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Above New York street food is an intriguing mix of fast foods from around the world, often all for sale in one place

Three Days in New York City Essentials
New York has it all: iconic skyscrapers, lush parks, world-class GETTING THERE
museums, dazzling Times Square, and glitzy Broadway shows. New York City is served by three airports:
JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark. All share one
DAY ONE Go to the top of the Empire State Building for jaw-dropping
website: www.panynj.gov. Travel into town
360° views, to get a better idea of the city you’ll be exploring. Spend
by subway, bus, or taxi.
the afternoon being wowed by art at the Museum of Modern Art.
WHERE TO STAY
DAY TWO Head to Central Park in the morning, focusing your Off SoHo Suites Hotel (inexpensive) features
explorations on the area between 59th and 79th streets, where you simple but clean rooms. www.offsoho.com
can saunter along shaded paths from the wooded Ramble to the Hotel Chelsea (moderate) has large, well-
elegant Bethesda Terrace. Then up the cultural stakes by admiring maintained rooms, and sits in the middle of
the Picasso masterpieces and the Roman Temple of Dendur at the hip Chelsea. www.hotelchelsea.com
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Enjoy Midtown luxury at the well-known Waldorf
Astoria (expensive), with its sumptuous lobby
DAY THREE Start the day with a brisk walk across the Brooklyn
and spacious rooms. www.waldorfnewyork.com
Bridge, the largest suspension bridge in the world when it was built in
TOURIST INFORMATION
1883. Afterward, head to SoHo to shop in exquisite designer
Times Square Visitor Center is the most central
boutiques, and then cap off the day with a visit to neon-lit Times
tourist office, at 1560 Broadway; (212) 768
Square and a Broadway show in the nearby theater district.
Above The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a modernist building that 1560; www.nyc.gov
houses one of the largest collections of contemporary art in the world