighborhood
nickname, has now been repeated enough times to be an official name. The
area has become synonymous with avant-couture boutiques housed in lovely
derelict buildings. Some stores are so quirky that they don't appear to
be selling anything, but they're consistently crammed and passionately
chic.
Manhattan Mall, Herald Square, Garment District
Shops at Columbus
Circle, Upper West Side
Fashion
Department stores, discounters
Barneys$$$, Upper East Side
Bergdorf Goodman$$$, Midtown
Bloomingdale's$$$, Midtown
Burlington Coat Factory$$, Chelsea
Century 21$, Financial District
Daffy's$, Financial District, SoHo,
Chelsea, Garment District, Midtown
Filene's Basement$, Chelsea, Upper
West Side
Lord & Taylor$$, Tenderloin
Macy's$$, Garment District
Saks Fifth Avenue$$$, Midtown
American department stores usually
specialize to a greater or lesser extent in clothing, accessories and
cosmetics. Only occasionally you will find a department z. B. for
consumer electronics or household appliances. Americans usually do not
buy such articles in department stores, but in relevant specialist
department stores.
Individual Brands
Abercrombie & Fitch$$$,
Financial District, SoHo, Midtown
Aéropostale$$ (teenage fashion),
Garment District
American Eagle Outfitters$$, Financial District,
SoHo, Chelsea, Garment District
Banana Republic$$, Battery Park City,
SoHo, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Garment District, Midtown, Upper West
Side, Upper East Side
Eddie Bauer$$, SoHo, Midtown, Turtle Bay, Upper
West Side, Upper East Side
Benetton$$$, Financial District, Greenwich
Village, Chelsea, Midtown, Upper West Side
Diesel$$, SoHo, Chelsea,
Upper West Side, Upper East Side
Christian Dior$$$, Midtown
Gap$$,
Midtown
Gucci$$$, Midtown
H&M$, SoHo, Chelsea, Garment District,
Midtown, Harlem
Calvin Klein$$, SoHo, Gramercy, Garment District,
Tenderloin, Midtown, Upper East Side
Old Navy$, SoHo, Chelsea,
Garment District, Harlem
J&R, just across from City Hall, is most likely the place in town to
find the electronics or computer tech you're looking for, often at good
prices. There is also a separate department where CDs are sold. Their
cameras are good, but they rank second to B&H in this area. One should
not omit the low-price area, where items are offered at greatly reduced
prices.
Adorama, 42 W. 18th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues). One
of the largest suppliers of cameras, film and photographic equipment of
all kinds in the US. Since the shop is almost exclusively orthodox Jews,
it is closed on Saturdays but open every other day of the week.
B&H,
at 34th St. and 9th Avenue, is the place to go to find any camera and
accessories you're looking for. The selection is good, the staff
knowledgeable and eager to offer advice. The shop is run by Hasidist
Jews and is closed on Friday evenings, Saturdays and all Jewish
holidays, but is open on Sundays.
Art
Pearl Paint on Canal
Street is touted by many artists as the best and least overpriced art
store. It is best to eat in Chinatown beforehand and then walk west to
the shop.
Books
For fans of English-language books, Manhattan
is a unique shopping paradise. There are large, modern bookstores with
offers for the whole family, university bookstores, impressively stocked
second-hand bookstores, small neighborhood bookstores with expert advice
and specialist bookstores for every imaginable subject.
Strand
Books, 828 Broadway (corner of 12th Street, in the East Village
neighborhood). Phone: (212) 473-1452. The world's largest second-hand
bookseller, rumored to have bookshelves that hold a total of 18 miles of
rows of books, but all at the edge of capacity. A recent refurbishment
has given the room an awful lot of boarding up, but given the
wall-to-wall corridors, first-time visitors will be all the more
amazed.infoedit
Three Lives & Company, 154 W 10th St (near Waverly
Pl, in the West Village neighborhood). This microscopic, yet utterly
delightful bookstore is the essence of Greenwich Village. With its very
knowledgeable and friendly staff, the store has won the heart of every
New York book lover. When people debate the nature of local booksellers,
Three Lives is what they mean.
The bookstore chain Barnes & Noble has
branches in the districts of TriBeCa (97 Warren St), Greenwich Village,
East Village (4 Astor Place) and Union Square (33 E 17th St).
Addresses of bookstores can be found on websites such as:
ny.com
nyc.com
Groceries
Some of the best gourmet supermarkets are
located on the Upper West Side, including e.g. B. Zabar's.
Kalustyan's, 27 St. and Lexington, has the widest range of Central
Asian, South Asian and Mediterranean groceries in Manhattan. Don't miss
the second floor, where you can eat the fabulous Mujadara sandwiches.
Hong Kong Supermarket, Pike St. and East Broadway, is the largest
Chinese supermarket. Travelers unfamiliar with Chinese cuisine will be
intrigued, and those who do will be equally delighted by the choice and
pricing.
If you try fast food in Manhattan, it's your own fault. Nowhere else
in the American East are there as many interesting restaurants as in
Manhattan. All price ranges are represented. If you have to save, you
should rather orientate yourself towards ethnic cuisine (e.g. the
Vietnamese) than towards the international fast food chains. However,
you should also get to know the local specialties - such as pastrami
sandwiches, New York style bagels, New York style clam chowder or New
York style cheese cake - which you should never buy in the supermarket
to try, but only at the best relevant addresses .
Some of the
city's most famous restaurants include:
21 clubs. (Midtown)
Le
Bernardine. (Midtown)
chanterelle (TriBeCa)
P.J. Clarke's. (Turtle
Bay)
The Four Seasons Restaurant. (Midtown)
Gallagher's Steak
House. (Midtown)
Gotham Bar & Grill. (Greenwich Village)
La
Grenouille. (Midtown)
Jean Georges. (Upper West Side)
Katz's
Delicatessen. (Lower East Side)
Life Cafe. (East Village)
masa
(Upper West Side)
Il Mulino. (Greenwich Village)
Oyster Bar &
Restaurant. (Midtown)
per se (Upper West Side)
The Rainbow Room.
(Midtown)
Russian Tea Room. (Midtown)
Sardi's. (Times Square)
Second Avenue Deli. (East Village)
Serendipity 3. (Upper East Side)
Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem. (harlem)
Tavern on the Green. (Central
Park)
Tom's restaurant. (Morningside Heights) edit info
Union
Square Cafe. (Chelsea)
New York is a non-smoker's paradise. Even
in clubs and bars smoking is only allowed on the street. There are no
smoking areas in restaurants.
In hardly any other city in the USA are the hotel room prices as high
as in Manhattan. A careful comparison of the offers is recommended, as
is early booking. You can often save a lot of money if you make a "blind
booking" via Hotwire or Priceline (name your own price), where you only
find out the name of the hotel after the booking has been completed. The
large hotel chains are offering their otherwise non-negotiable
overcapacities at discount prices. The only disadvantage for the
customer with this booking method is that he can no longer cancel.
Cheap
The cheapest is to stay in a youth hostel (hostel), where
you often have the choice between a place in a dorm (dormatory, occupies
6-8 people) or a private room with a single bed, bunk bed (bunk bed) or
double bed. Some youth hostels also have larger private rooms for
families with children. Showers, sinks and toilets are usually located
in the hallway as communal facilities (shared bath). However, you can
often find private rooms with a private bath. The offers of some
commercial budget hotels differ only slightly from those of youth
hostels, but here there are usually no dormitories, only private rooms.
Expect to pay $20-50 for a night in a dormitory and $80-120 for a
private room. Choosing cheap accommodation is only advisable if you
really have little money available. Most New York hostels and budget
hotels are the opposite of homey. It is also advisable to research e.g.
B. at www.tripadvisor.com, where you can see room photos that were not
taken by the hotelier, but by the more or less satisfied guests.
The best place to start looking for cheap accommodation is on the Upper
West Side, where the choice is greatest. Many other budget hotels are
located in the Bowery, Turtle Bay, Gramercy and Harlem areas. You can
also occasionally find cheap accommodation in Times Square, East
Village, Chelsea, Murray Hill and Carnegie Hill.
It is best to
book cheap accommodation directly with the provider. An agency can
hardly bring the prices down any further, but often forces the customer
to use a service package that does not include a right of cancellation
(which may be particularly difficult for customers who already have
little money). In the case of a direct booking, however, you can cancel
free of charge if you notify the hotel 48 hours before moving into the
room.
Middle
If you're disgusted by rundown bathroom fixtures
and expect carpet, furniture, and linens to be in reasonably good shape,
you should spend at least $200 on a Manhattan hotel room. We also
recommend researching at www.tripadvisor.com for middle-class hotels.
In other parts of the New York Metropolitan Area, e.g. B. at Newark
Airport, you live much nicer and more spacious than in Manhattan with
similarly high room rents, but you have to weigh up whether you want to
pay for the increased comfort with the longer travel distances.
If you book through an (online) agency, it is advisable to compare their
offer with the price that the hotel quotes on its own website. Agencies
often give the same price as the hotel, but add their agency fee to it
and also make a possible cancellation more difficult.
Many good
mid-range hotels are located in the Chelsea, Garment District,
Tenderloin and Turtle Bay areas. A few mid-range hotels can also be
found in Bowery, Gramercy, Murray Hill, Hell's Kitchen, Times Square,
Upper East Side, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill.
upscale
Manhattan's poshest and most expensive hotels, like the Plaza Hotel and
the Waldorf Astoria, are in the Midtown area. Luxury hotels are also
found in smaller numbers in the Battery Park City, Financial District,
SoHo, Murray Hill, Gramercy and Upper East Side neighborhoods.
Anyone who cannot afford a room at such a fine address, but still wants
to get a taste of a bit of luxury, throws on the best wardrobe they have
brought with them, goes to a noble hotel of their choice and enjoys the
lavish rooms with their eyes while they sit at the bar drinks a coffee.
Unusual hotels
Carlton Arms Hotel. With individual wall paintings
in the rooms. Gramercyn
Chelsea Star Motel. With originally designed
rooms. Chelsea
Hotel Kitano. Designed and run in Japanese style.
tenderloin
Manhattan and New York's crime rates have declined sharply over the past decade. In fact, New York has been the safest major city in the United States in recent years. So you don't have to be afraid to walk the streets, take the subway or a bus, even in the middle of the night. Of course, one should not forget the usual precautions, especially during the holiday season pickpockets tend to hang around near tourist attractions, e.g. B. Times Square, 42nd Street, Macy's and everywhere where there is a crowd. In order to make life difficult for them, you should never put your wallet in your back pocket, but in the front. Anyone who carries a handbag should ensure that it is properly closed and carried close to the body. If you look z. B. in a restaurant, do not place valuables in such a way that a thief can take them in passing.
Don't stop in the middle of the sidewalk. Otherwise you will be run
over.
A New Yorker pauses at a red light only long enough to allow a
sufficiently large gap in traffic to cross the street - even if the cop
on the corner is watching.
New York is built tall, the horizontal
distances are manageable.
Taxis are comparatively cheap and if there
are four of you, you pay no more than for a subway ride. Important: A
taxi is only free when its middle light is switched on. Two lights on
the right and left mean it is out of service.
Trying to get around
Manhattan with a stroller is about as difficult as driving a truck
through a German pedestrian zone on a Saturday afternoon. Manhattan is
definitely not a destination for a trip with young children.
Finding
a “quiet place” can be difficult. Not all restaurants or cafés have
toilets, and if they do, strict controls are in place to ensure that
only guests use them. The fast food chains are worth a try, but you
often have to wait in line for a while. A good alternative are large
specialty stores, which in the US almost always have customer's
bathrooms. Visiting the toilet in luxury department stores is
particularly attractive because the bathrooms – especially the
facilities for women – are not only designed so elegantly that you want
to move in, but you can also leave the house through the perfumery
department afterwards , also put up with a free perfume shower.
If
you don't want to attract attention as a tourist, you should get used to
not looking up all the time, which is not easy given the imposing
buildings. But a Manhattan resident who is used to all this only looks
up to the third floor!
It is very easy to find your way around in large parts of Manhattan,
as the streets are arranged in a grid at right angles. The avenues -
long, wide streets - run north to south, with 1st Avenue on Manhattan's
east bank and 12th Avenue on the west bank. The Streets, on the other
hand, run east-west, beginning at 1st Street on the south end of Midtown
Manhattan, just above Houston Street, and ending at 220th Street on the
north end of the island. (Note, there is one exception: in Greenwich
Village, the streets don't follow this pattern!)
In the case of
addresses, the streets are given the suffix West or East or W or E. West
means west of 5th Avenue, East accordingly east of it. Example: "234 W
42nd Street". Avenues in particular also indicate between which streets
the location you are looking for is located, e.g. "787 9th Avenue
(between 52nd and 53rd St.)". This is also sometimes done with streets,
often omitting the avenue: "325 West 51st St (between Eighth and Ninth)"
means between 8th and 9th Avenue.
To estimate
north-south distances, it's useful to know that 20 blocks (one block is
between two streets) is exactly one mile, or about 1 mile.
New
York slang
Houston Street - not pronounced like singer Whitney
Houston, but more like "How-ston Street". Nobody knows why, but that's
how it is.
Bridge and Tunnel - that's how Manhattanites call a club
or disco that they find backwoods. "This club is so bridge-and-tunnel"
(Explanation: There are a lot of people there who came into Manhattan
from the other boroughs via the bridges and tunnels.)
Grid - The web,
the streets of Manhattan.
Miscellaneous
As strange as it
sounds, finding an internet café in New York is not that easy. There are
"Office Centers" where access is available for an exorbitant price, but
you also have printers, scanners and a fast PC equipped with
professional software.
There is an affordable option in Times
Square, and there are hundreds of PCs in the easyInternetcafé. Address:
234 W. 42nd St, Times Square, open daily from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m.
five USD for four hours.
The Apple Store on 5th Ave./corner 59
Street offers a good opportunity to access the Internet free of charge
and with a very good connection. Located right at the southern beginning
of Central Park, the glass cube with the distinctive logo cannot be
overlooked. WLAN already works 20 meters outside the store. In the store
itself there are countless laptops, iPads, iPhones and much more.
available for testing, all with high-speed connectivity where you can
casually surf the web or check your email.