TOP SIGHTS • LOCAL LIFE • MADE EASY

Brandon Presser

NEW YORK CITY

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Restaurants Breakfast 6am to noon, lunch 11am to 3pm and dinner 5pm to 11pm. The popular Sun-day brunch (often served on Saturdays too) lasts from 11am until 4pm.

Shops 10am to 7pm Monday to Friday, 11am to Saturdays. Sundays can be variable – some stores stay closed while others keep weekday hours. Stores tend to stay open later in the neighbor-hoods downtown.

Discount Cards The following discount cards o er a variety of passes and perks to some of the city’s must-sees. Check the websites for more details.

Downtown Culture Pass (www.downtownculturepass.org)

New York CityPASS (www.citypass.com)

Explorer Pass (www.nyexplorerpass.com)

The New York Pass (www.newyorkpass.com)

Electricity The United States electric current is 110V to 115V, 60Hz AC. Outlets are made for at two-prong

plugs (which often have a third, rounded prong for grounding). If your appliance is made for another electrical system

(eg 220V), you’ll need a step-down converter, which can be bought at hardware stores and drugstores for around $25 to $60. However, most electronic devices (laptops, camera-battery chargers etc) are built for dual-voltage use, and will only need a plug adapter.

The website www.kropla.com provides useful information on electricity and adapters.

Emergency Police, Fire & Ambulance (%911) Poison control(%800-222-1222)

Money y Top Tip US dollars are the only accepted currency in NYC. While debit and credit cards are widely accepted, it’s wise to have a combina-tion of cash and cards on hand.

ATMs Automatic teller

machines are on practi-cally every corner. You can either use your card at banks – usu-ally in a 24-hour-access lobby, lled with up to a dozen monitors at major branches – or you can opt for the lone wolves,

Private car serv-ices are a common taxi alternative in the outer boroughs. Fares di er de-pending on the neighbor-hood and length of ride, and must be determined beforehand, as they have no meters.

Walking y Best for... exploring quaint neighborhoods like the West Village, the East Village, Chinatown and SoHo.

Screw the subway, cabs and buses, and go green. New York, down deep, can’t be seen until you’ve taken the time to hit the sidewalks: the whole thing, like Nancy Sinatra’s boots, is made for pedes-trian transport.

Broadway runs the length of Manhattan, about 13.5 miles. Cross-ing the East River on the pedestrian planks of the Brooklyn Bridge is a New York classic. Central Park trails can get you to wooded pockets where you can’t even see or hear the city.

Bus y Best for… taking in the city’s atmosphere as you make your way across town.

Buses are operated by the MTA, the same folks that run the subway. They share an identical ticket-ing system.

Express buses run north–south along the city’s eastern avenues – just make sure to purchase your ticket in advance.

Crosstown buses are numbered according to the street they traverse.

Boat y Best for… visiting the Statue of Liberty and snapping photos of the skyline.

The zippy yellow boats that make up the eet of New York Water Taxi (%212-742-1969; www.nywatertaxi.com; hop-on-hop-o service 1 day $26) are an interesting alternative way of getting around. Boats run along several di erent routes, includ-ing a hop-on, hop-o weekend service around Manhattan and Brooklyn.

New York Water Taxi also runs year-round commuter services connecting a variety of locations in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.

A good trip to con-sider is from E 34th St to

Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn

New York Waterway (%800-533-3779; www.nywaterway.com) o ers regu-lar ferry service along the East and Hudson Rivers.

Another bigger, brighter ferry (it’s orange) is the commuter-oriented Staten Island Ferry (p 32 ), which makes constant free journeys across the New York Harbor.

Essential Information Business Hours Nonstandard hours are listed in speci c reviews through the neighbor-hood chapters in the Explore section of this guide. Standard business hours are as follows:

Banks 9am to 6pm Mon-day to Friday, some also 9am to noon on Saturday

Bars & clubs Around 5pm to 2am

Businesses 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday.

Entertainment Around 6pm to midnight

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(MTA; %718-330-1234; www.mta.info), is iconic, cheap ($2.25 per ride), round-the-clock and easily the fastest and most reliable way to get around the city. It’s also safer and (a bit) cleaner than it used to be (and now has overly cheerful automated an-nouncements on some lines).

New York’s classic subway tokens now belong to the ages: today all buses and subways use the yellow-and-blue Metro Card, which you can purchase or add value to at one of several easy-to-use automated machines at any station. You can use cash or an ATM or credit card. Just select ‘Get new card’ and follow the prompts.

It’s a good idea to grab a free map, available from any attendant. When in doubt, ask someone who looks like they know what they’re doing. They may not, but subway confu-sion (and consternation) is the great uni er in this diverse city. And if you’re new to the underground, never wear headphones when you’re riding, as you might miss an important announcement about track changes or skipped stops.

Taxi y Best for… getting to and from the airports with luggage in tow, or zigzag-ging across Manhattan.

The Taxi & Limousine Commision has set fares for taxi rides. It’s $2.50 for the initial charge ( rst one- fth of a mile), then 40¢ for each additional one- fth mile as well as every 60 seconds of being stopped in tra c. There’s also a $1 peak surcharge (weekdays 4pm to 8pm) and a 50¢ night surcharge (8pm to 6am), plus a New York State surcharge of 50¢ per ride.

Tips are expected to be 10% to 15%, but give less if you feel in any way

mistreated – and be sure to ask for a receipt and use it to note the driver’s license number.

The TLC keeps a Pas-senger’s Bill of Rights, which gives you the right to tell the driver which route you’d like to take, or ask your driver to stop smoking or turn o an an-noying radio station. Also, the driver does not have the right to refuse you a ride based on where you are going.

To hail a cab, look for one with a lit (center) light on its roof. It’s par-ticularly di cult to score a taxi in the rain, at rush hour and around 4pm, when many drivers end their shifts.

hold onto your ticket, which you must show upon exiting.

Train/bus A clumsier, ‘stick-it-to-the-man’ al-ternative is taking the 62 bus (every 10 or 20 min-utes) for the 20-minute ride from the airport ($1.35) to Newark’s Penn Station where you con-nect to the NJ Transit for New York’s Penn Station ($4 one way).

Express bus The Newark Liberty Airport Express has a bus service between the airport and Port Authority Bus Terminal, Bryant Park and Grand Central Terminal in Midtown ($15 one way). The 45-minute ride goes every 15 minutes from 6:45am to 11:15pm (and every half hour from 4:45am to 6:45am and 11:15pm to 1:15am).

Getting Around Subway y Best for… making a beeline across town – up or down – regardless of the above-ground tra c situation.

The New York subway’s 660-mile system, run by the Metropolitan Trans-portation Authority

Subway Cheat Sheet Numbers, letters, colors Subway train lines have a color and a letter or number. Trains with the same color run on the same tracks, often following roughly the same path through Manhattan before branching out into the other boroughs.

Express & local lines Each color-coded line is shared by local trains and express trains; the latter make only select stops in Manhattan (indicated by a white circle on subway maps). If you’re covering a greater distance, you’re better o transferring to the express train (usually just across the platform) to save time.

Getting in the right station Some stations have separate entrances for downtown and uptown lines (read the sign carefully). If you swipe in at the wrong one, you’ll either need to ride the subway to a station where you can transfer for free, or lose the $2.25 and re-enter the station (usually across the street). Also look for the green and red lamps above the stairs at each station entrance; green means that it’s always open, while red means that particular entrance will be closed at certain hours, usually late at night.

Lost weekend All the rules switch on weekends, when some lines combine with others and some get suspended, some stations get passed and oth-ers get reached. Locals and tourists alike stand on platforms confused, sometimes irate. Check the www.mta.info website for weekend schedules. Sometimes posted signs aren’t visible until after you reach the platform.

Tickets & Passes There are two types of MetroCard (%718-330-1234; www.mta.info/metrocard). The ‘pay-per-ride’ is $2.25 per ride, though the Metropolitan Trans-portation Authority (MTA) tacks on an extra 15% value on MetroCards $8 and over. (If you buy a $20 card, you’ll receive $23 worth of credit.) If you plan to use the subway quite a bit, you can also buy an ‘unlimited ride’ card (it’s $8.25 for a one-day ‘fun pass’ or $27 for a seven-day pass). These cards are handy for travelers – particu-larly if you’re jumping around town to a few different places in one day.

Note that the MetroCard works for buses as well as subways (and offers free transfers between them).

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Best Placesof Worship St Patrick’s Cathedral A neo-Gothic wonder and the largest Catholic cathedral in America. (p 136 )

Grace Church Rescued from disrepair, it’s now one of the daintiest structures in the city, complete with spires and ornate carvings. (p 92 )

Trinity Church Stunning stained glass accents what was once the tallest structure in New York. Don’t miss the on-site cemetery. (p 34 )

Temple Emanu-el This imposing Romanesque synagogue on the Upper East Side has ceilings that are painted in gold. (p 163 )

Best of the Rest Whitney Museum of American Art Modern-ism doesn’t get more brutal than this: Marcel Breuer’s inverted stair-case structure looks like the very well-designed lair of an action movie baddie. Bring it on. (p 161 )

Grand Central Terminal A classic beaux arts stunner, with an airy concourse capped by vaulted ceilings deco-rated with an astronomi-cal pattern. (p 134 )

New Museum of Contemporary Art A stacked-cube structure by SANAA has a translu-cent aluminum exterior that is all kinds of sexy (even if the galleries have a detention-center vibe).(p 66 )

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New York’s architectural history is a layer cake of ideas and styles. Colonial farmhouses and grace-ful Federal-style buildings are found alongside ornate beaux arts palaces from the early 1900s. There are the revivals (Greek, Gothic, Roman-esque and Renaissance) and the unadorned forms of the International Style. For the architec-ture bu , it’s a bonanza.

City of Skyscrapers By the time New York settled into the 20th cen-tury, elevators and steel-frame engineering had allowed the city to grow up – literally. This period saw a building boom of skyscrapers, starting with Cass Gilbert’s neo-Gothic 57-story Woolworth Building (1913). To this day it remains one of the 50 tallest buildings in the United States.

Others soon followed. In 1930, the Chrysler Building, the 77-story art deco masterpiece de-signed by William Van Alen, became the world’s tallest structure. The following year, the record was broken by the Empire State Building, a clean-lined art deco monolith crafted from Indiana limestone. Its spire was meant to be used as a mooring mast for dirigibles – an idea that made for good public-ity, but proved to be impractical and unfeasible.

A Starchitect’s Canvas New York City’s heterogenous landscape lends it-self well to the dabbling sketching pencils of some of the world’s leading architectural personalities, or ‘starchitects’ as they’ve come to be known. You’ll nd Frank O Gehry’s rippling structures, SANAA’s

white-box exteriors and Renzo Piano’s signature facade ip- opping tucked between the city’s glass towers and low-rise bricked behemoths.

Best Skyscrapers Empire State Building Like a martini, a good steak and jazz, this Depression-era sky-scraper never ever gets old. (p 128 )

Chrysler Building Man-hattan’s most elegant skyscraper boasts steel ornamentation inspired by the automobile, including gargoyles that are shaped like retro hood ornaments. (p 134 )

Flatiron Building This is NYC’s original skyscraper flavor with 20 trian-gularly shaped floors tucked behind ornate brick. (p 113 )

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4 Christopher Park Follow West 4th St until your reach Christo-pher Park, where two white, life-sized statues of same-sex couples (Gay Liberation, 1992) stand guard. On the north side of the green space is the legendary Stonewall Inn, where a clutch of fed-up drag queens rioted for their civil rights in 1969, signaling the start of what would become the gay revolution.

5 Je erson Market Library Head toward Sixth Ave to nd the Je erson Market Library straddling a triangu-lar plot of land at the intersection of several roads. The unmissable ‘Ruskinian Gothic’ spire was once a re lookout tower. In the 1870s, it was used as a courthouse and today it houses a branch of the public library.

6 Café Wha? Take in the urry of passers-by on Sixth Ave,

then swing by Café Wha?, the notorious institution where many young musicians and comedians – like Bob Dylan and Richard Pryor – got their start.

7 Washington Square Park Further down MacDou-gal St is Washington Square Park (p 90 ), the Village’s uno cial town square, which plays host to loitering students, buskers and a regular crowd of protes-tors chanting about various injustices.

1 CherryLane Theater Start your walkabout at the Cherry Lane Theater (p 103 ). Estab-lished in 1924, the small theater is the city’s longest continuously running o -Broadway establishment and was the center of the city’s creative performance art moment during the 1940s.

2 The Friends Apartment Turn left and you’ll see 90 Bedford St on the corner of Grove St. You might recognize the apartment block as the ctitious home of the

cast of Friends (sadly Central Perk was just a gment of the writers’

imaginations).

3 Carrie Bradshaw’s Stoop For another iconic TV landmark, wander up Bleecker and make a right stopping at 66 Perry St, which was used as the apartment of the city’s it girl, Car-rie Bradshaw, in Sex and the City (though in the show, her address was on the Upper East Side).

2� The Walk Of all the neighborhoods in New York City, the West Village is easily the most walkable, its cobbled corners straying from the signature gridiron that unfurls across the rest of the island. An afternoon stroll is not to be missed; hidden landmarks and quaint cafes abound.

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5� Take a Break There are perhaps more cafes per acreage in the West Village than anywhere else. Pause at any point during your stroll to slurp a latte street-side and enjoy the colorful crew of passing pedestrians: stu-dents, hipsters, moneyed professionals and celebri-ties hiding behind oversized sunglasses.

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1 College Campus Caffeine Rev your engine with a cuppa joe alongside Columbia University students at Community Food & Juice (www.communityrestaurant.com; 2893 Broadway btwn 112th & 113th Sts; mains $14-29; h8am-3:30pm & 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, from 9am Sat & Sun; vc; b1 to 110th St).

2 Come to Jesus The Cathedral Church of St John the Divine (%tours 212-932-7347; www.stjohndivine.org; 1047 Amsterdam Ave at W 112th St; admission by donation, tours $6, vertical tours $15; h7am-6pm Mon-Sat, to 7pm Sun; c; bB, C, 1 to 110th St-Cathedral Pkwy) is the largest place of worship in the US.

3 Rows of Cornrows The semi-enclosed Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market (52 W 116th btwn Malcolm X Blvd & Fifth Ave; h10am-7pm; b2/3 to 116th St) does a brisk trade in almost everything: textiles, essential oils, leather goods, weaves.

4 Art & Community The small Studio Museum in Harlem (www.studiomuseum.org; 144 W 125th St at Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd; suggested dona-tion $7; hnoon-9pm Thu & Fri, 10am-6pm Sat, noon-6pm Sun; c; b2/3 to 125th St) has been exhibiting the works of African American artists for more 40 years. It’s also an important point of connec-tion for Harlem cultural gures.

5 Books for Hue-Man-Ity Hue-Man Bookstore (www.huemanbookstore.com; 2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd btwn

124th & 125th Sts; h10am-8pm Mon-Sat, 11am-7pm Sun; bA/C, B/D to 125th St), the largest independent African American bookstore in the country, o ers a good selection of works from black literary heavyweights and pop writers alike.

6 Strivers’ Row On the blocks of 138th and 139th Sts, Strivers’ Row (138th & 139th Sts btwn Frederick Douglass & Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvds; bB, C to 135th St) is lled with 1890s townhouses. The area earned its nickname in the 1920s when aspiring African Americans rst moved here.

7 Come to Jesus Sunday gospel services are best done at the Abyssinian Baptist Church (www.abyssinian.org; 132 W 138th St btwn Adam Clayton Powell Jr & Malcolm X Blvds; c; b2/3 to 135th St) – there’s even a designated ‘tourist’ section.

8 Cock-A-Doodle-Do Dine at Red Rooster (www.redroosterharlem.com; 310 Malcolm X Blvd btwn 125th & 126th Sts; mains $16-35; hlunch & dinner daily, brunch Sat & Sun; b2/3 to 125th St), where upscale comfort food is swirled with a world of avors.

9 Cheers & Jeers End at the Apollo Theater (%212-531-5305, tours 212-531-5337; www.apollotheater.org; 253 W 125th St at Frederick Douglass Blvd; admission weeknights/weekends $16/18; bA/C, B/D to 125th St), Harlem’s leading space for concerts and political rallies. The ever-popular Wednesday ‘Amateur Night’ draws notorious crowds.

This is the neighborhood where Cab Calloway crooned. Where Ralph Ellison penned his epic novel on truth and intoler-ance, Invisible Man. Where acclaimed artist Romare Bearden pieced together his first collages. It’s a place that is soaked in history – and then some. And it remains one of the country’s most fabled centers of black American life.

Getting There

Harlem is 5 miles north of Midtown.

b Take the A/D one stop from Columbus Circle. The 2/3 takes 15 minutes to reach Harlem from Times Sq.

J The M10 follows the west side of Central Park up into Harlem.

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M Beat the crowds and catch the New York Harbor ferry when it

opens to tour the Statue of Liberty (p 25 ) and Ellis Island (p 25 ). Those with smaller wallets can hop on the Staten Island Ferry (p 32 ) for a free ride in the harbor, which o ers post-card-worthy photo ops of the southern portion of Manhattan.

R Head back to Manhattan for lunch at Anthony Bourdain’s

Les Halles (p 37 ). After you’ve packed an artery, head over to the Brooklyn Bridge (p 33 ) for a wander along the cantilevered Gothic wonder. As evening nears, pay your respects to the fallen at the World Trade Center site (p 28 ), then lighten the mood with some retail therapy during a round of whirlwind shopping at Century 21 (p 43 ).

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Locanda Verde (p 35 ), then hitting up the Flea Theater (p 41 ), one of the best respected o -o -Broadway institu-tions in town. End the night at Brandy Library (p 39 ), where you can choose from a veritable encyclopedia of spirits.

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Getting There b Subway Fulton St is the area’s main interchange station, serv-icing the A/C, J/M/Z, 2/3 and 4/5 lines. The 1 train terminates at South Ferry, from where the Staten Island Ferry departs.

N Boat The Staten Island Ferry leaves at the southern end of Whitehall St. Services to Liberty and Ellis Islands depart from Battery Park.

Home to icons like Wall Street, the 9/11 Memorial and the Statue of Liberty, the southern end of Manhattan is the city’s true historical heart. And these days it pulses with businesslike energy during the day before settling into quieter nights. Tribeca, however, continues to hum well after dark with its cache of restaurants and lounges.

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East Village & Lower East Side (p62)Old meets new on every block of this downtown duo – two of the city’s hottest ’hoods for nightlife and cheap eats.

Union Square, Flatiron District & Gramercy (p110)The tie that binds the colorful menagerie of surrounding areas. It’s short on sights but big on buzz-worthy restaurants.

Upper East Side (p152)High-end boutiques and sophisticated mansions culminate in an architectural flourish called Museum Mile.

Top SightsEMetropolitan Museum of ArtGuggenheim Museum

Midtown (p124)This is the NYC found on postcards: Times Sq, Broadway theaters, canyons of skyscrapers and bustling crowds.

Top SightsETimes SquareEmpire State BuildingMuseum of Modern Art

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(p46)Hidden temples and steaming dumpling houses dot Chinatown. Next door are SoHo’s streamlined streets and retail storefronts.

Lower Manhattan & the Financial District (p22)Home to Wall Street, the 9/11 Memorial and the Statue of Liberty. Tribeca hums with restaurants and lounges.

Top SightsENew York HarborWorld Trade Center Site

Greenwich Village, Chelsea & the Meatpacking District (p82)Quaint streets and well-preserved brick townhouses lead to neighborhood cafes mixed with trendy nightlife options.

Top SightsEThe High Line

Upper West Side & Central Park (p172)Home to Lincoln Center and Central Park – the city’s antidote to the endless stretches of concrete.

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For more information,see Survival Guide (p229)

Currency US dollar (US$)

Language English

Visas The US Visa Waiver program allows

nationals of 27 countries to enter the US without a visa.

Money ATMs widely available and credit cards

accepted at most hotels, stores and restaurants. Farmers markets, food trucks

and some smaller eateries are cash-only.

Cell Phones Most US cell phones, apart from the

iPhone, operate on CDMA, not the European standard GSM. Check compatibility with

your phone service provider.

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Plugs & Adaptors The US electric current is 110V to 115V, 60Hz AC. Outlets are made for at two-prong plugs

(which often have a third, rounded prong for grounding).

Tipping At restaurants and in taxis, leave between 15%

and 20% of the total bill. Hotel housekeepers get $1 to $5 per day.

Getting Around Once you’ve arrived in NYC, getting around is fairly easy. The 660-mile subway system is cheap and (reasonably) efficient. The sidewalks of New York, however, are the real stars in the transportation scheme – this city is made for walking.

b Subway The subway system is inexpensive, some-what efficient and open around the clock, though it can be confusing to the uninitiated. Check out www.mta.info for public transpor-tation information, including a handy travel planner and regular notifications of delays and alternate travel routes during frequent maintenance. Subway travel is particularly useful when traveling large distances uptown or downtown, or venturing over to Brooklyn.

J Bus Buses are convenient during off hours and are a good choice when trying to travel ‘crosstown’ – there are buses that ply the east–west/west–east route on most two-way streets in Manhattan. Buses are also handy for travel along First and Tenth Aves. Avoid Second Ave buses due to the heavy construction.

K Taxi Taxi travel is the most convenient means of transportation, especially outside of rush hour. Taxis are handy if your trajectory is a zigzag through Manhattan as subway and bus lines follow the city’s linear avenues and major streets. It can very difficult to grab a taxi in inclement weather.

N Ferry There are hop-on-hop-off services and free rides to Staten Island. Check out New York Waterway (%800-533-3779; www.nywaterway.com) and New York Water Taxi (%212-742-1969; www.nywatertaxi.com; hop-on-hop-off service 1 day $26).

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With its three bustling airports, two train stations and a monolithic bus terminal, New York City rolls out the welcome mat for the more than 50 million visitors who come to take a bite out of the Big Apple each year.

A From John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK)

Destination Best Transport Brooklyn Subway A line

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A From LaGuardia Airport (LGA)Destination Best Transport Harlem Bus M60

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A From NewarkInternational Airport (EWR) Take the AirTrain to Manhattan’s Midtown – there’s only one transfer. Shared shuttles and buses are also available. From Midtown, you can hop on a subway to reach your final destination.

Your Daily Budget Budget less than $100

Hostel dorm bed $25–$80

Self-catering supermarkets and cheap eats at cafes and food trucks $5–$25

Exploring the city on foot

Midrange $100–$300 Double room $150–$300

Two-course dinner with a cocktail$30–$75; brunch on the town

Discount Broadway TKTs tickets $70

Top End over $300 Luxury sleeps or boutique digs $350+

Tasting menus at high-end restaurants $190

Metropolitan Opera orchestra seats $95

Useful Websites Lonely Planet (www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/new-york-city) Destination information, hotel bookings, traveler forum and more.

NYC: the Official Guide (www.nycgo.com) New York City’s official tourism portal.

New York Magazine (www.nymag.com) Comprehensive bar, restaurant, entertainment and shopping listings.

Advance Planning Two months before Book your hotel res-ervations – prices increase closer to your arrival date – and snag Broadway tickets.

Three weeks before Score a table at your favorite high-end restaurant.

One week before Surf the interwebs for the newest and coolest in the city and join email news blasts.

Before You Go Need to Know

Need to Know 1716QuickStart GuideYour keys to under-standing the city – we help you decide what to do and how to do it

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Top SightsMake the most of your visit

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New York City ’s Best…The best experiences

Best WalksSee the city on foot

Explore New York City The best things to see and do, neighborhood by neighborhood

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QuickStartGuide 7New York CityTop Sights ...........................8New York CityLocal Life ...........................12New York CityDay Planner ......................14Need to Know ...................16New York CityNeighborhoods ................18

Explore New York City 21

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SurvivalGuide 229Before You Go ...................230Arriving inNew York City ................... 232Getting Around .................234Essential Information ...... 236

The Best of New York City 199New York City’s Best WalksVillage Vibe .......................................200Iconic Architecture .......................... 202Memorable Manhattan Movies ......204

New York City’s Best…Fine Dining .......................................206Local Eats ......................................... 208Drinking ..............................................210Entertainment ................................... 212LGBT ..................................................214Shopping ............................................216Architecture ......................................218Museums .......................................... 220Festivals & Events .............................222Sports & Activities ...........................223Nightlife & Clubbing ........................ 224Parks ...................................................225Tours .................................................. 226For Free ..............................................227For Kids ............................................ 228

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QuickStart Guide

Welcome to New York City

No other place does big-city charm quite like Gotham. Take a bite of the Big Apple’s diverse dining scene, swig cock-tails all night, enjoy mind-blowing performances in venues ranging from Broadway theaters to back-alley comedy joints, and shop ’til you drop among the veritable UN of international brands and unique boutiques. New York is truly one helluva town.

New York City Top Sights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

New York City Local Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

New York City Day Planner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Need to Know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

New York City Neighborhoods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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