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at Barclays Center and Madison there are activities to suit every (menswear) and Ann Taylor
Square Garden. Webster Hall taste. Visitors can choose from (women’s wear), and shops of
features live music, from punk health clubs and horseback riding international names such as
to rock. to playing tennis or jogging. Yves St. Laurent and Giorgio
New York’s nightlife and club Spectator sports are provided Armani. Manhattan is also
scene is legendary. Whatever by professional baseball (Yankee known for its world-class jewelry
your preference – disco, stand- Stadium), ice hockey and basket- shops, including Cartier and
up comedy, or the soothing ball (Madison Square Garden), Tiffany & Co. The city is a
melodies of a Harry Connick Jr. – and football (MetLife Stadium), bargain hunter’s dream, with
you’ll be amazed at the choice. while for tennis fans there is the huge discounts on anything
New Yorkers thrive on dancing. US Open. from household goods to
Dance floors available all over designer clothes.
the city range from the ever- As the publishing capital of
popular SOB’s – for reggae, soul, Shopping the US, New York has the
jazz, and salsa – to huge places, New York is the consumer capital country’s best bookstores.
such as Output. The historic of the world: a shopper’s paradise, Don’t miss the Barnes & Noble
Copacabana alternates live with dazzling displays and a stores, the Strand Book Store
bands with a disco. Cielo is a staggering variety of goods for for rare and used books, and
popular, strobe-lit bar and night- sale. Everything is available here, Shakespeare & Co.
club, as is the Pyramid Club, from high fashion to rare books, Dozens of tiny shops specialize
with 1980s-themed nights. state-of-the-art electronics, and in unusual merchandise, from
The city is also a film buff’s an array of exotic food. Keep in butterflies and bones to toy fire-
paradise. Apart from new US mind that the city’s sales tax is a fighting equipment and occult
releases, which show months in hefty 8.875 percent. potions. Some of New York’s best
advance of other countries, Known as the fashion capital of souvenirs can be found in the
many classic and foreign films America, New York boasts such city’s many museum shops,
are screened in this hotbed for names as Polo/Ralph Lauren and including the Museum of
new and innovative talent. Calvin Klein. There are fashion Modern Art and the American
New Yorkers are sports crazy, and stores such as Brooks Brothers Museum of Natural History.
DIRECTORY
Tourist Offices David H. Koch Copacabana Cartier
Theater 560 W 34th St. 767 5th Ave.
NYC & Company Lincoln Center, Tel (212) 239-2672.
∑ nycgo.com Tel (212) 457-3202.
Broadway at 65th St. Output
NYC Information Tel (212) 870-5570. 74 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn. Giorgio Armani
Center Delacorte Theater ∑ outputclub.com 760 Madison Ave.
∑ nycgo.com Tel (212) 988-9191.
Central Park, 81st St. Pyramid Club
Transportation Tel (212) 535-4284 101 Ave A. Museum of Modern
(summertime only). Tel (212) 228-4888.
Department of Lyceum Art
Transportation 149 W 45th St, SOB’s 11 W 53rd St.
55 Water St, 9th Floor. New York City. (Sounds of Brazil) Tel (212) 708-9400.
Tel 311. 204 Varick St.
Tel (212) 239-6200. Tel (212) 243-4940. Polo/Ralph Lauren
Entertainment Madison Square Madison Ave at 72nd St.
Garden Shopping Tel (212) 606-2100.
Alvin Ailey American 7th Ave at 33rd St.
Dance Theater Tel (212) 465-6741. American Museum Shakespeare & Co.
405 W 55th St. of Natural History 939 Lexington Ave.
Tel (212) 405-9000. ∑ thegarden.com W 79th St, Tel (212) 529-1330.
Ambassador Webster Hall Central Park W. Strand Book Store
Tel (212) 769-5100.
219 W 49th St. 125 E 11th St.
Tel (212) 239-6200. Tel (212) 353-1600. Ann Taylor 828 Broadway.
Atlantic Theater Yankee Stadium 330 Madison Ave. Tel (212) 570-0201.
Tel (212) 949-0008.
Company 1 E 161st St, Bronx. Tiffany & Co
336 W 20th St. Tel (718) 293-4300. Barnes & Noble 5th Ave at 57th St.
Tel (212) 691-5919. 555 5th Ave.
Bars & Clubs Tel (212) 697-3048. Tel (212) 755-8000.
Dance Theater of
Harlem Cielo Brooks Brothers Yves St. Laurent
466 W 152nd St. 18 Little W 12th St. 346 Madison Ave. 3 E 57th St.
Tel (212) 690-2800. Tel (212) 645-5700. Tel (212) 309-7765. Tel (212) 980-2970.

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